If you have subscribed for Ada-Derana news updates, you must have received a message saying “Banners, parsals, musical instruments, glass bottles, crackers, laser lights, sharp instruments are not allowed in World Cup venues in SL”. And some time later you must have got the message “Following appeals by public IGP has allowed spectators to take • Read More »
Tags: Adaderana, Cricket World Cup, Cricket World Cup 2011, Papare, Papare Band, Security, SL, SLC, Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka Cricket
In case you haven’t noticed this site was off the web for about a week from 21st January 2011. When I first noticed that it’s not there, I didn’t bother much as it could be a very short outage that happen once in a while with my hosting provider. However I got a bit nervous when I • Read More »
Tags: Backup, CPannel, Datacenter, Indi, Kottu, Kottu.org, Site Outage, Web Hosting
Imagine you are having an event / gathering which you would like to stream over the web! Ustream might be service that you are looking for. It is a free service that let you stream and record an audio/video feed online. It basically download a small flash app in to your client computer and let you stream • Read More »
Tags: Broadcast, Live Streaming, Mobile, Nokia E71, UStream
These days there is a bit of a hype about hybrid cars, mainly fueled by slashed tax. Of course they come with an interesting promise. But can we really utilize its full capacity? Main benefits of hybrids are ability to run more on less fuel, or reduced cost per km and reduced carbon footprint. This is achieved in two ways. By • Read More »
Tags: Carbon Footprint, Energy Efficiency, Go Green, Hybrid, Mileage, Sri Lanka
Last day of the year! Felt like writing a post with ups and downs of my year 2010 any my plans for 2011. Here it comes….
Tags: 2010, Happy New Year
It is with deepest sadness that I inform you that me getting married. (Hope my fiance don’t read this). Well getting married is probably ok. It’s the wedding which will suck the life out of you. I knew that wedding is a massive project. I have done number of projects before and I did them • Read More »
Water; Earth; Fire; Air; Long ago four nations lived in harmony. Then everything changed when fire nation attacked. But to really foul things up, Shyamalan made a movie out of it. This is old news. But I’ll post this anyway to release my anger. According to AVATAR (Not the movie) it’s not a good thing to keep inside • Read More »
Tags: Aang, AVATAR, AVATAR Aang, AVATAR The Last Air Bender, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Avatar: The Legend of Aang, Character Build Up, Fire Prince, General Iroh, Katara, Last Air Bender, Movie, Prince Zuko, Shyamalan, Sokka, The Movie vs TV Series, TV
I am not a political writer and politics is not my thing either. But recent news on unlimited terms for executive presidency made me think. This is not a well thought through post either. I am just putting out some thoughts that came to my mind. Main argument that I have heard so far is, • Read More »
Tags: CBK, MR, Politics, Presidency, President, President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, President Mahinda Rajapaksa, Sri Lanka
If you write programming related posts in your blog, you are most probably using Google Syntax Highlighter to highlight your code snippets. In case if you don’t, it’s a set of javascripts that allows you to add syntax highlighting for source code that you post on your blog. It supports a large number of programming languages. After • Read More »
Tags: Computer Programming, Google Syntax Highlighter, Google Syntax Highlighter for WordPress, JavaScript, oogle Syntax Highlighter for WordPress, Programming, Programming Language, Source Code, WordPress, WYSIWYG
This is a follow-up to my earlier post “Java Zip API: How to Read a Zip File Using Java“. This time it’s about how to create a zip file using Java. This is even simpler than reading a zip file. Following is a very simple example which create a zip file named RaKasUniverse.zip. Inside that • Read More »
Tags: Create Zip File, java, java.util.zip, ZipEntry, ZipEntryOutputStream, ZipOutputstream