Career Opportunities in Japan Without a Degree

I first came to Japan without any direct goal in mind just enjoying the moment through my own naivety and thinking that I wanted to somehow change my life. In the end it turned out all right, but I could definitely have planned my situation better. I just thought I would share a few tips on how to reach the goal of landing a job in Japan without a university degree. Surely it would be way easier to actually be in possession of a university degree when trying to get …

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Web Design Inspiration: Wildfire App

I love the user experience on this site! Perfectly executed! They really know how to lead the user to the product. The visual design is also very attractive making good use of current web technologies in a very useful way. (see the pricing drop-down section) They’ve even managed to get the attention of job seekers through the “We’re Hiring” tab on the side to the left. Awesome site! http://www.wildfireapp.com/

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Style Tiles

I guess this isn’t the most recent topic, but I recently discovered the concept of Style Tiles through a recent episode of Shop Talk Show. Very interesting take on mockups. It has commonly been described as something in between mood boards and mockups, and has been proposed as a way to effectively decrease web design time mostly targeted toward clients. A big thanks to the awesome Shop Talk Show for the heads up on this and of course to designer Samantha Warren for coming up with this idea! I’m interested in …

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How to change the name of the “Posts” menu item in WordPress

I’m currently working on a WordPress powered website, and needed to change the name of the “Posts” post type to something more suitable for that particular website. I browsed around the web and found this code snippet on new2wp.com. [php] function change_post_menu_label() { global $menu; global $submenu; $menu[5][0] = ‘News’; $submenu[‘edit.php’][5][0] = ‘News’; $submenu[‘edit.php’][10][0] = ‘Add News’; $submenu[‘edit.php’][16][0] = ‘News Tags’; echo ”; } function change_post_object_label() { global $wp_post_types; $labels = &$wp_post_types[‘post’]->labels; $labels->name = ‘News’; $labels->singular_name = ‘News’; $labels->add_new = ‘Add News’; $labels->add_new_item = ‘Add News’; $labels->edit_item = ‘Edit News’; …

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Quick start to the Google Web Fonts API

I recently started playing around with Google Web Fonts, and I must say it truly is a slick solution of empowering web developers with quick access to a highly extended library of open source fonts. The days of being limited by Arial, Times New Roman, Georgia, Verdana and just a few more standard typefaces may have finally come to an end. @font-face is an alternative way of implementing custom typography in web design, but this is somewhat more difficult and cumbersome to carry out. However, if you need premium typefaces …

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