It's me & My World

Customize ReCaptcha theme

2009-10-16T11:53:00.000-07:00

ReCaptcha is a widely use Captcha generation web service which is owned by Google. Yesterday I had the opportunity to use ReCaptcha for one of my project. But there was a problem. Since ReCaptcha is generated to a certain style, width and height using a webservice request, it was hard to put it into the design of the form which I was trying to integrate ReCaptcha.
But finally I could solve the problem using some tricks. This is how I did it.
For using ReCaptcha, first you have to create an account ( account and service is free) in http://recaptcha.net/ and generate a public key and a private key for accessing ReCaptcha web service. You can choose two option when generating those keys, default is generated keys can only be used in provided ( when generating keys) web site. Other one is you can use generated keys in any server and you have to select the checkbox saying some global key enabling ( I can't remember it) for using this second option.
Then download the ReCaptcha library. It contains recaptchalib.php files and an example page. What do you want is recaptchalib.php. To use recaptcha, add following php codes in to the top of your php page.

require_once('recaptchalib.php');
$publickey = "your_public_key"; // get this from the signup page
$privatekey = "your_private_key";// get this from the signup page

Since you are looking for custom theme for ReCaptcha, add this javascript code to head section of the your php page.

<script type= "text/javascript">

var RecaptchaOptions = {
theme: 'custom',
lang: 'en',
custom_theme_widget: 'recaptcha_widget'
};

</script>

Value of "custom_theme_widget" which is 'recaptcha_widget' in above code is the name of the div which your recaptcha gadget will put into.
Then add a div with the above mentioned id 'recaptcha_widget' in to the place where you need your recaptcha. All other recaptcha related divs will reside in this created div. Add another div named 'recaptcha_image' inside 'recaptcha_widget' for holding the recaptcha image. You also need to add a input text field named 'recaptcha_response_field' for typing the letters in the captcha image. There are lot of other things you can put as your requirements as a link for audio recaptcha, for error messages, for refreshing recaptcha etc, and I'm not going to put all those things in my example. In addition to that, you also have to put code for getting recaptcha with your publick key (two parts of code, if javascript is disabled, there is an iframe to include).

So this is the code I finally got as ReCaptcha widget,
<div id="recaptcha_widget" style="display: none;">
<div id="recaptcha_image"></div>
<div class="recaptcha_only_if_incorrect_sol" style="color: red;">Incorrect please try again</div>
<span class="recaptcha_only_if_image">Enter the words above:</span>
<span class="recaptcha_only_if_audio">Enter the numbers you hear:</span>
<input id="recaptcha_response_field" name="recaptcha_response_field" type="text">
<strong style="font-size: 10px;"><a href="javascript:void(0);">Get another CAPTCHA</a></strong>



<script type="text/javascript" src="http://api.recaptcha.net/challenge?k=<?php echo $publickey;?>&lang=en"></script>

<noscript>
<iframe src="http://api.recaptcha.net/noscript?k=<?php echo $publickey;?>&lang=en" height="200" width="500" frameborder="0"></iframe>
<textarea name="recaptcha_challenge_field" rows="3" cols="40"></textarea>
<input type="'hidden'" name="'recaptcha_response_field'" value="'manual_challenge'">
</noscript>

</div>

I commented out some fields I did not want to use in this code. After coding to this point, there was another problem came. That is the image generated by ReCaptcha is a standarad size of 300px X 57px. By adding a little css code, I could change the size of the recaptcha image as I wanted. I added following CSS code into the head section ( between head tags) of my php page.

<style type="text/css">
div#recaptcha_image > img{
height:46px;
width:240px;
}
</style>

This is the final output of the code.

Use uppercase letters for mysql data table names in Windows

2009-09-01T11:28:00.000-07:00

When we developing mysql based applications, there is a good probability to developers develop the application on Windows OS and deploy it on a linux server or vice versa. MySQL supports both lowercase and uppercase letters for table names in unix enviroments, but when it came to Windows, the default MySQL configuration does not support upper case letters in table names. This becomes a big headache if you need to restore mysql database backups from windows environments to unix environments ( other way round is not quiet a problem since all table names becomes lowercase in Windows machines) during several times while development.

Today I found a solution for this case insensitvity of table names in MySQL servers on Windows environment. There is a mysql system variable called "lower_case_table_names" and it has set to 1 in default mysql configuration for Windows. 1 means only lower case table names are supported. For gaining the support for Both lower and upper case letters in table names, what you have to do is find relevant my.ini file for your MySQL installation and add the following line to the end of the file.

lower_case_table_names=2

Then restart the MySQL server. Now you will be able to create tables with names which include both upper-case and lower-case letters.

