OK, There’s one now. wait.. wait… it was not me. That sage girl defined the club. First of all let’s see who are already in. The Way you make me feel | How I see it Michael Jackson and Me | Landon Lanka and Drums A Legend | A heart on a sleeve The way you make me fee...

I found This nice howto via @meaningful. Looks like the howto is for older version of Twitterfox. Here goes how to do it on Twitterfox 1.8.1 (The version I use right now) And I recommend you to update to Twitterfox 1.8.1 coz it’s really improved. First go here: <path to your Firefox profil...

Fedora 10 (F10) was one of the best fedora release I've come to use. I liked it so much that I made it the default OS on my Mac Mini PPC. So naturally I was looking forward to the release of Fedora 11 (F11). But with a couple of release dates slipping, the wait was somewhat of a torture. This of cou...

I thought of sharing some tips in Ruby on Rails development, which would come in handy especially if you are a newbie.  The cornerstone of all of Rails’ magic is ActiveRecord. As you know it’s an ORM, which hides all cumbersome and mundane SQL by a syntactic sugar coating. However, blind...

I was compiling Qt from source. And had loads of issues. This is what I learned after all. 1. Errors are chances to learn. 2. Never copy paste command / code blindly from somewhere on the Internet. Even if it’s very trustworthy source. Copy paste process might produce errors to ruin your day ...

a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/babytux/3600872414/" title="UCSC.tv launch by Bud's photo blog, on Flickr"img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2422/3600872414_d9ca0363d8.jpg" width="500" height="417" alt="UCSC.tv launch" //abr /br /a href="http://www.sinhalenfoss.org"SinhalenFOSS/a, the audi...

Last week was a very memorable one for all Sri Lankans, in whatever way you look at it. End of a 30 year old conflict is not something you forget that easily IMO. Younger generation today (me included) hadn’t seen a day without a war. Each month (some times every week) there were bomb blasts [...

pIn this recent a href="http://unprotectedthoughts.com/2009/03/tamil-struggle-vs-black-struggle-reply.cfm"blog post/a, Sam reminds how S W R D Bandaranaike changed national language in 1956, something most people in the present generation [wrongly] call a "Sinhala-only" policy./p blockquote English ...

pHere are two reports on the resettlement of displaced people in Sri Lanka: a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8061623.stm"one by the BBC/a, and a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gVoaDFmbCYS-Usz9ACDRIengj21QD98ALF1O0"another by the Associated Press/a./p pThe BBC re...

div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"So I had this idea for a small (i guess) project which uses a digg like voting system. So I installed the pligg cms and tried playing with it for some time and after two days I decided to go with its well known drupal based competitor drigg. Of course pligg is...

pOur country has finally become a truly unified sovereign. Last time it happened was in the 1500s (no, not in 1948)./p pI salute all our armed forces, those who have sacrificed their lives for the betterment of others in our nation, for making this happen!/p pOur country is lucky to be blessed with...

pThere is Superman. There is Catwoman. There is Spiderman. And a few others./p pThere was a time I could count the number of superheros with my fingers. Not anymore. They are now everywhere!/p pAnd you can become one, if you like; simple./p pJoin an NGO to become an "aid worker". Become a journ...

Can’t wait for next week and tek. I will get to once again see old and “new” good friends, some I haven’t seen in a year and others I have never met. It has been way too long since we got to sit down and talk face to face. I am [...]

Looks like something new. Only thing is once you are in a section how to get back to all results?

yep - going to be in Santa Clara next week for some company training. Excited about it since it will be covering areas I am not strong on. Only sucky part is shoving 7 days of training into 5 days.

a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/babytux/3492063236/" title="pcfix_dsc03406 by Bud's photo blog, on Flickr"img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3395/3492063236_7705dd0c34.jpg" alt="pcfix_dsc03406" height="375" width="500" //abr /br /Kanchana, my wife had an old P4 machine from back in the day...

pConsidering it's been exactly 1 year since my last post, I pondered a bit on a title for this post. "The comeback", "Still live and kicking" or "I'm back!" sprang to mind. But then I realized I'd be fooling my self and you, if I even remotely meant this blog was going to be regularly updated. Hence...

[Warning: There is a *lot* of gushing in this post, so feel free to skip it] Can you believe I have managed to survive my first year at MySQL… and I haven’t gone mad yet… well not much anyway The year has gone by so fast I didn’t realize my anniversary came and [...]

Just wanted to get the word out that I have finally booked my flight for attending tek and will be arriving in Chicago early in the morning on the 18th and leaving in the evening on the 23rd. If you are going to be there also and have time on your hands… maybe we [...]

First of all sorry for letting this space go on a hiatus yet again.. Though I tried to make it a habit of posting regularly, other priorities didn’t allow me to do it as I wish. In last few months I had to run through lot of challenges in real life and in hacking, which [...]

