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I have been using a Nissan March K11 for little over a year now. It has been serving me quite well and its in very good condition at the moment. I always preferred a hatchback as it is very convenient when it comes to driving around in traffic and specially parking around Colombo. Due to [...]

lkgeeks.org has been up there for a quite a while now but the traffic to the site seems to be declining at a considerable rate. In a nutshell lkgeeks.org is a Blog/Twitter aggregator that will give a quick glance at the posts/Tweets from our Lankan geeks. It was initially a requirement of mine that turned [...]

At the beginning of this year I made a promise that my blog posts will flow and I will update regularly. But unfortunately for several reasons I haven’t posted anything in my blog since January. Juggling my life between work and family is one of the main reasons. My wife gave birth to a baby [...]

Just came across the 50 Extremely Useful PHP Tools posted at Smashing Magazine which immediately caught my attention. It lists all the great tools around PHP which makes it more easier and fun to code.

I have started to write an article series on PHP which will be featured in an online magazine which is scheduled [...]

Just came across the 50 Extremely Useful PHP Tools posted at Smashing Magazine which immediately caught my attention. It lists all the great tools around PHP which makes it more easier and fun to code.
I have started to write an article series on PHP which will be featured in an online magazine which is scheduled [...]

"Before the sun sets in this year, before the memories fade, before the networks get jammed, I didn't wish, because my wishes come with the new sun and new day.I Wish u and ur family Happy Sparkling New Year 2009"

The New Year has dawn and had a tough time going through all the text messages [...]

Time to time I come across this problem when I have to move large portions of directories and files from one location to another. Mostly after extracting from tar archives. The directory/file permissions are often messed up depending on the source I copied them or based on the way I copied/archived them. So I used [...]

Couple of days back I heard about Ubiquity, an experiment by Mozilla Labs to connect the Web with language that would make Web tasks much more easy and fun to deal with for an average user. I installed Ubiquity and I'm already fascinated by how certain painful day to day tasks can be done easily [...]

Couple of days back I heard about Ubiquity, an experiment by Mozilla Labs to connect the Web with language that would make Web tasks much more easy and fun to deal with for an average user. I installed Ubiquity and I'm already fascinated by how certain painful day to day tasks can be done easily [...]

Few of my friends who switched to Ubuntu lately, asked me how to get LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) working in their desktops. Most of them have installed Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) so I planned to write a small guide on how to setup a LAMP development environment. This will require to have an Internet [...]

I found this excellent list of cheat sheets for Web Developers. It even includes a cheat sheet for SEO. It will be really valuable for Web Developers to keep these cheat sheets in hand.

Cheat Sheets for Front-end Web Developers

Cheat sheets are helpful to have around because they allow you to quickly remember code syntax and [...]

Early this month I put up lkgeeks.org a Blog Aggregator for Sri Lankan FOSS/geek Blogs. This site is not intended to compete with other Sri Lankan Blog Aggregators but its goal is to let everyone read Blog posts only from the Blogs of FOSS/geek Bloggers. I'm a fan of Kottu, but it consists of Blogs [...]

Early this month I put up lkgeeks.org a Blog Aggregator for Sri Lankan FOSS/geek Blogs. This site is not intended to compete with other Sri Lankan Blog Aggregators but its goal is to let everyone read Blog posts only from the Blogs of FOSS/geek Bloggers. I'm a fan of Kottu, but it consists of Blogs [...]

After giving up my IBM Thinkpad laptop sometime back, I got used to working on Desktops for a while. But it didn't help me a great deal in organizing things when shifting my work from home to office and vice versa. So again I started hunting for a laptop that will fulfill all my needs. [...]

What a day it was, helping Firefox to set a new Guinness World Record. The Download Day is an awesome success I guess reaching more than 8 million downloads in 24 hours. It was supposed to begin at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time on Tuesday, June 17th. It was 10.30p.m. here in Sri Lanka at [...]

England are on a roll after winning the Test Series against New Zealand. After that they have won the Twenty20 match as well the first One Day match as well. Keven Pietersen's solid batting performances have been a major factor to England's success. KP's century in the first ODI was a highlight of the series. [...]

Are you ready to make history? Are you ready to set a World Record? Today is Download Day. To become part of the official Guinness World Record you must download Firefox 3 by 17:00 UTC on June 18, 2008, or roughly 24 hours from now.
-Email from SpreadFirefox

The Firefox3 Download Day has officially begun. For Sri [...]

Upto now1,375,759 people have pledged to download Firefox 3 to set a Guinness World Record for the most no of downloads for a software when its released on 17th June 2008 which is today. 1,711 Sri Lankans are in that list so make sure you download Firefox 3 when its released.

The date/time for the [...]

When I open my mailbox 50% of them are forwarded emails. My junks are filtered with 99.9% accuracy so I don't worry about them. Most of forwarders I ignore and don't fall into the trap of being asked to forward it to more and more people. There are times I read them for the [...]

Help set a Firefox 3 world record for the most software downloaded in 24 hours on Download Day! Go to the Download Day Headquarters and pledge to download Firefox 3. With your help the Firefox community can go down in history.

http://www.spreadfirefox.com/worldrecord

I got this from a friend of mine via email. It will be the case for most of us in the near future considering the recent fuel hikes here in Sri Lanka.

The cartoon reads, "I don't have a problem in my car. It's cheaper for me to pay these two than pumping fuel"

Geeky way of getting married

The news Raids against 'software pirates' in Colombo caught me by surprise this morning while I was going through the news papers. I'm not sure whether similar raids have been carried out in the past but it was unexpected. I'm really glad that such action has been taken to protect the Intellectual Property Rights for [...]