Looking for Software Developer Enthusiasts for Kartaca
Dec 2nd
This job ad will be Turkish, because we are mostly interested in developers who live in Turkey. If you are interested keep reading! Uzun uzun yazıların hayranı değilim ve iş ilanı ararken bir sürü ıbıdık zıbıdık ütopik ilanlar okuduğunuzu biliyorum. Fantastik ‘title’lar ile gözünüzü boyamaya çalışan, aslında kötü bir şeyi size mükemmelmiş gibi satmaya çalışan [...]
Unlicensed Software Raid at the Office
Sep 23rd
Last Wednesday, we have been checked by 1 BSA lawyer, 3 cops, 1 expert and 3 company representative for unlicensed use of software products (piracy) in the company. Result? We don’t have the requirements to use pirated copies of software. BSA is an alliance, that has no power at all, yet can come to your [...]
About Large And Complex Software
Sep 4th
It’s been a while from the last post as usual. This time I’m back about a topic we have discussed in the classroom with the instructor about Large and Complex Software. He said that you should design, write UMLs, create comment blocks (70% comments and 30% code) and write documentation for complex software. I opposed [...]
Why the nerd who does not leave his bedroom will not be a better developer
Jul 7th
In my youth (like I’m not young anymore…), I had watched many movies that contained a nerdy guy who was not leaving his room and doing all kind of crazy stuff, hacking into banking systems etc. I was very awed with many of them and probably it was some of the things that inspired me [...]
One Time Actions with ZF View Helpers
Jun 27th
It’s been a while since I have last written about Zend Framework, I guess and it’s won’t really be a long post. It’s more a personal reminder for myself on how I can run some commands in a view helper only once. I don’t know if you use view helpers or not but I think [...]
Kartaca Web Based Voting System, Yet Another GPL Project
Jun 8th
Followers of mine might remember that I was writing my own tiny PHP framework for a school project of mine. The framework’s development is stalled for the moment, however the school still required the homework 
I have based this web based voting system on, surprise surprise, Zend Framework. You can check it out on [...]
Evaluating a Curriculum Vitae
Jun 3rd
This year in the company we had a lot of internship applications. Until this year, we always evaluated applicant’s cvs one by one and almost called everyone to the office and talked with them. But this year the applicant count was amazing (a lot more then we had expected) and we have noticed that we [...]
java equivalent of php encryption with MCRYPT_3DES and MCRYPT_MODE_CBC
Feb 16th
if you try to write a java code to produce same encrypted words which are generated with php using TripleDES algorithm and CBC mode, you’ll see two main keywords at the end of your search on internet: DESede (as algorithm) DESede/CBC/PKCS5Padding (as transformation method) key point here is transformation method, because php does not support [...]
How to Run Native SQL Queries with Doctrine
Apr 29th
It’s been a long time again until I have written a post. This will be short one, I will just give an example how you can run native sql queries with your doctrine connection.
It’s generally hard to run a complicated query with multiple joins in Doctrine. So you generally need the raw sql format, where [...]
Code Review Process and CRET Presentation!
Apr 17th
It had been weeks since Open Days has ended and I did not had time to put my slides here. Sorry for being late. However it was a great day at Open Days! It was a good event with lots of useful talks, and workshops. And as you know I was one of the guys [...]