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Google Make a Logo To Us

2007-03-30T15:31:00.000+03:00

4 ambitious Turkish youngsters started it. And it is spreading like wildfire.

Moral of the story is simple:

Designers are creating google logos for Turkish special days, in seek of google hearing them (or better say in seek of google hearing us -- since I too am a Turk)

There are really nicely designed logos on the showcase page.

Can google hear us?

I bet they can.

Or more importantly:

Does google currently hear us?

I bet they do.

Will google care about what we do?

I guess they should.

For the interested, some logos can be found here, and more may be seen here.

Cheers.

Turkish Bloggers Unite !

2007-03-06T15:01:00.000+02:00

Note: This post is in Turkish

Türk Blog Yazarları, Mert Ulaş tarafından "Türk blog yazarları arasındaki dayanışmayı güçlendirmek" amacıyla hazırlanmış bir sosyal ağ.

Ben üye oldum. Sizin de blogunuzu hemen kaydetmenizi tavsiye ederim.

linkibol bünyesinde türkçeblog olarak etiketlenmiş, ya da çeşitli farklı etiketler altında listelenen pek çok blog var.

Bu blogların yazarlarının hepsini teker teker Türkçe blog yazarlarına davet edebilme şansım yok :( Bunun yerine yapabileceğimin en iyisini yapıyorum: linkibol veritabanından Türk bloglarına ait linklerin bir derlemesini çekip; yazarlığını yaptığım bloglarda liste halinde yayınlıyorum. Ve linklere teker teker tıklayarak birere "ping" gönderiyorum.

Eğer bu bloglara yeterince ping olursa, onlar da "Türk Blog Yazarları" topluluğuna üye olacaktır.

Biraz çılgınca bir fikir ama bence işe yarama olasılığı var.

Benim bulduğum bloglar aşağıda. Siz de yorumlarla listeye katkıda bulunabilirsiniz. Ne kadar çok Türk blogu; o kadar çok Türk blog yazarı!

(not: linkleri rastgele seçtim, herhangi bir önem sıralaması yok)

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Did You Know That Google Jobs has a Myspace Profile?

2007-02-09T21:54:00.000+02:00

Did you know that google jobs has a myspace profile,

I recently discovered it while upscooping my social networks.

Don't get confused if you simply see "bob" as a profile. The profile e-mail is directly bound to jobs[at]google[dot]com. Which means any message you send to that profile directly goes to jobs[at]google[dot]com.

And guess what, I sent an invitation for my beta web service linkibol to jobs[at]google[dot]com.

I guess

I will either get an automated response,
Or someone from google hq will find my contact info and ask what linkibol is
Or nothing will happen

Anyway it was fun.
Waiting for the consequences of it :)

2007-02-07T00:09:00.000+02:00

Being inspired by Seth Godin's "Unleashing the Ideavirus", I've tried to summarize the book in a one compact web page.

Skimming the Ideavirus

The article also contains a strategical analysis on how to spread the ideavirus for our beta web service.

Yazdıklarınızı paylaşın, sesinizi duyurun

2007-02-02T11:03:00.000+02:00

(Note: this post is in Turkish)

Wordpress kullanıcılarına müjde!

Daha önceden webrazzi'de bahsedilen ShareThis blog eklenti güncellemesi şu an itibariyle yayında.

Ekenti blogunuza kurunca aşağıdaki gibi görünecek:

Bu arada yukarıdaki linkiboluma ekle butonunu tek başına linkibol blog araçları sayfasından da indirebilirsiniz.

Bol paylaşımlı, bol linkli günler!

linkiniz bol olsun!

Tagging Files Is Easier Than You Think

2007-01-31T20:19:00.000+02:00

I replied to an anonymous comment on my adeventure about using tags instead of folders for categorizing files.

But it worth repeating here imo.

The comment says:

Neat.

What about setup.exe and another setup.exe?

I don't know how the tagging program you're using works but file>open might really be useless in some programs, no?

Nice catch!

But "setup.exe and another setup.exe..." is absolutely no problem
(you're still thinking in folders man)

Let us assume we have two setup.exe one for my favorite chess program jose, and one for my favorite browser firefox (as you can guess).

My mental process would be as follows:

label setup.exe for firefox as
setup, browser, installation, firefox

label setup.exe for jose as
setup, chess, program, jose, installation

... and when I make a multi-label filter it's easy cheesy to find each of those programs

for firefox
the tags: browser, setup, firefox
will point to exactly what I want.

for jose similary
the tags: chess, setup, jose
will directly point to the setup file of jose.

...

I'm gonna share all these (and more) in detail but I'm really busy with other stuff.

The only thing I can say for now is:

tagging my files made my life easier than ever.

I don't use my destkop,
I rarely (if ever) use windows explorer
I never use windows start button (and start menu, and quick launch)
I never use any program shortcuts...

Really.

Sardalya is Now Free !

2007-01-21T08:45:00.000+02:00

Free as in Freedom

As you know sardalya was free for uncommercial use up to now. And currently it's free for everyone.

You heard it right. Many thanks to those of you who have purchased a commercial license. From now on I'll be distributing sardalya with a fairly generous LGPL license.

... just a tiny bit of contribution to the world of free sofware.

By the way if any of you are interested in joining the project just drop me a line.

for a better web to live!

Who needs folders anyway?

2007-01-17T09:26:00.000+02:00

Today I made a crazy decision:

From now on I'll stop using my file system.

Yes, you heard it right.

I will simply tag all my files and forget where their physical locations are.

To achieve this I'll be using the excellent tag2find utility distributed freely.

But, why do you need such an adventure?

Let me try to explain: Just on my desktop, I have 7535 files. Messy me! I'm sure have tens of thousands of files on other places (images, fonts, documents, movies, music, articles, tutorials, papers, documentation... and so on).

And chances are that you are more or less like me. I bet you are one of those file-archiving, pizza-eating active internet lurkers.

When I stopped for one second and think about it, I realized that categorizing files is not an optimum solution if the number of your files exceeds a certain limit. And the number of my files
already have exceeded that certain limit.

I see, but what makes tagging different?

The good thing about tagging files is that file-tag associations are independent of the folder hierarchy.

So even if I move a file (intentionally or unintentionally) to another physical location my tags will point to the correct files (for the interested, tag2find automagically maintains the relationship for me).

As you may have guessed, I got even more mad and moved everything on my desktop to my D:/ drive.

And here is my nice and clean desktop.

