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Why should you use keyboard shortcuts when you have a perfectly functional mouse? :D. It is a great time saver because of keyboard shortcuts provide a simple way to speed up your workflow. Would you rather get to certain areas of windows with one keyboard action or several clicks of mouse?I mentioned bellow a number [...]

Why and what is Ant?Without using ant, building and deploying web applications and other enterprise applications required a series of scripts or manual processes, which often led to mistakes.Apache ant is a powerful tool for automating software build processes. It is implemented by Apache Foundation using java language, requires the java platform and is best [...]

Collaboration with Microsoft could allow the software giant’s upcoming Windows 7 OS to take advantage of multithreaded and multicore Intel chips for faster application performance, according to an Intel official.Microsoft and Intel are working together to give Windows 7 the ability to better identify resources available and break up application processing over multiple chip cores [...]

Chairman of the Microsoft Corporation, BIll Gates was congratulated to Mahinda Rajapakshe,The President of the Sri Lanka for his leadership in declaring 2009 the Year of English and IT Services in Sri Lanka. And he is pleased to see those involved in the implementation of this very important initiative very success moving forward.He said that [...]

You can add “Open Command Window” to explorer right click by following these steps. Then you do not need to “cd” and traverse to the place where you need to go. You can simply right click and open the command prompt from that place.Here is how to add Command Prompt to the right click menu [...]

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 [...]

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.

Couple of days ago, I recieved a chain mail regarding Cure for Dengue. Can you belive that it is raw juice of the papaya leaves. For further reading, I’ll attach a part of that mail here.The originator of that mail is renowned medical professional Dr. (Mrs) Sriyani Basnayake, therefore we can trust the contentsYou may [...]

Finally, Google latitude has started a new service with which you can easily share your location on your blog or site with new google latitude badge.To do so, you have to follow up couple of steps mentioned bellow1. Visit to Google Latitude Badge http://www.google.com/latitude/apps/badge2. Now sign in with your gmail account to get [...]

His Excellency Mahinda Rajapaksa , President of Sri Lanka and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces has been officially informed about the successful task accomplishment by the country’s top defence officials yesterday evining.Secretary Defence Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Donald Perera, Army Chief, Lieutenant General Sarath Fonseka, Navy Chief, Vice [...]

Sri Lankan Armed forces have now undertaken the world’s largest humanitarian operation in the world, as the LTTE terrorists have taken thousands of civilians in the No Fire Zone [NFZ] hostage. Sri Lanka Army has almost swept away terrorists strongholds in the northern anterior of the 12 kilometres long NFZ demarcated for the civilians and [...]

Don’t know how many of you are already experiencing this. But I’m sure lot of people experiences this. Couple of days ago I got a mail with the subject of “Your Email I.D Has Won £500,000.00″(I’ve attached the complete mail at the end of this). And also I’ve got lot of such mails before this [...]

It’s time to get ready. Virtusa’s annual get together will be held on this sunday evining at Race Course Grounds, Colombo-07. There will be a live performance by “Gypsies” and many more fun items like Merry-go-round, Pony rides, giant wheel also will be there for attendes. And also there will be food with difference.Event will [...]

Don’t know how many of you are already experiencing this.But I’m sure most of you who are using windows O/S experiences this. Some times you may see the whire screen with the message: “Active Desktop Recovery”.You will receive the following error message, when you click on the “Restore my Active Desktop”, with titled:Error :##########################################Internet Explorer [...]

The University of Peradeniya held the General Convocation 2008 at the University gymnasium premises on the 26th February 2009(yesterday). His Excellency the Chancellor,Premadasa Udugama was the chief guest. Vice Chancellor, deputy vice chancellor, Registrar and all the Deans for 7 faculties were also present on the occasion.At the convocation, about 2500 personnel(including me) from the [...]

There are people in USA to convince the political and financial leadership of underdeveloped countries to accept enormous development loans from institutions like the World Bank and USAID. Saddled with huge debts they could not hope to pay, these countries were forced to acquiesce to political pressure from the United States on a variety of [...]

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Theatre has been Sarachchandra’s lifelong passion. As a young professor at the University of Ceylon, Sarachchandra produced sinhalese adaptations of Anton Chekov, Oscar Wilde and Moliere. But Western plays he decided, “never got to the root of our people.” He searched the villages for dramatic forms in his quest to identify an indigenous theatre. Together [...]

The big things in life, finishing high school, leaving home, maybe college or a first job, graduations,promotions, buying a first house or a car, marrying the person I love. Those are the key things I love to achieve in my life and I’m sure you too. We hold such meaning to these key events but [...]

Matale Vijaya College celebrating it’s proud 123rd anivesary.Vijaya College is situated in a beautiful landscape in Matale. It is surrounded by Vilshare mountain range. Collage has located in a corner of the City of Matale, just beside to the V.T Nanayakkara garden. School margine has marked by General hospital and International hockey turf from west, [...]

During last 3 years I didn’t change much in my blog page theme. After 3 years I decided to totally change the theme. I’ve finally been able to make the jump and change my theme. I’m pretty excited about it, I think it looks good. I still have some things to work out. Internet Explorer [...]

We had another remarkable event on last Week. That was the Alagalla Exploration. Our team, about 25 members went to Poththapitiya by bus from the University. We were lucky enough to hike on a picture-perfect day in january when the visibility was near 100% at the top of the mountain. The climate was perfect. Time [...]

Barack Obama took power as the first black U.S. president on Tuesday and quickly turned the page on the Bush years, urging Americans to rally to end the worst economic crisis in generations and repair the U.S. image abroad.”Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking [...]

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You can Download here Faculty song of the faculty of Science, University of Peradeniya produced by Mr.Sarath Pearis and members of Art Circle (”Kala Kawaya”).Click Here for Song

Art Circle of the Faculty of Science, University of Peradeniya could record the University song succesfully. I have attached the Song here so that all of you can download. Click here for University Song

Silver Light…How feel I… it is actually a silver light to world of web developing. Designers and developers can collaborate more effectively using the skills they have today to light up the Web of tomorrow. And the important thing is that silver light is a cross browser, cross platform, and cross device plug-in for [...]

I got used to use Netbeans IDE for development from the beginning because of it is supported for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Solaris. And also the IDE enable developers to rapidly create web, enterprise, desktop and mobile applications using the java platform, C/C++, JavaScript, Ruby, Groovy, and PHP. It is supported by a vibrant developer [...]

The epic tradition of the sinhala cinemaThe Story of Prince Pandukabhaya…..More>>>

My First Job, Virtusa…Although I spend whole university life funny, I could manage to complete my B.Sc degree successfully. After 3 years I could earn lot of friends all over the island. Hard to bid adue, but I had to say them “GOOD BYE”. That was the end of goldern time of my life…Virtusa…wasn’t It [...]

WELCOME TO AJITH’S WORLD Hi………,You all are warmly welcome to the Ajith’s worldFrom the beginingAs you known earlier I’m Ajith.K.Ranatunga, now age of 23 years. I was born on 25th December 1984. My birthday is not special noly for me, but all cristians over the world. But I’m not a cristian. Then my studies…I did [...]