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Probably I’m a “products person”
February 24, 2010 - 1:47 pm
Tags: products
Posted in Regular | 2 comments
It all started when I was younger, almost 15 years ago. As a rebellious child, I decided to publish my own newspaper to share my opinions about products I use daily. I wrote critics, future notes and reviews almost about everything — from plugs to kitchen tools. Reviewing was boring, but manufacturing was very costly, [...]
Custom Scroll Distance for UIScrollView
December 5, 2009 - 3:01 pm
Posted in Regular | 5 comments
Most recently, I was trying to create a slider for users to navigate between different items. A scroll view was working fine since it implements most of the scrolling behavior I needed in my application natively. But the content I want to scroll was smaller in width and UIScrollView is designed to scroll multiples of [...]
Why should developers blog?
November 14, 2009 - 12:57 am
Posted in Regular | 7 comments
If I make an statistical study out of my friends and colleges who are developers, I can barely can say 10% of them are blogging. Is blogging a nightmare, a time waster, a cheap-seat show where bloggers act like significant people for them? I don’t know. I have one prediction: They don’t like writing. These [...]
Maps Development on Android: Registering a Maps API key
November 6, 2009 - 4:29 am
Tags: android, google, maps
Posted in Regular | 2 comments
Location based applications are musts on mobile platforms. Android does not have maps natively but Google Maps team is providing an add-on that comes with Android SDK (at least 1.5). In this post, I’m not going to show you how to pop out maps on your little mobile screen, but underline the application signature details [...]
Redis: New Persistent Key-Value Store
Most recently, I’m working on Redis which is a key-value datastore with interesting characteristics. It’s ultra fast and has built in atomic operations to handle concurrent usage. Although everything lives in-memory, Redis syncs with hard disk time to time to serve as permanent storage. Most impressively, downloading Redis and making a working build doesn’t take [...]
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Burcu Dogan (I'm a self-motivated engineer, software development preacher. Interested in search, maps, distributed computing, linguistics, legos, starfleet academy, emulating 80s and and listening to 70s. Part-time home recorder, beer bottle collector and dancer. Certified in nothing. Need to contact? drop a line to burcu at burcudogan.com
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- Do-it-yourself Microformats T-shirts Aren't you able to find Microformats tshirts online or nearby? Follow my tutorial to make yourself one.
- Typography improvements on Windows 7 After years of poor rendering, Windows core team finally takes care of text. Decent article about the current improvements and typography.
