Bilgi Üniv. CS bölüm başkanı değerli Chris hocanın bölümde verdiği **Bilgisayar Bilimlerinin Başarısı **konuşmasının videosunu burada bulabilirsiniz. Özellikle bilgisayar–yazılım alanında olmayanların da ilgisini çekecektir. Saymanın tarihçesinden matematiğin bütünlüğüne, bilgisayarın icadından güncel teknolojilerde bir çok konuya yüzeyden giriş yapan konuşmada beni etkileyen, automata theory hakkında noktaları birleştirmeme yardım eden bir çok konu gördüm. Şaşırma ve gülme garantili, mutlaka bir saatinizi ayırın: Read More →

Every year, tens of thousands of senior year Computer Science undergraduates are working on a whole year-long projects. Most of them go to waste after the course ends. Surely, people learn a lot out of these projects but at the end of the day several hundreds of man-hours are wasted besides the code. Code is trivial but “the change” isn’t. These senior-year projects can be sustainable in a way that authors, academia or people can get benefit out of them. Read More →

Bölümde (Bilkent Bilgisayar Müh.) bitirme projesi olarak da yaptığımız ollaa ile bölümün bu dönemki en iyi bitirme projesi ödülüne layık görüldük.  Hepimizin şimdiden bu projeden çok şey öğrendik. Başta takım arkadaşlarım cesur coder’lar Uğur Kumru ve Ecem Ünal’a, hocamız Prof. Fazlı Can’a ve yardımlarıyla emeği geçen diğer herkese teşekkürü buradan borç bilirim. Bu da böyle bir hatıramız olsun. :)

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One of the most important lessons I learned during my startup adventures so far is, creating a business/product relying on third parties is one of the most dangerous choices. Here is what sucks.

Developing iPhone apps

All apps submitted to the App Store go through an evaluation process. Sometimes it takes 2 days and sometimes 15 days. You can’t estimate what could possibly happen because the process is not transparent. Even updates go through the full evaluation process. You have a critical bug in your iPhone app and you changed only one line and submitted an update, now you have to wait about a week to get it fixed. Read More →

Recently we have released iPhone app of our mobile social network **ollaa. **However there have been arguments about why don’t we support iOS 4.x and forced minimum iOS 5.0. In fact it is mostly about trade-offs we made before starting development. iOS 5.0 SDK has several features that made our development phase much easier such as automatic reference counting (makes the code readable and maintainable) and storyboards (made having feedbacks on UI flows and designs possible and removed the need to have separate mockups for flows and UIs) Read More →

Digitimes: Intel and Microsoft have been keeping close cooperation […] developing new tablet PCs based on Windows 8, with a goal of decreasing the global market share for iPad from 70% currently to below 50% by the middle of 2013 […] So here’s the Microsoft’s master plan. I am not sure if people are going to pay $300-$1000 for a Windows-based and probably not so well-designed and thicker device while there is iPad out there. Read More →

I see many people around me who can’t do anything productive in most days. That’s a common problem that we all sometimes feel drowned by having lots of things to but actually doing nothing. Recently I have read this free book named GTD for Hackers and compiled a list of practices of mine and author’s on getting things done. Organize your inbox. I use Gmail and for the emails I won’t read or reply immediately, I star them. Read More →

I am clearly obsessed with minimalistic blog themes and I finally decided to clone Dustin Curtis’ blog. Thankfully, Rıza created the main layout and styles and I adapted it for myself. His code and my usage are both available. In addition, I disabled commenting for a while, let’s see how it goes. I don’t want to change this for a long time. Read More →