It took a long time to figure out what was going wrong since on all the other browsers the file was able to download but IE (6,7 & . Tried a lot of things which the forums said but at last at last found the solution.Microsoft agrees this as an issue of IE and they have given the patch here. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/323308And also if a header was added as ”CACHE-CONTROL”:”NO-CACHE” it

I don’t know what is the real name for the functions that can be applied to the controls taken as but I was really wanted to know what actually JQuery can do as all the people are crazy about. so Searched over internet to show hide controls like that because element.style.display = ‘none’ does not work as expected on JQery.so this may be the official site but I just found that and thought to

time to break the long drought of posts on Lonely Coder. This happens to be a sudden post as wordpress now supports audio posts allowing you to call your blog and make audio posts on the move. More details on activating this new feature on you wp blog can be found here. You can also [...]

Wow it’s been a while since I did my last post. All the more reason to enjoy this one.I often came across the dreaded “Provider cannot be found. It may not be properly installed.” error when trying to access data sources via VB 6 code in some legacy ap…

Last week, 2nd of June 2010 just to be exact; WSO2 announced a complete Platform-as-a-Service for both public and private clouds, named WSO2 Stratos.

WSO2 Stratos is our complete SOA middle-ware platform in the cloud. It is based on the…

Recently, I was going through some data visualization frameworks as I work on our own visualization framework at WSO2. Initially, we aimed to develop a gadget framework which would make it easier for users to develop their own gadgets for WSO2 Business…

There are alerts and confirms on JS as you all know. But its look and feel is same old style. I was curious whether we can change it. Of cause we are normally using a div tag and apply some styles to the background to gray out. Then we can use it as a function and call it whenever we need an alert. Isn’t there a better way to do that? I mean much easier way. So what I have tried to do was

Dragging on normal web pages do not work on iPad since it fires touch events like touchstart and not mouse events (e.g. mousemove).
This post is based on iPhone Touch Events in JavaScript. The main difference here is it handles clicks. So you could just include this piece of code and dragging will work (post a [...]

I have been a fan of Frets on Fire for quite sometime now but I had enough time playing it with my laptop’s Keyboard. So I bought a toy guitar and a USB Keyboard and I just had to wire the guitar’s push buttons correctly to the Keyboard’…

These are some photos of a new Media application developed on iDisplay.

It demonstrates the capability of having live and natural interactions between the real world and the virtual world.

A virtual face of a person is rendered inside a defined a…

There is a “Medin Poya Day”  Live Web Cast (Sinhala) from “Amawatura Mahamevnawa Asapuwa”, Malambe, Sri Lanka.

If you have a low bandwidth connection, there is an audio only (Sinhala) version as well.

Grab something meaningful&nbs…

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Found it interesting to watch Coca Cola Opening Happiness commercials in different regions. By the way, this is not a paid advertisement .Sri Lanka – SinhalaSri Lanka – TamilSingaporeChinaIndonesia – “Buka Semangat Baru”USA (I guess)Go ahead, open u…

I still can not figure out what made me to write this blog post. “Oh damn!, I must blog more often!” – saying out loud most of the time when I visit my own blog. However, that state of mind lasts no more than 10 minutes.

It is better to write down all…

I didn’t get a time to write something here for a long time. Yes I can say I was busy. (But I was not ) Anyway I thought to write about something finally and I promise (this is a serious promise) that I will try to do something (do a posting actually) on my blog more frequently.
The ability to call the web methods by JavaScript on .net is very very useful and we can implement the web pages more

It ’s been a while since I last blogged. I wish everyone a happy new year 2010 as this happens to be the first post for this year. Lot has happened and importantly, a semester has gone past as I once again got busy doing a bundle of course works.
One of the first things to [...]

Conwitter is a Twitter client for Google Chrome web browser. You can download here.

Reason 1: It has some awesome features

Conwitter lets you see replies grouped together as conversations, shows thumbnails of shared images, etc. Since I started testing the extension, I’ve missed these features every time I switched to a different client. The “conversation” feature [...]

