Posts Tagged ‘University’

RMS in Sri Lanka

The week ended was a great week for Sri Lankan FOSS community, as the father of Free Software Movement, Richard M. Stallman (RMS) paid a visit to the country. Yesterday, I got the opportunity not only to listen to a live speech of the legend, but also to grab a picture with him. It was […]

What’s your next move after A/L ?

Results of the G.C.E.Advanced Level (A/L) examination for year 2007 was released yesterday and as usual we got to see lot of drama with mixed emotions over the results. I don’t know whether there is any other more competitive exams in the world than A/L’s in Sri Lanka. This is due to A/L is the […]

Sweet Summer of Code, Thank you Google…

GSOC 2007 finally came to an end on last 20th, providing loads of experience and lots of other good things to take with us. It helps to create passion for Open Source software among students, by providing an opportunity to work with more than 100 OSS projects in their summer holidays. Even it implies as […]

Let’s bid farewell for Prof.V.K.Samaranayake

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 […]

Daily reads for wannabe WebDs

This is a collection of sites, which I recommend for daily use for the people who are eager to pimp their web design/development skills. This was initially prepared to send to my fellow batch mates at the university, but later I thought why not share it with the rest of the world too :) These […]

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 […]

Early Bird view to Google Summer of Code Project Ideas

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 […]

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 […]

Hacking made easy with Google Code Search

I was so bored while studing for the exams and just hit on this new Google Code Search. Oh! do you know what I was able to extract with several keyword combinations ? Whole bunch of FTP access and Database connection credentials of sites which are currently live on the net. Those credentials seems to […]

Sri Lanka becoming a FOSS giant in Asia ?

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 […]

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