They say pen and paper is the best way to manage a todo list. Following the popular norm, I also started tracking my todos with pen and paper. But after several unsuccessful attempts of finding a pen or deciphering tasks from torn or soaked paper, I felt keyboard and the pixel-screen would be more a...

From time to time, if you feel the need to piss someone off for their own good, let me assure you that it’s a perfectly natural thing. If you see someone living their lives without getting pissed off even for few minutes, do them a favour by pissing them off, at least once. Just like eustress ...

Setting up a Subversion (svn) repository is something development teams have to do fairly regularly, not that I want to use Subversion. :) If you listen to me, go use Git. Subversion is undoubtedly very good. But after using Git for about a year, you can't simply get me to switch back. Git is that g...

Grimness of the sound was just not giving in to the hot and gruesome night outside. Continuous screeches reassured that there were no one else but those little wanderers keeping everyone else company. Certainly a time when no like minded homo sapien step in. It was a definite cry for improvement, bu...

The length and breadth of the discussions about Internet anonymity could easily be found if you spend some time with google (”search”, as some folks would say). IMHO, it’s going to increase if the content that’s delivered to the doorsteps gets the blue-pencil treatment. As th...

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It is a bit old news, but still pretty interesting among the community.  Actually, Multi Monitor supporting is a new feature of Visual Studio 10. Here is the link where you can get more info about this.

I’m going to take Drupal as an example during this post and outline some of the challenges of working on it with a loosely knit team. One major problem with PHP based content management systems is that it’s PHP. So, anyone who have taken the time to stare at some code snippets could mo...

This will show some of the neat API calls Drupal provides which you could use to do almost anything. OxygenTank, the developer portal related to WSO2 products runs on Drupal. The code examples in this post are extracted from a soon to be implemented module which will alter the way you download pro...

Internet censorship is on it’s way. And what can we do against? Let me suggest. Gather against it. Make yourself sound louder. We can’t do anythng alone. Here’s the facebook group against internet censorship - No to internet censorship in Sri Lnanka. Inform others about the threat....

This is how i explain the Sales Lead Pipline to my customer.... Sales Lead Pipeline.pdf (110.83 kb)

Actually this is a very simple explanation between SharePoint Site Template (.stp) and SharePoint Solution package (.wsp). *.wsp *.stp *.wsp solution file includes the resources and manifest files. *.stp site template file also includes...

If you are new to Microsoft SharePoint platform or if you are willing to enter the SharePoint arena, then Mark Miller's online workshop is a good place to get kick start. Actually you may see some "Fundamentals" contents, but really well for the entry level and beginning level end use...

It was a heart breaker to hear that the Sri Lankan Government is going to block adult content on Interenet. You didn’t hear the whole story, so don’t be hurry to judge me as a “porn addict”. The fun part is here. If you really want porn, you can get it. What’s so fun in...

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I recently shifted to Fedora from Windows XP. In Fedora it did not give sounds when I was watching flash videos such as from YouTube in Firefox. It was a big problem for me. But after some research I found out that it is due to not installing a dependency library 'libflashsupport' with Adobe Flash p...

ඔබත් ඔබේ ජංගම දුරකථනයේ GPRS, EDGE හෝ 3G සබඳතාව මගින් ඉන්ටර්නෙට් සැරිසරන්නෙක්ද? නිතරම නොකලත් හදිසි අවස්ථා වලදී මෙසේ කිරීම...

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Muse In the few weeks that I have been incapacitated, there have been many things that have happened in the country. If I was a superstitious man, I would say that my accident was a symbol and symptom of the unlucky period Sri Lanka has entered into. Our eroding rights, burgeoning government usur...

Rant Or as the original goes - Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? The cops demand ID wherever we go. So does the army. I can't walk in the street in Colombo without getting copped and checked.Now the TRC wants us to carry ID that can then be inspected by the cops to make sure our cellphones are ours. ...

I’ve always been a fan of minimalistic design. After the recent flurry of minimalistic redesigns I’ve been wanting to do my own. I stole the archives page from Dejan. I think that’s elegant and go with the minimalistic theme than getting Clean Archives. It does gracefully degrade b...

Dushyanth was an unknown personality for many Sri Lankans until the Sirasa Dancing Stars(SDS), though some knew him as a singer of the modern times. He was not releasing songs at a rate which most of our young artists are inclined at present. The talent he showed in performing as a singer while danc...

I wanted to create a website. It was an assignment & doing it was a must. There were HTML,CSS & Javascript to learn, for the design part. I knew HTML & a very little of CSS (just enough to understand others code). So CSS… It was the biggest thing bothered me through last week. Howe...

