As most of you may aware (or not) Google Summer of Code for 2007 has been announced. This year I’m eager to apply for a project, eventhough I’m not sure whetehr I will get accepted. Anyway project ideas of accepted mentoring organizations will be released only on 14th March and student application period will be […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Recently Google has released a report with the statistics of the Google Summer of Code 2006 (FYI : It’s a program where Google pay for students for working on various open-source projects). According to this report Sri Lanka comes under top 20 countries with highest accepted students and highest number of applications. It seems 10 […]
Remember all flames we had with Intel CEO Craig Barrett labeling that OLPC’s $100 laptop project as just a gadget ? Even though $100 laptop is still in prototype, intel had made a step ahead by sponsoring the eSriLankaPC.
eSriLankaPC is a project under ICTA which has the object of increasing the PC adoption in country. […]
The life in this island is getting too difficult. The rising flames of the war and ever increasing oil charges are screwing the people. Today, coming to Colombo has become the worst nightmare to anyone. The number of checkpoints and barriers has doubled the traffic jam and virtual it takes two hours to travel 20 […]
These days I’m undergoing a flip and turn in my life with the admission into University education. Now I’m spending most of the time in meatspace rather than in siliconspace. In this part of world, students still have more faith on Kuppi(local university slang for group studies) rather than O’Reilly books or Wikipedia, and the […]
Last week I began the chapter 2 of my life, after going through 13 exciting years of college education, I finally entered into higher education. I got selected as an internal student of IT Faculty of University of Moratuwa (UoM).
I regard this as a great opportunity, since this course is considered more job oriented and […]
It seems most of the web designers in the world are adapting to web standards and many major sites are redesigning (realigning or rebooting or what ever) to comply with the web standards, but the interest of the subject here in Sri Lanka is very poor. Most of the sites, whether it government or commercial, […]
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