I had the opportunity to get selected for Google Summer of Code on the freshman year itself in my academic life. The experience I gained in that summer working with SilverStripe project boosted my self confidence and helped me immensely to shape up my career.
This year, which happens to be my final year as […]
Last couple of days, I found some time to work on my individual research project for the degree course. The topic area I selected for my project was on “Real-time Web”. Real-time Web is just the opposite of the current way we use the web. Rather than we checking (polling) content providers for updates, content […]
Independent thinking and self-concious decision making is what builds a person and the society. Yet, it’s the most discouraged, criticised and often punishable act that a person can do. Our culture has done a nice job by misinterpreting and abusing values - such as obedience, loyalty and teamwork to suppress the importance of independent thinking.
This […]
If you were one of the early readers of my blog, you would know that I was selected to do my Bachelors in IT at Faculty of Information Technology in University of Moratuwa. It’s hard to believe 3 years have gone pass in a flash, but reminiscing what I gathered during this period it feels […]
Most of my university colleagues has this craze of following various professional education courses and certifications. They call it CIMA, BIT, BCS, ACS, SCJP, CCNA, MSDN, PMP and the list goes on. I don’t get the rationale behind this, What’s the benefit of having all these qualifications? What exactly you gain by spending such hefty […]
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 […]
Most of us do work hard in our lives, but how many of us achieve the goals we strive for? Complains such as “I never missed a class and never missed homework but I couldn’t get through the exam” or “Though I work 12 hours a day I’m not getting a promotion in my job” […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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I'm Lakshan Perera, an average guy from Sri Lanka. I work at Vesess, where we create cool web apps like CurdBee.
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