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More Updates On Apramana


Finally I managed to upgrade the blog in to the latest version of Wordpress. Since I had some hack attack on my blog I suppose do this long time back. But only yesterday night I got some time to do this.
And here goes the list of updats;

  • Banner management is available now, but it’s disabled at the moment.
  • More search engine optimization done.
  • Now site will get automatically backup daily & weekly.
  • Categories are now displaying as a Tag Cloud.
  • If someone enter long URL in comment box, it will get chunk to fit the area.
  • Posts which are older than 30 days will not available for commenting.
  • Display some tips about the commenter when mouseover the commenter’s name.
  • Added captions for images in posts.
  • Strengthen the admin security.
  • Visitors can get notifications through the channels they use. (Email, SMS, MSN, AIM, GTalk, Yahoo! Messenger…)
  • Visitors can share post/page with others via email and posting to social bookmarking sites.
  • Now visitors can subscribe to comments.
  • More Subscribing options are available now. (Google, Bloglines, My Yahoo, My MSN, News Gator, Netvibes…)
  • My latest 5 public Twitter messages will display in sidebar.
  • Visitors can send a post/page as a Twitter message to others.
  • Related posts will display at the end of each post. (If there are any)
  • Printer friendly version available for each post/page.
  • Smileys are available for comments now.
  • Optimized 404 Error page.

OK, That’s all for today. Hopefully next update will be about a new skin!!!

About Page Updated


So finally I have updated the About page. Since I left the Aranxa last week thinking of updating this page but finally today got a time to do it.

Chamara
Chamara

My name is Chamara Peiris, UI Lead/Information Architect living in Panadura, Sri Lanka, a small beautiful island in the Indian ocean. My blog is an online source for topics ranging from XHTML/CSS to web technologies to news relates to Sri Lanka.

I began my career in 2001 as a Trainee Web Developer. The first 2 years were mainly filled with UI Work with some more development work.

From 2003 onward, designing websites and user interfaces was my main focus.

In 2004 I’ve discovered Web Standards after seeing the CSS Zen Garden. Since then I’m actively promoting the benefits of Web Standards through my blog and trying to popular and implementing web standards in Sri Lanka.

Minlo Technologies
Minlo Technologies

In 2006 I’ve co-founded Minlo Technologies together with Damitha Wickramasinghe. I’m the CTO of Minlo Group. We have been working with some local clients as well as with couple of foreign collaborations.

My vision is to make the web better WEB for ALL.

Blogging From Qatar


So this is the first time i am blogging from out of Sri Lanka.

Since i am going to London for some office work my transit is Doha airport. So I am putting this short blog post from Doha airport.

Hoping to blog from London with some photos, but it will depend on the office work as I will be at London only for 7 days.

වැඩ ඉවරයි


අදට වැඩ ඉවරයි. ගෙදර ගිහිල්ලා මැරතන් එක දුවන්නං. මෙහෙ ව්දුලිත් කොටන‍වා.

සුද්දා එක්ක වැඩ කිරීම


මේක තමයි එපාම කරන වැඩේ. ටෙලිෆෝන් එකෙන් වරු ගනන් මීටින් à¶­à·’à¶¶à·Šà¶¶à¶§ පස්සෙ වැඩ කරන්න වෙලාවක් නැහැ. ඉතින් à¶Šà¶§ පස්සෙ රෑ වෙනකන් හිටපන්කො! “පීට්සා” කාලා “රෙඩ් බුල්” à¶¶à·“à¶½ ලඟදිම ලෙඩක් හදා ගන්න‍ව කියල à¶…à¶´à·™ අම්ම කිවිවා.

:D

සිංහල බ්ලොග් මැරතන් එක පටන් ගත්තා


සිංහල බ්ලොග් මැරතන් එක පටන් ගත්ත ඒත් මම තාමත් ‍ඔ‍ෆිස් එකේ. මොනව කරන්නද, ලංකාවෙ හිටියට සුද්දගෙ වෙලාවට එපැයි වැඩ කරන්න. මම මේ අලුත් සයිට් එකක් හදන ගමන්.

:)

Happy 2008


Wish everyone a happy & prosperous year!!! and hope this will be a great year for Web Standards :)

Birthday wish in CSS way


As most of people aware, my birthday was at couple of days back. And today morning I got a lovely birthday card from our UK office fellow Proportians.

In that card our “Creative Handyman” and famous rebel from “Young Soul Rebels“, Danny, The Daddy Barnes, has wrote a creative birthday wish in CSS way :)

This is it

#chamara {
    birthday: happy;
    returns: many happy;
    arrack: too much;
    next-day-illness: none;
}

Great work Danny and thanks for it and to all Proportians…

PS: Danny we are still waiting for YSR T-shirts :)

My Amazon and Froogle Wish Lists


My Amazon Wish List
Guys check out my wish list at Amazon for the list of books I am wish to read. Some books not available in Sri Lanka (not even the low price edition), so Amazon is the only relief :)

I already got two books which I wanted to read so quickly, CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions and The Zen of CSS Design: Visual Enlightenment for the Web, so I doesn’t had to add those two books in my Amazon Wish List.

Here is the my Amazon Wish List Link.

My Amazon.com Wish List
My Amazon.com Wish List

My Froogle Wish List
This is my Froogle Wish List, where some fancy and expansive stuffs comes in, like Digital Cameras, Home Theaters, iPhone (obviously), MacBook Pro… etc

Here is the my Froogle Wish List Link.

My Social Networking and Online Profiles


Here I’m listing my Social Networking and Online Profiles where I have my account. Some websites I’m visiting very rarely.

If you like add me as a friend/contact on those social networking websites.