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Monthly Archives: November 2007

MY super heros

19-Nov-07

A good laugh to start a shitty Monday morning

Bypass corporate web site blocking policies

15-Nov-07

One of the main reasons why corporate suck big time, is their stupid policies and efforts to restrict employees. I really feel this in the area of web browsing.Why do you morons block web sites? I really cant see the point in blocking Samsung’s web site with a stupid justification as “in denied list (job [...]

Why type casting is bad and generics are good?

14-Nov-07

The current version of java supports generics, thank god. Before this people using Collections,Vectors, and/or any other type of Linked list based data structure would have to cast the objects within to their corresponding types when accessing the data. Type casting is dangerous!. Consider the following example:Vector v = new Vector();for (int i=0;i

Mailing list coplugu ve yazmayi bilmeyenler

09-Nov-07

Uzun suredir yerli ve yabanci mailing listelerini takip ediyorum ve sanirim aralarinda kar$ila$tirma yapacak kadar tecrubem oldu. Yabanci mailing listelerinde 3 ya$indaki bir somalili cocuk kadar ingilizce bilen insanlar bile kendilerini acik ve net ifade edebilirken, turkce mailing listelerine yazan insanlarin noktalama isaretlerinden, butun maili buyuk harflerle yazmanin terbiyesizlik oldugundan, turkce konusmanin turkce kelimeleri rastgele [...]

My Facebook App

07-Nov-07

Its been quite a while since facebook released their API for 3rd party programmers, but i’ve only managed to find the time and the will to examine it and try it out.You can take a look at it at http://apps.facebook.com/neyesekIt’s quite a small application that suggest what I (Actually Burcin) should cook for dinner. The [...]

Word of advise for string concats

07-Nov-07

now that the subject came up at the training session at koc-sistem today, i thought I’d mention it, because i have seen this mistake made by novice/lazy programmers quite a lot.String concatenation in loops using literal strings and the + operator is an expensive operation. This is because every time a new string object is [...]