Ancient posts
The Problem As a part of my work, I’m in direct contact with accounts in Turkey and a number of countries in the Middle East. Being located in Turkey means that I “enjoy” Saturdays and Sundays as my days off, but in UAE, for example, Fridays and Saturdays are holidays. To make the matters more complicated,…
Zoho Creator has grown to be a great cloud-based app creation platform. You can build simple apps in the matter of hours or have complex solutions up and running much quicker than a from-scratch project. Manipulating data is a core capability of (Zoho) Creator . There is a rich toolset of UI elements, business logic components,…
JavaScript is hot commodity for server and client side web development. But when it comes to command line programming it is unlikely to ditch the likes of Python and Ruby for JavaScript. I don’t have the luxury of picking my toolset at work. I’m a business consultant with no access to anything beyond the essential…
In mid October 2013, Apple started recalling mid-2012 Macbook Airs, due to a SSD problem that was apparently and isolated issue to Toshiba drives only. I found out that my mid-2012 Macbook Air had a Toshiba SSD, so I booked a meeting at the Genius bar of my local Apple Store in Vancouver. The store…
So you have a bunch of files (read thousands) that you need to rename. If you deal with documents/records in the workplace and you don’t have access to fancy EDRMS, EDMS, then you most probably resort to physical files (Word, PDF, etc.) on shared drives and some in-house classification systems. In a real case scenario (where I work as a…
Back in 2008 when Microsoft revealed Surface in CES, there was much excitement around what this Minority Report age device could bring to the market. Now after 4 years of hopeful waiting, Microsoft comes up with yet another post-PC device, the Surface Tablet. Choosing a second-hand name and renaming the old thing is itself a curious…