Slow laptop, funny reason

It is normal Windows to slow down as you install new applications but if your linux installed laptop is getting slower and slower, there may be a pile of dust blocking the fan or there may be around five hundred thousand files in your home folder, or both as in my case. Probably I should clean inside of my laptop periodically.

SMS reminders with Google Calendar

Day by day I am adapting to a new Google service. My new favorite is the Google Calendar. Recently I've discovered that Google sends SMS messages to my phone as reminders for the events I defined in Google Calendar. Since than I am started to use it day by day. I don't have a life with full of appointments and hours long meetings but I need to remember stuff. What I do is, I add every task I should remember to the Google Calendar as 5 minute events and then I get reminders as SMS messages. Which works great so far. Try it, have fun.

C++ Linux to Windows port

It took about 10 minutes to port the gtdshell into Visual Studio 2003 (I used linux+gcc at the development.) The only problem was apparently boost::date_time has some issues with VS, so it is replaced with ctime functions.

Turkçe Alt-Q Klavye

Linux'daki Alt-Q Türkçe klavyeyi özleyenler için. traltq.zip

Change is good

I moved to İstanbul.
Started a new job.
Got a twitter account (nick: emreturkay).
Turker tricked me to use nedurum (nick: emre).

Most simple XMLHttpRequest example.

For the ones need to get a quick start here goes a very simple XMLHttpRequest example with pure javascript. Note that this example works with the Firefox. For the Internet Explorer "xmlhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();" line should be changed with "xmlhttp = new ActiveXObject("MSXML2.XMLHTTP");" although this usage varies with the Internet Explorer version.

At the server side you need a text.txt file which contains a partial html document such as:

<p> hello </p>

The code:

<html>

<head>

<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">

function back_ajax()
{
  if (xmlhttp.readyState == 4)
  {
      var o = document.getElementById('o');
      o.innerHTML = xmlhttp.responseText;
  }
}

function call_ajax()
{
  xmlhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
  xmlhttp.open("GET", "test.txt", true);
  xmlhttp.onreadystatechange = back_ajax;
  xmlhttp.send(null);
}

</script>

</head>

<body>

  <form name="f">
      <input name="in"/>
      <input type="button" onClick="call_ajax()"/>
  </form>

  <div id="o">
      <ul>
          <li> test 1 </li>
          <li> test 2 </li>
      </ul>
  </div>

</body>

</html>

subversion behind proxy

For the people who needs subversion access behind a corporate proxy, all you need to do is to append the lines below at the end of ~/.subversion/servers file. Unfortunately, this only works for subversion http access.

http-proxy-host = your.proxy.host.ip
http-proxy-port = port-number
http-proxy-username = your-user-name
http-proxy-password = your-password
http-proxy-exceptions = comma-seperated-list-of-internal-subversion-hosts

Have fun.