Emir Ozer

I'm gonna roll the tape backwards, far into the past. I was 7 years old when my father got our first computer. It was an IBM machine that ran Windows 3.1, floppy drive times :) It was really fun to play around with it

At my employer Mendix (https://www.mendix.com), Our cloud platform team which I am a part of, develops, deploys and maintains the global Mendix Cloud. With state-of-the art technologies and tools we build reliable and scalable systems so our customers can get their

What a great conference and a start to 2016! I had really nice time during my visit to Université Libre de Bruxelles. Surrounded by really intelligent and skillful people. Clasroom full of top notch speakers (although some had a very strong accent heh), eventually

Good day nerds :) I decided to do a write up about docker and some weird connectivity issues that i had. So maybe it will be useful for the others as well. In this piece i am going to give the debugging process rather than

In this blog post I am going to go over some good and bad ideas for working with servers in general because I feel that for this specific topic the problem is most of the recommendations are bad or inaccurate. First of all I

Whenever there is a configuration management discussion, there is always a debate that spins around "Puppet vs Chef vs Ansible vs SaltStack" topic (ok CFEngine people, don't be pissed, i will talk about it too). In general these discussions are generally bias

Hello Young Culinarians, I would like to share some best practices for authoring chef cookbooks. First we are going to start with two important points when it comes to authoring effective and good cookbooks: Cookbooks must be usable through being a single instance in

Couple of weeks ago a friend of mine was kindly asking me if i can provide him with a list of "possible" interview questions that can be asked to him in a Python related interview. Being in the same situation in the

I hope 2014 was as good for you as it was for me! Let's see what happened and what's planned to happen! 2014 Events & Changes Left Istanbul and immigrated to NL with the status of highly skilled migrant ! Released GetSocial Quitted smoking ! Met

At long last... I have finally released my first open source software project...For a good 6 months the project was left in a dark corner in my file system.I couldn't find the energy and motivation as my life was going under major

OK, I have been using Appium for all my mobile automation needs and the sendKeys performance on Android platform started to annoy me as the automation framework grew bigger, Jenkins takes a lot of time to build our android project. For example, input of

Compatibility testing of mobile products was a big hassle in the past unless your company had a good collection of test devices (even then maintaining a device lab was an absolute pain..) and of course you have to know what will happen if you

Well, its been a long time that i had to find a workaround for Android Automation. I cannot say that I missed it :) You can find the tl:dr version here : https://discuss.appium.io/t/python-client-pre-filled-inputboxes-set-value-returns-not-yet-implemented-but-it-seems-that-it-is-implemented/483 The current situation with Appium is

I am really dazzled and intrigued by the amount of awful bug reports in Appium Discussion forums. Especially(of course) considering that its a QA populated forum... There are a lot of QA's that fail to ask the right questions and give the right

At first sight i was sure that it had something to do with appium. After opening the issue on their repository, i have investigated and confirmed that the unlock functionality of iOS UIAutomator is broken. I have contacted Apple about this issue, hopefully we

It seems that my story in Istanbul is over now. After working here for almost 2,5 years I came to the conclusion that it is literally illogical to stay here. I am spending 2 hours on average on the roads just between work

First of all let me tell you that i studied economics this past month to just understand the dynamics therefore i might be wrong in some of my arguments.I would like to be corrected if you think something is wrong.Before the era

I stumbled upon this really creative execution of gathering around a cheatsheet about git.While git has a relatively smooth learning curve , new starters tend to misunderstood the concept thus making inevitable mistakes.This cheatsheet could help you immensely while you try to figure

The problem isn’t Octopress, so just calm down for a minute :). The problem is globbing.I started looking at zsh more closely and happened to stumble upon this: >If a word contains an unquoted instance of one of the characters ‘’, ‘(’, ‘|’, ‘<’, *‘[’**, or

Hello dear pythonistas! We all know that Sudoku is a great game and in this post I am going to share with you a sudoku solver written in python. From now on you will win all Sudoku challenges :P. So without wasting any time

Within the past year i have done some considerable amount of test automation on Android 2.3.x ++. Mostly using Python + monkeyrunner.The thing is , there are much more convenient tools out there like monkey talk and robotium , etc. But if you are doing

Hi, this will be my personal/tech/software blog where i post about ranging anywhere from software development , game development as a hobby to automation , mobile software , and its bottlenecks etc. Also i currently work as a Python developer for my company.Thus I