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සතියකකට පසු මොසිලා සමුළුවෙන් අනතුරුව ගම්රට බලා ඒමටයි මේ සැරසුම...වැන්කුවර්ගුවන් තොටුපලේ ඇති රතු ඉංදියානුවන්ගේ ස�...

As you know, ASP.NET GridView is the successor of the ASP.NET 1.X DataGrid. But with ASP.NET 2.0 GridView, there is no default way to catch the RowIndex in RowCommand event. Somehow, with ASP.NET 1.X DataGrid, we were able to catch the ItemIndex in ItemCommand event. As a solution, you can catch t...

Muse It's now a month since I got hit. The physical scars are disappearing. The scabs are falling off. My knees are still painful. and my left one is still impossible to bend or straighten fully. My shoulders are a nit of a mess. My right one cannot be straightened and I can't seem to lift anything...

Previously I posted on how to read data from Microsoft Excel file using Apache POI HSSF. This is a small addition to that. If the Excel file you are to read is using 'Date' fields, then you have to be little careful about it. In HSSF these Date fields are taken as numeric fields. Anyway that is how...

Facebook provides a great API for application developers. An API which helps developers to make their applications more facebook-fit.There are many things that a developer can do using FBML (Facebook Markup Language), but pagination. Recently I was looking for a way to add Facebook style pagination ...

I think I'm exhausted... but hey, I'm still trying to write a blog post. It is the matter of perspective; If someone thinks that an exhausted person can't write a blog post because he is exhausted; then fine, that is their perspective.According to my current perspective I'm exhausted.Most of the tim...

Muse If you are tired of reading how my life is and the problems and issues I'm facing, stop now. Go watch Playboy or something.It has been almost a month since the accident, and it has been eventful. I've been CAT scanned, x-rayed, and blood tested. All of which showed no physical problems. In fac...

අයිස්ලන්තයේ නව සිරිලක් තානාපති රංජිත් ජයසූරියයන් අපගේ ජාතික ඇඳුම ඇඳීම ගැන මා මෑතකදී ලියුවා. එක්සත් ජනපදයේ නව සි�...

මෙම වසරේ ඔක්තොම්බර් මස 28 දිනට නිලුත් වීමට නියමිත Fedora 10 නිකුතුව "Cambridge" ලෙසට නම්කර ඇත.

You want to show your readers that you are available to share Ideas? And you didn’t know how to? Here’s the short & (may be) sweet or either simple how to for that. AIM 1. Go and register for the AOL dev account at http://dev.aol.com/aim. 2. Find Your AIM presence HTML code at AIM pr...

Me too!!! :D We gotta develop this web site for our Internet Techs&Apps module for this semester and I'm suppose to design a nice header and a logo for the site. Well, the whole site actually. I'll have to do all the coding but my other group members are doing a great job collecting required...

Rant I'm back, and I am ranting. I may not be as good as I used to be, but, by Eris, I am pissed off. I spent five days teaching teachers at Hali-Ela. It wasn't easy, but there is a part of me that insists I do such things. I have to test myself and push myself. Otherwise, I may as well just lie ...

මොසිලා ප්‍රජාවේ භෞතික එක් වීමක් තව සුළු වේලාවකින් ඇරඹීමට නියමිතයි."Mozilla Firefox 2008 සමුළුව" 2008 ජූලි මස 28 වැනි දින සිට අගෝස්ත...

I will make it quick. This is the C++ solution that I used to solve Google Code Jam Online Round 1C - Question 1. (it's so dumb, I know).//typedef long long int64;typedef vector<int64> vi;#define For(i,a,b) for (int i(a),_b(b); i <= _b; ++i)#define Rep(i,n) for (int i(0),_n(n); i < _n; ++i)...

By default, ASP.NET GridView comes with border property equal to null. So, you can see the vertical and horizontal grid lines in the ASP.NET GridView. No matter about the browser type, it shows correctly. But if you set the GridView border property to zero (border=”0”), then it will act...

Last 2 weeks were very productive for the new xquery editor and finally able to get a breakthrough in the project. I was trying to work out xquery syntax colouring as I thought it is what someone would be expecting first from an editor. So finally it was completed by this weekend and you can see [.....

Major benefit of using Rails to develop web applications is its smart conventions, which promote developers to adapt to common patterns and avoid wasting time in reinventing the wheel. Rails is strictly bonded with a database and has a pre-defined directory structure. Though these conventions are he...

