Bir süre önce hobi amaçlı bir istatistik çıkarmak için gov.tr uzantılı domainlerin listesine ihtiyaç duydum ve doğal olarak bulamadım. Ardından NIC.TR‘den Bilgi Edinme Kanunu başvuru formunu doldurup listeyi rica ettim. Kendileri, güvenlik gerekçesi ile böyle bir listenin herhangi bir kişi veya kurum ile paylaşılmadığını söylediler. Ben de kişisel gerekçelerim ile bu listeyi herkesle paylaşmak istedim. Bir saatimi ayırıp Python’da bir crawler yazdım ve çalışmaya bıraktım. Sonuç olarak 3158 gov.tr alan adı keşfedebildim. Read More →

AWS has released a cheaper alternative to S3 cloud storage service for upload once & download rarely use case, like backups and archives. I have 1 TB of personal backups that I keep on a single external HDD personal photos and music collection – which you upload once and probably won’t download again. (And I believe many people also have such backup archives.) There is no such backup product in the market. Read More →

Çok zor iş… Kendini dünya klasmanında teknoloji geliştiriyor sanan firmalar düşük maaşlar karşılığında harikalar yaratabilecek yazılımcılar arıyorlar. Uzun çalışma saatleri, sürekli değişen iş tanımı, yazılımcı her an başka projeye kaydırılabiliyor, maaşlar yerlerde sürünüyor. Dünyanın hiçbir yerinde zaten hiçbir çalışan (employee) şirkete kazandırdığı parayı maaş olarak almaz. Ufak bir örnek: Bir çalışandan yılda edilen kar: Amazon=$15k, Yahoo=$72k, Google=$224k, Microsoft=$242k, Facebook=$425k, Apple=$600k Fakat üzülerek söylüyorum, Türkiye’de internet sektöründeki işverenler üç kuruşa yazılımcının suyunu çıkarana kadar çalıştırıyorlar. Read More →

I’m creating software for 6 years in real terms. I created many end-user services on the web, I have apps on Android Market, iOS App Store and Windows Phone Marketplace. I didn’t sell any of it. I didn’t make any money out of something I coded. Not even a single dime. Selling stuff is a whole different concept. While doing so, the way you create, analyze, and promote your product is way different than doing hobby projects. Read More →

I’ve been thinking about finding a neat comment service provider for my blog for some time. First off, my criteria were: **syncing: comments **that I should be able to download comments to my database which is part of freedom, allows crawling of comments: comments are sometimes more important than blog post itself, they should appear on search engines and **layout. Read More →

Today I would like to intoduce my side project, AzureFS. It is an open source command-line tool to mount Windows Azure Blob Storage (an AWS S3 alternative) on your local filesystem and play with it just like you are doing with your local files. It is implemented in Python and it is a FUSE wrapper that works on UNIX environments.

Sometimes we need to list files under a container, transfer a bunch of local files to the cloud, remove files matching a specific name pattern, rename files on the cloud, move files accross containers etc. There are not any file explorer tools for Azure Storage on Linux that I know of, so I developed this.

AzureFS allows you to do such everyday task practically with commands like ls, mkdir, rm, cp, mv etc.

Tutorial: Store database backups on the cloud

Installation of the environment is described on GitHub project page. It is up to you. Now let’s create a storage account from azure.com management portal. (You don’t need to sign up, of course, I’ll show you the demo here). Then obtain your primary access key: Create a directory with mkdir then we’ll mount our cloud storage onto it. (I’ll use my test account named “azurefs” here):

Don’t shut down this process, jump to some other tab, navigate into cloud directory and let’s create a directory named databases:

Then I’ll simply copy my database backups with cp command:

**That simple! **I have just backed up my data to the cloud. Read More →

I recently read half of Matt Neuburg’s book Programming iOS 5 as a part of my summer vacation to get introduced to a client-side platform. I was bored of working on back-end  programs for many years and now I would like to discover dynamics of client programming.

First of all, this book is very long. I have read its ePub version, but the printed version is 1016 pages long. It has 40 chapters and tells many topics in details. However, I would like to tell you why I didn’t like it in the first place. The book tells about Objective-C language internals, iOS/Cocoa Framework internals very detailed. It is not designed in a cookbook or tutorial fashion. Instead, it tells you how the language works. I wish it would teach me “how to get things done” but halfway through the book (and skimmed the rest through the Table of Contents) I learned many details about the language and framework and nothing else at all. Read More →

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