From now my desktop will only be a temporary repository. I will put new files that I download, or receive via e-mail etc. on to my desktop, tag them accordingly and move them straight into my D:/ drive.

No, I won't create any folders on my D:/ drive; I'll simply put them to the root of D:/ .

Can't you see that I don't need folders any more?

...

Of course this change requires some learning curve. The more I tag files, the more I'll get used to it. In other words, the better I give mental associations to files, the easier I will be able to find them later.

Well I'm not a newbie in tagging (for those who don't know, I found a startup whose business logic is strictly based on social tagging :) )

As far as my knowledge and experience is concerned, the best way to tag a file (or the best way to tag anything in particular) is to go from general to specific (just like using folders and then subfolders)

For instance if I have a setup.exe file of my favorite IDE somewhere,

I'll first tag all my setup files with "setup" tag,
Then I will be more specific and tag some of them with "development" tag,
Then I will tag all IDE setups with "ide" tag,
And then I'll tag the setups I mentioned at the beginning with "favorite" tag.

The good thing is that I can have intersecting relations:

For example, I can also tag my favorite movies with "favorite" because they *are* favorites; They are the stuff I like and I don't really care about where they actually are located, i.e. their folder structure. I just need to find them quickly and easily. And tagging gives me exactly that option.

Similarly, I can have "development" frameworks and libraries which are not setups (hence not
tagged with setups). I can tag those with "utility, library, development" tags.

I can have articles related to development and tag them with "article, development".

Can you see where I'm going? Tagging is way more flexible and intuitive than classical usage of folders.

...

I admit it seems chaotic at a first glance. But think about it, is using folders less helter-skelter? I think not:

I have been using folders since pre-windows3.1 DOS years and I often remember myself digging
my hard disks just to find a god damn document for hours!

When I find the file I often realize that I had unintentionally dragged and dropped it to an entirely unrelated folder (I remember once finding my up to date MBA thesis in a folder named "My Thunderbird Signatures". It took me half a day scanning my entire drive to find it. However if I had tagged it, I could have found it in minutes! )

Contrary to popular belief, folders are not the best way to categorize data.
I'll go further; taxonomical categorization is a useless approach in arranging data.

That's how one's brain works. That's the logical way to store and find things later.

Since I'm familiar with the concept, I believe it will not be too hard for me to adapt. I just need to change my behaviors and learn to forget about taxonomy.

Who needs folders anyway? Well we'll see ;)

I'll try to prove that the 2.0 way of categorization is tagging!
I'll try to prove that the majority of folder-addicts are doing things the wrong way.
And I'll try to prove it here.

I'll be sharing my experiences with the rest of the world on cre8ive hut.

Just tune in for the coming news and have a taggy day!

No I ain't that mad. Or do you think so?

How to Make Your Firefox Sing (for Web Application Developers)

2007-01-11T07:06:00.000+02:00

This post is a follow up to my former "top 10 Firefox Extension That I Cannot Live Without" article. You can have a look at it for a more brief list.

For the lazies out there you can immediately donwload all the extensions mentioned in this article as a bundle.

...

There are tons of (official and unofficial) extensions you can install to your Firefox. Some of them are valuable time savers and organizes, and some are simple nothing but junk.

For those who want to be more productive and separate gold from trash, I have compiled a list aimed specifically for Web Application Developers.

But, why not use M$IE ?

Well, if you are one of those who still associate an "is a" relationship between the "e" letter on your desktop with "the Internet".

That little e is not "the Internet". Nor it is the only way to access to the Internet. There are many alternatives around. And, as a web developer, you should be well aware of the fact. Even being aware is not enough, you should evangelize about it.

If you still do not get it, I suggest you go away and so away from the community of web developers.

Don't be so pushy, I pretty well know about browsers, but why Firefox?

What I really like about Firefox can be boiled up to

vast majority of extensions,
standards compatibility,
and speed.

Needless to say the tabbed browsing interface is a great time saver. And I particularly like the "session saver" extension, in case of a power brownout, system outage all my sessions (and tabs) are restored as soon as I restart Firefox.

I'll introduce you 30 invaluable extensions which will make your Firefox work like a charm. Please note that my list is specifically optimized for front end Web Application Development and design. So if you are an average Joe, or especially specialized in back end services you may not find the list that useful.

Enough chit chat, let's begin:

Get an up to date Firefox version first

Most of the versions I present here work best with Firefox version2.x.x and above. So spare some time and update your Firefox if you have not done already.

Install Noia Extreme theme

There are many many themes around. But Noia Extreme Theme is the best one imho, which combines eye candy and productivity together.

install noia extreme to your Firefox

Get Firefox Extension Backup Extension

I know, it's name is sorta funny. But what it does is priceless. With FEBE not only you can back up your extensions, you can back up your entire user profile (along with bookmark, preferences, cookies, plugins, history and more)

Moreover it compiles a nice HTML list of extensions when you perform a back up. (I use that list to write this post list now ;) )

FEBE is half a FEBE if it's without CLEO (compact library extension organizer). CLEO is a Firefox extension that works with FEBE to package any number of extensions/themes into a single, installable .xpi file.

install FEBE to your Firefox

install FEBE-CLEO combo to your Firefox

Ultimately Necessary Extensions for Your Web Development Needs

Meet Aardvark

Things you can do with aardvark

Clean up unwanted banners and surrounding "fluff," especially prior to printing a page
See how the page is created, block by block
View the source code of one or more elements

install Aardvark to your Firefox

Also while you're there, check Platypus. It has similar extensions and more (thanks Sarah). Platypus is a Firefox extension which lets you modify a Web page from your browser -- "What You See Is What You Get" -- and then save those changes as a Greasemonkey script so that they'll be repeated the next time you visit the page. Editing pages to suit your needs is dandy -- but making those changes "permanent" is the real payoff.

Some of the things you can do with Platypus include:

Remove parts of the page you don't wish to see.
Move a part of the page to a different location.
Change the style and format of page elements.
Modify all the links on the page using a regular expression.
Insert your own HTML code.

install Platypus to your Firefox

Get Firebug

Simply get it. I cannot explain how a valuable resource it is. You shold see it for yourself. One can write a separate article on how to use Firebug. It's more than a debugger. It's a framework by itself.

install Firebug to your Firefox

Web Developer Toolbar

The Web Developer extension adds a menu and a toolbar to the browser with various web developer tools. It is designed for Firefox, Flock, Mozilla and Seamonkey, and will run on any platform that these browsers support including Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

If you are a standards-aware web developer you must have the web developer toolbar in your arsenal. If you are not I suggest you re-read the beginning of this post.

install Web Developer Toolbar to your Firefox

Html Validator

HTML validator is a nice Tidy and OpenSP based extension. It validates the (X)HTML of your pages as you browse. it's a great time saver.

