Making a point by debating products

Yesterday, while stumbling in Google’s YouTube account, I came across a dev talk from Google I/O 2012 and it fascinated me.

Video is a debate between Google Datastore and Google Cloud SQL. Both of these are cloud database offerings of Google. I was amazed by their way of making a point of two products being good at different ...

Saving Microsoft Office from Windings by using Unicode

It’s been almost 10 years since Microsoft Office products started automatically replacing smileys like :), :( and signs like -->, <-- into icons made in Wingdings font.

In 2013, now there are people using computers and phones which are not manufactured by Microsoft and thus, they do not have this proprietary font. If you are one of these people, when you read an ...

How I imagine Xbox 720

A new Xbox is coming out later this year, that’s for sure. There is a big secrecy going on and almost nothing leaked, yet. After reading Youssef’s post on the new Xbox, I compiled a list of my thoughts about the upcoming product.

Note that, I don’t know what is the name or features going to be ...

What should you open source in your company

People often wonder about what kind of software projects a company could or should open source. This is a dangerous decision for a company, due to the risk of losing strategic position against competitors. As someone working at a company, here is what you can open source from your work.

How Facebook is killing my startup, Path, Foursquare and others

In September 2011, Facebook made a breakthrough change and introduced Custom Actions for Open Graph. At that time, users did not know anything about it but it was hell of an opportunity to fill users’ timelines with activity posts and gain lots of users. Here is a story why Facebook gave a chance to developers and now how will they ...

A cry for help

My marriage is falling apart. I no longer have the capacity to support a full time job, a family, and this project. I’m looking for someone to take over phpVirtualBox.

These are not my words. These are from author of an open source project with more than 1,300 stars on project page (which is something pretty damn cool ...

I’m not even 1/3 of this guy

There was a guy and I was enjoying his blog posts a lot recently. Then I dig internet with his name and every other minute passed, I was getting much amazed.

And he was just 3 years older than I am. He did some amazing stuff like:

  • Co-founded Reddit – millions of people visit every day
  • Contributed to RSS 1.0 ...

Calendars don’t matter; Happy 2013! ❄

It’s that time of the year again. I’ve recently turned 23 and time is passing really fast. Life is getting complicated and at the same time sad facts keep my mind busy. I am now more aware of things but I am more alone and on my own.

I know at the end, only a little of what ...