Programming, Online Community, Web 2.0 and Sri Lanka
I've been getting some requests for small PHP projects. At the moment I'm not taking on any projects. If you still think I should have a look email me a specification or the requirement and I will try to give some feedback or recommend another person who might be willing to take it on.
Freelance developers! Please contact me with a brief of your skills so I can contact you when I get requests like this.
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?
Just found FireShot a cool Firefox extension. You can take screen shots of web pages, annotate it and do much more. Should be very useful for sending feedback to a web designer etc.
From the developers:
FireShot is a Firefox extension that creates screenshots of web pages. Unlike other extensions, this plugin provides a set of editing and annotation tools, which let users quickly modify captures and insert text and graphical annotations. Such functionality will be especially useful for web designers, testers and content reviewers. It's possible to choose whether entire web page or only visible part of this page should be captured. Screenshots can be uploaded to server, saved to disk (PNG, JPEG, BMP), copied to clipboard, e-mailed and sent to external editor for further processing.
Adds the ability to take a screenshot of web page (entire of visible part), edit it, add annotations and upload to server, save (PNG, JPEG, BMP), copy to clipboard, send to external editor or e-mail it.
Lets face it emailing large files is a pain. I was reminded of that again today. Dropsend seemed to have a new Windows client but I needed to sign up and stuff. Which is a hassle when you are in a hurry. So I turned to YouSendIt and 4 minutes later my 5mb file was sent.
This is what good web applications should be like, fast and simple. Maybe if both of these sites had OpenID I wouldn't have minded logging in.
YouSendIt - Send large files - transfer delivery - FTP Replacement
Here are a few links for the badges I use on the side pane. If you have some favorites please share them in the comments.
I'm not the chatty type I guess. Never really got into it. If you you want to know what I'm doing check here once in a while. 
Ever since we got google.lk I was wondering how to get into it. Problem is google.lk was only indexing .lk domains. Rightfully so but all my sites are either .com or .info. Crap now what? Well I had a Google Webmaster tools account for my blog's sitemap. I read somewhere that now you can get into country search with it. Here's how.
After a few days later I could search myself using the pages from Sri Lanka check box.
Cleaning out last years clutter I came across my hi5 account and it seems most people have left to Facebook or something. So I cancelled my account. 1 less password to store. Anyone still on hi5 and loving it?
Did you know you can get SMS reminders from Google Calendar in Sri Lanka? Well you can if your on Dialog or Tigo. Here's how.
Now when you add an event add a SMS reminder and you are set.
Facebook notification emails are a pain. I went to http://www.facebook.com/editaccount.php?notifications and disabled them all. As far as I'm concerned Facebook Inbox and my email Inbox are 2 separate things. There is no need to duplicate things. It would be nicer to get a summery of things when I want it like daily or weekly.
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