Posts Tagged ‘Life’
Confusing Web 2.0 Domains
How do you define a web 2.0 application ? Normal distinguishable features includes AJAX, rounded corners, large input fields, badges and etc. But did you notice a another feature which is common to most of the apps of web 2.0 culture ? Most of them have confusing and difficult to spell domain adresess or URLs.
It’s […]
City under attack ?
Update on the current situation in Colombo (exactly here in Wattala). Still nothing is yet to confirm and moments passed by were filled with fear and uncertainity.
We got electricity back in few minutes ago (around 3.50 am) and now the whole city seems calm and quiet. Still there is no any official update on what […]
29th April 2007
government, Life, security, Sri Lanka
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One step away from the ultimate title
Whooo! They have done it again ! Mahela and crew are one step away in bringing glory back to this small island in the Indian Ocean. Congrats guys ! It’s a marvelous display of sportsmanship from our beloved cricketers !
Cricket is more than just a sport in Sri Lanka. It’s a passion. Whole nation has […]
Accepted for Google Summer of Code !
Today is a one of the greatest days in my life, as I got accepted to Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2007. It’s a dream coming true for me and looking forward to have some great experiences with it.
Google Summer of Code, is a program organized by Google for University Students. Where they have to […]
- 12th April 2007
- FOSS, google, hacker, Life, PHP, Silverstripe, Sri Lanka, Summer, University, Vesess
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LakTEK is joined with Blue Fish Network
One of my new year perspectives was to give more attention to my blog and serve it to much bigger audience. Today I was notified by Blue Fish Network that they have added my blog to their network. I see this as yet another opportunity to expand my blog to a wider audience.
Blue Fish is […]
Keeping the focus
For the first time in this year I’m going to touch my blog. Since I started this blog back in last May, I got great exposure by coming to know various cool people and involving in great projects. But when I was driven away by more work, attention to blog has been simply neglected. Actually […]
- 13th January 2007
- blogging, Life, Office, Sri Lanka, University
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The tools I use
Here is the list of tools I use for my day to day activities.
Machine : Compaq Presario v3000
OS : Ubuntu 6.10 (Primary OS), Windows XP Media Center (OEM version, keeping it for testing)
Editor : Scribes (It’s becoming the TextMate for GNU ! awesome editor)
Browser : Firefox 2, Opera
CLI : Bash
Web Host : Dreamhost
Framework : Ruby […]
Gmail realigns it’s interface
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 […]
Semantics on Word Processing.
As an adamant fan of web standards and semantically correct web design, I always tried to avoid using tables in web page layout design. But I never thought of taking that practice beyond web design.
However today I got a call from a less-tech savy person, who wanted me to help him with a layout of […]
- 5th November 2006
- CSS, FOSS, Life, Office, Web Standards
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What was the first web site you visited ?
Insipired by the post of Sam I also tried to recollect the memories of early internet experiences. The first web site I visited was www.cricket.org, still I visit the site daily which is now more popular now as cricinfo.com. Connecting to internet using Lanka Internet Prepaid Card with a 28k modem was funny in the […]
