WordPress 2.7.1
I’ve been using WordPress for months and tried alternatives (I used Blogger for years) and when I compared WordPress with others it is a real killer application. I haven’t faced any big issues yet.
A few years ago updating web based applications was a nightmare. You have to touch database, your existing data and source code. Today upgrading your exiting application with WordPress is just one click. Automatic update handles everything in seconds for you. I did it a few minutes ago and now blogging on WordPress 2.7.1
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What Is Singularity?
Do you hear the word “Singularity” so much these days? I do. So, what is it? Singularity may refer following concepts; mathematics, complex analysis, algebraic geometry, science, television … etc. I’m interested in technological singularity which aims to develop machines smarter than human intelligence.
The word Singularity sounds like a something mystic and the concept behind it reminds me the movie The Matrix. I don’t believe it’d happen as long as I’m alive. Despite its probability to happen there are huge investments on this project like The Singularity Institute and Nasa – Google companion Singularity University.
Assume that somehow singularity succeeds and smarter machines are developed. Now the question is “what happens when these smart machines seek intelligent systems?”
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“Hoca C’monnn” by Cem Yılmaz
Cem Yılmaz is my favorite comedian all time. A few days ago he attended a TV show and entire program gone around him and I haven’t laughed this hard in a long time.
The most enjoyable part was when a competitor asked him to make English jokes. You can watch it below. It is awesome.
Another Valentine’s Day
Hm I forgot to consider Valentine’s Day in my plan, yesterday. So, why should care it even it doesn’t my day? Yes, I’m single and I don’t celebrate those kinds of events. Those refer to events based on religious thoughts that I don’t believe in. But, I should have taken advantage of it like buying discounted products or services (cinema would be fine). Anyway, the day is about to finish.
Zemanta Tagging Issues
For my previous post zemanta generated following tags: South Park, Television program, Fridays, Park, Television, BitTorrent, Kids and Teens, Arts
Only half of the tags are related to my post. I couldn’t find the point for BitTorrent and my Friday Night post? Maybe for South Park? Zemanta may think most important thing in my post is South Park and added more tags related to South Park. But it didn’t focus to title and content. They need more improvements about this tagging issue.
Friday Nights
You can’t imagine how I love the weekends. It doesn’t mean I dislike working,it means I like dislike the ways tasks done in these days. Everything is in the air, nothing is written, no rules, and everyone acts what he/she likes … This post is about how I spend my weekends.
I usually leave work as soon as I can in Fridays. I usually spend my weekend at home in winter else I try to stay out at least one day for outdoor activities. I like working on new things, technologies … etc. so, I spend my time reading papers or working on new technologies if I’m at home. I can’t do it at my current work. People around me worry about the new technologies if they cannot understand or handle it. I like to challenge myself…
Today, planning to home and watch TV shows or previous series of South Park. Saturday is my research day. I’m going to write down things in my mind for a long time. Actually, it will be a draft for the research subjects I’ll work on. Sunday is going to be a housework day, a little housekeeping.
Then, It is Monday again …
Testing Zemanta
I finally installed Zemanta plugin for my wordpress (personal blog). I’ll be testing it for a few days and see if it helps for enhancing my content. For now, it works well and I liked the auto tagging feature.
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A Real Django Application On A Shared Hosting
I got working a simple django application on a shared hosting before but never tried a real application till to night. I was developing a project for fun nothing much and it is about to finish and ready for a real time test. After struggling with .haccess mod_rewrite issues1 (mod_rewrite: maximum number of internal redirects reached. Assuming configuration error. Use ‘RewriteOptions MaxRedirects’ to increase the limit if neccessary) my application is deployed and first http request is called. No, as you guess it didn’t work. My hosting provider uses an old version of mysql driver for python which is MySQLdb-1.2.0 but django 1.0 requires MySQLdb-1.2.1p2 or newer. So, planning to email and ask them if it is possible to upgrade driver if not I’m going to use my friends home servers to host it.
1 To fix this issue add your domain name to rewrite condition like
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} yoursite.com
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !yoursite.com
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ cgi/yoursite.cgi/$1 [QSA,L]
Linux vs. Windows Conflict
Since we moved to our new office with new company and additional staff, we’ve switched our platform from JEE on Linux to asp.net on Windows because D&D is easy to use which I completely disagree. Today one of the developers in the office noticed that our .net development server is down. It is used for development and test purposes (manual tests). It is crashed despite having better hardware when compared our old servers which is not a server (we build it with oem products) and it is running Fedora and still up and serves well. Windows box is broken, having power issues but Linux box is still up for 408 days. What a conflict!!! Linux box with poor hardware having better performance and robust when compared better windows box with better hardware (designed for servers).
Man, .net really sucks … I already know it but .Net developers prove it.