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 ...

I'm in the transition period of being a Tech to Semi-Tech guy. I was looking for some resources to read on "Community Management" and found this great piece of work done by Jono Bacon, the Ubuntu Community Manager. I was reading the e-book version of his book "The Art of Community" until Lavi gave the actual book to me as ...

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 ...

Yesterday was a day which falls under the category of "Unforgettable days" in my life. Every body wishes to have a promotion in some way during the life time. So all of our family members got their promotions yesterday.PersonThenNowDasunpriya Anuradha (Me)HusbandFatherMadhusha ShirangikaWifeMotherM.D. Weerasinghe & P.G. PiyarathneFathersGrand FathersSunanda & JayanthiMothersGrand MothersChanusha & UmeshaDaughters/sistersDaughters/Sisters/AuntiesThe reason for this upgrade is our new born ...

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 ...

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 stuff that a ...

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 complete solutions as a virtual image to save the burden on configuring systems from scratchSave cost ...

If you were dreaming of meeting Apache (World's No 1 web server) big shots Greg Stein, Justin and our own Sri Lankan Apache contributors, this will be the best opportunity for it. Apache Asia Road Show is a 3 day event with 2 days Conference and a single day hackerthon. Hurry!!! reserve your seat now before it too late.

My mother passed away on 11th May 2012 and my father passed away on 26th Oct 2018. I am the only child. I am 39 years old (now) when father died but for a moment, I felt like I'm an orphan.These two were the foundation of my life and I'm so lucky to have these two amazing individuals as my ...

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 hall. It was a dynamic and thrilled series of presentations and events lined up in two tracks.In summery:Great keynotes from ...

This is not a spam. :). Yes I'm selling my house. Here's the details.Location: Ampara, Sri Lanka.Directions: 1.3 KM from Ampara Town, 1KM to Ampara Base Hospital. ( Located in a Residential area)Description : 3 rooms, 2 bathrooms (one attached to master bedroom), Living room, Dining hall, Kitchen. Full ceiling, fans in every room, 24 hour water supply, electricity, overhead ...

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 ...

If you are interested to know how enterprise grade middleware plays a major role in today's businesses and also in IT world in general, WSO2Con 2011 would be the ideal conference for one to be. With the boost we got from last year conference, this time we have lined up speeches from more than 30 experienced speakers from more ...

Life has many patterns. And we always like patterns. For example, many people love to have a phone number with some kind of a number pattern. (688688, 566566, etc). We can pay some extra cash and get a vehicle registration number with a pattern, like PP-1111. In another hand, some numbers have some value to it, like "Lucky 7", "Hero ...

Hopes, expectations, goals and targets are some of the key factors that keeps us motivated to do what we do and overcome the daily challenges in life. On the other hand, the above factors are key contributors to increase a person's stress level and push in to depression. Sometimes hopes, expectations, goals or targets are fragile and we do not ...

Today (27th March 2011), my little son celebrated his first year birth day. It was a fast year filled with joy and love. We went to the temple early morning, observe pansil and our son was calm and trying to control his noise and the active actions. We offered a tea session for an orphanage and we thought of making ...

Couple of years ago, using Apple iPods with GNU/Linux was not an entertaining experience for most of people. But now the FOSS world is more promising on that and also in many other apps on cross platform interoperability. Earlier, My wife asks me and I used to sync the movies, music vids, mp3 to her iPod using gtkpod. I had ...

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 ...

The term "Open Source" has a wider meaning. It's not just about making Open Source Software. It's about making any of your work/idea/software/handcraft (any thing shareable) Open to the public with permission to read, modify, improve and also redistribute. In coupled with Open Source, Open Standards also play a key role on standardizing the processes with Open Formats. Computer software ...

Yesterday I lost another "one of my legendary characters". I have few favourite entertainers, namely; Bruce Lee, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Michel Joseph Jackson, Dr. Dre, Eminem and few others. But among them, there are very few who I call " A Legend". Bruce Lee was a legend. And Michel Jackson.I still remember when I was 8,9 years old I didn't ...