Writing Something

I have begun to use a free product named Keepass.
I recommend it to everyone.
We have lots of passwords now.
It is very risky to get the same passwords and same user IDs.

And it is difficult to remember the passwords if we get different ones.
Writing them to somewhere is also risky because other people can see (or steal).

And Keepass hides all the passwords you have by encrpting them.
When needed, you can use your passwords by copying them with ctrl + C shortcut.

KeePass isimli ücretsiz küçük bir ürün kullanmaya başladım.
Herkese de öneriyorum.
Artık bir sürü şifremiz var…

Tüm kullanıcı adı ve şifrelerimizin aynı olması zaten çok büyük risk.
Tümünü farklı yaptığımızda da hatırlamak zor.

Bir yere yazsak, birileri görebilir.

işte KeePass sizin için şifrelerinizi şifreleyerek saklıyor.

Gerektiğinde programı açıp şifrelerinizi ctrl + c kısa yolu ile kopyalayıp kullanıyorsunuz.

keepass.info adresinden indirebilirsiniz.

“Familiar with the following stuff: RTFM, DRY, GTD, TDD, JFGI”

A few months ago I read this line in a job advertisement’s required soft skills section.
I wondered what these abbreviations are and goggled them. Some results are funny but really true. This is skills are really a must if you want to work productive with some one.

RTFM – Read the Fucking Manual
DRY – Don’t Repeat Yourself
GTD – Getting Things Done
TDD – Test Driven Development (I don’t find this as a soft skill :) )
JFGI – Just Fucking Google It

“RTFM, DRY, GTD, TDD, JFGI”
Yukardaki kısaltmaları bir kaç ay önce bir iş ilanında görmüştüm.
Ne olduklarını merak ettim ve google’a sordum.

Bazıları şaka gibi gözüksede,
verimli bir ekip oluşturmak için ekip üyelerinin karakterlerinde olması gereken
çok önemli temel özellikler olduklarına eminim.

RTFM – Read the Fucking Manual (Kahrolası * klavuz kitapçığını oku)
DRY – Don’t Repeat Yourself (Kendini Tekrar Etme)
GTD – Getting Things Done (Elindeki işleri bitiren)
TDD – Test Driven Development (Test odaklı geliştirme)
JFGI – Just Fucking Google It (Kahrolası * şeyi google’la :) )

* Sinema alt yazılarından alıntılanmıştır

A few years ago I went to Toyota factory for training. The environment looked me very organized. Lately, I had been in another automotive factory and necessarily compared them. After comparison, Toyota seemed to be very powerful in my eyes. They told me that Toyota have a production philosophy. (Kaizen!)

A recent book I have read reminded me Kaizen again. Toyota is a company that set out with the principle of producing economic automobiles to the utmost efficient ways. To the utmost efficient means a production way that minimizes producer surplus, stock overage and employee mistakes. The system aims at producing needed thing when needed it. (Production at the appropriate time). The other interesting application in the system is even an employee has a right to stop production if he/she notices a problematic situation.

The person who notices problem stops the huge production line and the others examine the problem till they find the source of the problem. So they solve the problem from its source.

Even if there is no mistake, people in the process always question “How we can make it better”. If something ends in 10 minutes todays, it should end in 9 minutes tomorrow. In the production process there is no little thing! That is the “Kaizen”
Toyota is the best example for how Kaizen works. I have never been in a team that apply Kaizen so I haven’t seen it on the process. But I don’t want to die before I see.

After reading Akın Öngör’s book named “Continuing Progress after Me” (Benden Sonra Devam), I have learned Garanti Bank’s story in detail and placed Akın Öngör in my favorite leaders. He has a special place in my heart as Steve Job’s?

In Turkey it is very hard to change processes. Unfortunately many lazy persons become together in here and there is a very lazy aura everywhere. Probably, creating a brand in Turkey like Garanti is harder than creating Apple…

Akın Öngör dedicates his success to good employees, good systems and harmony under pressure. A leader’s mission is to make people work harmonic. But the first step is to compose a right team. In his book, about composing an efficient team, Öngör writes that:

Invest on people, train, improve, and feed with high technology. Trust your employee. Encourage them. Authorize them. Give a chance to express their opinions. Encourage them to come up with suggestions. Award them for applied suggestions and efficient works. As a natural result, motivation and creativity will increase.

With this creative environment which Akın Öngör constituted, he brought in Garanti Technology to Turkish IT sector.
The other thing that drew my attention on the book is “Personal Care Education” which Öngör implemented. First impression and appearance are really important. Actually we all know it but in practice we are little inadequate. I think that starting from primary school; we should give this education to our children.

After I read the book, I found myself angry with Akın Öngör in a few issues. The first is his early retirement and the second is his refusal of Ziraat, Emlak and Halk Bank’s co-chairman offer. In my opinion, with this refusal Turkey lost many important things. Even though, he made some useful thing like founding WWF-Turkey but I am not convinced.

In brief, it is a must reading book…