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| W.G.T. Fernando | Contributor for: Editorial, Zune HD hands-on, Install Windows 7 from an external HDD, New marketing medium, Sinhala mobile game , Shorty& Babynames.lk : Sinhala baby names by Kala Suri Ariesen Ahubudu, Current IT News, Aba Symposium on localized systems and applications, A new device introduced at book fair 2009 , games convention Asia 2009, Hardware to look forward to, How to Run Chrome OS from a USB Drive Identifying the roles of game development ,Gadgets news roundup | |
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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. |
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Regular contributors |
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| Laknath Buddhika | Contributor for: An insight into the world of Drupal | |
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Laknath Buddhika is an old Royalist and currently doing undergraduate studies at Faculty of IT, University of Moratuwa. He has worked on various fields of IT for more than a decade and is currently employed at Vesess Pvt Ltd for more than 2 years. He is an avid enthusiast of Open Source and has participated in Google Summer of code programme twice(2007,2008) representing Open Source organizations Gnome,
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| Sandarenu Chathurika | Contributor for: How to write better code | |
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Sandarenu Chaturika is currently working as a Software Engineer at hSenid Mobile (beyondM) Pvt Ltd. She is a graduate of the University of Moratuwa obtaining a BSc in Information Technology (Hons) from the Faculty of IT. She has interests in JSE/JEE related technologies and is currently working on telco middleware applications at hSenid. She is very keen at learning new technologies and sharing what she knows with others. |
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| Gaveen Prabhasara | Contributor for: Command line tips and tricks,Package Management System Options | |
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Gaveen is a Linux System Administrator with several years of industry experience and is a strong FOSS promoter. He is pending graduation from University of Wolverhampton and also holds a certification from Red Hat. He also conducts Linux trainings with Red Hat training partners. Being highly enthusiastic about computing, he supports a keen interest in Ruby programming too. When not distracted by his wide range of interests including reading, music, cricket, etc.,he regularly blogs at Gaveen's Blog |
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| Hayesha Somarathna | Contributor for: Let’s Follow Web Standards | |
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Hayesha Somarathne is a final year undergraduate student of Faculty of Information Technology, University of Moratuwa. Currently he's working at Lanka Software Foundation as a research undergraduate. He is a freelance Web Developer who loves to play with Content Management Systems like Wordpress and Joomla. He is a member of Sahana Core Team, a community that focuses on developing an effective FOSS Disaster Management System for managing post disaster activities. More information about his activities can be found at tHOUGHTS&iDEAS. |
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| Lakpriya Kottahachchi | Contributor for:Unlocking Young Minds, c#.net | |
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Lakpriya Kottahachchi is an Undergraduate at the Faculty of Information Technology, University of Moratuwa. He enjoys programming with Java and C#. | |
| Chathra Hendahewa | Contributor for: Artificial Intelligence | |
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Chathra Hendahewa is a graduate student at Rutgers –The State University of New Jersey since fall 2008 and currently in her second year of studies. She is studying towards her Doctorate in Computer Science and her major research interests are Pattern Classification with application to financial systems, Machine Learning and Cognitive Sciences. She was the first ever International Fulbright Science &Technology awardscholar from Sri Lanka. Chathra graduated from Faculty of Information Technology, University of Moratuwa in year 2007. She is also a passed finalist and a multiple gold medalist of CIMA (Chartered Institute of Management Accountants –UK). She has professional experience in working as a Business Systems Analyst for more than a year at IFS R&D and has completed an internship period in developing modules for‘Sahana-Disaster Management System’. She loves reading biographies, mysteries and science fiction and listening to music during her free time. |
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| Isuru Wijeyaratne | Contributor for: Technology in the automobile industry , Wireless life | |
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Isuru Devaka Wijeyaratne is currently a graduate student of Rutgers Business School studying towards his Masters degree in Quantitative Finance. Isuru is a product of Royal College and D.S.Senanayake College. He is also a graduate of Computer Science and Engineering from University of Moratuwa. He also carries 2 years of experience as a business analyst for capital markets at Millennium Information Technologies. He was also the first Microsoft Student Ambassador of Sri Lanka from the year 2004 to 2006 working to develop the technical enthusiasm in students. He is a tech lover and has written regularly to technical magazines. He loves to read DC and Marvel comics and enjoys watching Japanese anime. |
