• Hidayet Dogan, one of the best Turkish PHP programmers I've seen so far (based on his resume and projects) dreams of a Google like office environment, full of gadgets and big LCD displays.
• Eren Yagdiran, whose diverse array of interests can be found on his personal blog, says it's all about money.

Those three things--autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward--are, most people agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying.

Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. Once it does, it becomes the kind of thing that makes you grab your wife around the waist and dance a jig

• Autonomy: Our management type can be considered democracy under meritrocratic feudalism. There's a loose hierarchy which gives its nodes the freedom to show their creativity without the boundaries of bureaucracy, and the chance to have your own team if you can prove yourself to your "lord". The hierarchy is not fixed, it's dynamic based on your merits.
  
• Complexity: What we're doing here is literally social operating system. If you think it's just a content management system or something like that (and if you're qualified enough) you're welcome to our office to see what kind of things and what kind of an architecture that we're working. I don't claim it's rocket sciences, but it's pretty close.
  
• Connection between Effort and Reward: GROU.PS is a global venture with chances of being acquired or going IPO. And besides the fixed salary, we are committed to give a generous amount of sweat equity and/or stock options to our employees according to their commitment and role in the team.
  

• As you browse through the pages, the screen flicks, and it temporarily displays randomly located black spots - which results in poor user experience.
• There could be a separate button for Kindle Store
• Buttons seem to be low quality
• Packaging was not as good as I was expecting - my anticipation was a true Apple experience, but it was far from that.
• I miss the multi-touch screen of iPhone, it could make note-taking a breeze - which is, I think, a natural component of our reading experience.
• Poor blog reading machine, because no images, no Flash components - which are crucial parts of blogs.
• Can't delete a book that you've purchased (or there's no easy way)
• Chaging pages is slow, once you lose the page, it's so difficult to find wherever you were at

As a result you may end up forcing hte limits of your operating system's default configurations.

At Linux, there are 2 important sysctl configurations that can affect the performance of your site in high-load sitatuons; they are: kernel.shmall and kernel.shmmax

You can use their current values by typing:

touch /proc/sys/kernel/shmall

and 

touch /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax

shmmaz should be around 32MB.

The solution is as easy as increasing it, and fortunately  that doesn't requre kernel recompilation.

Here is what you should type:

echo 134217728 >/proc/sys/kernel/shmmax

aand

echo 134217728 >/proc/sys/kernel/shmall

Now both are 128MB and you're all set. You may want to save these changes in /etc/sysconfig.ctl as well and to see all values, type in sysctl -a

Hope this helps,

The thing is Zend is communicating with a central server and queries if your license is being used by another computer too at the same time. This is probably to prevent piracy. However, it doesn't work so well in my case and you can end up with not being able to use it even while you're using it fairly.

Zend 6? No way.. It's Eclipse, it's slow and most importantly, it's still immature...

at least as of 11/08/2008 

Now let me tell you how I allowed Smarty to place all existing GET variables into this equation; because if we don't put them, the localization of a page such as : http://grou.ps/login_recovery.php?lang=tr&email=iltates@gmail.com&serial=699786 becomes a mess; the link becomes http://grou.ps/login_recovery.php?lang=tr

OK here comes the solution: here is the actual code, just take a look at it, you'll understand:

<a xhref="?lang=en{foreach from=$smarty.get item=g key=k}&{$k}={$g}{/foreach}" style="border:0;"><img xsrc="images/flag_en.gif" mce_src="images/flag_en.gif" alt="EN" width="21" height="21" style="border:0" /></a> 

This part does the magic by running a simple Smarty foreach loop and leveraging Smarty's reserved variables:

{foreach from=$smarty.get item=g key=k}&{$k}={$g}{/foreach} 

Benim bu platformu bloglama icin kullanmami saglayan son birkac ayda yaptigimiz inanilmaz teknik gelismeler. Gordugunuz gibi template'im eski Wordpress template'imle ayni. Bunu sadece Grou.ps'ta bulunan sinirsiz sablon duzenleme ozelligine borcluyuz. Sinirsiz sablon duzenleme konusunda daha buyuk surprizlerimiz yakinda gelecek.

Bunun disinda artik ancak gelismis blog yazilimlarinda bulunan trackback ve ping'leme ozellikleri Grou.ps'un blogs modulune de (experimental stage'de de olsa) eklendi.

Ustelik artik sidebar'a da istediginiz widget'lari ekleyebiliyorsunuz, yerleriyle oynayabiliyorsunuz. Birazdan LinkedIn ve FeedBurner widget'larimi oraya koyacagim. Orayi her turlu Google Gadgets ile donatmak mumkun.

Isin guze yani, Grou.ps bir blog platformu degil, bir online community araci, bir sosyal uygulama ortami. Ama iste o kadar ozellestirilebilir ki, onu istediginiz amacla, istediginiz sekilde, istediginiz gorunumde, istediginiz dilde kullanabiliyorsunuz.

Grou.ps su haliyle bir Wordpress.org alternatifi mi? Spektrumun genis kismi icin kesinlikle evet, cok gelismis kullanicilar icin daha zor bir evet. Soyle ki;

• Moduler yapi (tek tusla forum, wiki, foto album ekleme) genel kullanici icin sevindirici. Bloguna cok zaman ayiran kullanici ise Wordpress'in sinirsiz plug-in ekosistemini ozleyecektir. Ama umut ediyorum ve inaniyorum, yeni acik kaynak Grou.ps'un yakinda kendi ekosistemini olusturduguna hep beraber tanik olacagiz. 
• Spam, kurulum, guncelleme dertlerinden kurtulmak genel kullaniciyi sevindirecek ozellikler. Ustelik komunite odakli olma, yani okuyucularinizin profilleriyle blogunuz etrafinda bir sosyal ag olusturacak olmasi, forumda tartismasi (Mashable benzeri) bir diger arti.