Dawn to Sunrise: Credit: SayanthanIts still not dawn in Jaffna yet! Time is half past five in the morning. Wilson's sudden barking woke up every dog in the neighborhood and neighbors too. Jessie noticed her mother has already woken up."Wake up Jessie, I don't know why is this dog howling like seen a ghost, can ...

"If your house was on fire and you had 60 seconds, what would you take? "This question was in the movie Leap Year, a movie about a soon to be engaged, confused Boston girl meeting a country bartender come chef, an Irish boy in a little town called Dingle. The girl is well educated, intellect but totally confused with what ...

So it happened. The first ever YIT call, and if I recall it correctly, it was attended by Sayanthan, Sarves and Vimal. We were just brainstorming on the plans. None of us were too sure about what we gonna do at the ground level. The idea was not to try too hard. We should enjoy what we do, and whatever ...

I am right here at the Changi airport, Singapore, gate number 15, waiting to board into EK 404, the flight to Melbourne. There is a little girl, sitting in the same row, is playing something on her iPad2. I can see her excitement and the care when using it, a brand new piece. What was I doing at age ...

Technology/IndustryBest Applications : Singapore iPhone Maps and SG Buses Best emerging product : Tablets ( iPad ofcourse ;) ) Flop application/framework : Mobicents! ( !@#$) Emerging Concept : Domain Specific DSL, way to go! Best Blog Post : Subscriber Created VAS ( He he !) Best I learned/ing : Scala(Contd), DSL Regret : All is ...

These days I am back to work on code reviews with my peers and some technical sessions. The code review series is more becoming a fun ride now. I hardly worked together with the guys I have been doing code review with, which means they all have different styles in doing development. This is probably the most interesting part as ...

Time : 12:25 PMFew years back, in one of our company meetings, we talked about using an issue tracking system closely associated with both project management and the development. By then we were using bugzilla together with xplanner. It turned out to be pretty inefficient . We used bugzilla for post release issues and sustaining management. Dodgy xplanner was only ...

When I was going through Google’s aggregation on 2012 resolutions, I was kinda thinking what could be mine this year. Checking into a gym? Learning Guitar, honestly? Not to appear on stages anymore, not to commit with any of the rubbish debates, poetry sort of things which I recently pushed into. I am gonna let all these go and ...

I used to tell people whether they know the Papaya story when ever they try to butter to get things done from me. But I never revealed the story to anybody. People became curious in the end I had to tell the story eventually. The story is nothing but the old mother-times story but I made it little more interesting ...

Yesterday I started writing my weekly column in my Tamil language blog (www.padalay.com), and there was a reference to "mustache is the mirror of heart" quote popped up. I could have just mentioned it and gone, but as usual I sucked in, wanted to know who said it and when. Because although it sounds like a nice proverb, it doesn't ...

Hambantota, a southern city of Sri Lanka, a name which is being buzzed around lately for several reasons. Recently they built a cricket stadium for few of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 matches. An international airport is being under construction. A new A2 highway is connecting the cities of Colombo, Galle and Hambantota. $360 million worthy of harbour project’s ...

June 5th, 2011, I was on my way back from Sri Lanka to Singapore. I especially requested for front row seat, only to alight early so won’t miss any action of the final of Rolland Garros that day between Federer and Nadal. Soon after I cleared the immigration, I checked the score, Federer was leading, having just broken Nadal’s serve. ...

12: 25 PM Using Samsung Galaxy Ace, recently bought from Singapore. I had been an iPhone user and moving to Galaxy is like moving from palace to townhouse! Listing few of hundred issues I have seen compared to iPhone (was using 3GS by then)...1) Terrible touch sensor! One could go for a nap before the sensor actually works. It tries ...

I hardly bucked up by any Microsoft issues usually, but last Friday, one MS bug hit me in a typical fashion.It all started with me writing a doc literal web service. I designed the WSDL with eclipse WSDL editor with a clean schema of objects using inheritance in lots of element types, in order to reuse the standard headers there, ...

Sir, we are calling from "Windows Technical Team"Ok .. So?From your computer, there have been number of malware software getting downloaded!Who is downloading maite?There are some harmful viruses in your computer download them from Malaysian websites. Very dangerous Sir!Ok ... How come I don't know .. Even my anti virus program?These viruses are so advanced Sir! They can fool even ...

1.20 PMToday much anticipating iTV's details leaked out. Sources from Canadian telecom operators leaked out, if are to believed, then the iTV would become truly magical, a revolutionary product to-date ever since the transformation from the black and white to Color TV in 70s (Was it 70s?).The idea is simple. iTV is gonna be the 42inch iPad + Siri + ...

Time : 2.00 PM I am reading Gordon Weiss's book The Cage, written about the mass killings by the two warring parties during the final days of Sri Lankan bloodiest civil war. I am on the 40th page still!The book starts with the discovery of the late LTTE leader Prabakharan's corpse, and the following jubilation of Sri Lankan Sinhalese and ...

Yarl Geek Challenge finally happened. It was in October, we ran the show for four days, four consecutive days in a fashion we wouldn’t have imagined even in our wildest dream two years back. There were about ten teams from Jaffna, Vavuniya, Moratuwa, Colombo, Trinco and Pera. The students from different institutions. The judges had diversity too. Some of ...

Last Saturday I did a small talk (2 hours!) on Java Web Programming concept in Tamil. This is first of many sessions we going to do in Yarl IT Hub to prepare the folks to get ready for ySchool development. My discussion was followed by Maven and source control session by Gayathiry .. Lets see how the rest of the sessions go.http://www.slideshare.net/jkumaranc/java-web-programming

As you may be aware that, ySchool open-source rural school management system project works already kicked off. While the current discussions centered around the requirements gathering and feasibility study with the help from a researcher from University Of Jaffna, few of us started looking at the possible technology stack we should adapt to.The idea is simple, the technology stack should ...