Past week was the biggest event we (WSO2) had in 2011. WSO2Con 2011. It's a successor of the WSO2Con 2010 and was 100 times improved. It wasn't a typical boring conference where attendants fall asleep after settling down in the
The world is never going to be a simple place. People's requirements are complex. Not only human beings, even animal's requirements are more complex than before. Marketing also have passed several iterations of changes but the core of marketing has not being changed. I liked one of the quotes a lecturer in my MBA mentioned which is, "Marketing is common ...
What is VirtualBox? VirtualBox is a general purpose cross-platform virtualizer. It can be run on Linux, Mac, Windows and Solaris systems. Purpose of VirtualBoxSimultaneously run multiple Operating Systems in a single machine No hardware virtualization neededTest systems, software without effecting your running systemPack complet
Is your organization a connected business? The following points will give you an idea of a "connected business" environment. Integrated - Does your organization has a smooth and effective interactions within and with outside world?Accessible - Does it facilitate the interactions by reducing conflicts and cost?Collaborative - Does it support collaborations within and outside world to enhance productivity of the ...
If we go thousands of years back and look at how trading began, you'll notice that it was about fulfilling a need of some one. Before money was introduced to the world, people used to trade an item for an item. Most trades did not have the similar values but fulfilled the need of each person. For an example; A ...
My life began with two wheels, I still remember (the very first years that I remember in my life), I used to sit on the handle bar of my father's "Hunter" foot bike. Father was paddling many kilometers with mom and me per day. Then from there father had a Honda CB 125 and a Honda CD 50. Yeh, father ...
Raspberry Pi is a revolutionary piece of gadget that introduced to the computer arena back in 2006. Even though the concept was there from 2006, the actual commercial board was available from February 2012.The board is little bit larger than a credit card. Currently there are two types of board available, Model A and Model B. Key differences of the ...
Most of us wish to have a simple life with less stress. And we create products and services to make people's life easy. But if we think carefully there is a complex side to most of the simple solutions we have today. The simplicity we enjoy today have it's massive complexity underneath and it's unknown to many of those who ...
ERP is a very scary term for many corporates. For some organizations, it is a huge expense and a sunk cost. As per the Panorama Consultants 60% of ERP implementations are challenged projects. The main reason for this is the complexity of the entire ERP domain. Bileeta is an ERP development company which has more than 15 years of experience ...
After being silent from blogging for almost two years since last post, it's very difficulty to write something now. Lot's of ideas are there but all try to come out at once and can't focus on anything. This is what happen when I lose the consistency on posting. This is an era where video taking over the content leadership and ...
Life has taken me in many routes and it taught me many lessons. Some I had to learn the hard way. But all in all, I am so thankful for what I have and I am living my life to the level of my expectations.Me and my family moved to Canada last year (22nd November 2017) to go on our ...
For many years I was struggling to let go of many negative thoughts about things happened in the past. From outside I was happy and energetic because I could press down my negative thoughts without letting them to rise. The downside of that is, it drains lot of energy to hold the thoughts like that. After a fair amount of ...
This is something I learnt with some hard experience. I used to be a person who get overwhelmed easily when things go wrong. I have fall from bad to worse because I act aggressively and made wrong decisions in crisis situations. With the time and few hard lessons, I was able to overcome that mindset and to stay calm, carefully ...
By now we know and believe Velupillai and Other terrorist leaders are killed by our Armed Forces or they have suicide. We knew this will end soon. I like to give my sincere gratitude to our Three forces, Police, Civil security forces and Mr. President for scarifying their life for the future of Sri Lanka and for our lives.I salute you all!!.
As at today, the war is officially over but rescue missions are still undergoing in Sri Lanka to securely rescue Tamil civilians trapped in LTTE barbarians. This is the final few days of Prabhakaran and his followers. So I'll not talk about him or LTTE here now.We saw hundreds of thousands of people fleeing from LTTE to safe zone controlled ...
This post is dedicated to all "Tamil Eelam" fans...Velupillai and his friends started an Ealam war before I born. But I couldn't stay away from it by saying "I'm not a part of this war". We all in Sri Lanka suffered from this war, and still there is a little more to suffer. I came to know by reading the ...
Today I came Kandy for 5 days stay due to some functions lined up to attend. My office provided me a HSPA dongle to keep my self online during the stay. Nah.. it's not about the dongle. ;-). I wanted to share the Internet connection with another computer at home. I only had a crossover cable with me, which I ...
Today I installed Mandriva One 2009, a distribution which comes with a Linux Kernel, GNU software and many other custom made and free software. I installed this as a virtual machine, to test it and to see how Mandriva Directory Server performs on her own man's lap. ;-). So I started to install the packages requred for it, and while ...
Life has taken me in many routes and it taught me many lessons. Some I had to learn the hard way. But all in all, I am so thankful for what I have and I am living my life to the level of my expectations.Me and my family moved to Canada last year (22nd November 2017) to go on our ...
Getting a tattoo was on my wishlist for a long time. Yes, from my childhood. I was unable to get it done due to many reasons. In a way, I am happy that I did not get a tattoo those days as I was not aware of the body arts, tattoo tradition and cultural roots of this process. I would ...