http://blog.birbit.com anything about everything... Fri, 25 Sep 2009 10:03:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Almost one year ago, with 3 friends from school; we were trying to find a promising project which can be our first startup project. We've checked many projects than decided on RealmCrash, which is an MMO gaming framework that is fully customizable with a simple game creator that can be ... http://blog.birbit.com/2009/09/17/aardvark/ http://blog.birbit.com/2009/08/30/27/ Today, I've found sth really nice, called Personas. You give it your name (or any name of course), it searches the web using sophisticated natural language processing, groups the result data with some clever logic and gives you your online portrait. It's built by Aaron Zinman @ MIT Media Lab. Go try yours: ... http://blog.birbit.com/2009/08/21/personas-metropathologiesyour-life-map-online/ Today, I was trying to optimize some mysql query in our experiment framework.I came across to two query explains that I cannot understand. Here are the two queries: explain select * from TABLE_NAME where created > ‘2009-08-09 19:10:44′ explain select * from TABLE_NAME where created > ‘2009-08-09 20:10:44 ′and here are the explain results: mysql> ... http://blog.birbit.com/2009/08/10/mysql-drived-me-crazy/ Besiktas JK's supporter group (carşı) has done yet another awesome thing.After the death of Michael Jackson, they've prepared a banner written that:"God forgive MJ's soul who is a great Besiktas supporter and lived half of his life black and the other half white."Btw, this banner has no racist content, it's ... http://blog.birbit.com/2009/07/01/besiktas-jks-supporters-and-michael-jackson/ a gallows humor about Turkey's current media... Sorry, in turkish... http://blog.birbit.com/2009/06/30/21/ Last thursday, I had the last mid-term exam of my undergrad life, and first time in my life I decided to read the course book. I eventually caused my failure from the exam since reading 260 pages in 2 days was impossible. And see what I've focused in the book ... http://blog.birbit.com/2009/04/18/weird-things-from-the-history-of-networks/ Today, while working, I had to take "diff" of each folder and found the following command. Works perfectly on macOSx shell, should work in linux shell too. diff -qr dirA dirB | grep -v -e 'DS_Store' -e 'Thumbs' | sort here, DS_Store and Thumbs are two folders you want to exclude. The ... http://blog.birbit.com/2009/01/29/a-nice-shell-command-to-diff-two-folders/ While surfing on facebook, I found a cool website where you can very quickly put yourself in cool photos. FACEinHole.com it's easy, you choose a photo where the face is blank, than upload your own photo or have a webcam shot. then you become a new person :) nice and cool website to ... http://blog.birbit.com/2008/12/03/18/ Once one of my friends sent a link of a poem, then there was more of him on the website, and the first one I clicked was this awesome poem, there must be sth that made me click that link. It is cool because it  defines one night stands in a ... http://blog.birbit.com/2008/11/29/tek-gecelik-iliski-uzerine-guzel-bir-siir/