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Occam’s Razor

Isa Goksu — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 08:52:42 +0000

The simplicity is laying under this principle:

Fancy UITabBar Like Tweetie

Isa Goksu — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 10:06:26 +0000

It’s been a while I haven’t written anything about iPhone :) Anyways, today I added a fancy UITabBar (like in #Tweetie 2) to one of my applications. I thought I would share the code since I saw lots of iPhone Dev folks are looking for this :)

Single, Dynamic, Multiple and Double Dispatching

Isa Goksu — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 10:57:33 +0000

Today I was reading couple articles about programming languages and I noticed that there is still some confusion about dispatching. So I’ll try to explain as much as I can. Everbody is welcome to correct!

Act Like a Senior Developer – About Clean Code

Isa Goksu — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:59:51 +0000

Today it was a hard day for me. As usual, I was looking at a mess around our code base. And the worst thing was that the code that I saw today was not a legacy code :S It has enough test coverage and moreover the system was working well. The problem was the conditional logics used all over the place. It is almost impossible to follow what’s happening and where :S Me and my colleague spent 2 whole days trying to understand what the heck was going on. Finally we figured it out and did what we wanted to do initially.

True Liskov Substitution Principle (LSP)

Isa Goksu — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:59:32 +0000

I know everybody is quoting from #WikiPedia or st, but I guess the true definition of this principle is:

Creating Custom Annotations and Using Them

Isa Goksu — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:58:25 +0000

Okay, here is another topic that I couldn’t find much information in the Internet :) So I guess I’m gonna cover it quickly.

Creating Custom Managers For Repetitive Filters

Isa Goksu — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 05:37:51 +0000

Today I was trying to do something in Django and I’ve noticed that I’m using lots of filter in my views. And most of the filters were same, but for different purposes. Then I felt like DRY principle is screaming at me. So I started to think that maybe there is a way to prevent these repetitions. And like all other problems in the world, the solution was just in front of my eyes :)

Generating Lorem Ipsums in Django Templates

Isa Goksu — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 11:50:19 +0000

When we first attempt create our web applications, most of us use a common printing phrase which starts with Lorem Ipsum words in our templates. Today while I was reading something in the Django documentation, and surprisingly I came across with this very useful module. Honestly, I didn’t even know Django has such a thing. After seeing this module, I again thought about how much I love Django :)

Learning Site Packages Folder Under OSX

Isa Goksu — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 08:21:06 +0000

Today I was browsing couple django extensions to check if there is any new useful stuff around. I saw couple questions in those WiKis/forums about site-packages folder under OSX. For those who don’t know which site-packages folder is active in your system, you must consider how your system is configured. Especially if you’re using MacPorts or any tool like that, your default site-packages folder that is shipped with OS X might be different than what you’re presuming.

Making Code More Testable – Breaking Static Dependencies

Isa Goksu — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 08:07:31 +0000

Hi guys, it’s been a while that I haven’t posted anything. I was thinking writing all those technical things sometimes is not enough for the reader to visualize the concept. So I came up with a screencast this time. I’ll try to create these screencasts once a week and will cover different topics. This series will contain Making Code More Testable talks only. For other topics, I’ll create different series. Anyways, let’s get back to the overview :)