After upgrading my installation to EE 2.4, which was for the most part fairly painless, I decided to move the comments to Disqus. This service includes commenting moderation and sharing tools (to Facebook, Twitter, etc), which should cover more than what is available through the native EE commenting system.

I have been using Low Spam to get rid of unwanted comments, but there were still a few...

Here's a good reminder for geeks of all trades not to sound too boring when talking about geeky subjects (in Japanese, quick explanation follows):

This commercial is for the Japan Registry Services, a group promoting the .jp domain among other activities. The video starts simply, with two men on a bus, one of which asks his buddy what his company (JPRS) does. The JPRS guy starts...

This might not be of interest to many, but thought I'd write down some highlights of my year 2011. Maybe for posterity, maybe because I feel a lot of stuff happened this year.

January

• Decided to spend Christmas and New Year's in Japan, which is the second time I have ever done so (for Christmas). Went to Senso-ji in Inage, Chiba, and had a much better New Years than last time I was there...

It's been more or less a month since the last release of Zenbu, and boy have I been busy adding new features!

I'll let the changelog speak for itself since there are too many new features to discuss here. One interesting feature for developers is my Zenbu fieldtype framework, which enables custom field developers to add support for their add-on in Zenbu by adding a few Zenbu-specific...

I've been holding on to this version for too long, testing it in different environments and conditions, so decided to finally release Zenbu 1.4.0, which includes a number of internal changes and new features, such as Assets, Pages, and CartThrob support. A new "General settings" section under "Display settings" is also available to tweak how Zenbu initially sets filtering rules and orders...

I just returned from the ExpressionEngine-CodeIgniter (EECI) Conference in New York, my head full of new information and memories of good times.

This was my first attendance at an EECI conference, so meeting people that I've been following solely on what is basically a TV set felt like meeting dozens and dozens of rock stars! Thank you everyone for the heartwarming experience *wipes a tear*....

Just got back from Japan and getting ready to go to New York for the ExpressionEngine-CodeIgniter conference, but I wouldn't go to a tech conference without making sure my tools aren't working, right?

For some reason, though, my tech seems to be turning against me. I must have wasted a total of a day with the following problems:

• My Android smartphone constantly goes into "car mode",...

After a long wait (sorry about that >_<;), it's time to soon release the next major version of the very powerful entry manager for ExpressionEngine 2, Zenbu. Along with major internal code changes, EE 2.2+ compatibility and a number of bug fixes, many features have been added to make this version of Zenbu even more powerful and flexible. If you liked Zenbu up to now, you've seen nothing yet.