SinhalenFOSS, Sri Lankas very first tech related podcast, the podcast that I proudly feature in, turned one year yesterday(9th April 2009). We didn’t have big plans for the day but it was truly a big milestone for me. I’m sure the story is same for the other two co-hosts Bud (geekaholic)...

There is a new YouTube mobile app out for Windows and Symbian phones. It works on my Nokia E71 now. Check your phone’s support. Its not as cool as I expected. Mostly just a side scrolling. Oh well better than nothing.

It’s over. The fight against the dynamic DNS is over for me now. It took me so long to figure this simple thing out. But I don’t worry, even the big bro Goog couldn’t come up with a satisfying straight answer for my problem. So I myself searched under the mattress & found the p...

I had a good time at the conf and my talk seemed to go over pretty well. I somehow ended up in the largest session room (I admit to feeling a bit overwhelmed). Attendance seemed to be at a decent level, though I think I may have overwhelmed some of them a bit [...]

Today, Inbsp;happened to see a a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqantZJ6WwM"Youtube video/a of one of an international inspirational speaker, posted on Facebook. He was 23 years old, an hell yeah the video was totally inspiring. But there was something else... he had no limbs.br / br / This is...

Just a quick reminder that I will be at the Florida Linux Show this Monday representing PHPWomen and giving a talk on MySQL performance tuning. My talk starts at 09:30 and afterwards I will be at either the PHPWomen’s booth or the Sun Microsystems booth or the Jax PHP User group booth. Feel ...

It’s today I found this new URL shortening service tinyarro.ws. It gives you http://?.ws/blah as the shortened url(yeah.. blah is a random string or you can choose what you like). I really liked the idea & thought of altering my previously created trim ubiquity command and make a ubiquity ...

My first few days doing Maths in Advanced Levels was a nightmare. I usually sucked in Maths in high school and only because of my strong passion for IT made me do Maths (thats the only way in Sri Lanka to gain higher education in IT). I couldn’t grasp a single shit, other than knowing [...]

Replies are very important in communication. Specially where there isn’t a direct real time connectivity between people who communicate, replies are vital. In modern days comment replies on your blog, Twitter replies & all kinds of replies you get on your online activities are so important...

Huawei e220 or Vodafone e220 is the HSDPA modem we usually get from Dialog Telecom or Mobitel GSM (probably from Airtel) when we purchase a mobile broadband connection. But usually it's operator locked, so we can't switch between networks when the current ISP starts treating us like dust, If you've ...

Yeah I miss Dimi a lot. *Specially* on this *special* day. I want you. But I can’t find you in this internet jungle. But somehow I want you man. Oh shit I said that. That, Dimi is a guy. Which makes you guys think I’m in love with a guy. And that means I’m gay. [...]

As usual it's old news to a href="http://twitter.com/seejay"my twitter/a followers that I've unlocked my Huawei e220 HSDPA modem I bought with the Mobile Broadband connection from Dialog Telecom. It was operator locked and could only be used with Dialog. Well I must say that I loved mobile broadband...

I’ve read this fine article by rands, about the Attention Deficiency Disorder which nerds normally known to have. And it sounds like “Geeks are multitasking”. But I have another explanation for that. I’ll use the word Geek instead of nerd since it’s better known at the ...

It has been a long time since I did a presentation to a group of people. Yesterday I finally got back in the saddle and gave one on memcached to my local PHP user/WEb group. I thought I did pretty good though I have to admit to being REALLY nervous (red face and [...]

Just noticed that Gmail changed their top button bar Nice and streamlined, could use some spacing between each button. Use simple l to get to labels. Simple v will get you the move drop down

pIn this a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40YW7Lco0og"WWDC 2008 keynote/a, Steve Jobs said that the iPhone 3G will sell at 199/299 USD in emalmost/em all countries around the world./p pToday I saw an email passing around which said that a href="http://www.dialog.lk"Dialog/a is selling the iPho...

I hope you might have already heard about the first ever Sinhala mobile game, "a href="http://www.games.lk/"Colomo Ride/a (Colomba Wate)", developed and released by a href="http://www.gtslk.com/"GTS/a. As a stepping stone fornbsp;another contribution towards Sri Lanka's IT improvement, GTS has launc...

Hope everyone knows that something went wrong with Google for some time. 6:30 a.m. PST and 7:25 a.m on 1/31/2009 as Google says. They marked all their search results as harmful sites. Here’s photo proof from dave winer (I didn’t witeness the error. Unfortunately ). Google made a statem...

I just setup a secure email account for myself. I needed one to exchange some passwords etc with a friend. Here are a few links that will help you setup one. First you need an email client. My choice was Thunderbird. The rest of the setup depends on this so if you pick another client the [...]

I have been working on a new iteration of HOT (follow @hotelotravel for more info) for last few weeks and thought of changing the existing JQuery UI Dialog box for something bit fancy and solid (on other hand I may have just wanted to get a break from usual PHP stuff and to play with [...]