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15:30′da TROUG salonunda buluşalım

Ben de saat 15:30′da  ”Günümüzün Uygulama Mimarisi Sorunları ve Çözüm Önerileri” başlıklı bir sunum yapacağım. Sunucu tarafında bulut teknolojisi ve istemci tarafında da birden çok platformun var olduğu bir dünyada bizim nasıl uygulama geliştirdiğimizi merak ediyorsanız, beklerim.

Oracle Day 15 Kasım’da İstanbul Kongre Merkezi’nde.

Yalım K. Gerger

12 Ekim’de de Oracle Türkiye Architects Club, İTÜ ARI Teknokent ARI 2 Binası’nda toplanıyor. Bu toplantı da bütün Oracle Camiası’na açık.

Bu toplantımızın konusu Yazılımda Test ve Kalite Kontrol Yönetimi. Türkiye ve dünya yazılım dünyasının en önde gelen isimlerinden Cenk Çivici’nin açılış konuşmasını yapacağı toplantımız, popülerliğini hızla arttıran Git dağıtık kaynak kod yönetim aracının tanıtımı ile devam edecek. Kapanış konuşmasında da Oracle’ın test konusunda sunduğu çözümleri dinleyeceğiz.

Eğer geliştirdiğiniz yazılımların kalitesini artırmak ve bu konudaki en iyi çözümlerden haberdar olmak istiyorsanız bu toplantıyı kaçırmayın.

Hepinizi bekliyoruz.

Yer: İTÜ Maslak Kampüsü, ARI 2 Binası A Blok, Büyük Toplantı Salonu, Maslak, İstanbul

Günün Programı:

12.00 – Açılış – Hoşgeldiniz
12.30-13.30 Cenk Çivici ile Test Araçları Konusunda Bir Söyleşi
13.30-13.45 Kahve Molası
13.45-15.00  Git ile Dağıtık Kaynak Kod Yönetimine Giriş, Serdar Gökçen, Gerger
15.00-15.15 Kahve Molası
15.15- 16.45 Oracle Test Araçları, Aykut Er, Oracle

Katılmak için önceden genco.kenet@oracle.com adresine bir e-posta atmanız yeterli.

Görüşmek üzere,

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This question can be asked pragmatically by looking back in time. For example, for centuries humans asked how can we travel faster and decided to breed faster horses. Then Henry Ford came along. He asked the same question, looking into the future and came up with the automobile.

Back to our case, Apex is first built in early 00’s looking back in time and asking the question: “How do people write web pages?”.

Formspider is first built in 2008, looking into the future and asking the question: ”How should we build applications?”.

These two are fundamentally different questions and as a result you get fundamentally different products.

The question it answers is engraved in the essence of the product. No matter what you do, you cannot escape it. You can change directions, play catch up to industry trends, add features, plugins, make up new concepts as you go along, yet the fundamental weaknesses in the architecture will always come back to haunt you. Case in point; this is why it is painful to build a three level master detail screen with Apex. This is why it is very hard to do version control, especially if more than one developer is working in the project. This is why it lacks a transaction management layer. This is why an Apex application is up to its gills with HTML/JavaScript; the assembly language of the Web. Working at that level of abstraction, or lack of it, is no less crazy than developing applications with Assembly code in the 90’s instead of Forms. However, if you look back in time and ask the wrong question, Apex is the only answer you are going to get.

Formspider has a fundamentally better architecture. For example, in Formspider, you don’t write web pages. The notion of a web page does not even exist in Formspider because the page paradigm is an archaic concept of the early Web. Formspider works in the application paradigm not in the web page paradigm. There are no page submits, no regions refreshes, no HTML, no JavaScript, no DOM manipulations. Formspider uses the browser as a canvas to draw applications UI. Formspider developers write code to respond to user events and inputs coming from the UI. This is why building a three (or more) level deep master detail screen is a matter of course in Formspider. For a long time, it did not even occur to us to put a demo to our web site to show off this capability because we did not think it would be an interesting one.

In Formspider, the entire application is defined without using client side technology. Therefore, Formspider architecture supports streaming applications to any device and platform that exists now or will exist in the future such as a browser, a Windows PC, a Mac, a mobile device that runs iOS, Windows Phone, Android or even Google Glasses as far as I am concerned.

Formspider has a world class transaction layer, that is fully controlled by the developer. A framework to build enterprise applications that has no transaction layer, but issues mandatory commits at certain times, is unimaginable to us. It’s ludicrous. It’s just bad design.

For a long time, PL/SQL developers could procrastinate making a decision or just go with Apex because there simply was no other choice. This is not true anymore. The ball is on your court now. As PL/SQL developers working at IT departments, ISV’s and system integrators, it is now your turn to ask the question:

Do you want a faster horse or do you want a car?

Yalim K. Gerger

Yalim K. Gerger (@yalimgerger)

1) The Industrial Revolution (Machines and Canals)
2) Railways and The Steam Engine
3) Heavy Engineering using Cheap Steal
4) The Automobile, The Assembly Line and Mass Production of Electrical Appliances
5) The Information Revolution

On October 4 2011, with the introduction of Siri in iPhone 4S, a new technological revolution has begun:

6)The Artificial Intelligence Revolution
Siri signals the dawn of a new era in software and technology. In this decade, Artificial Intelligence and its application to business and everyday life will be the driving factor of innovation and economic growth.

A.I. will redefine everything. Cards will be dealt yet again. Commerce, manufacturing, biotech, science, internet, telecom, banking, insurance, homes and even the god damn television finally will succumb to its immense power. No moat, no pile of cash, no monopoly will save any company from extinction unless they catch up to the Artificial Intelligence Revolution.