Related MySQL articles,
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/identifier-case-sensitivity.html
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/server-system-variables.html#sysvar_lower_case_table_names

Searching a MySql database for a Value to find which tables contains it.

2009-07-18T03:12:00.000-07:00

In my recent works, I needed to do a search for a some string value to find what are the tables contains that value. Although there are easy tools and methods which allows you to search for a value in a known field and known data table, I couldn't found a easy way to search for a value in a entire MySQL database. So i wrote this simple PHP script for accomplished that task. If somebody needs such functionality, they can use the script. Please change the database host, user name, password ( and database name ) according to your requirements.

This scripts helps to search a value in an entire mysql database. In main results page, it will displays the tables which contains the search value and what are the fields which contains the search value and number of occurences of the search value. By clicking on the number of results column value in the main results table, You can go to a page which displays the rows which contains the search value in relevant database table.

Download it from
http://heidisoft.com/sites/default/files/phpmysearch.zip
or
http://rapidshare.com/files/257172086/phpmysearch.zip

Reset passwords for XAMPP pages

2009-07-05T23:11:00.000-07:00

When I installed XAMPP on UBUNTU OS in my laptop, I put a password for that. But unfortunately , I couldn't remember it later. So I did some search on it and found a solution for the problem.

Open a terminal and type following command,
sudo /opt/lampp/lampp security
Then it will ask for new password and no need to provide old passwords.

Swine Flu (H1N1) : How to protect Yourself & Others

2009-06-18T21:32:00.001-07:00

A nice song for a great leader - Ayubowewa Maha Rajanane

2009-05-21T09:56:00.000-07:00

This is one of my favorite song. It is written for our great president Mahinda Rajapaksha. He has all characteristics of a great king as mentioned in this song. We are very lucky to have such a great leader.

LTTE Terrorist Leader Prabhakaran dead: Sri Lanka is free from from terror after 30 years.

2009-05-18T02:47:00.000-07:00

Today is a victorious day for All Sri Lankans. Sri Lanka Defence Forces has killed the ruthless murderer Prabhakaran today. http://www.afp.com/afpcom/en/taglibrary/activity/web/multimedia/afp-online-news

Children of LTTE Leader and LTTE Child Soldiers - How Prabhakaran & LTTE reperesent Tamil peoples

2009-05-04T20:33:00.000-07:00

This is how so called "sole representative of Tamil people" treats his children and children of other Tamils who he says that he represents.This left side picture shows a Tamil child killed by LTTE terrorists, because he refused to join LTTE as a child soldier. And Right picture shows LTTE leader Prabhakaran's wife and his son Charles Anthony. Look the difference. For living a luxurious life for Prabhakaran's family, other little children have to live in a hell and they even don't have a right to live if they refuse to join their canibal organization.

Left side of these two photos shows a LTTE woman soldier and a child soldier. Right picture shows the LTTE leader Prabhakaran's daughter Dhavaraga. Look in the first photo of these two, what Prabhakaran has given to these women soldiers to wear in the neck is a Cyanide capsule. But what he has given for his daughter is a Perl necklace. While those young girls in his terrorist organization hold AK47 guns in their hands, what his daughter holds in her hand is a nice rose flower. See the difference. See how the so called leader of the freedom fighters treats his family and his own people who he says to liberate and represent. While thousands of Tamil children were forcefully dragged from schools to join his terrorist organization, his children went abroad to learn in foreign universities.
LTTE is a ruthless terrorist organization built on heaps of lies and try to deceive international community and Tamil diaspora by those lies and try to justify their crimes using those lies. They have created lot of pains to Tamil people. They have killed almost all of Tamil intellectuals who stands for democracy and who refuse violent actions of LTTE. They have prevented getting education by those Tamil children in North & Eastern of Sri Lanka. All Tamil peoples in those regions had to live in a hell like environment and with the fear that any moment LTTE will kidnap their loving children to use as child soldiers. These all brutalities should finish one day. Thanking to the Sri Lankan defense forces, I hope within weeks it will be over and Tamil, Sinhalese, Muslim and all other peoples in Sri Lanka can live in harmony after finishing these LTTE barbarians.
Now Sri Lanakan defense forces have defeated almost all of LTTE and going to free those suffered Tamil peoples from the clutches of LTTE barbarians. Sri Lankan army has showed their professionalism and their humanity by achieving their targets by preventing casualties for civilians at all cost.
[images taken from an email]

Swine Flu [Influenza A(H1N1)] Outbreak 2009

2009-05-03T22:14:00.000-07:00

The 2009 swine flu outbreak is the epidemic of a new virus strain of influenza A ( H1N1) virus, which is commonly called the swine flu. It is currently a phase 5 outbreak, one level below an official pandemic. Currently Mexico, USA and some European countries such as UK are the countries which are mainly affected by the Swine flu.
The Spanish flu which spread throughout the world in 1918 is also caused by a strain of same H1N1 virus. Spanish flu is estimated to have affected nearly one billion people which was more than half of then world population and it is estimated that 70 to 100 million peoples were killed. In 1976, there was another outbreak of swine flu (Influenza A or H1N1 virus), but it was limited to Fort Dix in USA.

