Mehmet Ali Ertürk

18 Days With Snow Leopard

I have been using my mac for 3 months and I havent shared my os x experiences so far. Post title refers to longest uptime in this time period. I thought dividing my experiences in to sections would be more logical: one for end user side and one for for developer side.

First, I want to discuss end user view point of mac os x which is snow leopard and compare it to the other operating system (you got that). Any kind of software installation is killer easy, i.e. installing Snow Leopard takes 20 min.s (depends to your hardware) without annoying drivers installation and configuration steps. Also, its same for application setup, just drag & drop the file to the Applications folder, that’s it!

It is fast, very very fast when compared to other os and it uses less memory and cpu resources with less power. You can imagine how fast your os when it doesn’t run crappy viruses, antiviruses, antispywares … etc.

As a developer/architect I have used linux, windows, os x, solaris and in my opinion; the only os for a real software developer & designer is mac os x. I’m ok with linux but hacking something to work takes time which I don’t have recently. I believe linux is for more production environment not development.

Mac os x provides to developers the power of unix os with more manageability. Isn’t that awesome when you have symbolic links? Also, cross platform products, (I mean real cross platforms products not like .net which works only windows) are available for os x too and I believe future has to be independent.

In both sides, mac os x provides better hardware and software when compared alternatives with clean design. So far, I’m happy and more productive with the os that I have which is called Snow Leopard.

PS: Apple doesn’t pay me for to blog about them. But It would be nice if they denote my scientific projects

Eric Cartman Sings Poker Face

I know, my blog turns into a south park blog but check out this guys, it s awesome, Eric sings Lady Gaga’s Poker Face

Update:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsVgGTq1Jf8

Funniest South Park Characters

There is no argue that I’m watching south park for my favourite character Eric Cartman however there is one more character, Stan’s father Randy Marsh. This guy is funnier than Stan.

Still waiting for new episodes …

First Post From Snow Leopard

Yes, at the end I’ve switched to mac. So far happy with snow leopard, much better than windows.

Update:

Book Review: Django 1.0 Template Development

I have finished reading free copy of Django 1.0 Template Development to review which is written by Scott Newman and published by Packt Publishing. I have already posted a blog entry about the free chapter of the book.

Django is a powerful Python web development framework which has challenging built in features like templating system, admin pages… etc. I have been developing web based applications for years and worked on variety of languages and platforms however Django’s clean and clear architecture is unique. The book focuses on the template development with Django and the content;

• Chapter 1: An Introduction to the Django Template System
• Chapter 2: Views, URLs, and Generic Views
• Chapter 3: Template Context
• Chapter 4: Using the Built-In Tags and Filters
• Chapter 5: Loading and Inheriting Templates
• Chapter 6: Serving Multiple Templates
• Chapter 7: Custom Tags and Filters
• Chapter 8: Pagination
• Chapter 9: Customizing the Admin Look and Feel
• Chapter 10: Caching Your Pages
• Chapter 11: Internationalization

Detailed information about book content is available.

Django 1.0 Template Development is designed for both beginners and advanced developers and template authors with variety of examples and detailed topics of template development.

The book starts with introduction to template development and an overview of Django template system. Also, following Chapter 4 discusses built-in tags, filters and Chapter 7 focuses on custom tags and filters which are highly used important issues in Django application development.

I would recommend Django 1.0 Template Development for developers who want better understanding and efficient use of template systems in Django.