It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everyt...

Ars technica lit the haystack. It was ready to make a fire. And there were little sparks time to time but ars technica apparently did the job this time. At least in the community I follow. So in brief, Ars says that ad blockers actually block their well being. They have good points to back their [.....

I watched Sherlock Holmes (2009). No I’m not gonna blame the movie. And no I haven’t had read the story before. But it was not _exactly_ the Sherlock Holmes I know. Before I proceed I should mention that the movie was pretty good and it disturbed only a very little to my Sherlock H...

I have been looking around for the highlights of Brendon McCullum’s hundred against Australia in the 2nd T20 match in the current ongoing series and have finally found it. When I watched the highlights of this match, I was stunned to see his shot selection against the Aussie pace attack. I was...

Fault tolerance, high availability, & scalability are essential prerequisites for any enterprise application deployment. One of the major concerns of enterprise application architects is avoiding single points of failure. There is a high cost associated with achieving high availability & sca...

The second milestone builds for WSO2 Carbon 3.0.0 - Iridium are available: http://builder.wso2.org/~carbon/releases/carbon/3.0.0/1Alpha4/It is becoming stable. :)

සිරි විකුම් රහසිං, සඟිස්කුරුතෙන් කියනව නං ශ්‍රී වික්‍රම රාජසිංහ රජ්ජුරුවංගෙ කාලෙ, රජතුමාත් උඩරට අනිත් නායකයනුත�...

It has been a long time since I got into the mode of traveling a bit far for the sake of looking around. I made sure I took my camera with me. I’m not really into photography, but my point-and-shoot camera does capture the moments I would like to share with others. It was just [...]

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Sometimes I hate people in my country. For not loving the nature and acting like idiots. It always occurred to me people acting like loving nature is a matter of shame or hating nature is a matter of heroism. They keep the water taps open. They crush nice innocent plants. Cut off trees. Scare ...

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PlayerRunsBalls4s6sSRTeamOppositionGroundMatch DateScorecardSR Tendulkar200*147253136.05Indiav South AfricaGwalior24 Feb 2010ODI # 2962CK Coventry194*156167124.35Zimbabwev BangladeshBulawayo16 Aug 2009ODI # 2873Saeed Anwar194146225132.87Pakistanv IndiaChennai21 May 1997ODI # 1209IVA Richards189*1702...

The second milestone builds for WSO2 Carbon 3.0.0 - Iridium are available: http://builder.wso2.org/~carbon/releases/carbon/3.0.0/1Alpha1/

තමීරගේ තීරයේ තිබුනු මේ ලියුම දැකලා, මටත් කවියක් ලියන්න හිතුනා. ඉපදී හැදී වැඩුනේ කොත්මලේ නිසා, පොඩි කාලෙ ඉගෙන ගත් ජ�...

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 ...

Course commencement: 23rd Feb 2010Fee: Registration LKR 500, LKR 9000 per level (27,000 for 1.5 yrs)Premises: 18A, Palmirah Avenue, Col-03, adjoining Ceramic Corp.TimeGents: every Tuesday 530PM-745PMLadies: every Tuesday 315PM-530PM

An year ago I found this service called getsatisfaction somewhere on the internets. And unfortunately I wanted to check that out. And I created an account. And for some dumb reason I created another account for a project I believed it would help, at the time. And it all was pretty much abandoned sin...

WSO2 today announced the second SaaS offering, WSO2 Cloud IdentityPrabath, the lead security architect has blogged on getting started with cloud identity and also on using OpenID with cloud identity service. WSO2 late last year announced the first SaaS, governance on the cloud.

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 EC...

SQL injection is one of the deadliest techniques attackers use to exploit the weakness in your database code of your website. Regardless of the technology/scripting language you must make sure your code is 100% perfect against SQL injection. Here I will use PHP and MySQL examples for its wide usage ...

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...

Client: “[Indian outsourcer] says he can do this site for $200. Why should I go with you?”Me: “Has he done any work for you in the past?”Client: Yeah! He did [Other Site] for me.[I load the other site]Me: “The entire site’s done in Flash.”Client: “Huh?”Me: “It’s a site for iP...

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 asyn...

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 [...]

The second milestone builds for WSO2 Carbon 3.0.0 - Iridium are available: http://builder.wso2.org/~carbon/releases/carbon/3.0.0/0M2/

Article on Business Activity Monitoring - An IntroductionThe business activity monitoring (BAM) can be the source of informed decision making. BAM tools can reveal current trends based on the latest data as well as historical trends based on historical data, hence can be useful in both tactical as w...