As far as my experience is concerned, having a strictly valid page, or at least knowing which parts of it are left intentionally invalid prevents you from sleepless nights, extra dose of caffeine and headaches in the morning.

Sarah says:

I've always just used the validators in the Web
Developer toolbar, but this is pretty freakin' sweet!

install HTML Validator to your Firefox

Link Checker

Do you have a dozen of pages on your site and each page has tens of links in it, and you want to check for dead links, bad links and good links. Then link checker is your only savior.

install Link Checker tou your Firefox

Extensions to Enhance Your Web Development Experience

Colorzilla - your embedded color picker

Simple and easy to use. No need to create a screenshot, load it into photoshop and get the color code. If what you simply need is a color code, why shoot the fly with a rocket launcher? Just use colorzilla

Alternatively you can use Pixie (not an extension) it gives me a colour picker you can use
anywhere, not just in Firefox, and it's very small: http://www.nattyware.com/pixie.html

install Colorzilla to your Firefox

Measure it

Measure it does what it says: it d raws a ruler across any webpage to check the width, height, or alignment of page elements in pixels.

Also check out the Miscellaneous button on the Web Developer
Toolbar, it has line guides and a ruler.

install Measure it to your Firefox

Screen grab

It, in case you hadn’t guessed, saves webpages as images by scrolling around and stitching the result together. In particular it also will save just a frame as an image.

install Screen grab to your Firefox

IEView

IE View is a simple Mozilla and Mozilla Firefox extension (for Microsoft Windows systems), which allows the current page or a selected link to be opened in Internet Explorer. I use Firefox 99.99% of the time, but there are those moments -- particularly when testing new pages, or when viewing that rare IE-only page that's actually interesting -- when I need to see what things look like in IE.

install IEView to your Firefox

OperaView

If you like IEView, why not try out OperaView ?

install OperaView to your Firefox

LiveHTTPHeaders

This is sorta advanced but extremely useful extension. It allows you to change the header information of any web request on the fly.
LiveHTTPHeaders may be of some help for the following:

Help debugging web application.
See which kind of web server the remote site is using.
See the cookies sent by remote site.

install LiveHTTPHeaders to your Firefox

Tamper Data

Use tamperdata to view and modify HTTP/HTTPS headers and post parameters.

Trace and time http response/requests.

Security test web applications by modifying POST parameters.

FYI current version has conflicts with some plugins like Google Web Accelerator and HTML Validator. Shut them off while using Tamper Data, else your browser will crash.

install Tamper Data to your Firefox

Flash Tracker

While running any .swf Flash file in your browser you can see all the output generated by the "trace" flash functions in this sidebar component.
You NEED the flash player debug version to run this extension correctly

install Flash Tracker to your Firefox

Extensions as Embedded Applications

FireFTP

FireFTP is a free, secure, cross-platform FTP client for Mozilla Firefox which provides easy and intuitive access to FTP servers.

Why need an external FTP client if you have FireFTP at hand? Moreover, it's totally free.

If you find FireFTP inconvenient, or unreliable for some reason FileZilla (not an extension)
is an excellent open source FTP client (an server) with an intuitive interface.

Thanks Kasimir

install FireFTP to your Firefox

ChatZilla

Contrary to popular belief IRC is not just a time waster. It's an ultimate time saver that joins developer communities together. If you have something in mind, go to a proper IRC channel and ask a question. You'll get immediate feedback. Especially RubyOnRails developers have a very active IRC community.

install ChatZilla to your Firefox

SpiderZilla

Spiderzilla is an easy-to-use website mirror utility, based on Httrack.

install SpiderZilla to your Firefox

Usability Extensions to Enhace Your Firefox Experience

Firefox Showcase

Showcase provides a new way to manage your Firefox tabs and windows by showing them as thumbnails in a single window, tab or sidebar. Includes a find bar that will filter the thumbnails, and the capability to select the thumbnails in the same way you would select files in your system.

install Firefox Showcase to your Firefox

Scrapbook

ScrapBook is a Firefox extension, which helps you to save Web pages and manage the collection. Key features are lightness, speed, accuracy and multi-language support. Major features are:

Save Wep page
Save snippet of Web page
Save Web site
Organize your collection
Full text search
Text edit feature resembling Opera's Notes.

install Scrapbook to your Firefox

TabMixPlus

Tabmixplus is the best way to customize your tabbed navigation experience.

(note that if you have installed TabBrowserPreferences extension, it does not cooperate well with this one, so better uninstall or disable it if you want to use this)

install TabMixPlus to your Firefox

PermaTabs

Adds the ability to turn tabs of your choice into permanent tabs ("permaTabs"). PermaTabs can't be closed accidentally (even when closing multiple tabs at once), and will stick around between sessions.

Useful for keeping URLs you use often, always one tab away. Also, useful for picking up articles where you left off during a previous session.

Just for fun, installs three random "permatabs" (from a built in list) on installation. So maybe you'll discover a useful site you never even knew about.

install PermaTabs to your Firefox

FaviconizeTab

It simply does what it says.

install FaviconizeTab to your Firefox

Target Alert

TargetAlert is an extension for the Firefox web browser that provides visual cues for the destinations of hyperlinks.

If a hyperlink points to a something that is not a web page, then TargetAlert will try to append an icon to the hyperlink that represents its destination. For example, a hyperlink that points to a PDF document would look like this when using TargetAlert:

Sample Link to a PDF

This has two main advantages over plain hyperlinks. First, it makes links to PDF documents easier to find on a web page. Second, if you do not enjoy the "surprise" of clicking on a hyperlink and discovering that it links to a PDF document, you can use TargetAlert as a visual warning.

install Target Alert to your Firefox

Linkification

Linkification converts text links into genuine, clickable links.

Sarah says:

Another option is just to select a plain text link and
drag it to the tab bar or address bar, which will open the link - in a
new tab if you drag it to the tab bar, in the existing tab if you drag
it to the address bar. Seems like a lot of people don't know about this.

install Linkification to your Firefox

PDF Download

PDF Download is a Firefox extension that solves the problems everyone has about handling PDF files with Firefox. PDF Download is not a PDF plugin: you still need to have installed the Adobe or the FoxIt PDF plugin if you want to open a PDF inside Firefox.

install PDF Download to your Firefox

Image Zoom

If you have ever had an image that was too large to fit on your screen or too small to see the finer detail in your browser or email, then image zoom can help. Image zoom gives you complete control of the size of most images displayed in mozilla based software. Both individual images or whole pages of images can be zoomed.

