www.jmglov.net

Disclaimer: This is a geek's website. Do not expect eye candy. Expect useful content!

Contents:

• A Gaijin's Guide to Central Yokohama
• Computer Stuff:
  • Open Source: my Open Source / Free Software / FOSS / FLOSS / etc-related work
    • The Manifesto of a Pragmatic Open Source Developer
  • Unix:
    • Making Bash Do Your Work for You - a guide to enabling your .bashrc with the help of bash-completion , among other Bash deep magic
    • Captain's Logs - step-by-step instructions in a shell-friendly format
    • Linux Kernel Hacking FAQ - assorted notes on hacking the 2.4.x series of Linux kernels
    • Presentations - Unix- or Open Source-related presentations that I have done over the years
    • Quick-N-Dirty Guides - instructions for setting things up in Unix so they will Just Work(TM) for when you are just too busy to sink a lot of time into it
    • vi for emacs Users - a (currently rather skimpy) reference card meant for emacs users who must use vi for some reason (probably against their will!)
• Professional - things relating to my career (just my resumé for now)

News:

• 2007/06/23 - Added Google Sitemap Gen to Portage
• 2007/06/17 - Added FusePython to Portage
• 2006/10/22 - Wrote a quick search proxy script, designed for people who are behind firewalls that only allow them to view arbitrary TLDs (e.g. .net, .org, etc.).
• 2006/02/27 - Ported the rikaichan Firefox extension to Thunderbird. See my Open Source page for more details.
• 2005/12/19 - Wrote a quick little Perl script, timeconv.pl, for converting times between one timezone and another. See my Open Source page for more details.
• 2005/12/19 - I wrote my first Firefox search plugin: kobesearch_cpan, which searches the Perl core and CPAN modules documentation, using Randy Kobes's CPAN Search.
• 2005/12/15 - My favourite Retro Gaming Hack may not have made the book, but O'Reilly published my Part 1 of my "Clone Pong, Using Only SDL (and Your Brain)" hack as a stand-alone article on LinuxDevCenter.com. Don't forget to check out my author bio!
• 2005/11/29 - I finally made the initial public release of Virtual BookShelf.
• 2005/11/12 - I gave a presentation on Subversion at the Tokyo Linux Users Group (TLUG) November 2005 Technical Meeting.
• 2005/11/07 - "Retro Gaming Hacks", a book authored by my friend Chris Kohler, has been published. What makes it news on this site is that I contributed several hacks. Check it out!
• 2005/11/01 - "A Gaijin's Guide to Central Yokohama", a bit of Google Maps hacking, is now released. You can also grab a tarball of the source if you are interested in having a look under the hood.
• 2005/10/05 - wrote a patch for Jean Tourrilhes's iwevent that prints timestamps for events from wireless interfaces in the user's local timezone, rather than GMT