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Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except the best. #
Chamara’s Lifestream for 2010-02-20: Wasting words on lowercases and capitals. #
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Recently Google has announced that they are going to stop supporting FTP publishing Blogger blogs. Initially they’ve planned to stop the support by February but then due to the noise made by bloggers Google has postponed it to May.
Google claims that there are several reasons why they stop supporting FTP, but in my opinion I [...]

Wasting words on lowercases and capitals. #
Chamara’s Lifestream for 2010-02-19: The best thing about me is you. #
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The best thing about me is you. #
Minlo Technologies looking for a PHP developer. If anyone interest please send me the CV. This is for an urgent employment. #
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No wonder Google Buzz has created so many mixed reaction. Besides being one of the — if not the most — coolest and elegant social media service to date, it’s a good example of a non intrusive design. Integration with Gmail is one huge selling point to begin with. Connecting with a handful of other [...]

The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart. #
Chamara’s Lifestream for 2010-02-17: The Eskimos have 52 words for snow because it is so special to them. #
Damnm … http://bit.ly/cTkh9x #

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The Eskimos have 52 words for snow because it is so special to them. #
Damnm again the neck injury. Should get rid of this asap. #

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Today we announced our second cloud service: Cloud Identity. See: http://wso2.com/cloud/services/identity and you can use it right now at http://identity.cloud.wso2.com/. (We have a principle of not announcing vaporware!) This is basically our WSO2 Identity Server product converted into a multi-tenant identity management system and hosted on Amazon EC2 for scalable and reliable [...]

OpenNebula is a platform providing the ability to manage a pool of virtual resources. You can create virtual machines and configure them as you would configure a physical machine connected your network. Difference between OpenNebula and Amazon EC2 (and other public cloud providers) is that Amazon EC2 is a public service. Amazon is having an [...]

Size of the javascript files and css files in a website has a big affect on its performance. Especially in slow connections lot of time will be spent on downloading those files. We recently came across such situation. Our website was using jQuery and some other javascipt libraries. Some of them were more than 100kb. [...]

1. Visit https://identity.cloud.wso2.com/2. Clcik on ‘Register’ to register your organization.3. Select a domain name for your organization.4. At step-3, you can select, either to validate the domain or not to. If you select to confirm the domain later - then you can do it after login in and clicking Account Management tab.5. At step-3, if [...]

With WSO2 Cloud Identity - you can provide your employees OpenIDs fall under your own domain name to be used with widely popular OpenID relying parties.1. Register your Organization - visit http://identity.cloud.wso2.com.2. Say, the domain I registered is example.com and a user there is prabath.3. By default - with ZERO configurations, all users are assigned [...]

On deciding the web framework to build Realie, one of the main considerations was should I move to a totally asynchronous framework? Most established web frameworks, including my favorite Rails is built in a synchronous manner and follows a call-stack based model. Real-time web apps needs to be asynchronous. Evented programming model ideally suits to [...]

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I am in Seattle for the MVP Global Summit 2010, and will be here till the end of this week. If any friends or fellow MVPs I know attending the conference, do give a shout out or drop me a mail and would love to catch up.

Two weeks ago i got chance to participate to a wonderful event called “FOSS-ed on wheels A9″ organized by SL FOSS community , we are running number of event under same brand name of “”FOSS-ed on wheels” all over the country during last there years , but this is a milestone [...]

Chamara’s Lifestream for 2010-02-14: The most beautiful view is the one I share with you. #
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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 [...]

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The most beautiful view is the one I share with you. #
Chamara’s Lifestream for 2010-02-13: Men play the game; women know the score. #
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This is just a test with Grooveshark widgets. I added YesFM Phat-30 stuff on to it. Wanted to see how it works embedded like this. Link to self is here because FB notes don’t play well with embedded stuff. Couldn’t locate “Live Forever - JAy Z” on Grooveshark, so [...]

note to selfExperienced few problems getting Moovida to work on my Fedora 12. Moovida, formerly known as Elisa is a Media Center application. Elisa is still on yum, but the newer moovida is not on that yet.One main problem on the old version Elisa, is that the grooveshark plugin is no longer working due to [...]

I’m not going to discuss whether it’s politically correct; because I don’t know; but why? Regardless of the facts on paper, I think we all know why..

Government took him into custody at great risk of international influence and potential blow to the vote base in the General Elections due in April. It has already provoke [...]

Men play the game; women know the score. #
Chamara’s Lifestream for 2010-02-12: I hate OSCommerce!!! #
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Shahani (my wife) is blogging! She has started with a great piece on what’s going on in Sri Lanka.

I hate OSCommerce!!! #
Chamara’s Lifestream for 2010-02-11: i am looking for a part time OSCommerce developer. f you are the right person… http://bit.ly/avBo6I #

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I am down in Sri Lanka these days and was a speaker at Tech.Ed Sri Lanka held here at Waters Edge. I did the following sessions as part of the event. WCF 4.0 Tips and Tricks This sessions went through features such as Routing, Discovery and explained how it can [...]

Reading about philosophy can be confusing at times. Every time I try to read some deep philosophical thing my mind ends up being confused and tangled in a complex mess of thoughts that I completely forget what was I reading in the first place. Need for deliberate practice aside, now you know when someone [...]

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 [...]

Apache Woden is a Java based read/write parser for W3C WSDL 2.0 specification, also provide set of utilities to migrate from WSDL 1.1. There are lot of new features and enhancements available with upcoming Woden M9 version. During the Apache Asia 2009 conference held in Colombo , Sri Lanka I got a chance [...]

i am looking for a part time OSCommerce developer. f you are the right person contact me asap. This is a very urgent requirement #
I would fly you to the moon and back… #
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Stonehenge is an Apache project started to demonstrate interoperability between different Web services platforms. Until we get this into the Stonehenge documentation, this is to record how to configure .Net trader client (a web interface written in .Net and is operating in the presentation layer) to talk to business service written using Java and is [...]

For those of you who have noticed the lack of unstructured Sinhala poems (Nisadas) on this blog;
I used to work at Vesess.
Prabhath (the uber-designer) blogged at Nidahas.
Venushka (the uber-coder) blogged at Adahas.
I wanted to blog as well – lack of talent notwithstanding – and tried to come up with a name for the whole thing. [...]

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I hated the rain until I danced with you, then like the rain, I fell for you. #
Chamara’s Lifestream for 2010-02-08: Sometimes My eyes get jealous of my Heart! #
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