Alternatively, using the Images button on the Web Developer Toolbar, you
can show all images full-size; also, using the Resize button there is a
zoom option (for the whole page, though, not just images) and using the
Miscellaneous button there is a page magnifier tool.

install Image Zoom to your Firefox

Séparé

Séparé is a Firefox extension that helps you keeping tabs tidy by introducing a new kind of tab: the separator. Séparé motto is "Divide et impera!"

install Séparé to your Firefox

Download Manager Tweak

The Download Manager Tweak extension streamlines the current Firefox download manager. The extension allows the Firefox download manager to be opened in a separate window, the sidebar, or a tab. The extension also modifies the default appearance of the download manager to make it more concise and intuitive.

install Download Manager Tweak to your Firefox

Download Status Bar

Download Statusbar is a browser extension that allows you to keep track of ongoing and completed downloads in a hide-away statusbar.

Features:

Auto-hides when not in use
Single-click pause and resume
Pause all, Resume all, Cancel all, and Remove all finished - available from the context menu of the bar itself
... and more.

install Download Status Bar to your Firefox

Miscelleneaus

Restart Firefox Extension

Lazy joe's way to restart firefox after an extension update.
(p.s. the download link below has some other useful extensions)

install Restart Firefox to your Firefox

Forecast Fox (Enhanced)

Yet another extension for the lazy user; Forecast fox will tell the weather report of today and the next couple of days along with satellite images.

install Forecast Fox to your Firefox

Tab Effect

Beautify your tab transitions. Tab Effect is an ActiveX based firefox extension.
Normally I don't like IE's fancy transitionsç But strangely I liked the way Tab Effect works.
Tab Effect simly attaches effects when the current tab changes.

install Tab Effect to your Firefox

Extensions YOU cannot live without

Inspect This

Sarah from DesignShift cannot live without Inspect This.
Inspect adds an entry to the context menu to open the DOM Inspector on the selected element.

install Inspect This to your Firefox

(you can contribute to this list by sending me a comment in any means: by adding a comment directly, sending me an e-mail, IM, whatever method you find convenient)

Keeping an Eye on...

All in one sidebar was an extension I loved to use, keeping everything organized. It is also in my former top ten firefox extensions list. However it does not install on my Firefox 2.0.0.1. I'm looking forward to their new release.

IEView Lite is smaller than IE view, it is cross-platform and it can do everything IE view does.
Unfortunately I was not able to install it to my Firefox 2.0.0.1.

...

That's it. Hope you find this compilation useful.

If you have any other extensions that you cannot live without, I'd be happy to enlarge this list.

Why do you think there are no Turks in Ziki (other than me)

2006-12-27T12:41:00.000+02:00

Well it's not political.
Or it is not because ziki is French-originated,
It is nothing to do with racism, religion, beleifs etc...
Nor it is because ziki is less known around Turkey.

It simply is "lexical"

"zik" stands for (umm...) "penis" in Turkish slang.

And "ziki" depending on the context will mean "to my penis", "his penis", "to his penis", "that penis (over there)"... None of which sound appealing as a promotion model.

...

This is sorta like the well known Chevrolet "no va" case, which is told over and over in Marketing history. "no va" means "it does not go" in Spanish. And do you think any Spanish person would want to drive a car that "does not go" :)

...

How can I suggest a friend to go and visit my ziki?
(Hey Mustafa, I have found a brillant thing; can you come and see my p*nis over there?)

Or call them "hey, come and see what's new on my p*nis"

Have you seen ziki? (translated: "Hey, have you seen that p*nis over there?")

Do you know ziki? (
translated:
- Do you know his penis?
- Do you know that penis?
- Do you know the (unique) penis?
depending on the context again
)

Or talk about a community who are connected to my ziki.
Oh no, hell no!

Severine, this is by no means a critisism. I'm not targeting your service. I believe you have done an excellent job and I plan to put my Ziki to all of my blog templates and I guess I will be using my ziki more actively in the future

(
no I' won't be using my p*nis more actively in the future, or will I?
Anyway, that's not related to the subject of matter

-- I'm blushed out of shame --
They say in these situations "you're sinking more to the mud as you talk" in Turkish.
So I had better shut my mouth up.
)

However I'm not sure whethere 15 million active internet surfers in Turkey will decide to do the same ;)

Cheers and happy new year.

Have you discovered wordie?

2006-12-24T12:28:00.000+02:00

wordie is a cute little beta web application which you can use as an online dictionary.

Before I discovered wordie I was used to copy and paste new words I find out while browsing the web to my treepad.

I was using treepad like a hierarchical dictionary. But as the number of words I collect increased it became difficult to maintain them (especially sorting words alphabetically became a big pain after some time)

And I now have wordie!

I simply add a word and wordie handles the rest.
I don't even bother adding a description to my words
wordie enables me too look the words up from a list of different online dictionaries.

That's great. And best of it, it is free!
imho wordie is a must have if 90% of your time passes by browsing sites whose language are not your mother language.

Hope that helps.

Just released a new version of sardalya

2006-12-24T01:16:00.000+02:00

I've just relased a new version of sardalya.

Although I've not updated the documentation yet, the new API has new features, tweaks and fixes.

For those who want to give a try can downlad it from here.

Or you can read more about the version update.

Cheers.

Some of my posts have gone, sorry :(

2006-12-16T19:06:00.000+02:00

In the unfortunate event of transferring cre8ive hut from blogger to blogger beta, I realized that some of my posts have been entirely vanished.

In case of a dead link the system redirects you to a backup copy of my blog in Turkish, which, I believe, most of you are harldy interested in (because most of my traffic is from international surfers).

For those who are interested may find my Turkish Entrepreneurship Blog's new version here,
I plan to launch today.

...

Right, wordpress is the king of blog platforms. It too has some localization issue but it does not stab a knife right into your heart like blogger beta does. It took me 5 minutes to install and about 15 minutes to localize its content.

In fact I consider porting all my blogs to wordpress. But currently I have a gazillion tasks and
deadlines in my to do list and I do not have time.

...

Although it costed me a weekend and I did not have time to do it in the first hand, I was required to transfer my Turkish blog. Do you wonder why? Then read on...

