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Chamara’s Lifestream for 2009-07-02:
Chamara’s Lifestream for 2009-07-01:
Videos will be the next web revelatio.. http://tinyurl.com/n6h5de #
Chamara’s Lifestream for 2009-07-02:
People hearing without listening… #
Chamara’s Lifestream for 2009-07.. http://tinyurl.com/kuqk2c #

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In about an one hour we are taking off to Egypt. Seems like all the competitors are excited and on the same time nervous about the big event ahead. Well! I think they should be But all of them are well geared to face the big competition.
Also i’m sure everybody is looking forward to [...]

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People hearing without listening… #
Chamara’s Lifestream for 2009-07-01:
Videos will be the next web revelation. #
Now it's time to some Joomla.. http://tinyurl.com/ltuts5 #

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Yesterday Oracle announced a major refresh of their middleware platform - basically the result of merging in BEA to Oracle. Some stuff (like getting rid of OC4J and using WebLogic would’ve been a no-brainer “thank god we’re done with that” decision) but other stuff must’ve been quite painful, especially for the people involved!From their press [...]

Videos will be the next web revelation. #
Now it's time to some Joomla + VirtueMart. #
You`ve left me hungering for the touch of you. #
Chamara’s Lifestream for 2009-06-30:
Slicing makes me happy & sleepless nights makes me sick. #
he W3C rece.. http://tinyurl.com/l94oyj #

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We’ve decided to sponsor OSCON 2009 .. if you are coming there and want to look us up please drop by! As always we have lots to tell you about what we’re doing and our customer success stories and more!

Most of the BAs using the term “Gathering” against the requirements. The exact term is “Requirements gathering”. While reading some articles, found an interesting article on the “Requirements gathering”. Here the author is arguing against the term gathering. According to Jill Liles we are not gathering but eliciting the requirements.This was on the BA Times [...]

Slicing makes me happy & sleepless nights makes me sick. #
he W3C recently announced an exciting new incubator group – The Open Web Education Alliance (OWEA) – http://is.gd/1iI1r #
Chamara’s Lifestream for 2009-06-29:
Having a very bad headache, don't know why this suddenly. #
Chamara’s .. http://tinyurl.com/n2rlev #

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Ladies and Gentlemen:
Here by I’m giving you the happy news “Firefox 3.5 is available for download”.
Happy news is it’s available in both Tamil and Sinhala
Firefox giving us five reasons why you should upgrade to Firefox 3.5
1 Security
2 Performance
3 The Awesome Bar
4 Better Bookmarking
5 Password Manager
Why still waiting?? Go grab your copy of [...]

HI Guys,
I found a good video traing web site for drupal. check this out
Visit this site

You know what happens when we change the name of a SharePoint server right? It simply won’t work again unless you run the SharePoint Server configuration wizard.
So what would happen if you do the same for the SSRS (SQL server reporting services) server? Some say you might not be able to connect to the reporting [...]

Purchased a camera from Metropolitan, the local agent. The camera developed a manufacturer flaw within about 2 months. Sent to metropolitan who forwarded it to canon singapore
canon singapore have fixed the camera, but metropolitan can’t seem to get it to me (it’s weeks since they fixed it, nearly 2 months since it was given).
I miss [...]

Having a very bad headache, don't know why this suddenly. #
Chamara’s Lifestream for 2009-06-28:
Reading 'An Eulogy on a Centenary', history of the Sri Sumangala C.. http://tinyurl.com/ln6wfl #

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1. Strategy:
Defines a family of algorithms, encapsulates each one, and make them interchangeable. Strategy lets the algorithm vary independently from clients who use it.
2. Decorator:
Attach additional responsibilities to an object dynamically. Decorators provide a flexible alternative to subclassing for extending functionality.
3. Factory Method
Define an interface for creating an object, but let the subclasses decide which [...]

1. Strategy:
Defines a family of algorithms, encapsulates each one, and make them interchangeable. Strategy lets the algorithm vary independently from clients who use it.
2. Decorator:
Attach additional responsibilities to an object dynamically. Decorators provide a flexible alternative to subclassing for extending functionality.
3. Factory Method
Define an interface for creating an object, but let the subclasses decide which [...]

When YouTube introduced YouTube Shows, I was flying and happy beyond imagination. Soon I come to know that most of the shows are not available to Sri Lankan users.
I was so annoyed. I wonder why YouTube shows the shows that are not available to our region. When you click on a video, it’ll return an [...]

