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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

WSO2 Inc became five years on 4th August 2010. We had a small in-house birth day party. :-). With all fun and excitement we had throughout August, we are organizing a conference targeting professionals and University students on this month at HNB towers. It's called WSO2Con 2010. Well known Industry professionals like Sanjiva Weerawarana, Ph. D, Founder, Chairman & ...

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 ...

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. Person Then Now Dasunpriya Anuradha (Me) Husband Father Madhusha Shirangika Wife Mother M.D. Weerasinghe & P.G. Piyarathne Fathers Grand Fathers ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...