My First Post for 2013!

Yay I'm back!

I almost forgot that I have a blog...

This year, I'm aiming to get healthy again. Before I flew solo, now I'm trying to get help from other people through My Fitness Pal.

This site is very helpful in keeping track of your daily calorie intake. The list of foods in their database is large and so far accurate! You can customize the time of day you took your food and it will tell you how much calories per period, as well as give you the summary per day.

Aside from that, it has its own online community, so that you can add friends and motivate each other :)

I'll be tracking my daily intake in this site from now on. Hope you can too and add me up!

Cafeteria Nipponica: Customer Popularity Computation

Hi Guys, I've been playing this game by Kairosoft called Cafeteria Nipponica and I've got to say, I'm hooked.

I've been reading guides especially the one from Enna's Blog. The information contained in this blog is very helpful and it has helped me in achieving the best results.

This is my little guide and I hope would give a little insight on Customer Popularity.

Customer Popularity affects the following:
1.) Number of customers going inside a restaurant - More customers, more income.
2.) The rate of a particular group would visit your restaurant - The more times a particular customer for a particular group visits, the more chances the points will increase for that customer which has been unlocked.

A Customer Popularity rating is categorized by the six customer groups in the game.

The Customer Popularity is divided into two parts, the green represents Region Population and the pink bar represents Store Popularity. The bar will max out at when the popularity reaches 100, but the numbers can go beyond 100.

The green part is increased by the following:
1.) Store Area - You can check this by Going to View Info > Area > Touch a Particular Area, then Scroll Down on the message bar.
2.) Remodel Store Items (Floor / Register / Wall) - This is accessible when you have the Remodel Store Plan.
3.) Employee Skills - Employee Floor Skills will increase the popularity of a particular customer group.

The pink bar is increased by decorations. This includes tables.

Based on my observations, you need at least 100 to ensure that you're inviting all types of customers you've unlocked for a particular group.

The amount of popularity given by these items are represented as hearts for Store Area, Remodel Store Items and Decorations, and Skill Level for Employee Skills. Below is the popularity multiplier per given item type:

Area - 10 per Heart / 5 per Half-Heart
Remodel Store Items - 6 per Heart / 3 per Half-Heart
Decoration and Equipment Bonus - 2 per Heart / 1 per Half-Heart
Employee Skills Bonus - 10 per level of skill

Now have a clear idea on how customer popularity is increased.

I'll be writing another guide which focuses on choosing items and skills to maximize Customer Popularity soon.

Since we all love spreadsheets, like Enna does, here's a spreadsheet of all popularity. Hearts data for Decorations taken from Enna's blog.



References:
Enna's Cafe Nippon Blog
Arcfox's Complete Guide To Cafeteria Nipponica

XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Part 1 - Unboxing)

Have you ever wondered what it feels like that something you wished would happen and it would happen? I had several moments in life which caught me by surprise.

But this one was more than a surprise, it was destiny.

Capturing ECC Global Settings in BW

Some common Master Data such as Fiscal Year Variant or Calendar year can not updated through a transformation, instead, the datasource has a provision in updating these specific infoobjects.

1. Go to Data Warehousing Workbench (RSA1)
2. Click on Source Systems
3. Look for the source system where you’re extracting data, right click, then click on transfer global settings.
   
   
   
   
   
4. Click on the following checkboxes or any of the options you need updating. On Mode, select Update Tables. Click on Execute Afterwards.
   
   
   
   
   

Activating Settings for DTP Temporary Storage

This guide will show you how to activate the DTP Temporary Storage Settings. This is useful when checking for transformations made into data while loading from source to the infoprovider.

1. Open DTP to be executed.
2. Under the DTP Menu, click Settings for DTP Temporary Storage





3. Change the check settings as shown in the screenshot below
   
   
   
   
   
4. Execute the DTP and you should see in the monitor the details of the error
   

Pure Black Brownies!

I'm here at the office now on a Sunday. It sucks. At least I'm not that depressed because I was able to make a batch of brownies yesterday! I bought stuff on the same day from Chocolate Lover, a well known supplier of baking supplies in the Philippines.

I got the recipe from the book my girlfriend gave me which contains lots of techniques and recipes. I had to scale the ingredients to fit the cake pan. Also, I need to perfect the dough before I put in modifications. Also, I decided to spike the batch a little, so I added my favorite alcohol, Rum!