Reading 'An Eulogy on a Centenary', history of the Sri Sumangala College, Panadura. #
Chamara’s Lifestream for 2009-06-27:
Micheal Jackson, the Celebrity of Celebrities. Who change the world of POP.. http://twurl.nl/gpdzwy #

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last Saturday(yesterday) we, all in cam Management solution visit a trip to “club palm bay hotel” @ maravila.we reached the location around 11.40am @ the same day .Believe me our party with fellow geeks ended early morning Sunday 4.00AM.that was started Saturdayevening around 6.00PM.puh !i will upload some more pictures in my Picasa album very [...]

Micheal Jackson, the Celebrity of Celebrities. Who change the world of POP music. #
Sri Lanka qualify for the Asian Netball Championship finals. #
I am still unable to follow more people in Twitter. #
Chamara’s Lifestream for 2009-06-26:
Lovely beaches, beautiful landscapes, impressive ruins, a vibrant culture .. http://tinyurl.com/mtqblp #

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The 50 year old musical superstar died last Thursday, just as he was preparing for what would be a series of 50 concerts starting july 13 at London. Jackson had been spending hours and hours toiling with a team of dancers for a performance he and his fans hoped would restore his tarnished legacy to [...]

Hibernate is a powerful, high performance Object/Relational persistance and query service for both Java and .Net. Hibernate provides the bridge between the database and the application by storing application objects in the database for the developer, rather than requiring the developer to write and maintain mountains of code to store and retrieve objects.Using a JDBC [...]

Lovely beaches, beautiful landscapes, impressive ruins, a vibrant culture and charming people – no wonder Sri Lanka is a small miracle. #
Sri Lanka Small Miracle – http://ping.fm/NEsNP #
Chamara’s Lifestream for 2009-06-25:
Vasantham TV, Sri Lanka's latest Tamil language TV channel launched to.. http://tinyurl.com/mdz8er #

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Yesterday I lost another “one of my legendary characters”. I have few favourite entertainers, namely; Bruce Lee, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Michel Joseph Jackson, Dr. Dre, Eminem and few others. But among them, there are very few who I call ” A Legend”. Bruce Lee was a legend. And Michel Jackson.I still remember when I was [...]

Vasantham TV, Sri Lanka's latest Tamil language TV channel launched today. #
I am going to sleep early today!!! #
Chamara’s Lifestream for 2009-06-24:
Minlo Technologies looking for Marketing personals in all regions. If anyo.. http://tinyurl.com/mxlp8q #

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(I meant to write this on Monday but its been a crazy week!)The Twenty20 Finals on Sunday nite was amazing. Sri Lanka, which had played so well up until the finals, had its luck run out .. and Pakistan, which had a sputtering start, really got into high gear and um, whipped our butt :-). [...]

Good news for Tamil computer users. Google has released their Chrome browser with Tamil interface. Yipee!It’s available in Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya (on Windows Vista alone), Tamil, and Telugu. A Hindi version was available earlier.
Eearlier we had Firefox 2.X with Tamil Interface. It was localised by Thamizha community. Later, Firefox came up with [...]

Minlo Technologies looking for Marketing personals in all regions. If anyone interest drop an email to me. #
I cannot follow people on Twitter, it's saying "You are unable to follow more people at this time. Learn more here.", any idea why is this? #
Chamara’s Lifestream for 2009-06-23:
Flowers never bend With the rainfall. #
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The talk of the town ! Project Management 2.0 :-)Yea we all know that Project management has moved a long way from traditional management and those long gone methods are not recognized anymore. The days that project manager becomes the center for all the information and he filters information for various stakeholders and make stake [...]

One year? Unbelivable! It’s completely one year? Time passes by so fast…I wish all the members who joined virtusa(including me) on 23rd-june-2008 a very happy Employee aniversary.Let me express my enormous appreciation for the amazing and colossal work done since now, and wish you all and to me a bright and successfull future.

I found a nice article that debating about the static method implementation in PHP. Guys who are interesting may read it…
Read the article

Flowers never bend With the rainfall. #
Chamara’s Lifestream for 2009-06-22:
Working hard today for better tomorrow. But tomorrow never comes. #
Lesson.. http://tinyurl.com/ng9cl9 #

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Yesterday one of my colleagues was discussing some stuff on this blog and I got some exiting comments about how popular this is in some of the search engines. I was very happy by the comments because I can see over hundreds of people visiting this blog every day but very few times my colleagues [...]

Apache Stonehenge, A project to demonstrate the interoperability between heterogeneous platforms has done their first milestone release few days back.
The first milestone demonstrate the interoperability between

.NET – Microsoft WCF implementation
Java – WSO2 Web Service Application Server (WSAS) implementation
PHP – WSO2 Web Service Framework for PHP (WSF/PHP) implementation

Each of these technologies has implemented a Stock trader [...]