Broken
9:53am, February 28th, 2007
9:17am, February 27th, 2007
Well in past few days my technorati profile indicted that my posts in my blog has been syndicated in another site as well..
and it showed the site as www.geeklanka.com … Well not only mines but and all of the MVPs blogs and other geek blogs were there
some guy call Yo (do I know him ) and few of his friends has made this site and its primary purpose is to combine Sri Lankan geek community blogs in to 1 place .. like our indi doing with www.kottu.org for SL related stuff…
good idea … hope this site will have more syndications form rest of SL geek blogs …if you have a geek blog send the details to them and they will add it to the GeekLanka’s blog syndicator.
only thing is, it’s better that MR.yo informed us about this before.
12:06am, February 24th, 2007
1:56am, February 23rd, 2007
Do you use vi editor a lot?
Do you use Hungarian notation when coding?
Does your left hand little finger hurt more than the others?
Do you touch type?
Do the tendons in your forearm ache?
How high is your chair?
Is your keyboard placed on the desk or on a tray?
Do you wear a watch on the left hand?
Do you rest your palms when you type or are they floating?
Here’s why: if you use the vi editor in unix/Linux, not only will you be doing more typing than those who use editors with auto-complete, you’ll also be using the shift key and ESC a lot for command purposes. If you touch type, you’ll be using your left little pinkie to press the ESC key.
Also, if you use Hungarian notation, you’ll be using a lot of underscores in your code, in addition to the usual curly braces, colons and double quotes, all of which require you to press the left SHIFT with your left little pinkie (if you touch type). So if your left little finger hurts, you should probably look into these things. Maybe you can switch to a windows editor by mapping your unix/Linux to windows using something like Samba.
Remember, some of the muscles that you use to press down on keys are located in your forearm. If you type too much or type in an awkward position, these should hurt. If your wrist or fingers hurt, it’s probably something else.
It’s better to have the keyboard in a low position, close to you, which is why a tray is a good idea.
Some people will never guess, but aches in one hand could be due to a wrist watch that is either too heavy or pressing against you when you type. If your left hand aches and you wear a watch on it, try taking it off when typing. It worked for me.
9:26pm, February 22nd, 2007
Well.. we started our new project last week .. and guys were coding happily ..but yesterday Maduranga screamed ..”Guys after getting the latest files from visual source safe, scroll bars are missing in Visual studio aspx design mode.. very funny…
we checked the master page if the error was in there and also our 3rd party controls. but didn’t succeed .. Then we assumed the culprit may be our graphic design guy Henry (Hiran) .. yes he was the person who has cause the error but its not his fault .. it’s a bug in VS 2005 ..
When you put style=”overflow-x:hidden” to the body tag to disable IE horizontal scroll bars then it will also disable the VS scroll bars in design mode J
So the solution was to put the script inside a style tag as a html style
style type=”text/css”>
html{
overflow-x:hidden;
}
</style
But use this inside the page itself only, if you applied this to a style sheet and try to link to a master page, again VS will come with out scroll bars..
I logged this issue in VS forums …
9:23pm, February 22nd, 2007
Saw this nice post in cricinfo blogs about chamara silva .
It says “Chamara Silva: a pioneer in the business of getting cricket to acknowledge its great cultural diversity”
Read the full post here
9:18pm, February 21st, 2007
You must have already downloaded the SP2 now. If not, here is the link. Note that new samples are not included with it. Samples can be downloaded from here and readme file from here if want.
Did you notice that there is a new sample database called AdventureWorksLT?

8:00pm, February 21st, 2007
4:30pm, February 21st, 2007
As you can see, I’ve changed my theme to something slightly more techie. I’ve tried anonymous blogging, non-techie blogging, techie blogging, the works. But I just can’t seem to make up my mind. This time, I’m going to experiment being a bit more techie — something I wanted to do for a while.
This may be de ja vu for some people, but I’m thinking of using a nickname alongside my real name (yes, again!). I’ve no need to hide my real name, but in most other online accounts, I go as either “Honolulu” or “Honalulu” (a deliberate misspell to avoid things like honolulu99) or HonoluluMan (e.g. in Wikipedia). In case you’re wondering, my initials are HNL and that’s the code for the Honolulu international airport. My Wordpress URL is hnlk.wordpress.com (I just added that ‘k’ to comply with the 4-letter minimum). So, whaddaya think?
8:36pm, February 20th, 2007