ඔබ දැනටමත් දන්නවා ඇති mplayer කියන්නේ අනේකවිධ ඇසි-දිසි ගොනු දිවැවිය හැකි මුදුකාංගයක් කියලා. ඉතින් මේ mplayer විධාන පෙල මෙව�...

Finally our final year project is finished. As I've promised in my previous post I'm going to do few posts on OpenCV. In this post I'm going to tell you how to configure MS Visual Studio 2005 to work with OpenCV library.  Step 1: Installiny OpenCV First you have to download the OpenCV librar...

I have never planned to do Google Code Jam this year (2008), but in the last minute I registered for the contest.The qualification round took place on 16th of July which had three questions to be solved within a day. I solved the first question, which was taken me easily to the Online Round 1. :)Onl...

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"As part of its move toward greater openness, Microsoft is becoming a platinum sponsor of the Apache Software Foundation." I hope, it is a pretty interesting news tag for us. That’s why I like to share those news sources with you...  http://www.infoworld.com/ http://www.the...

චිප නිෂ්පාදක Intel සමාගම Moblin (Mobile & Internet Linux Project) හි දෙවැනි වෙලුම සඳහා Ubuntu වෙනුවට Fedora ව්‍යපෘතිය දෙසට නැඹුරු වේ.http://www.heise-online.co.uk/open/Intel-s...

1st installFest in Sri Lanka @ Bandula Senadhira College - KarandeniyaAs per my request Mr. Susil Maduwage, Chief Project Officer - National Intitute of Eucation Sri Lanka, introduced Mr. ID Mitripala of Elpitiya Educational Zone (The IT Facilitator).Mr.PHS De Silva, The Prinsiple, already download...

1953 දී ලෝක ගුරු සමුළුවට ගිය අපේ සීයා කෙනෙක්, ඒ ගමන ගැන "චාරිකා" නම් පොතක් ලියුවා. ඒ පොතෙ මැය ගැන සිතීමේදී, චාරිකා යන්නට ...

When we use ASP.NET Master Page inside our web application, the BODY tag take out from content pages (Child Page). Coz, at runtime Master page’s BODY tag renders as a content page BODY tag. But the problem arises when we want to access the content page BODY element. Just say we want to call J...

OK! I'm not a blogger! seejay is not a blogger!! not anymore!!! :-S I can't believe I didn't blog from such a long time. And I can't think of any excuses other than plain laziness. It's not unfair to say my higher education is keeping me busy to some extend but I must admit I could've spend "some" t...

From end user perspective, client side validation is absolutely giving better user experience with UI. But, technically who can trust the user inputs? Because JavaScript is the key player behind the client side valuation and also anyone can bypass the JavaScript by disabling it. Not only that, bril...

කලින් ලිපියේ කිවු Gammu වලට සමාන තවත් මුදුකාංගයක් තමයි Xgnokii . මෙය ග්නොකි gnokii නම් වූ විධාන පෙල මෙවලමට GUI එකක් ලෙස ක්‍රියා කර...

Yes I am. Or I was, for some time. Here goes the story which might sound little bit mad & it’s written before the day I post this. May be this is my 2nd or 3rd blog post of this type. The feeling that I’m exhausted is come in my mind time to time & at [...]

How many times you have felt like that? How many times you wanted to know if that damn thing is only happened to you? if it was just a web site fail to load you would use downforeveryoneorjustme.com . But if it is about something else, err… something about Firefox or a GNU/Linux problem or [.....

Few of my friends who switched to Ubuntu lately, asked me how to get LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) working in their desktops. Most of them have installed Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) so I planned to write a small guide on how to setup a LAMP development environment. This will require to have an In...

මාත් අළුත් දුරකතථනයක් මිලදී ගත්තා (Nokia 3110c). ඉතින් මා කලින් භාවිතා කල දුරකථනයේ ඇති අංක සහ කෙටි පාණිවුඩ නව දුරකථනයට ලබා...

Wordpress 2.6 has just been released, and adds Wiki-like tracking of post edits, use of Gears for faster page rendering for admins, theme previews, and more…

There were some news items published on papers and electronic media saying that a Sri Lankan inventor has developed a technology which can be used to run internal combustion engines with water as the fuel. There are some photos in the papers where he is explaining his invention to the prime minister...

ASP.NET Moving ASP.NET master.page to SharePoint What is more important – Design or Content Image Post Processing Caching New ASP.NET security videos Free Training for Microsoft® Silverlight™ 2 Introducing Multithreaded Programming to JavaScript To...