...

Why I backed up my Turkish blog and why I migrate to wordpress

is just another "blogger beta sucks" story.

I had to change my blogging platform cuz

I could'nt publish my blog at all for more than two weeks.

Nor can I change the layout of it through the template designer.

Although blogger headquarters says:

A problem in our system has caused a few blogs to display Server Error pages (error code 502). We are working on resolving this issue. Update (10/11): This issue has been resolved. — latest update on

Sorry guys, you still suck and I still cannot publish some of my blogs due to timeouts and server errors:

Here I copy and paste the error log in case someone hears my scream:

our blog published with errors.
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/wwwroot/donkisot/labels/teknik.html java.net.SocketException: Broken pipe
/wwwroot/donkisot/labels/mutluluk.html java.net.SocketException: Broken pipe
/wwwroot/donkisot/labels/yalan.html java.net.SocketException: Broken pipe
/wwwroot/donkisot/labels/kurumsall=C4=B1k.html java.net.SocketException: Broken pipe
/wwwroot/donkisot/labels/analiz.html java.net.SocketException: Broken pipe
/wwwroot/donkisot/2006/03/gn-4-retkenlik.html java.net.SocketException: Broken pipe
/wwwroot/donkisot/labels/standartlar.html java.net.SocketException: Broken pipe
/wwwroot/donkisot/2006/03/yeni-bir-balang.html java.net.SocketException: Broken pipe
/wwwroot/donkisot/labels/hayat.html java.net.SocketException: Broken pipe
/wwwroot/donkisot/labels/ba=C5=9Far=C4=B1.html java.net.SocketException: Broken pipe
/wwwroot/donkisot/labels/payla=C5=9F=C4=B1m.html java.net.SocketException: Broken pipe
/wwwroot/donkisot/labels/f=C4=B1rsatmaliyeti.html java.net.SocketException: Broken pipe
/wwwroot/donkisot/labels/ecevit.html java.net.SocketException: Broken pipe
/wwwroot/donkisot/2006/03/gn-1-kimlik-aray.html java.net.SocketException: Broken pipe
/wwwroot/donkisot/labels/derleme.html java.net.SocketException: Broken pipe
/wwwroot/donkisot/labels/ki=C5=9Fiseltan=C4=B1t=C4=B1m.html java.net.SocketException: Broken pipe
/wwwroot/donkisot/labels/yarat=C4=B1c=C4=B1l=C4=B1k.html java.net.SocketException: Broken pipe
/wwwroot/donkisot/2006/03/gn-6-iinizi-gelitirin.html java.net.SocketException: Broken pipe
/wwwroot/donkisot/labels/de=C4=9Fi=C5=9Fim.html java.net.SocketException: Broken pipe
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/wwwroot/donkisot/labels/venturecapitalist.html java.net.SocketException: Broken pipe
/wwwroot/donkisot/labels/arg=C3=BCman.html java.net.SocketException: Broken pipe
/wwwroot/donkisot/labels/blogyazarl=C4=B1=C4=9F=C4=B1.html java.net.SocketException: Broken pipe
/wwwroot/donkisot/labels/ki=C5=9Fiselgeli=C5=9Fim.html java.net.SocketException: Broken pipe
/wwwroot/donkisot/labels/acWfYcSfxLE=.html java.net.SocketException: Broken pipe
/wwwroot/donkisot/labels/duyarl=C4=B1l=C4=B1k.html java.net.SocketException: Broken pipe
/wwwroot/donkisot/labels/kitap.html java.net.SocketException: Broken pipe
/wwwroot/donkisot/labels/psikoloji.html java.net.SocketException: Broken pipe
/wwwroot/donkisot/labels/askerlik.html java.net.SocketException: Broken pipe
/wwwroot/donkisot/2006/12/bahane-retmek-kolay.html java.net.SocketException: Broken pipe
/wwwroot/donkisot/labels/pareto.html java.net.SocketException: Broken pipe
/wwwroot/donkisot/labels/kalite.html java.net.SocketException: Broken pipe
/wwwroot/donkisot/2006/03/gn-2-dar-k-kapy-kilitle-anahtar-denize.html java.net.SocketException: Broken pipe
/wwwroot/donkisot/labels/i=C5=9Fgeli=C5=9Ftirme.html java.net.SocketException: Broken pipe
/wwwroot/donkisot/2006/11/linkibol-blog-aralar.html java.net.SocketException: Broken pipe
/wwwroot/donkisot/labels/i=C5=9Fg=C3=B6r=C3=BC=C5=9Fmesi.html java.net.SocketException: Broken pipe
/wwwroot/donkisot/labels/linkpayla=C5=9F=C4=B1m=C4=B1.html java.net.SocketException: Broken pipe
/wwwroot/donkisot/labels/marka.html java.net.SocketException: Broken pipe
/wwwroot/donkisot/labels/kurumsal.html java.net.SocketException: Broken pipe
/wwwroot/donkisot/labels/=C3=BCr=C3=BCngeli=C5=9Ftirme.html java.net.SocketException: Broken pipe
/wwwroot/donkisot/labels/istanbul.html java.net.SocketException: Broken pipe
/wwwroot/donkisot/index.html java.net.SocketException: Broken pipe
/wwwroot/donkisot/2006/12/i-alar-sosyal-alar-ve-pazarlama-zerine.html java.net.SocketException: Broken pipe
/wwwroot/donkisot/labels/k=C4=B1sak=C4=B1sa.html java.net.SocketException: Broken pipe
/wwwroot/donkisot/labels/internet.html java.net.SocketException: Broken pipe
/wwwroot/donkisot/labels/fazlamesai.html java.net.SocketException: Broken pipe
/wwwroot/donkisot/labels/sosyal.html java.net.SocketException: Broken pipe
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/wwwroot/donkisot/labels/kaos.html java.net.SocketException: Broken pipe
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/wwwroot/donkisot/2006_03_01_archive.html java.net.SocketException: Broken pipe
/wwwroot/donkisot/labels/linkler.html java.net.SocketException: Broken pipe
/wwwroot/donkisot/labels/geli=C5=9Fim.html java.net.SocketException: Broken pipe
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/wwwroot/donkisot/labels/beta.html java.net.SocketException: Broken pipe
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WTF?

Published? with errors? Why don't you be honest and say

"Sorry, we couldn't be able to publish your blog at all. But we are not brave enough to tell you this. So we throw a pile of errors in front of you."

