tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22550279208983905852011-11-06T23:07:57.689+05:30praveen gunasekara's personal blog. some place where u will find lot of crazy things to read aboutpraveen gunasekarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12021779291459247721noreply@blogger.comBlogger211100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2255027920898390585.post-631790382263121542011-02-06T13:40:00.000+05:302011-02-06T13:40:49.909+05:30

after long usage of notepad++ and vim for all my development needs, i wanted to try out a proper opensource IDE to see whether it could really improve my efficiency in development. as i have worked with eclipse and netbeans before in various projects i thought i will give a try on aptana studio this time. after all it was build on eclipse eco system where you can choose to install 1000s of

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"sometimes learning abt new technologies and frameworks seems to be a quiet frustrating task, but at the end it always give good results." that is what i exactly feel abt learning "ExtJs" (the javascript framework). it was not an easy task but finishing a Demo project for online product management totally using extJs but it was a good experience for me. it hardly took a one and half weeks to

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Well i guess its high time for me to use my knowledge on client-end programming on real life projects. It was just as sweet as wine to take a little break from backend development to break some rules in front-end. ;) lets get ajaxified more and more. I will try to post as much i can during the months to come. till then adios.

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just tryed wordle on my cv. it looks good.

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This ain't going to be mind blowing article, because its one of the very first blog post of mine which will explain how i got some task done. as this is the very beginning i wanted to select a small task to cover up in a blog post. well i had to write a nice rating module for a small CMS which was written in Zend Framework. so first i had to find a nice JavaScript rating code and then to write

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i happned to come across this article from the christian sience moniter about human rights in sri lanka. it made me realize how powerful media is to make one race go so angry against another race of people who shares the same mother land.i'm not defending anyone here, coz we all have to agree that nothing is perfect in this world. but all my fellow journalists and writers please do not use the

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one cool idea of exposing your brand on more than one web page while building brand loyalty. +1 for the idea and waiting to see some more cool widgets like this.

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just managed to pass the ZEND certification for PHP5 exam last friday. :)it was full of tricky questions, and most of the questions were practical ones.most of my friends were happy for me because i am the second zend certified engineer in sri lanka but im sure that lot of sri lankans must have done that while being away from their motherland.so the end of another exam. :)the country listing for

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a search engine is an information retrieval system designed to help find information stored over WWW. complex search engines help to minimize the time taken to find information and increases the quality and accuracy of particular information we retrieve.following is a list of popular web sites currently available:google.comyahoo.comlive.comask.comearlier days all search engines were based on HTML

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it was a pleasure to start my BCS classes again after facing lot of personal problems for 2+ weeks. as usual i was late for my first class because the registration process took a little bit more time than i expected. todays classes were held by Dr.Dayan. even though i didnt knew him before it was a pleasure to have such a lecturer to cover the topic of Proffessional Issues in Information Systems

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At last we managed to get peoplesnet version 1 to be deployed in production server after doing 5 Quality Assuarance cycles. now we are awaiting the next theme from the client and once we re-theme it it will go live. :)Features it contains include:1. Profiles2. Inviting Friends3. Photo Galleries4. Video Galleries5. Blogs6. RSS Feeds7. Private Messaging8. Address Book9. Classifieds10. Events11.

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for web development i think you should move with a fixed price for the time period. once you get the time estimation from the project manager make sure your developers / designers doesn't take more time than expected to finish a job. because this field is so competitive, you have to deliver projects on time to keep up in the business. and a good process should be defined to gather client

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This is my newest solution on form submit data validation. it was developed in a "developer point of view" rather than "end user point of view". so if you don't have any idea about php development then you'll find it bit difficult to understand. but once you got to know the pattern u'll be loving it and of course you'll be using it to validate all your form submissions.first we'll see what type

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ya it will be a big day for me becouse friday i have to conduct my first technical session to all my collegues at accura-tech. even though they have given me the title of software engineer im currently educating all other developers about new technologies.so by friday evening i should prepare myself to conduct this technical session on user input validation. hopefully this will be the first in

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Drupal has been selected as a finalist by the editors at CNet Webware in the first ever “Webware 100” Awards, from over 4,000 user-submitted nominations. Winners will be announced on Monday, June 18 and posted on Webware.com. Voting is NOW OPEN, and will remain so until June 11. So please, vote for Drupal!

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i just wanted to install some kind of bluetooth connection manager in my laptop, coz i had some files to be transfered from my mobile to laptop. my laptop is a compaq presario m2000 and i'm using debian(my favourite OS) on it.first i installed bluez-utils package.apt-get install bluez-utilsthen i conected the bluetooth dongle and ran hciconfig .hci0: Type: USB BD Address: 00:11:67:1D:ED:

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Cross site scripting(XSS) is relatively common problem in web application security but they are extremely dangerous. Rather than attacking the server directly they user a vulnerable web page to attack one of its users. This can lead to extreme difficulty in tracking attackers, when requests are not fully logged. Lets go in deep and find out how an vulnerable web page leads to an XSS attack? And

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so today i've signed up for a new account at technorati. this is the link to my profile page.My Technorati Profilelets see how this going to help me out.~Praveen Gunasekara

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managing web applications have never been so easy. the external / internal errors which occurs all the time due to DB connection failure or some other 3rd party service connection failure which are so hard to predict.i was always been thinking about this issue. many experts suggested that we should e-mail the error with relevant information to sys administrator or someone who's responsible. but

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is this the end of the desktop applications era?you may ask why i said so. even though i'm a PHP developer, when it comes to large scale projects i always recommended to have it as a desktop application. but now I've changed my mind. web applications was lacking one thing for sure. it was the ability to perform multiple tasks at once. but today this is totally different.today i've dowloaded the

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Today i was configuring a new testserver for PHP5 at my office, suddenly i noticed that even though i have a wifi enabled laptop that it is not capable to login to the internet using that. i use two operating systems in my laptop "Windows XP" and "Debian". most of the time i login to the debian account. but whenever im in the office i plug the network cable to my laptop.but due to what happened

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