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"Who is the biggest role model of your life?"

There are 3 essential weapons every developer should have in their armory.

Ever wondered why we have so much of crappy and bloated software?

Few months ago, I mentioned I'm developing a real-time collaborative code editor (codenamed as Realie) for my individual research project in the university.

In the 1980s, Apple jumped out to an early lead in personal computers, but then got selfish.

Web Sockets are one of the most interesting features included in HTML5 spec.

I had the opportunity to get selected for Google Summer of Code on the freshman year itself in my academic life.

On deciding the web framework to build Realie, one of the main considerations was should I move to a totally asynchronous framework?

Last couple of days, I found some time to work on my individual research project for the degree course.

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.

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!

This morning, I came across an interesting article in Forbes titled “Why Introverts Make the Best Leaders”.

Last Wednesday (30th September 2009), the first-ever meatspace gathering of Sri Lankan Ruby Users was held at Ridgecrest Asia (Pvt) Ltd.

Independent thinking and self-concious decision making is what builds a person and the society.

It's very sad and alarming to hear the recent incidents taking place at Sri Lankan schools.

If you were one of the early readers of my blog, you would know that I was selected to do my Bachelors in IT at Faculty of Information Technology in University of Moratuwa.

I love Test Cricket.

I thought of sharing some tips in Ruby on Rails development, which would come in handy especially if you are a newbie.

First of all sorry for letting this space go on a hiatus yet again..

My first few days doing Maths in Advanced Levels was a nightmare.

Most of my university colleagues has this craze of following various professional education courses and certifications.

It is almost mid January and this is my first post for the new year.

Inspired by the previous incarnations of Ruby advent calendars, I thought of running one for this year.

In the past couple of months, I heard this from number of my friends.

Don't get confused over the title, I'm not trying to punch the Merb community as Zed did to Rails.

Bort is an awesome base Rails app, which allows you to get into real action without wasting your time on setting up the most common and boring stuff.

Recently, I needed to use a color picker with predefined color palette for my work.

In "Maybe you can't make money doing what you love", Seth Godin challenges the conventional wisdom about careers.

Yesterday I participated in the first Academic Symposium organized by our faculty.

They say pen and paper is the best way to manage a todo list.

Major benefit of using Rails to develop web applications is its smart conventions, which promote developers to adapt to common patterns and avoid wasting time in reinventing the wheel.

Popular notion about developing web apps with Ruby on Rails (or other Ruby frameworks) was "You can write a web app in 15 minutes, but it will take 15 days to deploy it correctly".

Most of us do work hard in our lives, but how many of us achieve the goals we strive for?

I know most of you may have already assumed this blog is dead and removed from your RSS readers too.

The week ended was a great week for Sri Lankan FOSS community, as the father of Free Software Movement, Richard M.

After that bizarre story of Microsoft's support team calling a client back after 10 years, similar thing happend to me yesterday, from Dreamhost (my hosting provider).

Results of the G.C.E.Advanced Level (A/L) examination for year 2007 was released yesterday and as usual we got to see lot of drama with mixed emotions over the results.

So today it see the end of another wonderful year in our lives.

Yesterday along with its feature rich 2.2 release, SilverStripe has officially released the 3 modules I worked in the GSOC.

When I was in college, I envy Google Summer of Code for being only open to university students.

I released a new widget for SilverStripe CMS, which allows you to show your Twitter status in your SilverStripe based blogs.

Last night, at last I decided to upgrade my machine to Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon).

When I first launched my blog the main intention was to make my mark online.

It's been more than two months since the last post in this blog, you would have thought this also as another blog getting into deadpool.

GSOC 2007 finally came to an end on last 20th, providing loads of experience and lots of other good things to take with us.

Jonathan Schwartz has announced that SUN microsystems is going to change their stock trading symbol from SUNW to JAVA.

Founders of Silverstripe, Sigurd Magnusson and Sam Minnee was recently invited to do a Tech Talk at Google.

Warning : These may be quite addictive and would require you to consume lot of brainpower :) Da Vinci's Other Code - http://www.coudal.com/davinci.php School of Government - http://www.coudal.com/theotherfish.php Einstein's Fish Puzzle - http://www.coudal…

Refactoring holds same level of importance as coding the behavior. I enjoy refactoring my code as it leads to much cleaner code and also gives you the knowledge of how to do something better.

First of all, I beg your pardon for not updating you with my summer of code experiences as I promised.