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.
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.
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 …
Do you know that I’m a tea addict? I usually start my day drinking 4 or more couples of tea and keep drinking during working hours. But, it is hard to find good tea in my work because no one cares about it.
So, I though it’ll useful If I share my experiences in making good tea.
First, to make good tea you have to buy right product. I tried different several tea brands but only one producer is successful in this business. Yes, it is Turkey’s most popular tea producer “Çaykur” and “Çaykur Filiz Çay” is my favorite tea. So, I searched reasons how they managed to produce high quality tea and a main result is they have the power to preserve it for years to dry tea particles.
Second, fresh water is as important as the tea itself.
Third, to get nice drinkable to we have to make it in an iron teapot.
Now, we have everything to make a tea. I strongly suggest washing tea before using it. First, put washed tea inside the teapot and pour boiled water on it. Wait 5 – 10 min. then, you can enjoy it and keep in mind to consume it in 1 hour.
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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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]
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.
As I planned, finalizing my (quick) studies on ontology learning techniques. Ontologies play a key role in semantic web and technologies by defining concepts and relations between these concepts. Thus, there are significant studies on this subject and some useful techniques discussed in ontology learning:
Almost all of the techniques above require a good knowledge and infrastructure of NLP (Natural Language Processing) to obtain effective results. I though ontology learning from dictionary would be easy compared to other methods for Turkish language. However, it requires WordNet like dictionaries that what I don’t have. Sabancı University NLP group works on BalkanNet but I don’t think it is ready to use.
Also, I’m searching about ontology-based system designs and implementations.
Reference
http://www.sti-innsbruck.at/fileadmin/documents/deliverables/Ontoweb/D1.5.pdf
When I first see the book “Semantic Web Technologies: Trends and research in ontology-based systems (Hardcover)” hadn’t enough time to go on the previous week. This, morning I couldn’t sleep and so had some free time to search http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/. The query “Ontology-Based” in titles hit 100 papers and most of them are published in 2008 or 2007. I’ve got printed copies of studies from various versions of ontology based systems like “Ontology-Based Knowledge Management”,” Ontology-based Information Integration in Virtual Learning Environment”, ”An Ontology-based Approach to Text Summarization” … etc.
My adviser already has a proposal on multimedia related systems and suggests me to consider it. I may combine those studies with ontology based infrastructure and come up with new subjects. But still an idea …
I’m listed in Semantic Web Twitter Pack as Semantic Web people to follow in twitter. Thanks to @CleverClogs
I usually don’t understand Microsoft and its product management strategies. I had some problems with Turkish currency format in asp.net. Searching locale issues in .net resulted in .net cultures. Computer scientists and engineers exactly everyone in I.T. industry except Microsoft, call language specifics parameters (country, currency, date-time formats …etc.) as locale.
I think it is plain old M$ strategy to force developers to for its standards. It doesn’t make sense. Culture 
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