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| Anupama A. Weerabahu | Contributor for: Introduction to UML | |
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Anupama A. Weerabahu is presently employed at Interblocks and working as a Business System Analyst. She is reading for her MBA at the Faculty of Management and Finance, University of Colombo. She graduated from Faculty of Information Technology, University of Moratuwa in year 2007 |
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| Akila Mendis | Contributor for:Current IT news, Current IT trends & Beyond 3G | |
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Akila Kalum Mendis is an Undergraduate at the University of Moratuwa, Faculty of Information Technology. He studied at Royal College before entering to the university. Currently he is employed at Ridgecrest Asia (Pvt) Ltd as a trainee software engineer and also serves as a Microsoft Student Ambassador in Sri Lanka. He is interested on latest technologies in the field of IT and likes to share his experiences with others. You can find more about him through Akila’s blog. |
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| Asela Bandara | Contributor for: Mobile computing | |
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Asela Bandara is a graduate (BSc Computer Science [Special]) of the University of Colombo, School of Computing (UCSC). He has interests in wireless sensor networks and Mobile application developments. He is currently a visiting lecturer at UCSC for J2ME programming and is a developer at EVES |
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| Harsha Gomes | Contributor for: Creating a website using Joomla,Featured company: Vishmitha | |
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Harsha Gomes is the Managing Director of Vishmitha.com and Winhost Inc. He is a past employee of CINTEC, Ministry of Economic Reforms&Science&Technology, Pathfinder Holdings (Pvt) Ltd, and Sannasa Media (Pvt) Ltd. He has experience in PHP,AJAX, Flex, HTML,CSS, Javascript, MySQL, Joomla, Payment Integration, Smarty, PHPBB, Magento, OS Commerce. He is an expert in developing websites using the CMS tool Joomla. |
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| Rahula Samaranayake | Contributor for: operating systems, වෙබ් අඩවි නිර්මාණය | |
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Rahul Samaranayake is a Maths teacher at Lyceum International School. He obtained his B.Sc (Physical Science) from the University of Colombo. He plays the guitar in his free time. |
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| Sujith Maliyadda | Contributor for:Windows Presentation Foundation | |
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Sujith Maliyadda works as an intern at Microsoft Sri Lanka. Sujith is an undergraduate of the University of Colombo, School of Computing | |
| Chamila De Alwis | Contributor for: Shape tweening with shape hints | |
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Chamila De Alwis is an old Royalist and currently a second year undergraduate(Bachelor of Information&Communication Technology) at University of Colombo School of Computing (UCSC). He is interested in latest trends in Web Development technologies. Chamila is also a blogger currently writing in both Sinhala and English. |
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| Manoj Alwis | Contributor for: Record Management in J2ME | |
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Manoj Alwis is a graduate of SLIIT and is currently employed at GTS. He has a keen interest in basketball and has also represented SLIIT. He shows an interest towards FOSS technologies and maintains a social network website that focus on open source technologies (http://www.opentec.ning.com). |
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| Subhash Vithanapathirana | Contributor for: PHP | |
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Subhash AKA “CodeKadiya” is a Software Engineer who is specializing in Web technologies. He has over 7 years of experience in PHP both in industry and freelance work providing web-based solutions for a wide range of clients from many parts of the world. His expertise in programming spans into XHTML/CSS, Apache, MySQL, Javascript/jQuery and AJAX technologies as well. During the past couple of years he has been developing web applications using popular industrial PHP frameworks such as Symfony, CodeIgniter and Zend. He is a FOSS enthusiast and currently employed at Latitude655. Subhash developed a passion for programming at the age of 13 and his swift efficient coding was appreciated by the community of Codewalkers.com. Subhash obtained his Bachelors degree from British Computer Society (BCS). He is currently engaged in a Masters in IT at University of Colombo. He draws extreme pleasure out of listening to music at all times including when he is programming. |
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| Mohamed Aslam | Contributor for: HTML-CSS | |
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Mohamed Aslam is a Sun Certified Professional, Ruby enthusiast, independent freelance web developer, visual designer, writer, screencaster and final year undergraduate at Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (SLIIT). Aslam is specializing in Ruby on Rails, PHP, SQL, HTML, CSS and AJAX. He regularly blogs on web development and visual designing on his blog http://mohamedaslam.com |
