Category Archives: Entertainment

Catch horulanka on YouTube

Horulanka, a group of young guys doing some music experiments on their spare time while doing higher studies. At the moment they are located in Melbourne, Australia.

Check out these awesome covers they have done. They don’t like to reveal them self but they are very talented, and couple of them are from very famous music families (don’t ask me who are they :p). And all of these are home made productions.

Just check following songs or go to their YouTube channel for full list of songs & new releases.

Subscribe the, on YouTube to watch them regularly.

This is the best one I like, Malak une ei numba mata (මලක් උනේ ඇයි නුඹ මට)
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hj-VRAzsIIw&autoplay=0 350 250]

Mal pibidena eka wasantha samayaka (මල් පිබිදෙන එක වසන්ත සමයක)
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rv9HuOY2Hg4&autoplay=0 350 250]

Ma nisa oba noperu perum (මා නිසා ඔබ නොපෙරූ පෙරුම්)
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeI4z9jmPlk&autoplay=0 350 250]

I am little bit J on these guys :D

Nathan Flutebox Lee and Beardyman at Google, London

The UK’s premier beatboxers performing live at the Google offices in London.

These two guys are simple amazing.

NISALA SARA – Musical Programme

Nisala Sara - Organized by Junior Old Boys' Association of Sri Sumangala College, Panaudra
Nisala Sara - Organized by Junior Old Boys' Association of Sri Sumangala College, Panaudra
The Junior Old Boys’ Association of Sri Sumangala College, Panaudra has planned to stage a Musical Programme on January 05, 2008 at 6.30 pm at the Town Hall, Panadura. Well – known singers Mr. Edward Jayakodi, Chief Instructor, Music Education, Ministry of Education, Ms. Deepika Priyadharshani Peiris and Mr. Mervin Perera will participate the programme. Music will conduct by our old boy and a famous musician Mr. Thissasiri Pepera.

For further information please contact CHAMARA PEIRIS – Vice President / Project Chairman on +94 712 967 967 (mobile) or info@sumangalajunioroba.net (email).

Resources;

Come & enjoy the event with us.

Writing Valid (X)HTML

Introduction

The implementation of valid/standard methods, guidelines and best practices will help to produce high quality websites that are accessible to as many as possible. By building valid websites you can save time and money for the development and provides a better experience for the visitor.

Validation is also an important part of web development. Many errors that are hard to find can discover during validation. This is like spell checking and proofreading for grammar and syntax in a document. but is much more precise and reliable than any of those processes because it is dealing with precisely-specified machine languages, not with nebulously-defined human natural language. You can validate your (X)HTML page as well as your CSS.

Here I’m not going brief you about Web Standards, but I’m going to tell how we can use those best practices in Web standards to produce a valid (X)HTML page.

Benefits of having a valid code

  • Future compatibility: Your website will compatible with future web browsers.
  • Simpler development and maintenance: Creating Valid (X)HTML Documents Means Cleaner Code and Easier Maintenance.
  • Faster download and rendering of web pages: Less (X)HTML results in smaller file sizes and quicker downloads. Modern web browsers render pages faster when they are in their standards mode than when they are in their backwards compatible mode.
  • Better accessibility: Semantic (X)HTML, where structure is separated from presentation, makes it easier for screen readers and alternative browsing devices to interpret the content.
  • Better search engine rankings: The separation of content and presentation makes the content represent a larger part of the total file size. Combined with semantic markup this will improve search engine rankings.
  • Simpler adaptation to any media or screen devices: A semantically marked up document can be easily adapted to print and alternative browsing devices, like handheld computers and cellular phones, just by linking to a different CSS file. You can also make site-wide changes to presentation by editing a single file.

