W.G.T. Fernando is currently a freelance writer and Managing Director of Gihan Book Shop and GTS. Gihan is a former lecturer at the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. He began his education at Thurstan College before going to Wycherley International School. Afterwards, he was selected into the University of Liverpool in the UK. He graduated with Honors in Computer Science. During his time in the UK, he has worked as an analyst for a Regeneration company (Innercity solutions) working on numerous projects focused on improving the standard of living in the Liverpool community.He worked as an IT consultant for an engineering company (Grand Engineering) to produce an efficient user-friendly electronic system for manipulating client contacts. He also had the opportunity to hold the post of 'Hall Tutor' and 'Network Assistant' at the University of Liverpool. He successfully completed an MSc in Advanced Software Engineering at Kings College, University of London.
 

Editorial - 2009 April

03/31/2009 7:30 am By W.G.T. Fernando | Articles: 56

Ayubowan, welcome to the third issue of the online IT magazine diGIT. I hope by now, everyone is familiar with the format of diGIT. We’ve had a fair number of comments about the new design and are glad to hear that everyone likes it.

 

Let me remind everyone that this magazine is possible only because of the articles given by our valued contributors. Our team of contributors are all involved in IT in some sort or another and very much active in their respective field. Do visit the contributor page to see the background of each of our contributors. You can also contact each of the contributors by sending an email to mailto:comments@digit.lk. We are very glad to get direct articles from Microsoft, Intel and Ridgecrest in this month’s issue. We hope to see more companies joining with us in the future.

 

We have a number of new subsections being added to this month’s issue. Please do let us know if we should add more sections that are of interest to you. This month’s articles include a very informative piece by Hayesha Somarathne on why we really need to use Cascade Style Sheets (CSS). Isuru Wijerathne takes us five years into the future to show us what kinds of technologies there will be then. Laknath Buddhika shows us the file structure behind the CMS Drupal. Sandarenu Chaturika gives us more pointers on writing better code, this time focusing on functions or methods.

 

Let me end the April issue’s editorial with a quotation, this time by Anton Chekhov who once said

 

‘Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice’.

So I hope we can all do that after reading this months diGIT.

Happy reading!

W.G.T. Fernando – Editor in chief

 

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