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| Teodor Filimon | Contributor for: State of the art in Augmented Reality The Power Of Smileys , Fast Evolution of the Social Web | |
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Teo is a Software Engineer from Romania with experience in Java and C#.NET. He is a Google API Guru and Student Ambassador as a top 'Hall of Fame' contributor to the Google Desktop gadget gallery and knowledge base. He also writes free productivity tools for Android. Among current research interests is the interface/functionality connection in client-side apps and AR. More info at Teo's [Desktop and Mobile Software] |
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| Thameera Priyadarshi Senanayaka | Contributor for: C++ with Barney! | |
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Thameera Priyadarshi Senanayaka is an undergraduate of the Dept of Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering, Faculty of Engineering at University of Moratuwa. He's had an ardent passion for programming from childhood and has experienced programming in several languages from BASIC to C#. He also likes problem solving, surfing the net, blogging, video games, movies and cartoons. He regularly blogs at his Sinhala blog. |
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| Isuru Perera | Contributor for:Ajax Push with ICEfaces! | |
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Isuru Perera is an undergraduate student at Informatics Institute of Technology (IIT), Sri Lanka. He is following BSc Honours Software Engineering course offered by University of Westminster, United Kingdom. He is also working as a Trainee Software Engineer. LinkedIn Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/chrishantha |
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| Pravin Indranama | Contributor for: ඊමේල් ෆෝවර්ඞ් කිරීමට පෙර..., Database Management Systems,කැමරාවක ඡායාරූපය සටහන් වෙන හැටි | |
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Pravin Indranama is a final year undergraduate of Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, and also a final year undergraduate of B.IT (External) at UCSC. He is also a graphic designer and a sinhala blogger ( http://blog.indranama.com). |
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| Sameera Shaakunthala | Contributor for:Linux Shell Scripting සිංහලෙන් | |
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Shaakunthala is an undergraduate at University of Colombo School of Computing. A wannabe hacker, FOSS enthuciast and a blogger. He is interested in cyber security and networking. You can find him at www.shaakunthala.com |
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| Udaya Shamendra | Contributor for: Media Centers: Entertaining your life , Shatoon | |
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A.G.Udaya Shamendra is currently a second year undergraduate(Bachelor of Computer Science) at University of Colombo School of Computing(UCSC), Sri Lanka. He has interests in Java, 2D graphic designing (do out sourcing projects), Web designing, Web development (PHP, HTML...etc), Web Security, FOSS, C# (and some Microsoft technologies), Google Technologies (GWave, android...etc), Adobe Technologies and Networking. He likes blogging (Technology via Technology), movies, painting and poem writing. Udaya is a Manager of Adobe- Sri Lanka User Group (A-SLUG) and is involved with Mozilla Firefox Campus Rep programs and GTUG (Google Technology User Group), Sri Lanka. |
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| Sameera Gayan | Contributor for:Ruby rails - dig little deeper . | |
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A Rubyologist and a believer of 37Signal philosophy “always under do your competition” . Currently working as a Senior software engineer / Team Lead at Ridgecrest Asia (pvt) Ltd, leading several projects including www.ticketslk.com ). |
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| Prabath Fonseka | Contributor for: Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Development | |
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Prabath Fonseka is currently working as a Tech Lead having over 9 years of experience in the computer software systems architecture, analysis, design and development in the software development sector including teaching computer software packages at academic sector. |
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| Nuwan Bandara | Contributor for: SOA Building Blocks | |
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Nuwan, a first class graduate from IIT is a software engineer at WS02. His areas of specialisation include Java enterprise technologies, SOA implentation, Distributed computing. Web engineering with Java / PHP technologies and software design patterns. Nuwan is a movie buff and enjoys all night movie marathons. He is also a sports fan and enjoys swimming, table tennis and badminton. |
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| M.Mauran | Contributor for:DRM: காப்புரிமை எவர் உரிமை? | |
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Mauran is a software developer at Data Matrix Systems PVT LTD. He has a great interest in seeing Tamil content on the internet and is in the board of trustees at http://Noolaham.org, the Tamil digitial library. He regularly blogs at http://mauran.blogspot.com |
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| Amitha Amarasinghe | Contributor for:Introduction to Basics of eMarketing | |