Best Practices…

  • Include the correct DOCTYPE declaration at the beginning of the file. A DOCTYPE (short for “document type declaration”) informs the validator which version of (X)HTML you’re using, and must appear at the very top of every web page. DOCTYPEs are a key component of compliant web pages: your markup and CSS won’t validate without them.
  • The DOCTYPE is case-sensitive so use the correct case:
    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "- //W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd" />
  • Add the attribute xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" to the <html> element.
  • Close all elements: Omitting </p> is not valid anymore.
  • Change all elements to lowercase: <P> becomes <p>.
  • Correctly specify empty elements: <hr> becomes <hr />.
  • Quote all attribute values: <p align="right">.
  • Always add attribute values: <hr noshade="noshade" />.
  • Always use &amp; in place of &. : <a href="foo.php?chapter=1&amp;section=2 />
  • <form> element should have to have a action attribute always: <form action="#"
  • If you are using name & id attributes in input element, both should be in same name: <input name="field_name" id="field_name" />
  • Use alt attribute always for <img> element: <img src="image.gif" alt="" />
  • Use width & height attributes as in this order in <img> element: <img src="image.gif" width="100" height="100" alt="" />
  • Use a separate JavaScript file always & make sure you have put type attribute correctly: <script type="text/javascript" src="javascript.js"></script>
  • Try to use a external CSS file for styles.
  • Always try to use tables only for TABULAR data.
  • Make sure you are using <th> for table headers & <td> for table data.
  • Elements in (X)HTML must be closed in the reverse order that they were opened in: <strong><em>…</em></strong>

(X)HTML Validation services

CSS Validation services

Accessibility Validation services

Useful Firefox Add-ons for validation services and web development

Feeds In My Google Reader

Here another list from me :) this time it’s all about feeds which I have added to my Google Reader to read whenever I am free. Actually now I am addicted to Google Reader and these feeds. This list is bit long and it’s containing around 78 valid feeds.

Here I have sorted out the list in alphabetical order. This will contain feeds about Web Standards, Accessibility, Usability, User Experience, Web 2.0, Personal Blogs, Technical and Technology, Design Resources and some great online journals regarding web and it’s new trends. This is very helpful for me to keep my self updated on time.

If anyone know any good feed that I have missed here, feel free to add it via a comment.

List of Sri Lankan Radio Stations and Online Streams

[UPDATE - Monday, April 12, 2010] KesaraFM.com replaces with Desawan Radio.

[UPDATE - Monday, March 22, 2010] Sri Lankan Radio UK added to the list.

[UPDATE - Tuesday, March 31, 2009] NethFM online stream replaced with their new stream link.

[UPDATE - Wednesday, March 18, 2009] New Sri Lankan Online Community Radio, Sinha FM has been added. It’s on air from Doha, Qatar. Sinha FM is a none profitable on line radio for all our expats working in out side of our mother land..

[UPDATE - Monday, July 2, 2007] I have removed Minsara Online Radio as I found they are using V FM live stream.

[UPDATE] I have re-ordered and index the list by alphabetical order. Hope this will be much more readable than before.

Here I am listing some good Sri Lankan Radio Stations and Music Portals with their online streaming feed. Remember some radio streaming feeds they providing are not valid, so in here I have tried my best to avoid those invalid feeds.

Here goes the list;

PS: If there are any corrections that need to be made in this list please let me know it as a comment, and also if you have new links to add to this send it via a comment.

Junior Sumangalians Nite

June 16th 6:40pm — Junior Sumangalians Nite— at Opel Hall, Ran Mal Holiday Resort, Gorakana, Moratuwa, Sri Lanka

Organised by the Junior Old Boys’ Association of the Sri Sumangala College. Contact Dhanesh on 0777271969, Nirodha on 0772278495, Chamara on 0712967967 for more information about the event & for tickets.

Sumangalian’s 85th Annual Get-together & Felicitation Dinner

85th Annual Get-together & Felicitation Dinner of the Sri Sumangala College, Panadura, Old Boys’ Association will be held on Saturday 26th May 2007 at Villa Ocean View Hotel, Wadduwa at 6.30 PM.

For more information & tickets contact President of the Sri Sumangala College, Panadura, Old Boys’ Association

Mr. Sarath Rodrigo,
No. 39,
Grace Peiris Mawatha,
Panadura 12500,
Sri Lanka.

Tel: 00-94-38-2232398
Email: sscobapp@sltnet.lk

Get reliable lyrics for any song from any artist from LyricWiki.org

A free site which is a source where anyone can go to get reliable lyrics for any song from any artist without being hammered by invasive ads. And it’s available in couple of languages :)

http://LyricWiki.org

Global Internet TV Portal

I found a very useful Internet TV Portal. It has free access to 6856 TV-Stations from nearly all states over the world. The listed stations are checked daily for availability and made available in ranges from 24Kb/s to 2048Kb/s. Whether Entertainment, News or Online shopping – here you find all topics.

Here is the link Global InternetTV Portal