Good morning and warm welcome Ladies and Gentlemen. After a month-long workshops and preliminary rounds, now the time has come to witness the Grand Finale of much anticipated biggest ever nation-wide software competition –SLIIT Codefest 2013. Fantastic Avenue, Huge participation, great encounters with excellent programmers, as well as a cheerful and enthusiastic audience at SLIIT Auditorium!!And it all sums up ...
Sometimes during the Yarl IT Challenge, I dropped by the Junior hackathon. It took place at the same building that the more mainstream stuff was held in, and while university folk were pitching for million in funding, a lot of schoolchildren were doing something similar – albeit with less ambitious projects. Among these, one in particular caught my eye: three ...
Here’s some fantastic news for all the geeks out there: HackerNest is coming to Sri Lanka. What’s HackerNest, you ask? HackerNest is an international nonprofit dedicated to building up smart, Silicon-Valley-ish tech communities everywhere. They do this by running social meetups - called Tech Socials – and hackathons. We’re about to get our very first Tech Social the very antithesis of ...
Whoa. There’s no other way to express how awesome it is to walk into Water’s Edge and be greeted by a master troupe of drummers tapping out a pulsing rhythm amidst gouts of fire gushing upwards from a stage lit by crisscrossing beams of disco lights. Riffs from the Avengers the music float out. For a brief second you wonder ...
Deals are a beautiful thing. You get something you want for less. You’re happy, the business is happy to gain a happy customer and most importantly your wallet is happy…for a given value of happy, that is. But the problem with most deals is that 9 out of 10 times they’re so poorly promoted such that they can be classified as ...
Very recently, the local mobile scene saw two major forays into the online music streaming market lately. The first one was Thaala, by MicroImage, which we covered on Readme sometime back. The second one is Dialog Music by well.. Dialog. Oddly enough, both of these products sound weirdly similar on paper. Both are streaming services. Both stream music from a cloud sever to a ...
Now it’s no secret today that mobile is slowly but surely getting bigger and bigger, as such it’s now more important than ever for a business to have some mobile prescience to reach its customers, which probably explains why Takas.lk recently revamped its site for mobile, thereby becoming the first mobile eCommerce website in Sri Lanka. Question is… does the ...
Since it was born in 1969, the internet has evolved constantly over the years. The next stage of evolution of the internet which we are now seeing coming up is: the Internet of Things. What is the Internet of Things (IOT) you ask? Well in simple terms, IOT refers to things such as your fridge, air conditioner even socks, having ...
It’s been a long, gruelling 31 hours since the 1st ever Colombo Javascript began. Now like all good things it’s about to come to it’s end. The Javascript warriors of Colombo are in the very last phases of their coding. Pretty soon we’ll be selecting the best out of all the chosen ideas by the Javascript community here. We’ve had ...
We’ve been wondering what changes the new government would bring to the Information and Communication Technology Agency (ICTA), especially since it was taken under the wing of the Foreign Ministry. Well, the biggest, and the most public, is here: Muhunthan Canagey, serial entrepreneur and current CEO of Duo Software, has been appointed the CEO of ICTA. Canagey will apparently displace Reshan ...
Sri Lankan developers over the last several years have managed to be in the news for various accomplishments. Excelling at Google Summer of Code events, developing award winning android applications, performing well at Microsoft Imagine Cup events and the list goes on. Joining this list of achievements will be two young developers who have excelled in the recently concluded “Nokia ...
We’ve been to many hackathons over the years. From robotics hackathons to social hackathons lasting an entire weekend, we thought we had seen them all. That is until we heard about this. Yup, eMarketingEye is about to host Sri Lanka’s first ever Online Marketing Hackathon. In case you’re lost, eMarketingEye is an online marketing agency based here in Sri Lanka ...
If you are need of a last minute vacation and reading this, you are doing the right thing. While at ReadMe we usually cover a range of local and global technological adventures, this time around we urge you to read along to find out how you could go on a technologically savvy rendezvous to Anuradhapura, this long weekend (we assumed ...
The National Outsourcing Association (NOA) recently titled Sri Lanka as the “Outsourcing Destination of the Year” recognizing it over Fiji and Serbia – the other two finalists of this category. Presidential Secretary Lalith Weerathunga accepted this award ceremonially presented by a Sri Lankan delegation led by SLASSCOM Chairman Madu Ratnayake, which also included representatives from BOI and ICTA. From Left-Duminda Ariyasinghe-Executive ...
Raise your hand if this has happened to you: you get a new router for your home or workplace or you’re sitting at home watching your favorite series online when suddenly your stream is interrupted. More often than not, you will own an SLT connection usually coupled with one of their ZTE routers. After repeated attempts to get it ...
“I trained as an accountant, and when I decided to start my own business – was was 24 – my parents were absolutely devastated. I didn’t want a nine-to-five job. But doing this is a two-way street: there’s no easy hook to pacify everyone. There will always be too many brick walls headed in your direction, so you have to ...
Developers among you will have heard of Etisalat’s Appzone – Sri Lanka’s first proper telco appstore garnered a fair amount of attention for both Etisalat and for the devs who jumped on board. Now, we’ve received word that Etisalat’s set about making the development process easy enough for non-techies to start making apps without having to dive into APIs. They ...
Doing Business, a project that provides objective measures of business regulations and enforcement, recently posted a summary of their 2015 report. In it, Sri Lanka – that is to say, Colombo – was ranked no.99 out of 189 economies. Given the wave of startups that are coming up and expected to appear (most of them in the tech industry), there’s some ...
What is a business analyst? I had absolutely no clue until yesterday. This rather business-y sounding role is a staple at almost every major code company – in some cases, an understaffed staple. So, simply in the interests of knowing what I was getting into, I did a little bit of homework before the event itself. It turns out a ...
The International 4, Valve’s massive Dota 2 tournament, has officially crowned its winner – none other than the Chinese team NewBee, who fought a surprisingly dominant set of games all the way to the finale, ending near the 2 AM mark today. Indeed, watching it on the big screens at the Pubstomp today, one could almost feel the disappointment that ...