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Working as the eCommerce Manager in a global online travel agency based in Sri Lanka, Amitha holds more than 5 years experience in eMarketing and eCommerce management. He holds a Bsc. in Marketing Management from the University of Sri Jayawardenepura – Sri Lanka. He is currently reading for the MBA program at Postgraduate Institute of Management (PIM) of the same university. Amitha can be contacted via amitha@amisampath.com or on Twitter @Amisampath |
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| Gaurav Menghani | Contributor for:.Basics of Algorithms | |
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Gaurav is a final year student of Computer Engineering at Thadomal Shahani Engineering College, University of Mumbai (India). His handle on TopCoder is ‘red.dragon’.His areas of interest are Algorithms, Grid Computing and Cryptography |
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| Sorav Jain | Contributor for:25 SOCIAL MEDIA DISCIPLINES | |
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Sorav Jain is Thinker in Chief of echoVme (http://www.echovme.com) an integrated digital marketing firm with specialization in social media. Sorav has done his post graduation from Leeds University Business School (U.K) in International Marketing Management and a graduate from the leading college of India – Loyola College, Chennai. He runs a popular blog on http://www.soravjain.com. Sorav has made social media marketing strategies for few of the top IT companies of India and is responsible for many others for their virtual world success. Sorav at his very young age of 22yrs holds a post graduate degree, 3 years of work experience, passion for social media, numerous awards and recognitions and now is on pathway of entrepreneurship. He is approachable at souravpresent@gmail.com, @soravjain (http://www.twitter.com/soravjain), Facebook (www.facebook.com/soravjain ) |
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Web/Design Team |
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| Manoj Wijerathne | ||
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Manoj Wijerathne is working as the lead visual designer at GTS. He is currently involving in several projects at GTS. He has a keen interest on graphic designing and 3D animation. |
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| Asinsala Silva | ||
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Asinsala Silva is a graduate of the Faculty of Information Technology, University of Moratuwa. She is currently working as a senior Web developer at GTS. |
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| Tharanga Wijesuriya | ||
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Tharanga Wijesuriya is an undergraduate of university of Moratuwa, faculty of Information Technology. She is currently working at GTS as an intern. She is involving in web developing using PHP and PHP based CMSs such as Drupal. She is interested in the fields of web development and business analysis. |
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| Darshika Peiris | ||
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Darshika Peiris is an undergraduate in Information Technology at University Of Moratuwa and currently working at GTS as an intern. She is a Sun Certified Java Programmer and has keen interest in software development and Web development. |
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| Chamira Weerasena | ||
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Chamira Rayan Weerasena is an old boy of Mahinda College, Galle. He is currently employed at Premadasa Group (Pvt) Ltd. He is also a freelance designer with over 6 years experience creating designs from logos to complete magazines. He can be contacted via chamira@mail.com |
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| Prof. Michael Luck | Contributor for: Future of computing using agent technologies | |
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Michael Luck is Professor of Computer Science at King's College London, where he leads the Agents and Intelligent Systems research group,working on the theory and practice of agent technology. He has published around 200 articles in various areas of agent technologies and related areas, and authored or edited 10 books. Currently leading work at King's on the IST CONTRACT project,concerned with distributed electronic business systems on the basis of dynamically generated, cross-organisational contracts, Professor Luck is an editorial board member of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, the International Journal of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering, Web Intelligence and Agent Systems, and ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems. |
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| Jason Dove | Contributor for: Crystal Reports: 5 Tests for Top Performance By Jason Dove | |
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Jason Dove is a top Business Intelligence consultant and author who has shared his expertise with some of the most respected businesses in the world. Crystal Reports is his reporting software of choice and the subject of his book "Crystal Reports Formulas Explained" which is the most advanced book on the market. Currently available with a free 70 page Crystal Reports XI tutorial: http://www.scry-business-intelligence.com/products/bookoffer.php | |
| Sandaruwan Gunathilake | Contributor for: Conwitter - Chrome extension for twitter | |
