Ever wondered why we have so much of crappy and bloated software? The root cause they are built just to impress one person.
This is a widespread disease in software industry. At the academic level, you will find students writing software to impress their mentors and get the required credit. Then you get the developers […]
In the 1980s, Apple jumped out to an early lead in personal computers, but then got selfish. Steve Jobs, a notorious control freak, just could not play well with others.
Along came Microsoft, with Windows, which was a knockoff of Apple’s operating system. Microsoft partnered with everyone and today has 90 percent market share, while Apple’s […]
Last Wednesday (30th September 2009), the first-ever meatspace gathering of Sri Lankan Ruby Users was held at Ridgecrest Asia (Pvt) Ltd. There were more than 20 passionate, enthusiastic Rubyists filling the room and I would call it a promising start.
For several years, myself personally knew only handful of Rubyists in the country. Though, we had […]
Yesterday I participated in the first Academic Symposium organized by our faculty. The topic for the day was Graduation, Entrepreneurship and Success. The panel, which was modereated by Peter D’Almeida (he is also an old Benedictine) included Dr.Sanjeeva, Wegapitiya (Laughs), Harsha Purasinghe (Microimage), Ramesh Shamuganathan (JKCS) and Mohammed Azmeez (Concept Nursery). The discussion raised some […]
Today would be a day of mourning for Sri Lankan IT industry, with the demise of Sri Lanka’s “Father of IT”, Prof.V.K.Samaranayake. Many will unanimously agree today Sri Lanka’s IT industries successes are mainly due to visionaries of Prof.Samaranayake.
Beginning with CINTEC and later through ICTA, the work he has done for the development of IT […]
Web applications have become the next trend of the internet and it seems the day it’ll replace traditional desktop apps are not that far. But still web applications aren’t the easiest to use for average users one of the major barriers is accessing the application itself. As I mentioned in my previous post most of […]
It seems Gmail has also joined the rounded corner and drop shadow galore with it’s upgrade to the interface. Even though there isn’t a major upgrade in the main UI message interface has become much sweet.
Also they have taken all the message actions to a top-right drop-down menu, which actually becomes quite irritating than the […]
Today I came across through Google Job Openings page that there are four job openings in South Asia, which included a position for Sri Lanka Country Consultant. For these positions Google doesn’t mention an exact location, only mentions This position is located in South Asia. This sounds like Google is going to open up a […]
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