Paying yourself first is good financial advice. I’m going to need to do some of that for my sites as well. I was going through some of my old sites, ideas and domains and they are not doing so well.Dilantha.info is okay as far as WordPress core is concerned but the old K2 theme and numerous plug-ins are killing my ...

I like the Aptana PHP formatter. Its the only one that works well for me. I used to my one liner tags messed up a lot like this. <?php echo $content ?> What I noticed was that the ones with the semi-colons in place didn’t break to a new line. <?php echo $content;?> Now the auto-formatter (Keyboard shortcut to Command + Shift + F on the Mac) keeps things in the same line.

The angry birds are still in the background but @dilantha, @chathuranga99 and @primalsuaris strive on.Show NotesWe talk about the evolution of mobile applications and smart phones.Mobile platforms iOS, Android, BlackBerry, Symbian, maemo.iOS popularity in developer community.Android’s lack of worldwide market supp

If you are still using CVS and Subversion or moved on to something distributed its a good idea to keep in mind how to commit.Commits and commit messages are pretty important. I’ve had single user repos for years and I still put decent messages and commit sensibly in case I need to go back and figure out something.Here are a ...

I see a lot of tweets saying that people don’t blog anymore because of micro-blogging.Keep tweeting but and come back to blogging as well. On a blog you can build a longer lasting impression where a tweet would have past someone’s time-line even before they saw it.Blogging is more personal since you don’t have to compete with all the other ...

I finally managed to make it to a Refresh Colombo. It was a good ride except it took longer than I expected. I suggested to @nazly they keep things down to a few talks (like 3) and keep them short!@chamara did a web standards talk which was good and useful. Web standards is the thing that we think at an ...

Welcome to December! I thought we’ll try out this Podcasting thing. If it was just me talking this would have been quite boring. Since now I have a few guys to chat after work we thought it would be a decent idea to put our tech chats on-line.We are big fans of Sinhalen FOSS and Tech Katha. They do a ...