When we start building a dynamic website or a Web Application using PHP, sending out Emails to the users is always on top of the To-Dos list. In most cases it will require sending the email in a specific template to maintain the branding of the website/application. In this situation the developer ha...

Background Perhaps you might familiar with well reputed social networking websites like Facebook and MySpace and may have experienced the intuitive user experience they offer. Most of social networking websites offer its users a publicly accessible profile page which consists of personal informatio...

So Buzz came out with little buzz. I said little buzz because it didn’t buzz as much as wave did. I checked Buzz but it didn’t have anything special for me. So I disabled Buzz. There was so much bad buzz about Buzz but I was not exposed to much when I first tried Buzz. I [...]

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 this version of Phat-30 onl...

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...

Does your organization have support for SOA Governance? Governance has become one of the major issues for companies, enterprises and organizations moving to SOA. Why? Newton's Third Law states that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.The move to SOA has been an effort to de-cent...

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 s...

The first milestone builds for WSO2 Carbon 3.0.0 - Iridium are available: http://builder.wso2.org/~carbon/releases/carbon/3.0.0/0M1/Note that, these are preview packs. The main objective was to get the build right. These packs are not tested, and are made available for the sole purpose of review.

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 provide...

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...

I am trying to build M1 for WSO2 Carbon 3.0.0Looks an uphill task, given the amount of active development that is going on. Building once, building twice, building thrice, still building. It is a major undertaking to get this whole platform right. The users are at ease, they get the luxury of a lean...

Its been almost an year since I last blogged and what can I say, micro-blogging killed blogging for me. Even micro-blogging has got to a point, I don't do as much as I used to. Perhaps the end of web 2.0 or perhaps I'm getting too old for this :)Anyhow, getting back to the subject of this quick pos...

Yahoo has donated the caching proxy server they use internally to Apache Foundation. This, apart from acting as a high performance proxy server has many other cool features. If you’re trying it out here’s the minimum required settings that you should set in order it to act as a caching ...

Happy Independence day everyone! I’m the worst guy to write this post. At least according to super patriots we find in bunches these days. I’m totally screwed up with foreign ideas that don’t match the culture the patriots trying to frame my mind in. I won’t find it interesti...

Iridium - that is the code name for the upcoming WSO2 Carbon 3.0.0 release. We are quite busy working on the release. I see people coding all over the place, breaking the svn build, fixing the build back again, reverting changes, making more changes, chatting about new features, fighting about new f...

After couple of months silence, I thought of doing a blog post. My life has being an active and dynamic one since I've born! :-). It has come to this state passing various stages. Once I turned back and look at my life, I don't have any regrets! I've done almost all the good, bad, fun, adventure stu...

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 up some happiness. :-)

This article explains some worthy insights into making lead generation pages. An interesting idea that’s new to me was to make the page a dead-end. Having no links on the lead generation page that links back to the main site. Making it “harder” for the user to click something and n...

No matter how many browsers are out there I still haven’t found the one true browser that rule ‘em all. This has the awkward situation where there has to be multiple browser instances running at any given time. All the memory that these fellows eats up is not much of a bigger deal becau...

The state of Java and MySql are changing. In case you missed it. Sun bought MySql and Oracle bought Sun. I’ve been working on Java for over 10 years and MySql for over 5 now. I’m not happy with what is happening. The Java and MySql websites have changed. On the mysql.com site there is no...

Though its been two days since the announcement of the results, still there is no end to the spread of speculations & rumors on the concluded Presidential Election in Sri Lanka. I don’t have any strong political bias to either of the main two candidates and didn’t want to accept any...

Please don’t email me prayers or jokes with hundreds of people CC’ed. There is a very high likelihood I would delete them without even opening it. I’m serious. You wonder how you get spammed so much its because you forward very free iPod giveaway email to all our buddies and get th...

This photo shows the man that was pulled out of rubble, alive, after 14 days the 7.0 magnitude Haiti quake took place.

MR clearly won the election. By a margin that I did not expect. SF lost. It is an interesting question if it was really that MR won or SF lost. Was the election free and fair? On the election day, it was. Leading to the election, it was not. Government media was misused to the max. The election comm...