...

I haven't backed up my blog because I thought it was already safe on my servers (I do not use blogspot, I host my blogs on my servers).

Anyways, shame on me. And sorry for any inconvenience.

Ah yes, I forgot:

blogger beta sucks!

I feel more relieved now. I think I can continue on the re-alignment of my shiny brand new wordpress blog.

Best,
Volkan.

Give me 5 Minutes and I'll Help you Think in MVC

2006-12-09T12:31:00.000+02:00

Several months ago I was in sort of a chaotic mood:
I knew MVC (model-view-controller) paradigm conceptually but simply could not "get it". The strict nature of MVC and transiency and statelessness of the web was not quite fitting together in my mind.

I am from a OO/Java background and I believe I'm good add playing with objects, polymorhpism, encapsulation and all the stuff like that. However MVC is something deeper than OO. And there is only one way to understanding it:

Getting Your Hands Dirty

Anyways, in those days I've scribbled my thoughts about what MVC should be like in web applications where AJAX acts as a stub between the view and the controller. It's not much like an article. More of me talking to myself in MVC.

I used and evolved the paradigm in for several months (may be I will write an article on that when I find time).

And recently I've read a codeproject article explaining the issue in a more -how to say- comprehensive manner.

But the core idea was the same. The article demonstrated me once again that my argument, on how I considered MVC should be implemented in contemporary web applications, was stable and logical.

I picked two more codeproject articles for the interested (links 3 and 4)

Links:

[1] "A Paradigm shift in MVC"

[2] "Improving the design pattern of web applications with AJAX"

[3] "Applying Robustness Analysis on the Model–View–Controller (MVC) Architecture in ASP.NET Framework, using UML"

[4] "Development of web application using MVC II design pattern or why following MVC II will help me"

HTH.

how to add "snap preview anywhere" to a pure AJAX web application.

2006-12-05T21:17:00.000+02:00

You might have noticed that we have been working on a beta product for some time.
It's mainly intended for Turkish audience. It may seem like a "yet another social bookmarking app" at a first glance but we have built it considering several issues:

Tagging and Social Bookmarking is a relatively new in Turkey;
We have other things in mind; and the end product will be something other than a del.icio.us for Turkey.

Anyway keeping the marketing mojo aside; I recently faced a problem while trying to add snap support to the application.

If you have not seen what snap preview anywhere is go and learn about it on snap.com's website, and see it in action here.

The tool is simply used to add small preview bubbles to the links, so that the user sees what the page she is going to click looks like before actually visiting it:

Integrating snap plugin to a non-ajax web page is dead simple:You just copy and paste the JavaScript code provided into the head section of your web document.

However, the plugin cannot detect dynamically loaded content (i.e. if there is a link displayed dynamically inside a container div via JavaScript and AJAX; the link will not have a preview bubbly by default).

To find a workaround I reverse-engineered spa's JavaScript code a bit. Although it is compressed to save bandwidth, it is not obfuscated and is pretty easy to understand
(thank you snap.com for creating a self-documented code and thus making developers' life easier btw).

After working on the problem several hours a really simple solution popped up in my mind.
I simply re-initiated the plugin after my AJAX objects' oncomplete event handlers and all my dynamic content became snap-aware all of a sudden.

Here is an object-oriented sample; encapsulating the reset mechanism, so that we can alter it without changing the rest of the Application's code if needed:

var Application={
loadAjaxContent:function()
{
var ajax = _.ajax();/* sardalya's ajax shortcut. */

ajax.oncomplete=Application.ajax_complete;
ajax.onerror=Application.ajax_error;

ajax.post(...some url here...);
},
ajax_complete:function(strResponseText,objResponseXML)
{
... do tons of initialization ...

/* Try is also a sardalya utility object.
   * It is used to bypass any errors while resetting 
   * snap preview.
   * Not really required here, just for defensive coding.
   * Better be safe than sorry.
   */
Try.these(
function(){Application.resetSnapPreview();}
);
},
resetSnapPreview:function()
{
snap_preview_anywhere=new snapPreviewAnywhere();
/*altered upon codebase change @ 20070106*/
snap_preview_anywhere.onload();
}
};

After calling Application.loadAjaxContent() and loading dynamic data via AJAX; snap preview is re-initialized automagically.

Did I say I love to find simple solutions to seemingly complicated problems?

posts you may have missed

2006-10-29T15:22:00.000+02:00

Here are some of the posts that you may find useful.
I've digged deep in the archives to bring them to top of the water again :)

ajax and charset conversion issues

If you write ajax applications and your pages are encoded in a non-UTF character set,
you will most probably find yourself in need of a conversion mechanism so that the data you send to server is encoded properly without damaging native characters.
how to run linux without risking your hard-drive

It's my first serious attempt to dive into the *nix world and hence I wanted to make the transition as painless as possible.

Browsing the web I found that the easiest and harmless combination would be using a virtual machine. This way, I would not be creating a physical linux partition. Hence less risk on my side.
window.onload is soooo 90's

I am working on a client-heavy ajax application and the more responsive I manage to make it; the better. Making the application load as fast as possible is a must-have goal for me.

As you know, when DOM content loads and becomes readily available you can execute additional initialization scripts to lazy-initialize and organize the page.
Friends of your friend are most probably your friends

The idea is simple. It applies to online social networks (6 degrees of seperation principle).
So I thought why not apply it to links? Since I generally like my friends' friends, similarly, my second order links will be most probably the links that I like.

Hope you find them useful.

Cheers.

Why not use an IFRAME hack in ModalDialogV2 ?

2006-10-21T23:16:00.000+03:00

If you've read my Modal Dialog enhanced article; you may wonder the reason why I obsinately insist on not using an IFRAME to stop the bleed through when a layer moves over a HTML Select element and I use SPANs instead.

I have received several e-mails asking the reason behind it. And since the method I propose in the article is much complicated than simply using and IFRAME, you are right in wondering the reason why.

I have several considerations most of which are philosophical in nature rather than practical.

First of all; the ugly IFRAME hack (which most of the DHTML and AJAX API's prefer to use) is a non-semantic usage of the IFRAME element.
The legitimate usage of the IFRAME is to provide external data; such as a disclaimer or a web service.
Introducing a non-semantic element (with or without JavaScript) does not eliminate the fact that it is used in a semantically incorrect fashion.
May be in the future IFRAMEs wil behave differenly and allow bleed-through, who knows.

