Programming, Online Community, Web 2.0 and Sri Lanka
Its been a while. Looks like I'm not going to get around to writing the long post about how I moved out of Sri Lanka and how the grass is greener in Australia and stuff.
Well I moved the grass is about the same, just colder since its winter down here. Almost everyone I talked to so far thinks it was a good move. So far so good, its not home but its quiet and stuff don't blow up. This will do for now.
Actually I'm just selling my car. Its a 2006 Maruti (Suzuki) Zen. Its a pretty basic town car.
Here are some details.
I'm expecting 1.25 mil. Make me an offer.
Picasa Web Albums - Dilantha - Zen
After leaving Twitter some time ago I have come back. I think I understand it a bit more now. Its all about the people behind the websites or something like that.
I took Chamara's advice and installed Twitter tools to post my new post links to twitter.
I have noticed some traffic coming from twitter, but mostly new visitors. I got a nice spike a few weeks ago when I submitted this blog to StumbleUpon. Same effect of new users came and left.
I have to find a way to keep people for longer and keep them coming back. Any ideas?
I haven't had a visiting card since I left Virtusa around 2005. I needed one when I was freelancing but never got around to it.
I got this done in a hurry, which is why there is a typo and the alignment could be a bit better. I've put in only the essentials here. I'm happy with it for now, until the next version. Any feedback would be appreciated.
I like to follow up on Why You should learn PHP by rumblinglankan.com which talks about PHP for bloggers and extend it for programmers in general.
I was a full blown Java developer back in the day. I knew many developers who stuck to their guns and did one thing like Oracle, Java or .NET and said it would never go away and there would always be a market for it.
Well things change. Windows administrators are learning Linux, VB6 guys probably moved to VB.NET etc. If you sit still your skills will become obsolete.
A few years ago I saw the potential of PHP. It was simple to learn widely deployed on the Internet. I started building some Intranets with it, thinking I can move some of that logic out to a website later.
That was back in 2005. Now more than 50% of my work day is PHP, MySql, drupal, Code Igniter, WordPress or something other than Java. If I locked myself into Java I wouldn't have got most of the projects or opportunities I got.
Now I use PHP from writing system scripts to extending drupal. I'm also thinking about trying PHP GTK to write a Windows GUI application.
Look around and try something. Software is always changing, try to keep up. 
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