Dwango Enters Engineer Hiring Race With OSS Community Grant

Following to the 20 million users social gaming networks Gree and DeNA’s hiring competition with over $20,000 rewards for engineers beginning 4 days ago, Dwango [J] (Asiajin), who has much longer history on Japanese cellphone game, also known by their Japanese YouTube counter movie community Nico Nico Douga [J] (Asiajin), announced their new rewards plan… Continue reading Dwango Enters Engineer Hiring Race With OSS Community Grant

Jsdo.it – Shared HTML5/JavaScript Playground For Geeks

Jsdo.it is a new web developers’ community on which HTML5/JavaScript/CSS programmers can play, share and collaborate with others. On the site, user can edit HTML/JavaScript/CSS on the left pane, and run them on the right pane. Your code are publicized with your designating license, and others can “fork” it and make his/her branched version. Popular… Continue reading Jsdo.it – Shared HTML5/JavaScript Playground For Geeks

Livedoor Launches An Open Source Showcase

On Monday, Livedoor Co., Ltd.[J] launched “EDGE src [J]“, a new website which showcases Livedoor’s software and source code which is being distributed to developers under its open-source policy. The company set up an internal team and a project called “EDGE [J]” to develop software and services on an experimental basis. Since its inception last… Continue reading Livedoor Launches An Open Source Showcase

The First WordCamp in Japan: WordCamp Tokyo 2008

We Asiajin weblog is built on WordPress, open source blog system on PHP/MySQL. Today I attended the WordPress event WordCamp Tokyo 2008, the first ever WordCamp held in Japan. On a half day conference at Digital Hollywood Shibuya, to over 60 attendees 10 speakers made development/customization presentations, WordPress history case study in high school useful… Continue reading The First WordCamp in Japan: WordCamp Tokyo 2008

Firefox3 Release Party Tokyo

Celebration of new Firefox 3 launch was held at a hotel in Shinagawa, Tokyo, with over 300 people, Mozilla Japan staff, developers, translators, web designers, engineers, bloggers and others. Contributors, Mozilla’s new CEO John Lilly, Mozilla Japan chairperson Satoko Takita Firefox Ice Trophy Foxkeh!!, Japan made mascot to appeal Japanese internet users The next Firefox… Continue reading Firefox3 Release Party Tokyo