The lean startup by Eric Ries is a very interesting book about creating a successful business. It’s really a great read even if you are not working in a startup. Actually most large company moved away from previous development processes that didn’t adapt well to the new technologies. In today world, we ship software daily, sometimes… Read More »
In this post I want to share some notions of machine learning and a how-to get started with Microsoft Azure ML studio. Machine learning is a quite complex topic, especially if you want to understand the theory and algorithms that are behind it. If you want to go deeper in understanding ML I would encourage… Read More »
Once you have a working sample of Facebook SDK 4.0.0 for PHP, you will notice upon refreshing the page an error: Fatal error: Uncaught exception ‘Facebook\FacebookAuthorizationException’ with message ‘This authorization code has expired.’ Well, this is quite annoying as it breaks the user navigation on your site. To get around this issue, record the… Read More »
I downloaded the new Facebook SDK 4.0.0, hoping to have a quick sample running. Instead, I had to scratch my head for nearly 1 hour before having a working sample. Not really a great experience (‘thanks’ Facebook for the great getting started document)! Now at least I got it working, so I’m sharing some information… Read More »
Episode #3 of the weekly review of search adverting! Covering the week ending on 3/15/2014. Native Ads are not engaging readers Some data shows that native ads are not getting as much attention from the visitors This can be somewhat improved if the ad creative is of good quality Source: marketing land Twitter experiment on… Read More »
Some high profile website (Facebook, Linkedin) have enable infinite scroll (automatically displays following pages when the user scroll down) on their pages. This is mostly because infinite scroll is supposed to increase user stickiness to a site. One obvious problem with infinite scroll is that the ad placement needs to be updated. Without infinite scroll… Read More »
I finally created an account for Windows Azure, it is quite easy to do so and the cost are very affordable (if you have a MSDN premium subscription as each Microsoft employee does :)). I never really had the opportunity learning in-depth IIS and ASP.net so now that I have this server available, I am starting! The… Read More »
Six years ago, I was still a student at the University of Geneva, I decided to host myself a blog in order to be able to share my ideas and views with other people. It was also a convenient way for me to be able to remember some random ideas I would have read or… Read More »
Some interesting Spec Explorer videos from Channel9. It is all you need to get started with Model Based Testing. The idea behind spec explorer is to make a model of the requirements of your products and let Spec Explorer generate millions of interesting test cases. You just need to find enough CPU power to run… Read More »
In that time I was a big fan of SEO and thought that it would be cool to place my first name (Ahmet) in top positions of search engines. When I started I couldn’t even find a reference to my website while searching on Google.com (European server) and there are about 44,700,000 results when searching… Read More »
Some days ago I started using FMS (Flash Media Server). Obviously I wanted to write my project in AS3 and realized that they weren’t a lot of documentation on the topic, that why I’ll post here every part of code I made working. My last project was about creating a chat. I downloaded the demo… Read More »
In an over charged world of projects management and ideas, it sometimes hard to gather the attention to the ultimate decider (your boss or yourself) to use new technologies. I started at the beginning of this week to seed (and water it ) my boss brain with new possibilities with AIR. Some techniques worked… Read More »
I often have to deal with client that want to made some ‘small changes’ in the navigation menu. Put element 2 before element 1 and change the name or the link… So lazy as I’m, I decided to write (my first) a PHP Class, that should handle a two level navigation. Let me share with… Read More »
I’m migrating my server from php4 to php5. As you may notice the website is weird and will stay until some time. Please pardon the errors you encounter. Ahmet 0 Kudos Don'tmove!
News from the Labs: This is a prerelease version of Adobe® Media Player™ (AMP) software for Windows and Macintosh platforms. It is being made available for consumers to test the user experience, and for content publishers to test the compatibility of their existing Media RSS feeds with Flash-based video content. You will also notice a… Read More »