Wrapping up 2009

Today is 31, Dec so wrapping up this year and setting goals of next year. This article consists of four sections.

1. Music
2. Algorithm competition
3. Development, etc
4. Goal of next year

Music

I’ve listened little number of songs this year so that the following list contains songs which is released before 2009. These just songs which I’ve been listening many times in this year. The order of the list has no meaning, it’s not top 10 ranking of a best albums for 2009.

• Mothertongue / Nico Muhly
• May / Richard Youngs
• Popular Songs / Yo La Tengo
• Eskimo Snow / Why?
• Almost LIve from Eli’s LIve Room / Why?
• Relayer / Youngsbower
• 39° / LIsandro Aristimuno
• 近未来(kinmirai) / キセル(kicell)
• ニカセトラ(nikacetra) / 二階堂和美(Nikaido Kazumi)
• Heima / Sigur Rós

Live

This six lives are most awesome shows in this year. And the best act among this performances was Animal Collective on Fuji Rock Festival.

• Yo La Tengo at Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan
• Kehin Rock Festival at Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan
• Fuji Rock Festival 2009 (animal collective) at Naeba, Nigata, Japan
• Dakota Suite at Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
• Deerhunter & Akron Family at Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
• Why? at Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan

Best tracks of 2009

Best tracks of 2009 | cou929 | 8tracks
Created a mix of 2009 best tracks using 8tracks. Track list is:

• THE ONLY TUNE Pt1 The only tune / Nico Muhly
• Persistente cancion de la memoria / Mono Fontana
• Forget Me Not 1/ Asuna
• Welding The Sea / Youngsbower
• Against Me / Why?
• To Be Alone With You / Sufjan Stevens
• Gliding / Richard Youngs
• Hugann seiða svalli frá / Sigur Rós & Steindór Andersen
• fences / RF & Lili De La Mora
• Pluma / Lisandro Aristimuno
• Two / Ryan Adams Easy Tiger
• Rum Hee / トクマルシューゴ(Shugo Tokumaru)
• さんぽ(Sampo) / Pascals
• More Stars Than There Are In Heaven / Yo La Tengo

In 2010, a lot of musicians will come to japan such as Tim and Mike Kinsella, Camera Obscure, Devendra Banhart, Joanna Newsome, Daniel Johnston, Dirty Projectors, Wilco, Kings of Convenience and Pavement! I can’t wait these shows from now.

Algorithm competition

In this year, I’ve participated algorithm competitions constantly, especially TopCoder’s SRM.

TopCoder SRM

I’ve been able to compete almost matches throughout a year. And practiced at least one problem for each week. Hence, I think the most nice thing for me is that I could work for SRM constantly throughout this year. And then I could achieve to beceme a blue coder and advance to div1. I feel nice for it.

TopCoder member profile

Google Code Jam

Also participated Google Code Jam. The result is that I’ve lost the match at Round1. Usually I’m joining TopCoder SRM and Code Jam is differ from this, for instance time limit of GCJ is longer than SRM, or permitted program language. Because of this differences It’s useful for me to take part in GCJ. I’ve uploaded source code of GCJ 2009 to Github.
cou929′s gcj2009 at master – GitHub

Development, etc

Google Summer of Code

Google Summer of Code – Google Code
In this summer I’ve participated Google Summer of Code 2009 (GSoC). Joined SWIG project and implemented a perl binding for Xapian (one of search engine library) using SWIG. And achieved to finish the the project. Here is a report of SWIG’s summer of code.

SWIG’s Second Summer of Code

Attending Conferences

Started to attend to conferences or workshops from this year. Especially whose about HTML5 by html5-developers-jp (japanese group of HTML5).
html5-developers-jp | Google group (ja)
Here in Tokyo, many conferences or workshops are held everyday very actively. For the evidence, this is a google calender of IT related workshops in japan.
IT 勉強会カレンダー (ja)
I’m live in Tokyo, so it’s very effective to join the workshops.

Miscellaneous

This year many my gadgets are apple-nized. Bought MacBook, iMac, iPhone and iPod all in this year.

Started tweeting on twitter actively. Created a account one or two yars ago but using it actively from this year.
Kosei Moriyama (cou929) on Twitter

Currently joining to student development team of Mozilla Japan, developing firefox extension.

Goal of next year

More large size project

Except for GSoC, been joining only for small size project. I’d like to larger size project such as built any software, launch web service and so on.

Become a Red Coder

I’m now blue coder, rating is 1240, and if achieve rating 2200 I can become a red coder. It’s very hard. Also in addition to SRM, would like to join other competitions such as TopCoder’s marathon match, Project Euler, Code chef or some Online Judges.

MUJI’s Clear Stickiest

I’ve borrowed the camel book, programming perl third edition, from library of univ.
Japanese edition of camel book is separated two books.
Therefore it’s quite heavy.

By the way, very good desk accessory from MUJI, Clear Stickiest – 5 Color.
This is a label to stick to book.
It’s unique point is that it’s body is clear.
So content of book is readable when it’s sticked to the book.
And it’s selection of 5 colors is smart.

My new blog

Hello, world! I’m just started my new blog here.

I’m a collage student, studying intelligent robotics, in Tokyo, Japan. I’m interested in programming and music. So I’ll blog about such topics.

Currently I’m working in Google Summer of Code 2009 as a student participant. And attending TopCoder’s algorithm competitions.

More about my profile, please see About page of this blog.