Milinda Pathirage’s Blog

Most people take on new jobs, projects and hobbies for three reasons:
To learn something new
To pay the bills
Because they love doing it

These three things fulfill some of our very basic needs—they give us stability, excitement, ways to contribute and opportunities to grow.

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Last couple of months I heard lot about evangelism in WSO2 where I work as a software engineer. while I am reading blog by Christian Heilmann I found this nice presentation given by him. It’s worth looking at it. The presentation is fantastic.
Developer EvangelismView SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: advocate publicspeaking)
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Since last April, I work with Apache ODE project to implement AJAX based management and monitoring console. I have done it for Google Summer of Code 2008 and finally the project is now available in the Apache ODE svn trunk. I must mentioned the help I got from my mentor Tammo Van Lessen while doing [...]

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This weekend I am doing simple project to display twitter time line on ‘Conky’ widget. For that first I need to write a simple program which will print the twitter time line of my friends. First I tried to use python-twiiter API and failed due to strange Python error. After that I started to implement [...]

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Google released their own web browser called Chrome recently. It’s open source but has some new licening procedure. When you build it on your own, it’s under BSD license, but if you download the executable from Google it’s under thier own license. It’s kind of a wierd thing as I feel. I think that what [...]

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Image from apesara’s flickr photo stream.

Everyone love dreaming. Every one love to come up with new ideas, implement them and share ideas with others. Unfortunately most of the dreams never come true, because of human nature and other various factors. Following series of blog posts from lifedev.net will help you to make your dreams a [...]

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I use IntelliJ IDEA 7.0.3 as my Java IDE. But today I have found that when the network bandwidth is very low IDEA freeze at startup. This happen because of the JetConnect feature comes with IDEA. JetConnect tries to load the new feeds from JetBrains web site and when network bandwidth is very low, Java [...]

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This has happened to me. From the beginning of my carrier as Software Engineer, some times nothings comes to my mind when I need more and more ideas to finish some work. Most probably you all have experienced with this kind of situations or if not you still haven’t done any serious work.

When this happened [...]

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July Ubuntu Desktop with Conky

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