Election times are upon us…. well, not that there weren’t enough in the past few years, but only that an election which people care at least a dime is nearby and thus some changes to the Sri Lankan social behaviour.
Larger than life political faces materialising in every nook and corner of the country. Roads [...]

Wish everyone all the best
Sorry I’ve been a bit occupied lately; couldn’t find time to blog

Just noticed some of the status messages my contacts have on gtalk.

Life sucks

???? ???? ??? ?? (Had enough of everything – this is the closest translation I could come up with)

Everything is impossible … until it is done

Lost

In a MESSSSS!!!!!!!!

… and some had links to their blogs.

Looks like the world is a mean, nasty place [...]

Well the title might sound a little strange and confusing. Never the less, as most of us know Kyoto is a city in japan should have said a beautiful one at that and Engage is the project which I work these days. Things are really getting heated both with the project and rest of the [...]

Well it was the first day of lectures for us after the completion of placement. No doubt it’s going to be a hectic year ahead of us. But there was a huge surprise and sudden fun surrounded us during our short break of half an hour between the first two lectures.
It was not more [...]

Me and Sandaruwan wanted to create a Facebook app, so just to learn the process I spent an hour or two to create a simple “Hello World” like app. I wanted to share the experience (a walk through / tutorial). It was pretty easy with the example code Facebook provides, and their developer forum.

Here is [...]

I’m back after a long break. Ever since, I finished ma placement I was quote up with some projects and never had time to make post. Anyway this marks the start of another huge project in ma undergraduate studies. Yes, this is all bout getting wired for ma final year project.
The Project falls into the [...]

I previously discussed how to use extension api for PHP here. To illustrate the use of it, I will discuss how it can be implemented on exif and mbstring extensions. (Exif depends on mbstring and uses functions php_mb_check_encoding_list and php_mb_convert_encoding)
As also mentioned in the previous blog post, you can find the details about the status [...]

Firefox 3.5 now supports HTML5, which includes some new features such as video element. Also, Firefox 3.5 supports new CSS Properties (Mozilla extensions – some of this are available with webkit with slight differences)
Among other things was the -moz-transform and -moz-transform-originproperties which lets the developer apply a linear transformations to HTML elements.
I was playing around [...]

This is a short tutorial on how to use the PHP: Abstract Extension API and Dependency Interface.
You can find details about he status of the project here. The source code is available at the git repository : git://github.com/vpj/PHP-Extension-API.git, and some sample code which uses the interface : git://github.com/vpj/PHP_EXT_API_Tests.git
How to register APIs
You should create a structure [...]

Being a web developer my daily work routine involves heavy browser usage. Since I also need to test web pages being developed for cross browser compatibility, I use different browsers too. i.e. Microsoft Internet Explorer, Opera, Safari, Google Chrome …

Last week was a very memorable one for all Sri Lankans, in whatever way you look at it. End of a 30 year old conflict is not something you forget that easily IMO. Younger generation today (me included) hadn’t seen a day without a war. Each month (some times every week) there were bomb blasts [...]

I just noticed that I haven’t blogged since 3 months – last post was on February 7th. I was loaded with work in the past few months and didn’t find anything important to blog about .

I got selected for the Google Summer of Code project at PHP – Abstract Extension API and Dependency Interface; [...]

This widget will be developed using Eclipse SWT. Hence assuming you already have java and eclipse, you will also require to download Eclipse SWT zip. Which you can download on,
http://www.eclipse.org/swt/
Though to develop this particular widget you will not require a expertise knowledge in Eclipse SWT. You can go through,
http://www.eclipse.org/swt/eclipse.php
in order to get started with SWT. [...]

As things have turned out this happens to be the first post for this year. Though I wanted to blog a lot, ma work doesn’t seem to be giving me any room to do so. Anyway, Since of late I really wanted to try out a Linux Distro either in an emulated mode or to [...]