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Mahamevnawa TV

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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Mass of an Apple

(click on the image to enlarge)

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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 :-P .Sri Lanka – SinhalaSri Lanka – TamilSingaporeChinaIndonesia – “Buka Semangat Baru”USA (I guess)Go ahead, open u…

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The most significant

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…

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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

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Chronicles

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 [...]

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5 reasons to use Conwitter

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 [...]

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Elections & Prosperity

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 [...]

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

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Life around me

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Customize ReCaptcha theme

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After 7 months

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Firefox Party at IIT

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 [...]

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My first facebook application

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Reset passwords for XAMPP pages

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Fun with -moz-transform

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 …

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Sri Lanka, a new future ?

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 [...]

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This blog is not dead

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; [...]

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Developing a Desktop Widget in JAVA

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. [...]

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JavaScript confirmation disables validation

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Previewing the URL of a TinyUrl

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Linux on stick

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 [...]

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From No Limbs to No Limits

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Sri Lanka Matha – Maa Tujhe Salaam

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Puzzles

Recently I was just looking at some interview questions, and came across this page with some good puzzles (non-technical ones). I have seen some of these before, but most of these are new and challenging.
http://www.techinterview.org/

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diGIT

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Evil

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RULZ

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My best 7 free JS model boxes

I have been working on a new iteration of HOT (follow @hotelotravel for more info) for last few weeks and thought of changing the existing JQuery UI Dialog box for something bit fancy and solid (on other hand I may have just wanted to get a break from usual PHP stuff and to play with [...]

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Best Wishes for New Year 2009

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Winter Holiday Gadgets

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