A recent salary survey has shown that employers place a premium on SOA related skills. The leader is ABAP (Advanced Business Application Programming)We have seen over the last year that people were increasingly looking for WSO2 skills, which is a good proof on the fact that SOA skills are premium an...

රට එක් සේසත් කිරීමට නායකත්වය දුන් මහින්ද රාජපක්‍ෂ මැතිඳුන් නැවතත් සිරිලක් ජනපති වන සුබ ලකුණු දැන් දැන් තිර වෙමින...

Results released so far indicates that the so called [un]believable change is not happening after all.On the other hand, analysis at Sri Lankan Elections web site shows that there is is some change when compared to the 2005 Presidential election.Another notable change is about almost all major candi...

Muse Now there's a shocker. Here I am, calling Mahinda Rajapaksa The Beast, attacking him and criticising him at every step, and all of a sudden I do a complete Heel Face Turn?? What the fuck is up with that? Why, oh why would I want him to win? The answer is simple. Revenge. Revenge on The Beas...

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 the significant events occurred since my last b...

sunset over paddy, originally uploaded by Yajith.

flowers, originally uploaded by Yajith.

According to Mr Ranil Wickramasinghe, General Sarath Fonseka as the "service commander" was only "executing orders given by the government", and under a timeframe set by the government.He made this comments during a recent interview with the Global Tamil Vision (GTV) TV channel.This interview was co...

Muse Usually it is when people die, or move on, or do something significant that you talk about their legacy. But The Beast is no ordinary man. He has forever changed the face of Sri Lankan politics. He has made more changes to Sri Lanka's political structure and political system than anyone ever h...

This is not about Bill Gates’ move into social media, twitter, the micro blogging craze for the cool kids. No. Nor this is about The Gates Notes where he write about his thoughts. After reading The Internet Tidal Wave [PDF] again, it’s fascinating to take a peek at Bill Gates vision for ...

The first thing you notice in Mac Finder is there is no way to show hidden files. In Windows Explorer or Gnome this is in the menus. On mac you need to set a environment variable called “com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles” to toggle the state of hidden files. I manually changed this a co...

This is a really nice comic I came across few days back. It is really nice and explains every thing what we generally going through as software engineers.....This one was originally published at http://www.my25percent.com/2009/09/eight-stages-of-programming-new-feature.html  Sandarenu's B...

Muse Before you ask, I am still spoiling my vote. But there is something that needs to be said. Something worth thinking about. There is lots of talk about the Army not voting for SF. There is talk that the people in the forces have become disillusioned with him. This may or may not be true. Bu...

I’m not that savvy on the BlackBerry yet but I’ve discovered these few shortcuts on the BlackBerry Curve 8900 which are super useful. alt + left shift gets you into number mode shift + scroll selects messages alt + scroll scrolls pages Related posts:Quick Message Marking On Nokia E71...

I did blog when I was on facebook, and Twitter too. You should be thinking I am hyped by all this “Social Network thingy” (I don’t say no :D ).  And also you might have realized that Dailybooth should be a social network, if not you already knew it. So here’s the most freque...

One thing I like about GIT, among others, is that it creates a repository locally. This makes simple things easy, still not disallowing complex things.A good use of GIT is to manage the configuration files in a GNU/Linux system. This article describes the way I do it.In this example, I will use th...

This is a just crazy tech rant. Not even remotely a tech post or how to :D So here’s how to do it. Install Dropbox. Share a directory with a friend and create a text file inside it. Now open the text file with a text editor. (I use Gedit). Type in what you want to say. ctrl+s to send [...]

We are already into the 2nd decade of 21st century and it is very evident that this would be the decade, where Cloud Computing, Realtime web and Mobile Web will start to rule! As per some buzzword fanatics, this year (2010) will be the transition year from web 2.0 to web 3.0. Buzzwords aside, as [....

Last night (Last year ;-) ) we completed the most essential packages of the KDE project, in order to be released in Sinhala (si) Language.KDE 4.4 will be released on 9th February 2010, and we are expecting the KDE Sinhala RC1,on 6th January 2010. :)KDE Sinhala project team wish you all a Very Happy...

Wish You All a Very Happy and Prosperous New Year!May All Your Dreams Come True in This Wonderful Year... Sandarenu's Blog

SDPs are commonly developed as core systems which interconnect different Telco network services and provide one unified access point for customers (application developers). This will reduce the application development cost rapidly and easy management of applications for the Telco. Even though S...

candle, originally uploaded by Yajith.

