Ideologies in the hand of public

The intention of the fathers & mothers of ideologies are, in most cases, very similar to each other. That is, they all look for a better world with better people inside. However, they usually fail to define objective metrics to judge human actions so that they become/cause irrational and dogmatic movements. In that respect, I try to stay away for idealist views where it’s really hard to find a straightedge for people.

I’ve finished the book titled “Amak-i Hayal” which tries to defend an idealist view, actually theologist, against materialist views in general. Although it is sometimes close -but only close- to make a good criticism of materialism for being narrow minded, it does not define a mechanism to defend itself against dogmatism.

In any case, the book is one of the very few examples of fantasy novels of Ottoman era.

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How often…

… do people post a new article?

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Water in the Bucket

Everybody has a bucket of water. It depends on you how to administer your water. You use more for one time  you have less for the next time. This is true for everyone. The only thing is that some people have more water than the others.

I wonder how much water I have.

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MongoDB is really easy to start

I did not walk into all of the details of it, but MongoDB is really easy to start with. You download the package, unzip it, create a data directory and run the server.

An example list of commands for OS X where you create the default data folder, download and open the package, run the database server and open the mongo shell is:

$ mkdir -p /data/db
$ curl -O \

http://downloads.mongodb.org/osx/mongodb-osx-i386-latest.tgz

$ tar xzf mongodb-osx-i386-latest.tgz
$ mongodb-osx-i386-latest/bin/mongod &
$ mongodb-osx-i386-latest/bin/mongo

The mongo shell is a good start to play with your fresh document based database.

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The question in my mind is…

Is it time to say goodbye to LAMP technologies and look forward for new ways of web development?

There are projects which have big potentials like nodejs, mongodb. However, this is not a new thing. There were always new projects that had big promises and some succeeded while others failed. The new thing is the feeling that LAMP is not working any more:

  • The model that you handle requests have performance issues
  • … and scalability issues
  • The most important thing is that you end up using so many 3rd party applications that the LAMP portion gets smaller and smaller.
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Installing node.js

  • Download from http://nodejs.org/#download
  • tar -zxvf node-vx.x.xx.tar.gz
  • cd node-vx.x.xx
  • ./configure
  • make
  • sudo make install (To install system wide)
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You can’t know when you start

When you start your blog you wish to start with something important. But you can’t know when you start. I choose to start today, which is, as it looks at the moment, just an usual day.

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