Muse This system is turning from a blog to a LiveJournal, and for that I apologise. To be honest I am trying to keep track of what is happening to me, in the best and only way that I can. There are others, but this at least gives me feedback. And feedback, I need. Is it just me, or is my writing ...

ටොල්කීන් සූරීන් ලියූ The Lord of the Rings කතා පෙළේ එන ගෝලම් වසර පන් සියයක් අඳුරු ගුහාවක සැඟවී සිටීම නිසා, ඔහුට තම නම පවා අමතක ව�...

Muse I'm not even sure what it is I am looking for. But I think I know what it isn't. Or at least, I tell my self I do. Which is as good isn't it? My typing is slow these days. Since I got in the accident, my head hasn't been the same. Yes, unless you missed the updates to my blog, I got into an...

Popular notion about developing web apps with Ruby on Rails (or other Ruby frameworks) was “You can write a web app in 15 minutes, but it will take 15 days to deploy it correctly”. Especially if you are coming from the world of PHP, where you have to just write the app and upload it, [.....

It's being nearly a month or so I've started using Firefox 3 browser. Yes it has lot of cool new features such as new address bar. But I'm having a big problem with new FF3. It is giving me "Network Timeout Error" all the time. I have to do multiple refreshes to view the page, and if ...

මේ දිනවල පුවත් මඟින් නිතර ඇසෙන මැයකි "අධිවේගී මාර්ගය". ඉංගිරිසි "Express way" ඇසුරෙන් තනා ඇති ඒ වදන දිග වැඩි වගේම ටිකක් බර ව�...

බොහෝ ශ්‍රී ලාංකික තානාපතිවරුන් මෙන් නොව, අයිස්ලන්තයේ සිටින අප තානාපති රංජිත් ජයසූරිය මැතිඳුන් එ රට ජනපති හමුවීම�...

මේ රැපියල් තෙන්නකෝන් සූරීන් ගැන මා ඇසූ කතාවකි. වරක් රැපියල් තෙන්නකෝන් "අනුරපුරයේ බැසීමයි, වැටීමයි" යන මැයෙන් කල දෙ...

Most of us do work hard in our lives, but how many of us achieve the goals we strive for? Complains such as “I never missed a class and never missed homework but I couldn’t get through the exam” or “Though I work 12 hours a day I’m not getting a promotion in my job̶...

Hey all guys in Srilanka,One of our friends, [ Nazly ] has started a most awaited web portal for the Srilankan geek community.You can Check it in http://lkgeeks.org/. It tracks lot of blogs and our twitter posts in real time. So it'll be a great help us in get in contact with each other.Check the S...

Last few weeks had been good for the new plugin. Nothing too fnacy yet, but now I think it has a firm basic structure and other necessary classes to name it as an “Eclispe SSE based editor”. Regarding how it’s processing is done (since that’s what really matters), we have tho...

Hmm.. I’m in a blogger block & a super busy period of life. So I thought I better do a blogpost on some random idiot stuff. How does it look in a ladies wash room? This has been bothering me every time when I have to open the door with a mans logo. Would I ever learn to [...]

This post is an update of a post I made on 29 May. So if you like you can skip the whole post and just download the diagram (PDF/PNG). PDF version looks better.This is a simple diagram to illustrate the use and the difference of a Distributed Version/Revision Controlling System (DVCS) opposed to a t...

My pal Nazly, the open source sage has twisted two local geek portals.http://www.vplanetworks.com/http://www.lkgeeks.org/lkgeeks.org was originally classified only for FOSS guy, but my good old pal has let me in. Thanks!nazly: lkgeeks.org will not only be limited to FOSS blogs since few of my .NET f...

2008/06/20 දින අතිනත ගත්, Bud සහ කාංචනා යුවලට සිංහලෙන්FOSS වෙතින් උණුසුම් සුභ පැතුම්!!!

Since there was no progress from my last experiment, writing a rudimentary program without any WSF/C code seemed like a logical next step. For those of you who don’t know what I tried to do, here’s a brief explanation. I want to let other people provide Web services in Perl. My object...

My friend Gunith mentioned that there was a plugin to integrate Facebook chat into the Pidgin instance messenger - and obviously, I tried it the very next day, and am glad to mention that it rocks Pidgin is an all-in-one instance messenger client, formally known as GAIM. Facebook-chat is one of the...

If you are using Gmail this may the security feature that you were looking for ages... Now Google let you monitor your account activities and Sign out remotely. This is very good news for people like me because I access gmail from multiple computers, including from the computers at university labs.&...

