Pradeep Kodikara is a young and hip Sri Lankan architect. I've known him for many years now since we first worked on the Sri Lanka Architects website (www.slia.lk).

I recently helped setup an online portfolio for him over at

http://pradeepkodikaraarchitecture.com/

He showed me this great house when I met him last. It seems so spacious yet it was built on only 6 perches or so. If you are ever in the market for a dream home like this give him a buzz.

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Indy was great day out. I posted some mobile vids here. Thanks to my friend who dragged me along

I've been stuck in Windows for about 9 months now. I've been trying to get things to work as smoothly as I was used to in Ubuntu with Cygwin etc but its not working.

Sometime around next week I'm going back to Ubuntu. Just waiting for the official 8.10.

Been looking at a few options for mobile phones and notebooks as well. My current N80 is getting on the boring side. I'd like a iPhone for testing but I don't want one personally. I can't get a G1 down here yet. Then again I don't want the first draft of Android. I want a better phone. The Nokia E71 seems good but I like the N95 8GB's camera.

Been drooling over the new MacBooks. My perfect setup would be Linux for development, Mac for play and Windows for testing.

I like open systems. I mac is not. Then again nothing else out there is as pretty. The design matters.

Sub notebooks are cheap and easy to move around the house, but they don't have enough power to do much more than surfing and email.

So sadly nothing tagged for Christmas this year. Then again that's a good thing. Not the best time to spend money with a global financial crisis and everything.

I woke up last weekend with death cab for cutie in my head. I would have heard them somewhere so I looked them up. They sounded pretty good thanks to the free mp3s on their site.

I became a dad about a month ago, so I don't get much sleep anymore. That and work has kept me in check most of the last 2 months or hence the silence.

I had to update WordPress on this blog too. I like open source a lot but sometimes I wish things won't update so often. I'm getting old man, its hard to keep up with everything.

Just saw this Origami transforming stroller via Geek Brief TV. It looks cool and might work well as a golf caddy or something but I'm not putting my baby in there.

Random Mustang near the office. Check out more of my car photos here.

Hope you liked my random brain dump. Will try to post something more about coding or something later.

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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.

Another sad day in Sri Lanka with no end in sight.

I have about 4 branches of the same project checked out. Each of them were about 57mb a piece. I noticed this while I was trying to sync my projects to a remote server. (I hate slow running scripts)

I managed to move the jar files out to a common folder which was about 27mb. I wrote another recursive ant clean script (which I will share below) that helped me clean up before the sync.

Moving the libraries was relatively simple with a few changes in the ant build scripts.

Anyway I managed to bring down each project to about 10mb. Here is the recursive ant clean script.


#!/bin/bash

for project in $(ls $projects/);
do
if [ -f $projects/$project/build.xml ]; then
echo ""
echo "Cleaning $project"
cd $projects/$project
ant clean
fi
done


I tried a similar script in Windows batch, didn't work as easily. Don't need bat files, Cygwin is better. And the same bash shell scripts on Linux most of the time with little or no modification.

For a programmer tweaking never stops. I try not to work on Sunday. But its a good day to take a step back and do backups, cleanups etc.

I knew about this jar duplication but really saw it while trying to run a backup and then looking at the projects folder with jDiskReport. Need more tools like this.

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1. Get the places database
2. open with sqlite
3. query the bookmarks table

cp .mozilla/firefox/xxxxxxxx.default/places.sqlite .

sqlite> select * from moz_places limit 1;
1|place:queryType=0&sort=8&maxResults=10|queryType=0&sort=8&maxResults=10||0|1|0||0


Happy data mining!

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This is probably the smallest thing I'm blogging about, but read on you might get some new ideas (like I did) about file organization in Windows. I swear some days Cygwin is the only thing that keeps me sane on this office Windows XP computer.

I like to keep my /projects folder separate from my /clients folder. It just saves clicks I guess and I'm a separation junkie I can't help it. I could have manually created these shortcuts for each project but now I can do it in a bash script. Yay!

Still not following? Let me explain. I have a clients folder like this.


/clients/a/projects/a
/clients/a/projects/b
/clients/b/projects/c
/clients/a/projects/d


But I like to keep my projects in a root level projects folder like this for easy access and backups etc.


/projects/a
/projects/b
/projects/c
/projects/d


I have simple, unique, short project names. That helps a lot. Here is the magical command that can help me a great deal.


ln -s /cygdrive/d/clients/a/projects/a /cygdrive/d/projects/a


This way I can keep projects I'm currently working on in /projects and move others back to /clients/x/projects. Ideas for a project folder management script is brewing will post about that later.

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Here are some details.

• Bought in May 2006 brand new KB-77xx series
• Serviced by AMW till the the last time I went to Laughs.
• Its a 1 liter MPFI (Multi point fuel injection) engine.
• Does about 10.5-11 km per liter in Colombo 15+ outside
• Has done just past 23,000 km
• 5 speed manual gear
• Front power windows
• Added 3M tint all around. 0% tint UV cut for front, 40% tint front sides, 60% rear.
• Changed stereo head unit from a JVC cassette player to a Sony with front USB 4 way with sub woofer.
• Changed front JVC 4" speakers to Blaupunkt.
• Added 6x9" Rockford Fosgate Punch speakers to rear.
• Added active sub woofer.

I'm expecting 1.25 mil. Make me an offer.

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Blaupunkt - Loud Speakers - TH Series - THb 210A