The Magic of Siri
In the first days of computers, humans needed to know how to punch cards to make the computer do anything. That was really inefficient and could only be done by very few people who have the proper education. Then came the command line and the keyboard. Next in line was GUI and mouse. Recently, we started touching computers to make them do stuff for us.

Every step forward made new kinds of software possible. This new software was easier to use and learn than its predecessor. It was more useful and richer in features, too. At every step forward, not only more people could use computers, they were also able to do more advanced tasks more easily. Today, billions are able to incorporate computers to their daily lives in a useful way. Computers are also at the core of any scientific research in such a way that it is impossible to imagine one that doesn’t use a computer.

Yet still, most software requires special training. Software user interfaces can be so complicated that there are courses, books and certification programs only to learn how to operate them.
You might be a gifted architect but without learning AutoCAD you cannot design a building.

Siri eliminates the need for special training to use software. It throws away the mouse, the keyboard, the menus, the buttons, the tabs, the popup menus, the toolbars. It removes all the obstacles between your abilities and getting tasks done.

A writer doesn’t need to know how to use Word to write a story anymore. He just needs inspiration. An architect does not need to waste time learning AutoCAD to design a building. She just needs to be creative.  An executive does not need to wait a week for the IT department to produce him a new report. He just needs to be savvy enough to ask the right question.

In the next decade, thanks to the middle man called Artificial Intelligence, humans will perceive their computers as indispensable servants. The genuine intelligence of the human mind and the computer’s incredible ability to do dull work at amazing speeds will melt together. You will talk, you will touch, you will imagine and the servant will make it happen.

The Opportunity is not Artificial
The incredible thing about Siri or A.I. in general is that it departmentalizes knowledge. A.I. learns about topics. Today, Siri answers simple trivia questions, makes restaurant recommendations, talks about the weather and performs the tasks you can do with your phone such as setting up reminders and appointments.

There are a gazillion of other tasks that we do with our computers. A.I. needs to be thought to do all of them. It should be thought to make spreadsheets, draw 3D graphics or execute business processes.

In this decade, our job as software developers will be to teach the A.I. how to perform these tasks. It will all happen gradually. First, we are going to build bridges between the A.I and existing software. We will teach it how to use Excel. Next, we will rebuild Excel from ground up specifically optimized for A.I. Finally, there will be no Excel, just A.I. that knows how to prepare a spreadsheet. The App Store won’t sell Pages, Numbers and Keynote. It will sell the ability of preparing a document, spreadsheet and presentation. You will download an ability and your Siri will learn how to accomplish a task.

This way of thinking will be applied to all software. Software for every business task you can imagine such as budgeting, accounting, hiring will have to be rethought, reengineered and rebuilt in the light of A.I., possibly several times over.

The Pain will not be Artificial
What A.I. will do to current jobs and businesses will be difficult to watch. Everytime it learns to do something, there will be people and companies that are left behind. They will feel like someone just ripped off one of their limps. Imagine A.I. helps you prepare your monthly reports. Will you need the staff in the IT department who knows how to write reports and screens?

If A.I. knows about insurance, will you ever google for it? What if A.I. can help you with loans, morgage rates, attorneys, credit, donation, getting a degree, finding a hosting solution, accident claim, setting up a conference call and credit card balance transfer which happen to be the top 10 keywords Google makes its money from. What then? What if your business depends on Google for customers?

I could go on and on with examples but I think the point is loud and clear.

You are in or You are Out
This is not some futuristic bullshit. It is not intellectual masturbation. It is all happening now. Entrepreneurs; start imagining and prepare your pitches. VC’s; make your bets. Google, Microsoft, Oracle, Amazon, eBay and the like; either wake up and catch up to IBM and Apple or become irrelevant along the way. Traditional software developers; adapt or join the unemployment line. Managers; save a seat for the invisible member of every meeting. And as last but not the least…Consumers; buckle up, because this is going to be an amazing ride.

And to think that when Siri debuted, the crowd was disappointed that there was no IPhone 5 with a wider screen…

Yalim K. Gerger (@yalimgerger)

18 Ekim saat 15:45’de, İTÜ ARI 2 A Blok toplantı salonunda tanışma toplantımızı düzenliyoruz.

Neden Bir Tanışma Toplantısı Düzenliyoruz?

Bu toplantıyı kendim için düzenliyorum ben. Bundan onbeş sene önceki kendim için. O zamanlar durumum feciydi. Dünyadan haberim yoktu. Gözümün önünde internet devrimi oluyordu, bilgisayar mühendisliğinde okuyordum ama benim bütün yaptığım haytalıktı. O günlere dönmek, kendimi kolumdan tutup iki çift laf söylemek, iki tokat atmak için yanıp tutuşuyorum. Bu asla ama asla yapamayacağım şeye beni en çok yaklaştıran, biraz gönlüme su serpen sizinle konuşmak olacak.

Size nasıl yardım edebiliriz onu bulmak için toplanıyoruz. Yarı zamanlı iş mi? Staj mı? Büyüyünce ne olmak istediğinizi mi bilmiyorsunuz? Bir projeniz var da, kafanız karışık fikir alışverişinde bulunacak birine mi ihtiyacınız var? CV’nizde güzel duracak bir projede çalışıp tecrübe mi kazanmak istiyorsunuz? İlerde bir şirket kurmak istiyorsunuz da anneniz “Git adam gibi bir işe gir!” diye cesaretinizi mi kırıyor? Sevgilinizden ayrıldınız canınız mı sıkkın? Gelin konuşalım.

Sevgili Yalım, lütfen gel konuşalım…

Yalım K. Gerger (@yalimgerger)

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