Author Archives: Fırat Can Başarır

Why I Like Python Community

By Fırat Can Başarır | Published: April 30, 2010

My first “5 Reasons Why…” post. Yay! All the production quality projects I have done were web applications. The two major projects I have worked on are pillinetwork + Sosyomat[1] and Markafoni[2]. Markafoni is written using Python and Django while the others were implemented using Ruby On Rails. I worked on every aspect from DB [...]

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Updating more stuff

By Fırat Can Başarır | Published: December 22, 2009

I have created a “Resources” page. I’ll be adding everything I produce on that page. For now there is only this article I have written as an assignment. I also have a tagging plugin for jquery that I am planning to add. TagComplete needs a lot more work to be usable. I’ll write up a [...]

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Can’t get Ubuntu 9.10 to boot from EFI.

By Fırat Can Başarır | Published: December 21, 2009

It’s rather ironic that after a week of research on free software, software compatibility and protocols I was unable to get Ubuntu 9.10 to boot from EFI on my MacBook Pro 5,1 (late 2008). It’s not the fault of Ubuntu or grub2 developers. It’s Apple’s implementation of EFI, they weren’t loyal to the standards. I [...]

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New VPS, Nginx and PHP-FPM

By Fırat Can Başarır | Published: August 9, 2009

I bought a VPS share from GANDI yesterday. They are the cheapest I have found, $16/month (I must admit I haven’t searched much though). Here is a sentence about them from Wikipedia: They do not pay for publicity, but rely on word-of-mouth only. Since 2008, they also provide virtual servers through Xen technology. They are France [...]

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A change of development environment.

By Fırat Can Başarır | Published: July 1, 2009

I have been developing on a Mac for 3 years (give or take). I used to do projects using RubyOnRails and PHP Frameworks. For a year now I have been enjoying Django. Ruby (and Rails), Python and PHP all come built-in latest Mac OS X (Leopard). It may sound good enough but it is really [...]

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged apple, debian, development, django, eclipse, emacs, java, linux, mac, mac os, macports, mysql, php, postgresql, python, red hat, ruby, rubyonrails, textmate, ubuntu, vmware | Leave a comment

Apple iCal and Google Calendar synchronization

By Fırat Can Başarır | Published: February 13, 2009

Just like a lot of people out there, I use more than one computer. I have my laptop, my desktop computer at work and various computer terminals at school… So I like to keep my data online as much as possible. The best solution for synchronization between computers is MobileMe. But I find the service [...]

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Fixing Low Microphone Volume Problem with PulseAudio/ALSA on Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex running on Dell XPS M1330

By Fırat Can Başarır | Published: October 28, 2008

Open Application -> Sound & Video -> PulseAudio Device Chooser Click on the “PulseAudio Applet” on the system tray and open “Manager”. Click on the “Devices” tab, select “alsa_output.pci_8086_284b_sound_card_0_alsa_playback_0.monitor” which is the “Monitor Source of ALSA…” Click properties and set the volume to maximum (480% on my computer) Record a song using the gnome-sound-recorder for [...]

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged alsa, dell, free software, gnome, gnu, m1330, open source, operating system, pulseaudio, sound, ubuntu, xps | 3 Comments

From MySQL to PostgreSQL

By Fırat Can Başarır | Published: July 11, 2008

If you have been using MySQL for some time now and want/have to try/use PostgreSQL, here is an excellent blog post you should read. The post goes over the fundamentals and some MySQL-specific details. Personally, I had a hard time when I first tried to install PostgreSQL. I was on a Mac and I didn’t [...]

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Mobility is a part of life

By Fırat Can Başarır | Published: January 20, 2008

Because of my work and my studies, I have to carry my laptop with me almost all the time. I need it at work, I need it at school. If I am staying over at a friend’s I have to take it with me because I will need it for work or school the very [...]

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