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Hikka Hack – Startups in Sri Lanka 9 Jun 2013 | 01:47 pm
We had been wanting to do another hackathon for a while now. The Colombo Hackathon last year was evidence that such events are needed and it created the startup culture that is much anticipated by our...
People, Places, Moments and Music 4 Dec 2012 | 07:49 pm
Couple of days back I was strumming my acoustic just how I usually do on a lazy evening to relax myself. I was playing a random chord progression when suddenly in all randomness it started sounding ve...
PDO for the default installation of PHP on Mac OSX 17 Sep 2012 | 04:40 pm
Quite a few times I have come across the problem of enabling the PDO drivers for MySQL on the Mac. I keep resolving this but every other time don’t remember how I did it. So I thought I’d write a abou...
Why Real-time Collaboration? – Creately 4 May 2012 | 10:24 pm
After a prolonged wait we have finally taken up the time to implement Real-time Collaboration for Creately. Right now the feature is in Beta and can be used by anyone who wishes to take it for a spin....
Scaling BlazeDS with Servlet 3 (Concurrency) 14 Apr 2012 | 01:37 am
One of the well known issues of BlazeDS is it’s limitation in scaling. To be more specific, if you are using BlazeDS for HTTP steaming using AMF, the number of concurrent streaming connections will be...
Colombo Hackathon – The startup scene in Sri Lanka! 13 Apr 2012 | 09:24 pm
It’s probably a bit too late to write about this because its been more than three weeks since it happend. However something like this cannot skip my blog specially because I was one of the organizers ...
Startup Weekend – Bangalore 25 Jan 2012 | 08:11 am
Its about time that I forced myself to throw in another post specially right after the Startup Weekend in Bangalore, India. Yeah, I was there. flew to Bangalore just for the event over the weekend wit...
How to find the Curve Length in AS3 29 Aug 2011 | 09:56 am
Recently when working on one of the features of Creately (an online collaborative diagram software) I had the need to calculate the curve length of a quadratic curve. The Flex/AS3 curves are quadratic...
Do your Time Machine backups really work? 26 Jul 2011 | 06:26 pm
As a Apple fanboy I have been one to explore and make use of most of the features apple products have to provide. Specifically this time I am talking about Time Machine on my MacBook Pro. A little exp...
The very basics of a Startup Idea 23 May 2011 | 07:13 pm
This topic is something I have been wanting to put down since of late. The idea of this post is to discuss the nature of two basic factors of any startup idea. The two factors being the problem and th...