Below are the steps taken to get dcache working on Fedora. I was using my Fedora 12 for this. A lot of stuff below is coming from my chat logs with wvithanage who is the project fellow.Install below packages via yum along with their dependancies. yum package-name installuuid-develmysql-develphp-mysq...

Here is my list for 2010, its always good to have a list. MongoDB sounds promising The mobile web/app space. Android will kill the iPhone star Yet Apple will keep making products we want to buy Virtual private servers and cloud services Ruby on Rails is too significant to ignore for PHP/Java folks ...

Maybe this is the first time I seriously thought of a new year resolution (My memory is against me anyway). This morning I watched this program called Sandakada pahana on sirasa TV (ok, TV can be useful at times). There was a Buddhist monk and a guy called Ajith Jayawardena. Their talk actually made...

I've posted the rather incomplete account of my year 2009 on my new blog:My 2009...And BTW, Now this is my Tech blog. Prabhasara.com is my poetry/arts blog. And my new miniblog is my generic blog. :) I also have microblogs too, you know. ;)In case you don't choose to see it on the other side,...Wish...

I use a plugin to post to twitter every time I post a blog post. I also have Facebook pull in my new posts and notes. This works reasonably well and I get some traffic from them. You can also use twitter tools to post your tweets on your blog after a certain threshold. I don’t [...] Related ...

Muse Poeple ask me how I'm going to vote. With the election fever in full effect, that is the biggest question on people's minds. Who we vote for is what is going to set the course of this country for the next 6 years. And people are looking for reasons to vote for either of the two evils. ...

Hope you enjoyed my moving to Australia posts, cause just after posting those I moved back to Sri Lanka. I won’t get into “moving back to Sri Lanka” cause its pretty painful and I’m sure no one will want to read it. Why move back? Well although its a bit crappy here most of t...

note to selfSeems that the prioritizing autostart scripts has been dropped for some reason. Wanted this as i wanted to get Rumpus to start as i login to my F12. But it depends on Internet connectivity or else the java starts throwing some exceptions at you. Someone on #fedora pointed this out, sayin...

Rant Election days are here again, and the skeletons are coming dancing out of the closet. In case you missed the news, Sarath Fonseka (aka the racist) is now running for presidency as part of the UNP. And im proper Sri Lankan mud-slinging style, he decided to drop a bombshell on the people. Evide...

note to selfCame across a small problem with a USB Scroll Mouse on Fedora 12, where the 3rd button functionality not proper. Simple fix was changing a gnome configuration key value. Good to have Configuration Editior installed for these sort of stuff.Change the key /desktop/gnome/accessibility/mouse...

Apache Axis2 is a leading open source software that provides the basis for the web services stack and supports both SOAP ( Simple Object Access Protocol) and REST (Representational State Transfer). In addition to that, it acts as the foundation for building complete web services stack with Apache Ra...

This is coming close to becoming an yearly thing with me now. Walked around and took some more ;-) blurry pictures like the last time. Compared to the last year, managed to reduce the number of blurred ones, still the tube video looks kindda crappy. Perhaps the uploading messed it up, cause the orig...

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...

Here, I am going to list few good resources about installing Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Server and Foundation 2010 on Windows 7 (x64) operating system. As you know we need to do some manual modification for SharePoint 2010 installation files as Windows 7 (x64) doesn’t support prerequisite auto chec...

Hi All I hope this article will help you guys a lot with some basic stuff we could use in designing applications or rather you do re-factoring in your code. Main design pattens discussed in this article are listed below The factory pattern The singleton pattern The observer pattern The chain-of-com...

shoeboxes ready to be deliveredHad a fun time collecting stuff for the shoebox project, thought of actually going through with it at the last moment, even though we thought about it sometime back. Just managed to collect enough $$ and goods to fill 10 boxes. Thought of asking others to pitch in with...

note to selfKeep forgetting this one, and end up look around for it all over again. To get the Date & Time in a human friendly format on Squid, it can be piped through this.#!/usr/bin/perl -ps/^\d+\.\d+/localtime $&/e;Quite useful if you are going through the logs looking for activities on c...

It’s been a few weeks that I’ve completely stopped using social media services Facebook and Twitter. I don’t think I’m missing that much. Well, may be a few tea time laughs and giggles, a few emails/IMs/a face-to-face chat that’s about not being able to understand tweet...