iPhones

Yesterday, my wife and I got our new 3G iPhones. So far so good, we are both enjoying our new gadgets :)

Here is the list of the little apps that I have installed so far (all free form iTunes App Store):
* Pocket Express: Personalized information service
* VNC: Provides access to a VNC server (works well)
* Pangea VR: Utility to view interactive VR panoramas.
* LastFM: Free streaming radio to listen your favorite music.
* Shazam: Music identification (works amazingly well!)
* Eventful: Shows local events
* vSnax: Videos for latest news and more
* Shakespeare: Complete works of William.
* Box Office: Read movie reviews, locate theaters and show times
* Bubbles: Just a little fun game
* PearMe: Find matching photos (game)

Introduction to Design Patterns (CodeCamp Presentation)

As promised, here is the presentation that I used in my session today at CodeCamp at UCSD...

Bye Bye Bill (26 June 2008/Thr)

Bill Gates is officially ending his full-time tenure at Microsoft this week. He will be dedicating most of his time to his charitable foundation (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation).

Good luck Bill. Thanks for the contributions you have made to the computing industry through out all these years. We will miss you.

Here is the Bill's last day at Microsoft.

SoCal Codecamp (28-29 June 2008)

OK, it's almost that time again for SoCal Codecamp, and it is approaching fast. It will start this weekend at UCSD.

Here is the info:
URL: http://www.socalcodecamp.com

Address:
UCSD Extension Complex (Google map)
9600 N. Torrey Pines Rd.
La Jolla, CA 92037

iARoC Robot Contest (21-22 June 2008)

International Autonomous Robot Contest (iARoC) started in San Diego (Del Mar Fairgrounds). We started to view teams' presentations yesterday, and today the actual competition will take place...

Good luck everyone...

BarCamp San Diego 2008

BarCamp is starting today at Microsoft offices at UTC area.

URL: http://www.barcamp.org/BarCampSanDiego

Address:
Microsoft
9255 Towne Centre Dr # 400
San Diego, CA

Google Map

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron)

Ubuntu Hardy Heron has just released today (following Feisty Fawn and Gutsy Gibbon releases of 2007), and yes, many servers are extremely overloaded as expected! I am downloading now, but looks like it will take 6 or 7 hours!

MacBook 2008

Last week, I got my third Apple computer. First one that I have was the Mac Mini (got it in 2005, and now it is used by my four-year-old son). This new machine comes with 2GB RAM, 250 GB HDD and Intel Core-Duo 2.4 GHz CPU. I am quite delighted with it's performance. Even running with 6 virtual desktops through Leopard's spaces, and 2 virtual machines (Vista and Ubuntu) at the same time, it performed amazingly well. I was so surprised to see the action. Of course, the cool thing about this, I can run all the greatest operating systems in one machine...

By the way, I set up synergy to use my main keyboard and mouse with my MacBook when I am in the office. I would highly recommend it if you have multiple machines and monitors around you :)

PS: I am using VMware's Fusion and Sun's VirtualBox for virtualization. Fusion really provides near-native performance, and things work smoothly. I tried Parallels desktop virtualization before, although not in my new MacBook but on Vista. Based on that experience, I believe VMware performs better.

UCSD Supercomputer Center & Calit2 Visit (2 April 2008/Wed)

In the second day of the ICSTC, we went to visit UCSD Supercomputer center and Calit2 (California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology).
Yes, we have seen some cool things including scientific visualization...

My first visit to the supercomputer center was in 2001. This time I was able to get some pictures :)

ICSTC (1-3 April 2008) @ NU

We had our conference (International Computer Science and Technology Conference) in National University this week. That was pretty good.

NetBeans 6.1 Beta Ready!

Do you use java as your mainstream programming language? Do you have your favorite IDE? I bet you do! But hey, don't be shy, go ahead and try NetBeans IDE, you will be pleasantly surprised.

It's one of the best productive IDEs available in the market today. It's open source, and freely available for all. What are you waiting for? :)

OK, here is the link: http://download.netbeans.org/netbeans/6.1/beta/

Turkce yazilar

Turkce yazilarim icin ayri bir bolum actim: http://o-gozlemler.blogspot.com/
Bu bolumu ise yanlizca bilim ve teknoloji ile ilgili konulara ayirmayi dusunuyorum.

Zoho and G.ho.st

Last month (22 Feb 2008/Fri) I signed up for AdventNet's office productivity suite called Zoho.
Being web-based, all applications from the suite are OS independent. I found the whole application quite successful in many ways.

Also, same week, I started testing the g.ho.st (an online OS). These two online products are really worthwhile to pay attention.

Go try them, you won't be disappointed.

• Zoho
• G.ho.st
  

PS: I wonder who will attempt to buy them first :) (MS, big G, well I guess not Yahoo, maybe big Blue)?
PPS: Writing about this post reminded me another product that I use and like for a long time: Virtualbox. It is a very good virtualization product for x86 machines. It was developed by a German company (innotek GmbH), and recently bought out by Sun Microsystems. Sun also recently (26 Feb 2K8) completed the acquisition of popular open-source database company and their flagship product called MySQL.

iPhone SDK

I know, It's little late to mention this, but I think it is better late than never :)

Apple recently (6 March 2K8/Thr) released the elusive iPhone SDK! Good news for the developers. Looks like Google's Android and iPhone will infuse the technology world with lots of new opportunities.

Microsoft's giving students free access to its developer tools!

Late today (18 Feb 2008/Mon), MS announced the DreamSpark project that opens up access to many students in the world (currently 11 countries listed). Looks like Bill Gates is trying to intensify MS's RIA competition with Adobe.

Again, related with with the web-wars, we will also see what would happen to the MS's Yahoo bid soon :)

Some of the tools available through DreamSpark:

• Visual Studio
• XNA Game Studio
  
• Expression Studio
• Windows Server (standard edition)
• SQL Server developer edition

San Diego JUG Meeting - 20 November 2007/Tue

Bruce Eckel was with us at our JUG meeting last night and it was pretty good one. The topic was "Java Issues & Directions".

More info can be found here:
* SD JUG: http://www.sdjug.com
* Bruce's site: http://mindview.net

San Diego Barcamp was cool

I attended the SD barcamp couple weeks ago, and I was pleasantly surprised how dynamic and cool it was. Definitely, it's a must-go-event. I would highly recommend to everyone who wants to hear and share information about technology, hacking, Web 2.0 and beyond...

By the way, barcamp is a spin-off of foocamp which was organized by Tim O'Reilly. Whereas foocamp is invitation-only, barcamp is open to everyone who is interested in the technology and web. It is basically small workshop-events whose content is provided by participants.

Here is the site: http://barcamp.org/BarCampSanDiego

I reclaimed my blog-spot here at Blogger.com :)

I didn't use the Blogger quite sometime and today just reclaimed my account :)

Linux/Open Source News on Yahoo! News

Linux/Open Source News on Yahoo! News
Some linux news...

Test :)

Hi there,
This is my first test in Blogger :)

Bye bye now.
OT