http://ufuk.paralaus.com Ufuk Kayserilioglu’s Corner of the Web Fri, 15 Aug 2008 08:22:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Just came across this wonderful strip on the xkcd website and I felt like I had to share it (click on the image to go to the full-size original version): For more information on ... http://ufuk.paralaus.com/2008/08/15/voting-problems-in-laymans-terms/ This one is very interesting and comes from Christopher Blizzard who has been developing the site as a personal project alongside his day job as an open source evangelist at Mozilla Corporation. whoisi.com is a radically new concept and for that reason it can only be explained by reference to other ... http://ufuk.paralaus.com/2008/07/02/catch-of-the-day-whoisicom/ We recently had a project where there was a need to automatically collect email addresses over the phone. I am sure everybody can appreciate how hard that is. To begin with, the user cannot enter her email address using the keypad on the phone. On top of that, even if ... http://ufuk.paralaus.com/2008/06/27/hash-functions-are-great/ The other day, a colleague, Orkun, from the office posted a blog entry in which he claims that I cannot be linked to. I guess he didn't make his research thoroughly because here it is, a place on the Web that I call home. Granted, I have not posted anything ... http://ufuk.paralaus.com/2008/06/06/on-twitter-and-the-bigger-picture-of-next-generation-mail-clients/ And I am experimenting with it right now. It is fully WYSIWYG and let's you edit you blog post exactly how you would see it. It even applies the theme (rather the CSS rules, etc.) that you are using on your blog to the editing window. Color me impressed. I think ... http://ufuk.paralaus.com/2006/12/28/just-discovered-windows-live-writer/ Great news from Konya.... The results of the education period has been announced and I can proudly say that I finished the course in first place. This gives me the chance to pick the place I would like to go to instead of picking it out of a hat. For ... http://ufuk.paralaus.com/2006/10/18/coming-to-istanbul/ Just a quick note to say that I am fine and it is going OK for me here in Konya. http://ufuk.paralaus.com/2006/09/03/a-quick-note-from-the-army/ I have just upgraded the infrastructure of this blog to WordPress 2.0 and so far it seems to work better than the previous version. http://ufuk.paralaus.com/2006/01/02/upgrade-to-wordpress-20/ My first post to my very own blog. http://ufuk.paralaus.com/2005/09/20/hello-world-2/