Oğuz Demirkapı

I just would like to let you know that I have resigned as a Team Fusebox member.

The Fusebox is one of the best projects in ColdFusion community and it has great community support. As a person who used Fusebox in more than 100 projects since first versions and a community supporter for long time in different continents, I was very proud being the Team Fusebox member. But when I consider my current job load and my contribution level to the team, I have decided to focus on some other tasks.

Thanks for everyone!

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May be you know that I am originaly from Turkey. I used to be also ColdFusion users groups founder and manager for Turkey. And of course in nature I have big interest on Turkish language and usage in any language.

Turkish is a language which uses a latin base but as you can easily understand that we have some different characters such as in my name.

Here is the Turkish alphabet: "a b c ç d e f g ğ h ı i j k l m n o ö p r s ş t u ü v y z"

As you can see we do not have q, x and w and we have some extra chars as ı, İ, ç, Ç, ö, Ö, ğ, Ğ, ş, Ş.

Having Unicode as encoding is a solution for most cases. But it would be sometimes challenging while getting the data and especially the main problem may occurs on searches or sorts etc.

Here is a nice page which explains the nature and history of Turkish language for Internationalization (i18N).

Internationalization for Turkish: Dotted and Dotless Letter "I"

I hope it would be helpful to understand some basics and the origin of my name. :)

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I had a dedicated server in Germany for my personal projects and some small client websites. Service was very good with a reasonable price. But after transferring client sites into their own host accounts I have decided to go with a VPS account with more less price and with a US based service.

After searching and testing different solutions, I have decided a VPS account at VPSLand.com. The only problem was having a new account in 38 hours later. :)

I have now VPS Ultimate on a Windows 2003 with 2 GB Ram. Windows OS decision was a bit hard one but just because of having some projects on MS SQL Server and I had to decide Windows as OS selection.

I have installed a clean ColdFusion 8.0.1 with my own license. And here are complete list of software that I am using on the server.

• Virtuozzo based VPS
• Windows 2003 Server Enterprise
• ColdFusion 8.0.1
• MS SQL Server 2005 Express
• MySQL 5.x
• FileZilla FTP Server
• MailEnable E-mail Server Standard
• Horde Webmail
• Php 5.x
• .Net 2.x

All installed manually and I manage services mainly via RDP. I do not use any DNS services and I host all my domains in Godaddy and point to the servers that I use.

I am happy so far with all current configuration. I am also planning to install BlazeDS in near future. :)

UPDATE: Today my VPS account was down for 13 hours!!! :(

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I am blogging since 2001 in Turkish and English. I have used/tried different blog software including AVBlog, BlogCFC, and also my own code. But I would like to try another one which is a promising software MangoBlog now.

I will try to share my experiences in this new area but you can still reach the content in my old blog and it will be available for future.

This is also a recreation of energy and I am very excited about the upcoming future.

Thanks for your patience.

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