So I’ve started working on a new project. While I actually came up with the idea a few weeks ago I’ve actually only spent about three or four hours on it so far. It’s pretty much an interval timer to use for interval training. The definition for interval training I’m using is: “Training for 12 minutes consisting of twelve circuits ...

So I was bored this morning and thought I’d look into Software Testing. I’ve not done much in the field of Software Testing other than creating test cases on JUnit years ago, when I was doing Web Application Development using Java; and then later doing some interface testing on .Net recently. After reading up on testing as I normally would do ...

My good buddy Chavindra sent this to me today. It’s a video from Wired.com about the upcoming version of Kinect that will be bundled together with the Xbox One. It’s the first time I’ve seen the Xbox One and I must say it looks retro (on the surface at least). Kinda 70s-80-s style I think. Reminds me of Knight Rider. But this post ...

It seems to be a fad now, but I don’t really care. I think and have always thought that Quadrotors are awesome. Courtesy: http://diydrones.com/ Think about it: a flying platform supported by a quadruplet of rotors. The motion of the craft is controlled by adjusting the thrust of each rotor relative to the others. For example, increasing relative thrust generated by ...

Code Academy Sometime back I wanted to brush up on my JQuery and PHP, so I was looking around for tutorials. And then I found CodeAcademy. I think this is a brilliant solution for people who’d like to learn things by doing them (things in this case being programming). The coolest (and I suppose central) feature of this website is ...

Productivity: 35 Habits Image credits: http://connieragengreen.com/ First of all, apologies for not posting for awhile. A lot has happened since my last post, and in the context of this blog the most important change was that of my career from a Software Developer to a Business Analyst. This doesn’t mean that I am abandoning my technical research and random development. ...

I want to talk about something my mother always told me while growing up (and still does!). Whenever I had a great idea, a great problem, a massive plan of action or some kind of a new concept, I would go tell my mom (she is a university lecturer. She knows stuff!). She would very calmly listen to my excited speech ...

Some things I learned from my fun grocery shopping experience today. As you know, the whole world is going through the COVID-19 drama, and Sri Lanka has declared curfew for the past four days or so. We were given a brief period of freedom to do shopping for essentials, and as expected, in the 8 hours we were allowed outside, ...

It’s 2021, more than half the year has passed and life hasn’t got any easier. With the global COVID-19 pandemic and it’s variants sneaking around the population, death, sickness and general suffering seems to plague pretty much every other person in the planet. On top of this, the changes in climate, exhaustion of resources and increases in population and over-saturation ...

Here’s a comprehensive list of things that you can do in quarantine, based on my own experience. 1. Clean the house. Pay attention to the nooks you skim over normally. 2. Fold ALL your clothes. Especially the ones on that chair you always leave your laundry on. 3. Gardening. If you have a garden, it’s a pretty chill place to ...

Productivity: 35 Habits Image credits: http://connieragengreen.com/ First of all, apologies for not posting for awhile. A lot has happened since my last post, and in the context of this blog the most important change was that of my career from a Software Developer to a Business Analyst. This doesn’t mean that I am abandoning my technical research and random development. ...

If you didn’t know already, I’m Sri Lankan, and I am Sinhalese (about 95% Sinhalese anyway, I’m sure there’s some other genes along the ancestry somewhere). So I speak in Sinhalese, as do many other Sri Lankans living in Sri Lanka (and abroad). So one day I was looking up tutorials etc about C# and C++, just to refresh my ...

Thought I’d leave the default title as it is. Why this? Why now? So I’ve been wanting to start a technical blog for a very long time. All the while though, I didn’t want to start one until I became good enough. The downside of that way of thinking is that you will never be good enough if you keep thinking like that. ...

Hello everyone! It has been a long time since I have written here over two years to be exact. It’s just one of those things that got sidetracked with everything that happened in my life. I have more time to write now, because after a very long time working for others, I’m now my own boss. I quit my IT ...

How do you take a break from your day to day activity? How do you rest? Do you fill that precious “free time” with more activity like watching the TV, idle browsing, gaming or even exchanging gossip with friends? How do you feel after you finish your rest time? Do you feel rested? Or do you still feel tired? These ...

So I was bored this morning and thought I’d look into Software Testing. I’ve not done much in the field of Software Testing other than creating test cases on JUnit years ago, when I was doing Web Application Development using Java; and then later doing some interface testing on .Net recently. After reading up on testing as I normally would do ...

My good buddy Chavindra sent this to me today. It’s a video from Wired.com about the upcoming version of Kinect that will be bundled together with the Xbox One. It’s the first time I’ve seen the Xbox One and I must say it looks retro (on the surface at least). Kinda 70s-80-s style I think. Reminds me of Knight Rider. But this post ...

It seems to be a fad now, but I don’t really care. I think and have always thought that Quadrotors are awesome. Courtesy: http://diydrones.com/ Think about it: a flying platform supported by a quadruplet of rotors. The motion of the craft is controlled by adjusting the thrust of each rotor relative to the others. For example, increasing relative thrust generated by ...

Code Academy Sometime back I wanted to brush up on my JQuery and PHP, so I was looking around for tutorials. And then I found CodeAcademy. I think this is a brilliant solution for people who’d like to learn things by doing them (things in this case being programming). The coolest (and I suppose central) feature of this website is ...

So I’ve started working on a new project. While I actually came up with the idea a few weeks ago I’ve actually only spent about three or four hours on it so far. It’s pretty much an interval timer to use for interval training. The definition for interval training I’m using is: “Training for 12 minutes consisting of twelve circuits ...