Joomla! workshop

Last week I conducted a Joomla! workshop in Tamil for mainly North and East people of Sri Lanka. It is a two days workshop and I did it well than I thought. Enjoyed a lot..

I think the participants too. All appreciated well.. Send mails... Called...

The important think is that they really learnt Joomla! almost all the participants were confident that they can develop the site. Thats a great thing and it seems some of them have developed site for their institute and published.

This workshop is organized by ICTA Sri lanka.

LAKapps

LAKapps is a project of localizing Open Source applications in Sri Lankan local languages viz Tamil and Sinhala. I am in the core team.
We are doing various projects and the project that we started are successfully done till now. Thats a great thing I suppose.

We have localized following FOSS into Tamil :
Joomla!
Moodle
Mozilla Firefox
Mozilla Thunderbird
Squirrel Mail
Horde
GeoGebra

Also we localized following into Sinhala :
Mozilla Thunderbird
Horde
GeoGebra

We also prepared user manuals for all the software that we localized. And other than that we prepared Video training for Joomla! and Open Office.

Next 2nd september 2009 LAKapps is going to organize a Symposium on Local Language Application and Systems.

Wen site : www.lakapps.lk

Sarves

8th Tamil Internet Conference

INFITT has announced 8th Tamil Internet Conference and its going to be held in Kolen, Germany. I am planing to write a paper about Tamil localization, will see.
Hope you guys also can write something and can contribute to the Tamil-Computing.

For more info. :
http://www.infitt.org/ti2009/?page=eng/home

Recent two main happening

Hi guys.. after long time :)
There are some happenings in my life... among that some are good and some are .... dont know :?
- got engaged about 2 months ago
My girl's name is Sharanya and she is into music, specially vocal and Veena. Hmm what else...

- I was offered access to Mozilla l10n repository
Perhaps you know that when u do something for foss, the respective companies will give you some rights to access there repository and to change the software there. But getting this access is very difficult and you should convince them that you are a committer to the particular FOSS project.
As you know Mozilla foundation is a very well known one in the FOSS world and they develop Mozilla products like Firefox, Thunderbird etc. We localized Firefox and Thunderbird into Tamil and SInhala languages, at University of Moratuwa. For that I and one of my colleague receiced this special access on Mozilla's content repo.

Finally... We have Firefox in Tamil

I am very happy to share that now we have the Mozilla Firefox in Tamil.
Firefox 3.5BetaPre is available for download. Please download that and test. Also do not forget to let you know us your comments and suggestions.

Find them here.

Windows version (exe)
Linux version
Mac version

Thanks
Sarves

Include vs Include_Once and Require vs Require_Once - PHP

Include()

The include function simply includes a file, and that is all. If the file isn't found a warning is raised, but the script will continue to execute.

Require()

Require has very similar functionality to include(). However, if a file is not found a warning will be raised and the script will halt completely.

Include_Once() and Require_Once()

You should use these functions if you do not want to include a file multiple times (which can cause errors with functions and classes).

e.g.

file1.php includes file2.php and file3.php.
file2.php also includes file3.php

Without the _once() functions file3 will be included twice, but with the _once() function it will only be included once.

source : http://www.nusuni.com/blog/2007/02/14/php-tip-include-vs-include_once-and-require-vs-require_once/

How many of u have noticed this

This is one of the electric post that you can see at Dehiwela junction, Sri Lanka.
See how many threads are tied up on that... :)

I cannot start the x server

In our lab... one day suddenly we got following error message when we boot the Redhat 9 Linux machines.

"I cannot start the x server it is likely that it is not setup correctly would you like to view the x server output to diagnose the problem"

When we trace the problem found that this is something with display setup problem. It seems that, any display configuration error can give this error. In our case we had to set the video memory size manually to solve the problem..

To setup this :

- Boot Linux
- Press Ctrl+Shift+3
- Login as root
- enter - redhat-config-xfree86
- then you will get the display configuration window. There verify all the configurations
- Save your settings

This should do... it worked for us.

Own one is always the best

I clicked this picture in Wellawatte area, Colombo, Sri Lanka. Everyone believes that their vehicle is the best.

Two new releases from Intel

1.

Sept. 8, 2008: It has released a SATA Solid state drives (Intel® X25-E Extreme SATA Solid-State Drive (SSD)) based on Multi-level Cell NAND technology for laptops and desktop. Now 80GB is available. It says "The 80GB drive achieves up to 250MB per second read speeds, up to 70MB per second write speeds and 85-microsecond read latency for fast performance. The 80GB version is priced at $595 for quantities up to 1,000." Lets see whats going to be the future of this :)

For more info  : http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/20080908comp.htm

2.

It has launched the Fastest Processor on the Planet called Intel® Core™ i7. Intel® Core™ i7 Processor Provides Performance on Demand, Adds 'Turbo Boost' and 'Hyper-Threading' Technologies.

"The Core i7 processor is the first member of a new family of Nehalem processor designs and is the most sophisticated ever built, with new technologies that boost performance on demand and maximize data throughput. The Core i7 processor speeds video editing, immersive games and other popular Internet and computer activities by up to 40 percent without increasing power consumption."

For more info : http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/20081117comp_sm.htm?iid=pr1_marqsub_corei7#story