Well as you know, Apple launched it’s latest product iPad, a touch screen and bigger iPhone. I was expecting something more of a netbook. Honestly many of the concept pictures of “iPad” in rumor sites were really cool and I was excited with the idea of a netbook which had Mac OS inside.

I had bought a Lenovo U110, an 11” notebook with core 2 duo processors, but I sold it! Why? It was lighter than MacBook Air, faster than MBA, even it’s resolution was nearly same. Why I sold it than? Because it was not Mac OS and I was not able to install a Hackintosh on it.

Honestly, I was not a great fan of Mac 1 ago. I was thinking that iPod was such a bad product, and Sony was building so much better products at a cheaper price or Creative. I was thinking that it was stupid to pay a MacBook Pro 1500$ when I could bought the same hardware with 800$! iPhone was not a phone at all, a fancy toy which lots of gestures where many other phones had already done. App Store was really dump (well it still is, however no iPhone developer did not woke up from the dream yet and they are unaware about it). Until last year of course, the year which I bought my first Mac, a 15” unibody MacBook Pro!

It was then that my whole idea about Apple has changed. Mac was such a different ecosystem from Windows or Linux (my last 3 years favorite). It was really working out of the box, all the applications I was installing was increasing my productivity (or I was believing that it was increasing it even that is enough for a psychological effect and was helping me to improve my performance). I was closing the lid and it was closing itself. I was opening the lid and it was open and waiting for me to play with it. It was virus free (yeah I know because no one is writing a virus for it for what’s the difference, there isn’t just like Linux!). Expose was so much cool! And the trackpad gestures! Oh gestures, back and forward with swipes, four finger swipes for expose! It was such an innovation, it was so much comfortable.

i was amazed with Mac and confessed that I was wrong all the time. It was an experience you could only experience yourself! From a third person perspective, it was so much lame. But from the user, it was simply, cool! I had become such a fan, I bought another 13” unibody MacBook to my sister. Oh, and I bought a iMac to my home for my parents use.

And now, there is this iPad! The netbook I was waiting with such enthusiasm! I was ready to pay 600$ for it, ready to enter a queue for it. And Steve Jobs told us that it was built on iPhone OS! iPhone OS! IPHONE OS! I’m really sorry Mr. Jobs, I really have a great respect on you, I really love Apple, I really love Mac OS but iPad is really uSuck!

I don’t want a bigger iPhone, I don’t want to play iPhone games on my netbook. I can install World of Goo on it if it was Mac OS, or even Heroes of Newerth! Now I should stick with accelerometer games like moving balls from one hole to another and on a device which I can’t even hold single handedly.

Honestly, I would have bought a Kindle if I was looking for a e-book reader. What will I do with a web browser which I can’t even play FarmVille on it (playing flash I mean, I don’t play FarmVille :). I’m sorry Apple but I have no intention to buy your iPad. I hope you will make sense soon enought and you will release a Mac OS version. (Why did you ever wasted your time to create another processor on iPad btw, do you remember that you had given up on your G4s in favor of Intel because they were so much better?)

I hope iPad does not become a Vista for Apple or iPhail!

Well, finally I have found some time and changed the template I was using on my blog. I had found this template (Twilight Crown) while I was googling, however it did not really matched my needs and it’s colors were not that good (relatively speaking of course :). So I decided to derive my own and created this. If you were watching my github you should have noticed that I had an empty git repo (Crowened Twilight), if you like this theme you can download it from there.

Thanks to Nicki Faulk and others for this great theme. Of course it contains appropriate credits for the owners.

Well, don’t forget to visit my site at different times of the day, you might notice small changes on it. (That’s how I fell in love with this theme anyway, but I like the owl a lot more now :).

Hi, as you know I have put a lot effort to integrate Doctrine and Zend Framework together and I have written quite a lot about them recently. So it’s one of them. As you may know, Zend Framework has a component called Zend_Auth which is used to authenticate and authorize people. It contains lots of different adapters like Digest, Http or DbTable. However it does not have a Doctrine adapter yet. And this blog will mention you about it.
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As a great fan of RPGs, of course I have bought a copy of Dragon Age! I was following it for months and was very anxious about it. I was also worried because as the expectation grows, that thing generally fails to satisfy you.

I had installed Windows to my Mac via BootCamp to play games. I installed it and played it. Later, when I was work, as I was not able to play it, I put the bonus disc (yes, love of my life bought me the collector’s edition as a birthday present!;) and looked around. I encountered the error you see on the left. Seems like even if Dragon Age is great, it does not treat Mac as a proper computer.

Oh, my poor Mac, I still love you, don’t mind that game, it’s crap anyway. I was right on my worries, the game failed me :)

By the way, soundtrack is awesome, you can notice from my last.fm that I listened it 4 or 5 times from yesterday :)

Hi, mina! As you might have guess this is yet another review af a Packt Publishing book named “jQuery 1.3 with PHP” by Kae Verens. As the title suggests, the book discusses mostly jQuery and it’s usages with PHP. Even there is PHP in the name, you can use any of the server side web programming language you want. What really matters is what you can do with jQuery, and what jQuery plugins can do the “thing” you want to do. There is nothing in this book which you can’t find on the web. But the real thing is that it puts together most of the things you will need and creates a great cookbook for back-end developers who want to do some “web 2.0 stuff” without knowing a lot of Javascript and cross browser compatibility.
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i will try to explain you how you can create a command which you can use on your command line to execute doctrine commands. This is the first part of the post. The second part is a bit fantasy. I have tried to integrate doctrine to Zend_Tool and wanted to call it like:

zf.sh generate doctrine sql

Actually, you don’t need such a thing. First part is pretty much enough for you. Second part is just for fun.
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In case you have not heard yet, NetBeans 6.8 is released, you can downlod it from here.
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I know it’s not a big deal and not a great development in my life. However, I’m pretty happy and proud being a ZCE! After 8 months of delay, I have finally took the test and passed the exam.

I have proudly put the ZCE logo on my blog page and you can also check my Zend Profile Page here.

I suggest you all take the exam, even if you do not care about the certification, it’s really a great opportunity to learn new things about PHP. I have learned more things about PHP while studying even during the exam.

I wish all of you good luck who is about to or will take the exam! Next step is the ZFCE!

Yet another how-to for Zend Framework. You can find a lot of integration how-tos around the web with googling and I maybe the just one of them. I’m trying to find the wheel again. This one is like my subversion how-tos, a self reminder first. So let’s cut the crap and get down to the business.
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This is another long story short book review. I have to mention this, the book is not outdated! I know that currently there is the version of 1.9 in ZF and the title of this book is “1.8″. Do not let the title mislead you. This book is all about Zend Framework’s actual concepts like MVC, Zend_Application and other kind of ZF jewels. If you are new to the Zend Framework and need a more detailed documentation than the Zend Framework’s Quick Start Guide or my blog, that’s the book you will need.
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