Rant No! I'm not Not even close to it. A big Thank you to all my friends who got me to hospital. Their fast action was appreciated. On the other hand I would like to tell people a small message - DO NOT GO TO KALUBOWILA!!!! Yes they've had multiple bomb casualties there. Yes, they've experience...

I found this excellent list of cheat sheets for Web Developers. It even includes a cheat sheet for SEO. It will be really valuable for Web Developers to keep these cheat sheets in hand. Cheat Sheets for Front-end Web Developers Cheat sheets are helpful to have around because they allow you to quic...

I’m a big fan of qGIS, my favorite GIS desktop client. I recently upgraded to Ubuntu Linux 8.04 LTS, a.k.a Hardy Heron, and was amazed to find that qGIS was no longer part of the standard Ubuntu repositories, which is absolutely dissapointing - anyways, here is a workaround to getting qGIS ins...

Another Free and Open Source couple, Bud and Kanchana got married last week. The wedding took place in Mount Lavinia Hotel on 20th july. Suprisingly lots of rare geeks joined the wedding. We had a nice time there. But Suchetha and I were in a hurry to jump out from the wedding coz we had a GNU/linux...

Early this month I put up lkgeeks.org a Blog Aggregator for Sri Lankan FOSS/geek Blogs. This site is not intended to compete with other Sri Lankan Blog Aggregators but its goal is to let everyone read Blog posts only from the Blogs of FOSS/geek Bloggers. I'm a fan of Kottu, but it consists of...

ඔව්, ශ්‍රි ලාංකික ඔබට නුදුරු දිනකදි ඔබට ඉහත ආකාරයේ URL එකක් ලබා ගත හැකිවනු ඇත.දැනට භාවිතා වන .lk වෙනුවට අන්තර්ජාතිකව ප�...

Yeah. I did. Really Last Saaturday, La, Chabdrika and I watched Prince Caspian, and then went off to MC to watch The Incredible Hulk. Maybe I shouldn't have had multiple beers on an empty stomach, but I felt sober enough. The next thing I remember was waking up in Kalubowila hospital with my body ...

අලුත උපන් දරුවන්ට නම් තැබීමේදී, ගණය ද සලකන බව පෙනේ. ඔබේ නමේ ගණය කුමක්දැයි දන්නවා ද? කෙටි අකුරු ලුහු නමි. “අනුරාධ” යන...

It was Sunday evening and I was able to watch the match peacefully at home without having to go anywhere. It's been a long since I watched a match in full. I used to watch cricket ball-by-ball no matter it was a one day or a test match when I was young.As Sri Lankan team started to bat first, I was ...

 FormatFactory is a free application that can convert video, audio and images in to different file formats. It also supports batch file conversion as well. As reported by DownloadSquad is seems to be really good application.

Its been a while. Looks like I'm not going to get around to writing the long post about how I moved out of Sri Lanka and how the grass is greener in Australia and stuff. Well I moved the grass is about the same, just colder since its winter down here. Almost everyone I talked to [...]SHARETHIS.addEn...

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මේ පසිඳු ජන කවියක අග දෙ පදය යි: බලේ බලේ රාසිං දෙවියන්ගෙ බලේ ගලේ කොටුව බැන්දයි තිරිකුණාමලේ මෙහි එන බල�...

“Operate” යනු නිතර ම ඇසෙන වදනකි. “Operating system”, “interoperate” ඈ ඉන් නැඟෙන තවත් වදන් බොහොමයෙකි. ඊට ඉන් සිංහළ වදනක් ලෙස “මෙහෙයවයි” යන්�...

While developing server side components that enables providing Web services using Perl bumped into a brick wall. First the requirement is when a client request comes, need to extract the payload and pass it to WSF/C which acts as the underlying Web services engine. So WSF/C knows how to process th...

Quite an eventful day today.Woke up to the sound of my mother answering a phone call from from back home, saying my home at Walasgala ( a little village in Matara District ) has been robbed last night.For some reason the 1st thing that came to my mind was about the old books & magazines i have inher...

I started to blog in Sinhala. "Sinhala" is my first language. I thought it would be nice if I keep a separate blog for Sinhala postings. And there in that blog, I will talk about the life, imotions, etc. Less or no technical stuff. And I will write this blog as usual, in English.My Sinhala Blog is :...

I was thoroughly happy to see this notification I had received in Facebook today in the morning when I came to work. Also I kept on checking the spreadfirefox.com website since 17th June, the day I downloaded Firefox 3 to contribute to the record. The news is what we were all waiting for - Firefox 3...