These are some important links related to Swine Flu or Influenza A (H1N1).

FAQ at WHO: http://www.who.int/csr/disease/swineflu/frequently_asked_questions/en/index.html
Swine Flu Distribution Map: http://flutracker.rhizalabs.com/
Wikipedia Page for Swine flu outbreak: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_swine_flu_outbreak

Upload a file to another webpage through a Java Servlet

2009-04-22T10:24:00.000-07:00

In past few days, I had to work on implementing a functionality for sending an HTTP request to another url and upload a file with that HTTP request and then get the response for the HTTP request from a Java servlet. This is the code I finally created for achieving my task. It does,

Connect to another given URL
Upload given string as a file to the above url
Then read the response for the above HTTP request.

Below function is called inside the protected void processRequest(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) of a Servlet in my project. I have put the relevant code for achieving this task in below.

// Import these packages

import java.io.*;
import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.net.URL;

// Code

private String uploadFile(String urlstring, String dataXML) {

try {

String itemname = "formFile";
String tempfilename = "test.xml";
String lineEnd = "\r\n";
String twoHyphens = "--";
String boundary = "---------------------------24464570528145";

URL url = new URL(urlstring);
HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();

connection.setDoOutput(true);
connection.setDoInput(true);
connection.setUseCaches(false);
connection.setRequestMethod("POST");
connection.setRequestProperty("Connection", "keep-alive"); connection.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "multipart/form-data; boundary=" + boundary);
connection.setRequestProperty("Accept-Charset", "ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7");
DataOutputStream dataoutputstream = new DataOutputStream(connection.getOutputStream());
dataoutputstream.writeBytes(twoHyphens + boundary + lineEnd);
dataoutputstream.writeBytes("Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"" + itemname + "\"; filename=\"" + tempfilename + "\"" + lineEnd);
dataoutputstream.writeBytes("Content-Type: text/plain" + lineEnd + lineEnd);
// dataXML is File data, writes a string as the file content of the uploading
// file
dataoutputstream.writeBytes(dataXML);
dataoutputstream.writeBytes(lineEnd);
dataoutputstream.writeBytes(twoHyphens + boundary + twoHyphens + lineEnd); dataoutputstream.flush();
dataoutputstream.close();

String inputLine;
StringBuffer sbResponseData = new StringBuffer();
// Get the response data for the previous HTTP request
DataInputStream dis = new DataInputStream(connection.getInputStream());

while ((inputLine = dis.readLine()) != null) {
sbResponseData.append(inputLine + "\n");
}

dis.close();

return sbResponseData.toString();
}
catch (Exception ex) {
logger.error("Exception in initiating outdial call request: Details: " + ex.toString());

}

}

Previewing the URL of a TinyUrl

2009-04-15T02:25:00.000-07:00

Nowadays, many of us use TinyURL s instead of using long urls for the ease of use. Think that a site you visited has a tiny url like http://tinyurl.com/c8yvgr. We can not directly say whether this tiny url links to a good site or a porn site or a other malicious site by looking at given tiny url . But now you can preview the actual URL before visiting the target site using a feature provided by http://tinyurl.com. What you have to do is go to http://tinyurl.com/preview.php and then click on the link Click here to enable previews. After enabling that, each time you click on a tinyURL, it will first show the preview of actual url and then you can proceed as you wish. You can later disable the preview settings using the same page.

How to get auto generated field values (primary keys etc) after inserting a data entry to the database [ for PostgreSQL]

2009-04-08T04:30:00.000-07:00

In these days I'm involved with a project using a PostgreSQL database. This is the first time I'm working with PGSQL, So I could learn some new features in PGSQL. One of the requirement I needed while coding is to find an easy way to get the auto generated primary key value when inserting a data record to the PGSQL database. I could find several ways to do that and one of method I found was really easy way. Those methods I found are described in this post.

