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Ahmet Alp Balkan
ahmetalpbalkan.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2011
Ahmet Alp Balkan, a software engineer who worked at Microsoft, writes about Docker, cloud providers, and developer tools.
What HN saysHN links it for his Docker on Windows and Azure work, his Docker Basic Auth tutorial, and his earlier posts such as one on phpVirtualBox.
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Most-shared posts
- 1In 8 months at Microsoft, I learned these things2 people · 568 points · first shared 2013 · 269 comments on HN
- 2Porting Docker Client to Windows2 people · 8 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 3Service Discovery for Docker Swarm with wagl2 people · 4 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 4How each cloud provider provisions instances?2 people · 4 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 5Securing Docker with HTTP Basic Auth2 people · 3 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 6Creative contact information (scroll down)2 people · 2 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 7The 5 saas2 people · first shared 2012
- 8Show HN: My first Windows Phone 7 app: Colorify1 people · 73 points · first shared 2011 · 10 comments on HN
- 9How not to design an Social API, lessons learned1 people · 13 points · first shared 2011 · 3 comments on HN
- 10Orman - lightweight Java Object Relational Mapper for Android1 people · 11 points · first shared 2011 · 3 comments on HN
- 11Designing a Secure REST API with OAuth2 You Can Be Proud Of1 people · 10 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 12Getting Things Done for Developers1 people · 7 points · first shared 2012 · 6 comments on HN
- 13DISQUS addressed my concerns pretty well1 people · 5 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 14Sell stuff.1 people · 5 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 15The Replay Pattern1 people · 4 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
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jmduke · 2013-07-29
Reminds me of the drama revolving around phpVirtualBox from a while back:
http://ahmetalpbalkan.com/blog/a-cry-for-help/
Software and technoloy should be a joy and a light, not a curse.
For those who would like to start the usual “VC, funding, mentor” or “charge for the damn thing” mantras — please, spare it. We’re not in the Valley where it might be super-easy, and, after all, not everyone wants to be an entrepreneur. We just love making a good RSS reader.
I hate this false belief that "good RSS reader" and "RSS reader that you have to pay for" are somehow diametrically opposed to one another.
Best of luck to the team. I hope everything works out.
milkers · 2013-01-06
I have 2 candidates, neither of them are mine but my friends'.
The first one is http://ollaa.com
The service lets you share 6 different activities you do most; like eating, drinking, watching, buying etc. It is similar to Path in some aspects. You can connect with one of the cofounders through his site: http://ahmetalpbalkan.com/
The second service is http://gonnasphere.com
That is a collaborative to-do list that you can share your gonna's with your friends.
I am not related to any of the services so I might have not explain them well. If anyone is interested they can check them out.
alpb · 2012-03-07
I really would like to say my congratulations to them. They are a pretty decent project management tool, we use them at ollaa and recently I have written a blog post about HipChat. http://ahmetalpbalkan.com/blog/why-we-love-and-hate-hipchat/ Atlassian is making really smart decisions.
abalkan_msft · 2014-11-15
Yep, aware. For the sake of consistency with the "how to run docker on azure" tutorial we linked from this tutorial, we sustained the --tls parameter. I'm not big fan of TLS at all :) For me even basic auth does the job: https://ahmetalpbalkan.com/blog/docker-http-basic-auth/ :)
pshin45 · 2014-02-18
Remarkable how much the old badge [1] resembles the original Nintendo Game Boy [2].
[1] https://ahmetalpbalkan.com/blog/static/images/2014/02/old-front-promo.…
[2] http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c6/Nintendo_Gameboy.jp…
zizee · 2012-10-24
Can a mod please change the of this article to point directly to the blogpost (http://ahmetalpbalkan.com/blog/the-5-saas/), not via Heroku.
There is no reason for this redirect, plus I clicked through thinking that this article was from the good people of Heroku.