However spans will always behave as intended because I use them in a semantically correct way: They are used to wrap text around. And this usage is a supplementary method to enhance user experience; not an ugly hack that utilizes the user agent's render characteristics.
Yet another reason; people may tend to browse frame support disabled. Or their user agents may not have frame support at all (and old browser, or a PDA for instance).
I know, that's equally true for JavaScript, but who really turns JavaScript off anyway?
From my testings, IFRAME hack only works in IE5.5 and above (it may be a concern for some people; but I don't think it's a big deal).
Activex, Java, Flash etc.. is another story. If you would like to implement the third method; you can replace them with a static alternative (an image or text may be). But I admit that's a bit overkill.

As per the good news; you don't need IFRAME masking in IE7. It's no longer necessary.

...

I'd like to stress once more that it is not a bad idea. There are tons of DHTML tooltips, menus etc. around using the IFRAME hack. It's just me being a little picky.

May the source be with you!

Top 10 Firefox Extensions that I Cannot Live Without

2006-10-08T19:40:00.000+03:00

I've listed my most-frequently-used FireFox Extensions.
Hope that you find them useful:

1. All in one SideBar

All in one sidebar enables you to quickly access, organize, update, activate/passivate your extensions. Highly inspired from Opera web browser's sidebar.

You can also access your history, bookmarks, recent downloads, themes, JavaScript Console and Page Properties with just this very side bar.

I highly recommend you try it, if you haven't already done so:

2. Colorzilla

It assists web developers and graphic designers with color related tasks - both basic and advanced.

With ColorZilla you can get a color reading from any point in your browser, quickly
adjust this color and paste it into another program. You can Zoom the page you are viewing and
measure distances between any two points on the page.

Colorzilla is available for download here.

3. Dictionary Search

I am not a native English speaker. Although most of the time I can deduce the meaning of words from the general structure of the sentence; I often wonder the exact meaning of the word
(yeah I'm curious) and Dictionary Search is a great time-saver for me.

4. FireBug

I don't know how I had been developing AJAX applications without FireBug.

Some fun features of FireBug include;

Logging for web pages

No more 'alert("debug:" + myvar);' s in the source.
Firebug logs them for you without interrupting the process.
JavaScript debugging

You can stop JS execution, add breakpoints, step in, step out from the methods.
It's no different than using your favorite IDE's debugger.

alert( "I will never ever use alerts for debugging again" );
Errors at your fingertips

FireBug adds a little icon to the Firefox status bar which tells you if your page is busted.
No more digging through the muddy pile of errors in the JavaScript Console window.
CSS / DOM inspector

Elements and styles and events, oh my goodness. This can't be true. I can inspect anything on the page with my mouse. Morever I can change attributes, attach new events; modify/override JS methods! Unbelievable!
JavaScript comamnd line

To inspect and alter variables and state date.
Sing with me:
"No more alert debugging."
Ajax Request Spy

Logs all your XMLHttpRequests along with post data and header information on-the-fly.

If you are developing (or you plan to develop) AJAX Web Applications; this feature is a must-have for you.

You can download FireBug from Joe Hewitt's web site.

5. FireFTP

Forget about your bloated FTP client. And meet FireFTP.

I assure you; you won't look for an alternative once you get used to it.

6. Web Developer Toolbar

A must-have for any Web Developer / Designer.

You had better use it to understand how an invaluable toolbar it is for the web developer.

7. Session Saver

Although FireFox is an excellent browser; it may crash once in a while.

If you are in the middle of a research with a zillion of tabs open (see the next list item);
then session saver is actually your life-saver. It saves all open sessions before the crash
occurs and loads them back when you re-launch Firefox.

8. TabMixPlus

If you are like me, a zillon tabs open side by side; then TabMixPlus is just the tool for you.

9. EditCSS

As its name implies, with EditCSS you are able to edit your site's CSS files on-the-fly and observe the changes immediately.

Edit CSS is available for download here.

10. Total Validator

The Total Validator Firefox extension provides one-click validation for HTML, Accessibility, Dead Links and more...

Total Validator is a complementary tool for standardistas out there.

I say "complementary" on purpose; because as you all know automated accessibility
checks don't mean much and the developer is responsible for passing each checkpoint manually.

BONUS

If have followed up to this point then you deserve a bonus don't you?

11. Noia Theme

Tired of the default Firefox look? Then install noia extreme theme. You'll be amazed how it changes look and feel of your Firefox.

... May the source be with you!

Don't Panic! Leak Monitor Does not Always Show Actual Leaks

2006-10-07T07:18:00.000+03:00

Mozilla Leak Monitor extension says that sardalya's _.chain method leaks if you decide to attach the event explicitly bypassing the EventRegistry.

In the core of sardalya , at times, I explicitly bypass EventRegistry attachment if (and only if) I am 100% sure that the code would not leak (no closures, no expando properties etc...).

The author of the plugin also confirms my action:

Some of these leaks are things that are clearly bugs in the extension (such as registering observers with the observer service forever) and some are things that arguably shouldn't leak (at varying argument strengths).

Although some of those leaks may be real. Most of those leaks are due to a bug in the extension (or FF1.5 or both).

Currently there is a lot of buzz around in blogs and forums telling;

... and also XYZ Framework Leaks, I've installed the Firefox Leak Monitor plugin and oh my goodness; every single site I visit is leaking! gmail is leaking, dojo is leaking, prototype is leaking.

Hey look! sardalya leaks as well.

I am in need to write this blog post; because I've received a pile of e-mails telling that the current version of sardalya has leaks in it. Thank you everyone for your feedback. I very much appreciate them and use your comments and suggestions as a means to improve, enhance and re-shape sardalya.

...Coming back to the leak issue. Well I (think that I) have adequate knowledge on what causes a JavaScript memory leak, in what circumstances the memory leaks etc... I've even written an article about it. And I am pretty (99.999%) sure that the former version of sardalya does not leak.

To keep the long story short I've converted expressions like

_.chain(document,"mousemove",
this._onMouseMove,true);

to

_.chain(document,"mousemove",
this._onMouseMove);

in the current version of sardalya.

I think this is a better approach (whether there is an actual leak or not) because

First of all it is a defensive coding practice. Better be safe than sorry.
Secondly reclaiming memory as soon as possible in window unload, instead of leaving the decision to the garbage collector will positively affect performance.

There is a caveat though: If there is an excessive amount of event registration going on the page; the internal array that holds pointers to event handlers in the EventRegistry object may increase in size and this will result in a slightly increased amount of memory consumption (a.ka. a pseudo leak)

But I guesstimate that this pseudo leak won't be recognizable in practical situations.

