Author Archives: dkberktas

Using Twitter oauth on GAE/J

Twitter supports oauth and there are many libraries for it, for  Java(twitter4J)(oauth-signpost),  most of the time you see examples of a desktop version, so it can take time to implement it on a web application (it did take time for my case).
Step 1. Get a Twitter account and create a Twitter application from http://twitter.com/apps (don’t [...]

Smashing Magazine’den 10 Kullanilabilirlik Ipucu

Smashing Magazine karsilastigim cok guzel bir yazinin, Turkce ozeti sayilabilecek bir post. Elbette cok cok kisaltilmis bir ozetidir. Yazinin orijinal hali burada.
1. Form yaratirken iki kolonlu tasarim yerine, dikey tasarim kullanin, cunku kullanicilar formu yukaridan asagiya tarayarak doldururlar. Bir diger noktada form’daki aciklama yazilari koyu renk (bold) olmamali.

2. Kullanicilar yuzlere odaklanir. Eger yuz bize degilde, [...]

Using Memcache with Google App Engine (GAE/J)

A simple beginning — Fragman iPhone Application
Memcache provides convenience to store a frequent query in memory, so that you don’t have to make the same execution over and over again. For the iPhone application I build (Fragman), I build a GAE/J backend for managing movie names, IMDB URLs, thumb images, video files, etc. It interacts [...]

Fragman iPhone Application

Film fragmalarini ve trailerlarini iceren yeni iPhone uygulamasi Fragman app store’da yerini aldi.  Vizyon, gelecek, dizi ve Top 250 (imdb top 250) kategorilerini iceriyor, su an icin oldukca guncel devamini da getirmeyi dusunuyoruz, yardim etmek isteyenler olursa cok seviniriz. Uygulamanin web sayfasi http://ifragman.com.

Yeni Tohumlar — etohum 2010

2009 bizim (ben ve yekmer) için çok heyecanli bir yil oldu. Bunda etohum’un ve Burak hoca‘nin payi çok büyük.
Bu sene etohum 20 Ocak’ta yeni tohumlari duyuracak, inaniyorumki etohum bu sene daha da etkili ve basarili olacak. bu sene geçen seneki gibi girisimcilere 4 günlük bir kurs verilecek. 2009 yilinda bogaz manzarasi esliginde yapilan kurs, bu sene akdeniz [...]

A Simple Chart for a GWT Application on GAE/J

I am trying charting solutions for a GWT project and gchart seems a nice one. After some digging I create a sample project which is hosted on Google App Engine (GAE) demo. Source code is at Google project
The chart will show the remaining number of months in the current year.

First download the jar from the [...]

Back to basics — A simple beginning to Grails

I guess I can finally finish my search for a good server side companion (at least for now).  A couple years ago RIFE was my only choice but unfortunately, it didn’t work out well as I expected (RIFE is an open source project but partly because of developers like me  who uses the framework but [...]

Rama II

I’ve recently finished the novel Rama II (goodreads)(wikiepedia)by Arthur C. Clarke (ACC) and Getry Lee. Two authors form a perfect combination. Below are some of the passages I underline. There are in fact some very good passages.
Mankind was not unique, maybe not even special. It was just a question of time before prevailing homo centric notion of [...]

Paul Graham at Startup School 08

Recently I started to reread and re watch all the pg resources (including the ones I haven’t encountered before).
This is a nice video from the Start-up school of 2008 which has suggestions for start-ups and suggestions about being good (not evil) towards people.

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Cydia and XCode Local App Testing

1. Go to /Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneOS3.0.sdk/SDKSettings.plist and change CODE_SIGNING_REQUIRED to NO and save it. (if it complains about file permission right click the file and select Get Info and after unlocking the file, change the permission to read&write)

2. In XCode open the info page and change Code Signing Identy to Don’t Code Sign.

3. In the terminal, set [...]