First Method:

public int insertData( String name, String address, String tp_no)
{

int insertedKey = 0;
try {
Class.forName("org.postgresql.Driver");
Connection con = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:postgresql://localhost/MyDb", "username", "password");

// Database has a primary key named "recordId"
String insertSql = "INSERT INTO \"MyTable\" (name, address, tp_no)" + " VALUES (?, ?, ?);";
PreparedStatement pstmt = con.prepareStatement(insertSql);
pstmt.setString(1, name);
pstmt.setString(2, address);
pstmt.setString(3, tp_no);
pstmt.executeUpdate();

// each table has a sequence named "TABLENAME_PRIMARYKEY_seq"
// my table name is "MyTable" and it has the auto incremented
// primary key field called "recordId". So sequence related to
// following query is "MyTable_recordId_seq"
String getRecordIdSql = "select currval('\"MyTable_recordId_seq\"');";
Statement stmtGetRecId = con.createStatement();
ResultSet res = stmtGetRecId.executeQuery(getRecordIdSql);

if (res.first())
{
insertedKey = res.getInt(1);
}

con.close();

}
catch (Exception e)
{
System.out.println("Exception occurred: Details: " + e.getLocalizedMessage());
}

return insertedKey;

}

Second & Easy Method:

public int insertData( String name, String address, String tp_no)
{

int insertedKey = 0;
try {
Class.forName("org.postgresql.Driver");
Connection con = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:postgresql://localhost/MyDb", "username", "password");
// See the end of the query string
// Database has a primary key named "recordId"
String insertSql = "INSERT INTO \"MyTable\" (name, address, tp_no)" + " VALUES (?, ?, ?) RETURNING recordId;";
PreparedStatement pstmt = con.prepareStatement(insertSql, ResultSet.TYPE_SCROLL_INSENSITIVE, ResultSet.CONCUR_UPDATABLE);
pstmt.setString(1, name);
pstmt.setString(2, address);
pstmt.setString(3, tp_no);
ResultSet res = pstmt.executeQuery();
// Get record id of the newly inserted record
if (res.first()) {
insertedKey = res.getInt(1);
}
res.close();
con.close();
} catch (Exception e) {
// logging
System.out.println("Exception occurred: Details: " + e.getLocalizedMessage());
}
return insertedKey;

}

Another Method:
I found later an another way to get the generated keys using JDBC, but I didn't have time to test that. But you can find an example to that method in this article http://www.java-tips.org/other-api-tips/jdbc/how-to-get-auto-generated-keys-from-java-class-3.html

Show hidden files although computer is infected by a virus

2009-04-01T21:43:00.000-07:00

You can show the hidden files by changing this entry even in a machine infected by a virus. There is another place in the registry that can use to show/hide hidden files, but when the computer is infected by a virus, it doesn't work:

+HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
+SOFTWARE
+Microsoft
+Windows
+CurrentVersion
+Explorer
+Advanced
+Folder
+Hidden
NOHIDDEN

In the NOHIDDEN folder, select CheckedValue and set value to 1.

Best Wishes for New Year 2009

2008-12-31T09:24:00.000-08:00

Wish you a very happy and prosperous new year!!!

Love ( A poem by Hafiz )

2008-09-10T06:46:00.000-07:00

Even after all this time

The sun never says to the earth "you owe me".

Look what happens with a Love like that!

- It lights the whole Sky.

-By Hafiz

This is really a wonderful poem. I think it has the real meaning of love.

UoM wins GSoC First Place

2008-05-13T05:20:00.000-07:00

When I read my emails in today morning I found an amazing news. It's about GSOC 2008. It says the largest number of GSOCers in this year are from my university, University of Moratuwa. Hey friends, It is cool.

Read this blog for more info.
http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2008/05/this-weeks-top-10s-universities-for.html

Sir Arthur C. Clarke : A Great Man in Our Age, has passed away

2008-03-18T20:50:00.000-07:00

When I was a child, I was fascinated by the beauty of the sky. Sky was a real mystery which hide beautiful secrets to me. Moon, sun, stars, comets, meteors, these were really really great things that attracted me and saw me a path to a hidden world full of secrets, mysteries. There was one person who helped me to go beyond my imagination about space and it's secrets. I began to love sky, astronomy, and was curious to find it's secrets because of that great man. He is a great philosopher, a great scientist, and a great author. He had his imagination beyond many of men in his generation (many sci-fi writers has this ability). I can describe him as a great man of our age. Many technologies that changed the world were his brain children. Famous example for his ideas that used successfully in these days is concept of geostationary satellites use for telecommunications relays. Now you know who I am talking about. Your guess is right. I'm talking about sir Arthur C. Clarke , a real great man of our age.

Once I have read somewhere that science fiction is a super weapon invented by future scientist and it was invented for speed up the development of technology of mankind in order to prepare for future alien attack. (It was also a science fiction :) ). Although that was another science fiction, concept of that science fiction is right. Actually science fictions written by those great sci-fi writers like Sir Arthur C. Clarke were and are really helping for the progress for science and technology. Science fictions helps science and technology to get close to common peoples without knowing much theory and complex concepts. So science fictions are really a some kind of great inventions made by man. If you have read, You know that Science fictions written by Sir Arthur C. Clerk are really really great. Those sci-fi novels written by Sir Arthur C. Clerk are not some fancy thinking of a day dreamer. Those novels are written on scientific facts and incidents that can happen in the future. In his every novel there is something new interesting story in there. When I were at grade 8 and 9 , my pals were very addicted in reading his sci-fi novels, specially series of Space Odyssey , from "2001 A Space Odyssey" to "3001 The Final Odyssey".

I was very proud because he is a citizen of my country, Sri Lanka. He was the vice chancellor of my university, University of Moratuwa until 2004, But unfortunately he retired before I enrolled my BSc(Eng) course in there. He was a great scientist who help the world to travel through time to few years ahead of it's development. He was a great thinker who changed the world by his concepts. He was a great sci-fi writer who helped to taking science and it's concepts to common people. He is a great man. I proud to say I was living in the age of Sir Arthur C. Clarke.

What I heard first in today morning, was a very sad news. That's why I wrote this post about one of great man of our age, Sir Arthur C. Clarke. Today, That great man, Sir Arthur C. Clarke has passed away. My heart shocked by that news. I know, not only my heart. Hearts of thousands of people who know the worth of this great man, were shocked by this sad news. I think he should not die, He should live more years to see how his imaginations comes true. I wish the highest and noblest wish of my religion. May Sir Arthur C. Clarke attain nibbana.

These are some of books by Sir Arthur C. Clarke I have read

2001 A Space Odyssey
2010 Odyssey Two
2061 Odyssey Three
3001 The Final Odyssey
A Fall of Moon dust
Childhood's End
Cradle
Reach for Tomorrow
Rendezvous With Rama
Dolphin Island
The Fountains of Paradise

If you want to learn more about him go to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke

http://www.clarkefoundation.org/acc/biography.php

A security hole in OUTLOOK

2008-03-11T21:23:00.000-07:00

Last Saturday, I found a security hole in OUTLOOK . It happened like this. In last Saturday, while I was at the office , one of my friend called me and told to login to his computer and get an email from his OUTLOOK account and tell him the details in that mail. So I tried to login to his computer with his local computer account because he has configured his OUTLOOK account for his local computer account . I tried several times but couldn't login. Then I tried his account for office domain. I could logon by that account but couldn't access required OUTLOOK email account since It was not configured for that user account. So I opened OUTLOOK and tried to open mail file in the mail folder for his local computer account. It said "Access is denied" So I couldn't open it. Then what I did was , copying that file to my Desktop and tried to open it again. Wow, It worked. No messages were prompted saying "Access is denied". It opens without any disturbance.

So If anyone can get a copy of your mail data file(Outlook.pst), He don't need any username, passwords for access your mails. But I think this is somewhat a rare incident. If my friend didn't configured to save his mail data files in a location other than his user "Document and Settings" folder, I might not be able to access that mail data file. So If you have configured OUTLOOK for storing its data in a place that any other user can access without any restrictions, then your emails are vulnerable to read by others. So always try to keep default location for saving your OUTLOOK data files.

Great advice for today, anyday, and EVERYDAY

2008-02-01T22:20:00.000-08:00

This mail I found in my mail box. It's a nice one. So thought to share it with you.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Carry a Heart that Never Hates...
Carry a Smile that Never Fades...
Carry a Touch that never Hurts...
Carry a Friendship that Never Fails.

SinhalaKey Extension Release

2008-01-24T21:25:00.001-08:00

Sinhala key is a extension to Firefox which helps to typing Sinhala language. It'll be suitable for chatting, blogging and other common typing purposes in Firefox browser. Now (In version 1.0) it supports only for SINGRISH ( ea kiyanne mehema type karana eka [ typing sinhala words using English letters as same sound generate as Sinhala word] ). In version 2 , it'll support to Wijesekara keyboard layout, which is the standard keyboard for typing Sinhala.

PREREQUESITES: You should install sinhala unicode fonts in your computer inorder to use this extension. Follow the instructions on the

http://si.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sinhala_font#How_to_read_Sinhala
and install correct sinhala pack from here.
https://www.siyabas.lk/files/SinhalaTamilKit_XP.exe

SINGRISH TRANSLITERATION:

Here is a preview of it's use for typing

HOW TO INSTALL:

IMPORTANT : If you have not installed sinhala unicode fonts and not followed the instructions at page http://si.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sinhala_font#How_to_read_Sinhala , Do it before continuing.

1.click the link http://downloads.mozdev.org/sinhalakey/sinhalakey-0.9.0-fx+tb.xpi . Then Firefox will tell that it prevent installing software form this site. Click the popup bar in the window and allow this site to install softwares.Then click the previous link again. Then Click Install.

2.Restart Firefox browser.

3.To use sinhala singrish, Go to required text box and click on it.

4.Then,

  1.Right click on it, then select "Sinhala Yathuru Puwaruwa"->"Singrish"

  2.Press Alt+F2,

to use the Singrish typing.

5.To go back to normal English typing,

  1.Right click on it, then select "Sinhala Yathuru Puwaruwa"->"English"

  2.Press F2,
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NOTE:

this version still has some little bugs, as soon as i have time I'll fix it. :)

THANKS: For NiMaL(S. Nimalaprakasan)[1] for help me by sending many resource links.

For Creators of TamilKey extension, I got the idea to do this from TamilKey extension.

Any comments on this are welcome!

Happy typing!

Manjula A. Weerasinghe http://www.risingofsilversurfer.blogspot.com

Project Home Page http://sinhalakey.mozdev.org/

Addons Mirror page http://forum.addonsmirror.net/index.php?showtopic=7238

Firefox Add-ons site https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6404

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Version History

Version 0.9.0 Added : 28/01/2008 : Removed bugs

Version 0.9.1 Added : 14/07/2008 : Update for Firefox v 3.0 compatibility, But this version is still in the sandbox of Firefox addon official site, But You can get it from here .

RMS came here!!!

2008-01-18T02:36:00.000-08:00

Today, I participated a lecture from Richard M. Stallmann or RMS. RMS is the founder of GNU free software foundation. Actually what he did in those days was a great turning point of software world. It lead way to have freedom to share softwares with friends , modify as we needed for all people . He is a strange man with a big belly and a long hair. I think his some ideas are extreamist ideas. But what he started is realy great thing.
I came to company at about 8.40am to go to SLIIT for participating RMS's lecture. But we went from the company at about 10.30am. All of our training group except Nimal went to the event with Dilum ayya, Dilan ayya and and Dilshan ayya. He told us about why software freedom is neccessary and what free software means. At the end, i took a photograph with him. I also met & talked with Dr. Shahani Weerawarna at the lecture. It was realy a great experience to meet such a great pioneer in software field.
Here is photo with RMS, Me and Praithees.

War and Terrorism

2008-01-08T00:20:00.000-08:00

Although I wished you a happy new year on last blog post, from the January 01, It seems we are not having a very good year. On January 01, New year 2008 started with the news of assasination of UNP(United National party or so called main opposition party of Sri Lanka) MP , Mr. T. Maheshawran at a Kowil in Colombo. The Next day became another sad day by the explosion happened in Slave Island which targeted at an ARMY bus which carried sick soldiers to the hospital. These disasters proves again and again the cruelty of the terrorism and give the message that all of people should assemble against the terrorism and defeat the terrorism. Today, In the morning we had another sad news. A Claymore mine has exploaded in Ja-ela. It's target was Minister D. M. Jayarathna and he died due to the severe injuries happened by the explotion.
Terrorists only know one language, that is the war. But same time we should find and solve the problems of Tamil peoples. I wish our armed forces defeat the LTTE terorrists and unite our mother land before dawning of next year.

New Year Wishes +++

2008-01-01T23:14:00.001-08:00

HaPpY NeW YeAr 2008

Another year passed and New Year dawned. Let me Wish you a great happy fantastic new year. Since We were having little busy work schedule in last few weeks i didn't have a time to write my blog. Anyway now i'm little bit free.
When the dawning of 2008, I was in middle of little fantastic work. I learned how to write firefox extensions and I wrote my first extension (Hello World type) in that moment. I found a nice tutorial in www.roachfiend.com. It was realy a nice tutorial to learn how to write extensions for FIREFOX. But i had a one problem at first when archivyng the extension. At first I used WinRAR for archyving and change the .rar extension to .jar and .xpi. But it didn't work. After that i found that the error was the type of archivyng. I created a .RAR file but the .xpi and .jar files are realy ZIP archives with extensions changed to .xpi and .jar. That's realy nice thing creating extensions. Actually this extension mechanism in FireFox is admirable. Without knowing too much about C or programming anyone can give new features to the firefox browser as it needs. In these days my main job after AdLive is learning about firefox extensions. Yet I haven't any idea about what to create as new extensions.

In january 01, We had little new year celebration at our company. In morning , We had speaches from our CTO and other few officers and then had milk rice and sweet eats. Then at noon 2.00pm we had a lunch. I was very hungry ;-( at that time because we normally it at 12.45pm in other days. After that we heard a news that UNP parlimentarian T. Maheshwaran had been shot and killed in a Kowil. Today, jan 02, We also had a another bad news that a bomb blast in Slave Island and the target was an Army bus.

Untill another time to blog again, Bye. ;-)

Just a word ....

2007-12-14T23:46:00.000-08:00

I couldn't write the blog for a long time. We are having a little hard time in doing our AdLive project. It seems that we'll not be able to complete currently working module as quick as we thought before. One problem is we (Kathees & me) are not familiar verymuch with JSPand so we have to learn & to be familiar with while we are working on the project. ANd also backend part also not yet completely implemented & some implemented functions doesn't meet the requirements in front end (JSP) part. So it becomes too slow.

In yesterday was a one of very bad day in my life. Akki didn't response for my any of rings or sms's. She even didn't answer when i tried to call her. That's realy a very bad day. Any how akki is not in very good mood with me now. ;-(
In there days, i didn't do any important works other than the AdLive project. In my every leisure time, i watched films. I've become a big film fan. Yesterday, I watched a film called "TAXI". It was a very nice film. It is about a female taxi driver and a police cop. They both joined together for hunt down a gang of bank robbers.

The President of India DR. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam 's Speech in Hyderabad ., - A valuable speech ; not only for indians

2007-11-12T22:06:00.000-08:00

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I found this speech in my mail box. And thought it was valuable for not only Indians but peoples in every country.
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The President of India DR. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam 's Speech in Hyderabad.

Why is the media here so negative?

Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognize our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?

We are the first in milk production.

We are number one in Remote sensing satellites.

We are the second largest producer of wheat.

We are the second largest producer of rice.

Look at Dr. Sudarshan , he has transferred the tribal village into a self-sustaining, self-driving unit. There are millions of such achievements but our media is only obsessed in the bad news and failures and disasters. I was in Tel Aviv once and I was reading the Israeli newspaper. It was the day after a lot of attacks and bombardments and deaths had taken place. The Hamas had struck. But the front page of the newspaper had the picture of a Jewish gentleman who in five years had transformed his desert into an orchad and a granary. It was this inspiring picture that everyone woke up to. The gory details of killings, bombardments, deaths, were inside in the newspaper, buried among other news.

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime. Why are we so NEGATIVE? Another question: Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? We want foreign T.Vs, we want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology.

Why this obsession with everything imported. Do we not realize that self-respect comes with self-reliance? I was in Hyderabad giving this lecture, when a 14 year old girl asked me for my autograph. I asked her what her goal in life is. She replied: I want to live in a developed India . For her, you and I will have to build this developed India . You must proclaim. India is not an under-developed nation; it is a highly developed nation. Do you have 10 minutes? Allow me to come back with a vengeance.

Got 10 minutes for your country? If yes, then read; otherwise, choice is yours.

YOU say that our government is inefficient.

YOU say that our laws are too old. YOU say that the municipality does not pick up the garbage. YOU say that the phones don't work, the railways are a joke,

The airline is the worst in the world, mails never reach their destination.

YOU say that our country has been fed to the dogs and is the absolute pits.

YOU say, say and say. What do YOU do about it? Take a person on his way to Singapore . Give him a name - YOURS. Give him a face - YOURS. YOU walk out of the airport and you are at your International best. In Singapore you don't throw cigarette butts on the roads or eat in the stores. YOU are as proud of their Underground links as they are. You pay $5 (approx. Rs. 60) to drive through Orchard Road (equivalent of Mahim Causeway or Pedder Road) between 5 PM and 8 PM. YOU come back to the parking lot to punch your parking ticket if you have over stayed in a restaurant or a shopping mall irrespective of your status identity... In Singapore you don't say anything, DO YOU? YOU wouldn't dare to eat in public during Ramadan, in Dubai . YOU would not dare to go out without your head covered in Jeddah. YOU would not dare to buy an employee of the telephone exchange in London at 10 pounds ( Rs.650) a month to, 'see to it that my STD and IS D calls are billed to someone else.'YOU
would not dare to speed beyond 55 mph (88 km/h) in Washington and then tell the traffic cop, 'Jaanta hai main kaun hoon (Do you know who I am?). I am so and so's son. Take your two bucks and get lost.' YOU wouldn't chuck an empty coconut shell anywhere other than the garbage pail on the beaches in Australia and New Zealand .

Why don't YOU spit Paan on the streets of Tokyo ? Why don't YOU use examination jockeys or buy fake certificates in Boston ??? We are still

talking of the same YOU. YOU who can respect and conform to a foreign system in other countries but cannot in your own. You who will throw papers and

cigarettes on the road the moment you touch Indian ground. If you can be an involved and appreciative citizen in an alien country, why cannot you be the

same here in India ?

Once in an interview, the famous Ex-municipal commissioner of Bombay , Mr. Tinaikar , had a point to make. 'Rich people's dogs are walked on the

streets to leave their affluent droppings all over the place,' he said. 'And then the same people turn around to criticize and blame the authorities for inefficiency and dirty pavements. What do they expect the officers to do? Go down with a broom every time their dog feels the pressure in his bowels?

In America every dog owner has to clean up after his pet has done the job.

Same in Japan . Will the Indian citizen do that here?' He's right. We go to the polls to choose a government and after that forfeit all responsibility.

We sit back wanting to be pampered and expect the government to do everything for us whilst our contribution is totally negative. We expect the

government to clean up but we are not going to stop chucking garbage all over the place nor are we going to stop to pick up a stray piece of paper and throw it in the bin. We expect the railways to provide clean bathrooms but we are not going to learn the proper use of bathrooms. We want Indian Airlines and Air India to provide the best of food and toiletries but we are not going to stop pilfering at the least opportunity.

This applies even to the staff who is known not to pass on the service to the public.

When it comes to burning social issues like those related to women, dowry, girl child and others, we make loud drawing room protestations and continue to do the reverse at home. Our excuse? 'It's the whole system which has to change, how will it matter if I alone forego my son's rights to a dowry.' So who's going to change the system?

What does a system consist of? Very conveniently for us, it consists of our neighbours, other households, other cities, other communities and the

government. But definitely not me and YOU. When it comes to us, actually making a positive contribution to the system we lock ourselves along with our families into a safe cocoon and look into the distance at countries far away and wait for a Mr Clean to come along & work miracles for us with a majestic sweep on his hand or we leave the country and run away. Like lazy cowards hounded by our fears, we run to America to bask in their glory and praise their system. When New York becomes insecure we run to England . When England experiences unemployment, we take the next flight out to the Gulf. When the Gulf is war struck, we demand to be rescued and brought home by the Indian government. Everybody is out to abuse and rape the country. Nobody thinks of feeding the system. Our conscience is mortgaged to money.

Dear Indians, The article is highly thought inductive, calls for a great deal of introspection and pricks one's conscience too.... I am echoing J. F. Kennedy's words to his fellow Americans to relate to Indians.....

'ASK WHAT WE CAN DO FOR INDIA AND DO WHAT HAS TO BE DONE TO MAKE INDIA WHAT AMERICA AND OTHER WESTERN COUNTRIES ARE TODAY'

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Lets do what Your country needs from you.

A little thought

2007-11-05T00:22:00.000-08:00

Previous two weeks were somewhat headache to me. It taught me how you feel when there is no path is clear or you can't find any way to complete what you are responsible for. And It taught me what is the professional responsibility and so and so many things. Anyway, i completes my so difficult project.
Now I'm again feeling good 'cos i completed it and there are no more deadlines hanging above me. And same time some persons may don't know that living without having any work is also much more headache than having too much works to do. It can make you really crazy. Your mind may try to wandering around in nasty way. It'll try to make you bad and crazy. There are so many ways to avoid that feelings. First try to find a new hobby or try to do a hobby if you haven't any work and you are very lonely. Watching movies, reading books and learning new things (I like to learn new languages (Natural languages as well as programming languages)) and etc. are good medicine for above syndrome. We hate to be lonely. isn't it? I hate it. So i think you too.
This is the first time I'm writing a blog. When i first thought about it I had no idea about what should i write in a blog. Then i thought, the best way to write a blog is let my feelings freely go away into the blog without thinking too much. It was a real good idea to get a kick start.
Good Luck, Bye for Now.
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"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." -Einstein

Love and Friends

2007-10-28T21:19:00.000-07:00

I Just Found a place to talk to u my friends. Wait and see how busy we are. But Always try to find a time for your loved ones. Otherwise, "Some day you might wakeup and see that while you are collecting stones you have missed a diamond"