And yes I've released a new version of sardalya (2.2.5). It has some minor fixes and this leak issue implemented.

I will be more active; soon...

2006-09-12T10:09:00.000+03:00

Due to reasons that are out of my control; I was away from the industry for the last two months.

In this period, I had almost zero internet connection. Thus I halted my personal projects; I stopped writing articles; I stopped reading my e-mails (I have read literally tens of thousands of e-mails in the last week).

Anyways that period is over. And I will be more productive and participative in a few weeks.

While I was not around...

I have been nominated in the Acknowledgements section of Chris Heilmann's new book "Beginning JavaScript with DOM Scripting and AJAX - from novice to professional" (there are several references to me and my library inside the book as well --
Thank you Chris, it's an honor to be mentioned in a book authored by a well-known accessibility and usability guru.)
One of my articles (in Turkish) has been quoted in a nation-wide newspaper.

Will be back soon.
Cheers!

EasyPack, pushbutton syntax checking, compression and obsfucation

2006-07-25T23:27:00.000+03:00

So what on earth is EasyPack ?

Basically EasyPack is JSLint combined with packer plus some pixie dust to enable batch processing and AJAXification of sardalya to couple client tier and business tier.

pros:

- To run EasyPack is as easy as clicking a button.
- EasyPack analyzes and compresses scripts in batches.
- No copy-paste of source code needed. Files are read from an XML meta data.
- EasyPack is easy to configure.
- EasyPack is Modular.

cons:

- It is an ASP.Net C# Web Application, hence you require IIS to run it.
- You need a dedicated (ideally a local development) server.

I could have written it as a php, jsp or ruby application; but I found ASP.Net C# quicker to deploy and I've chosen it since I'm running out of time nowadays.

You can have a look at it here:

http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/EasyPack.asp

Cheers.

released a new version of sardalya

2006-07-24T01:34:00.000+03:00

I've released a new version of sardalya.

You can have a look at the sardalya wiki for details.

packing javascript

2006-07-18T01:07:00.000+03:00

I have been thinking of a new compression algorithm for orkinos for a long time. And because of the stress of other projects over me I had pended development of orkinos a few months ago.
... until I stumble upon Dean Edwards' packer. Dean, generously provides a C# version of his library.

Since orkinos is open source; integrating the library does not conflict with Dean's licensing requirements.

The first thing I do tomorrow will be replacing the core functionality of orkinos with packer (and ammending the CC LGPL license of packer, link to Dean's website etc to the release bundle).

I tried packer on sardalya. It compresses almost twice better than orkinos' core compressor.
I will leave orkinos' JSCodeCompressor class in the next version, ~~for people who just want to trim new lines or strip out the comments~~ and see what can be done with the remaining code.

edit:
I've implemented the wrapper (in less than 10 minutes) but the code is too messy for the next release; and I don't have time to clean it up.

Actually I don't want to release the next version unless it adds a considerable value. I have several things in mind (one of them is merging JSLint and packer into a single C# executable and adding a batch compression option to it).

But I won't have free time to work on it for at least several months.

Thank you Dean for sharing your library with the rest of the world.

I love open source :)

how to preserve client session

2006-07-10T10:19:00.000+03:00

Are you tired of your clients yelling you:

"I have been writing this article for more than an hour and when I submit it to the site the system logs me out and all I have written apriori is lost forever..."

Then this post is just for you.

Using a little bit of ajax and some pixie dust it is really easy to elimate client's session timeout when he is doing a critical task (such as writing a content to post on a forum; authoring a critical article; modifying parts of his web-based CMS etc.)

Here goes the code:

var Ping=
{
 init:function()
 {
  /*
   * I'm using sardalya's _.ajax Shortcut:
   * http://sardalya.pbwiki.com/Shortcuts
   *
   * However, the code can be easily 
   * adjusted to utilize any ajax wrapper.
   */
 this.ajax=_.ajax();
  this.ajax.oncomplete=this.push_complete;
  this.ajax.onerror=this.push_error;
  this.clientPush();
 },
 clientPush:function()
 {
  Ping.ajax.abort();
  Ping.ajax.init();
  Ping.ajax.get(URL.ajax.action.PreserveSession);
 },
 push_complete:function(strResponseText,objResponseXML)
 {
  if(strResponseText.toLowerCase()=="false")
  {
   alert(Message.IN_RESTARTING);
   window.location.reload();
  }
  else
  {
   setTimeout(Ping.clientPush,Ping.interval);
  }
 },
 push_error:function(intStatus,strStatusText)
 {
  setTimeout(Ping.clientPush,Ping.interval);
 },
/* ajax handle */
ajax:null,
/* check interval in milliseconds */
interval:60000
};

var URL=
{
 ajax:
 {
  action:
  {
   /* initiates a simple server-side check to validate session
    * (checks whether Session["user"] is null or not)
    * Prints true if Session["user"] is not null; false otherwise. 
    */
PreseveSession:
"http://example.com/ajax/action/PreseveSession.aspx";
  }
 }
};

var Message=
{
 IN_RESTARTING:"Sorry, the system is in an "+
"inconsistent state. I have to restart..."
};

and all you need to call is Ping.init() on window.onload and sleep peacefully at nights.

window.onload=function(evt)
{
Ping.init();
};

However using it all over your site may have a slight impact on performance
(since you can be holding more than optimum number of session in server's memory).

Although this will be insignificant to an average web application; if you have a high-traffic site this may have some effect on performance.

Thus the best way to use this technique is to include it only in misson-critical pages (such as and edit/send comment page of a forum post which in general includes a textarea to edit and send back to server upon submit) but not in every single page of your web application.

Your users may not get that angry when they incidentially fall down to login page from the default page because of a session timeout since they are not doing a mission-critical task.

The users' (or your client's) face may turn into red from anger if s/he loses the session after having written and posted a 6-paragraph article :)

How to make a diary with notepad

2006-07-08T08:52:00.000+03:00

If you are a windows user

Open a new Notepad from your start menu (shortest way is to use {Windows Key + R} and type "notepad" in the prompt that pops up)
Type .LOG on the first line (all caps don't forget to start with a dot (.) )
Press enter to go to the next line.
Give a meaningful file name, save and exit.

If you did it correctly; each time you open the text file with notepad a timestamp will be automatically ammended to the bottom of the text. A simple diary to track your progress.

Here is what it looks like: