TTFace – The Bus Time Table Display System for Southern Province of Sri Lanka

July 19th, 2011 by Ruwan

Have you been to a bus stand in Southern Province of Sri Lanka recently? Specially the new bus-stand in Galle? If you did, you might have noticed the new Bus Time Table Display System (TTFace). I’m thankful to Southern Provincial Road Passenger and Transport Authority (SPRPTA), for the opportunity provided me to develop the above [...]

A courageous friend of mine

July 12th, 2011 by Ruwan

It was my first day in the University of Moratuwa. I remember, how much excited I was to make new friends. During the orientation I started a conversation with the gentlemen who was sitting next to me. As I remember, it was my first attempt to talk to a batch-mate I`ve never met before. I [...]

Developing Web for Sri Lankans

April 4th, 2011 by Ruwan

It is always a pain to support all – at least widely used – browsers! Specially a lot of time is wasted in fixing issues in Internet Explorer (A.K.A. Internet Exploder!). However, if the target audience is Sri Lankans, that worry is getting less and less. Sri Lankans, more than 69%, are using Firefox and [...]

Shooting Panoramas

October 26th, 2010 by Ruwan

I always wanted to write a comprehensive guide on shooting panoramas. But it doesn’t seem to happen. So I’m just dumping few thoughts on how to shoot panoramas . In case you may wonder how I produced this: http://www.janapriya.net/gallery/sigiriya please read on. Most of you know that, you can shoot panoramas (mostly cylindrical) using a [...]

lolz, a letter for me from my niece (6yr old)

October 7th, 2010 by Ruwan

My 6yr old niece typed in a letter addressing me (Maama – in Sinhalese this means “Uncle”). She wanted me to behave well in-front of her friends .

No rain welcomed!

May 14th, 2010 by Ruwan

We are receiving heavy rain these days. Lets make our voice heard! No rain welcomed! From the rain’s point of view Source: Art. Lebedev Studio

Interested in taking GRE CAT test in India? Readon..

March 15th, 2010 by Ruwan

(I’ve wrote this post some time ago and was in drafts until now ) Few days ago, I did GRE Computer Adaptive Test(CAT) in India (Still the “CAT” is not available in Sri Lanka). It took sometime to plan and figure out the costs and things to be done. I must thank Kooti (My Indian [...]

A Scam – HSBC Credit Card Bill Pay through EasyPay – Sri Lanka

January 15th, 2010 by Ruwan

Yeah! I am a “proud” customer of HSBC. Yeah!! I also know you’ll laugh at me for my stupidy for keeping a HSBC Credit Card. But still, I want to share my “latest” experience with HSBC bill payment. I paid my last credit card bill on the due date using HSBC EasyPay[1] machine at Moratuwa [...]

Old Anandians and Nalandians who put an end to the war in Sri lanka

May 6th, 2009 by Ruwan

Today someone forwarded me a mail on the $subject. President of socialist republic of Sri Lanka – Hon. Mahinda Rajapakse (Nalandian) Prime Minister of Sri Lanka – Hon. Ratnasiri Wikramanayake (Anandian) Secretary of Defence – Gotabaya Rajapakse (Anandian) Army Commander – Lt General Sarath Fonseka (Anandian) Navy Commander – Vice Admiral Wasantha karannagoda (Anandian) 57 [...]

Finding Naked People (Image Processing)

May 2nd, 2009 by Ruwan

lolz, have a look at this blog on Keeping Abreast of Pornographic Research in Computer Science