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Sandaruwan Gunathilake is a BSc(Hons) Software Engineering graduate from Informatics Institute of Technology, Sri Lanka. Sandaruwan is a two times bronze medalist in International Olympiad in Informatics and represented IIT in ACM ICPC regionals. He is a co-founder of Paradox Software. Sandaruwan likes to experiment with many technologies mainly using open source software. You can find his blog at "Thoughts of a coder" (http://www.sandaru1.com/). | |
| Wajira Somarathne | Contributor for: අපි සිංහලෙන් වැඩ කරමු | |
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Wajira Somarathne is a researcher in the field of Localization (L10n) and local language implementations of information technology. Wajira followed his bachelor’s degree at Faculty of Information Technology, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. He has been working as a Student Ambassador in Microsoft Student Champ Community by sharing the knowledge among the university as well as school technical communities for more than 2 years. He has also worked with Microsoft Sri Lanka as an external trainer. He currently works as a software engineer at hSenid, a software development firm in Sri Lanka. |
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| Heshan Karunarathne | Contributor for: Disaster Management & Green Computing Out Sourcing | |
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L.G.H. Karunaratne is currently employed as a Business Analyst at hSenid Software International. He is a graduate of the Faculty of Information Technology,University of Moratuwa and a past pupil of Royal College Colombo. At present his focus is on areas including Disaster management and is a memeber of the dynamic group "The Green Team" with the aim to reduce the carbon footprint of hSenid. |
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| Eranda Niroshan | Contributor for: LINQ | |
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Eranda Niroshan Abeynayaka is a 3rd year student at Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology(SLIIT). He is currently employed at Ascensor (Pvt) Ltd as a .net application developer. |
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| Lahiru Lakmal Priyadarshana | Contributor for: Image Processing and HCI | |
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Lahiru is a final year Software Engineering undergraduate student at Informatics Institute of Technology (IIT), Sri Lanka. He is a freelance opensource developer majoring in C/C++ and has participated in Google Summer of Code in year 2007. Lahiru has a great interest in HCI, Machine Vision, Sensing and AI as he is currently researching on those areas. He also likes to develop gadgets for Google Desktop. You can find Lahiru's blog at SoundOfCode |
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| Chamira Jayasinghe | Contributor for:අපේ සයිබර් අවකාශය, DirectX | |
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Chamira Prasad Jayasinghe is an undergraduate at Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (SLIIT).He has been working on computer programming since he was 12. Chamira has started his carrier with GW-Basic and was able to develop software applications and games with Visual Basic 6.0 and C through his self studies. He is also interested in Artificial Intelligence Programming and DirectX Programming techniques. Chamira has also participated in many programming competitions and was able to achieve many awards. He has also represented Sri Lanka for APICTA in year 2007. Chamira is a programmer who has slight interests in performing underground street magic. |
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| Nandasiri Wanninayaka | Contributor for: e-Villages | |
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Nandasiri Wanninayaka is the Founder of Horizon Lanka Foundation, Mahavilachchiya. In rural areas plagued by unemployment, isolation, and fractured schools, Nandasiri Wanninayaka makes rural youth competitive in the global marketplace. Wanni found a way to bring modern technology to isolated communities, link villagers to outside networks through Internet, and use alternative education (with an emphasis on the English language) to foster teamwork, creativity and self-esteem amongst students. Wanni has been able to initiate Sri Lanka’s first village-level outsourcing venture. |
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| Harshana Weerasinghe | Contributor for: Database Management and SQL | |
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Harshana Weerasinghe is currently working as a Software Engineer at Programus Ltd. A Microsoft Technology Specialist (Web Applications), he is a final year external student at University of Colombo School of Computing. He is confident with most Microsoft technologies such as Microsoft .Net, SQL Server, IIS, ASP.Net etc. In addition, he is familiar with Open Source technologies such as LAMP, mono, pgSQL etc. He is a regular blogger and writes a software technology blog. |
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| Wellington Perera | Contributor for: Windows Live Platform&Windows 7 | |
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Wellington Perera (a.k.a. Wela): Well into the 10th year in his IT career, Wela has over 8 years of experience in Microsoft tools&technologies, especially on ASP.NET . Currently he works as a Developer Evangelist at Microsoft Sri Lanka. He is also a pioneer member in Microsoft technical communities in the country. Wela was a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in 2005, 2006 and 2007. |
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| Ranjith Gunarathne | Contributor for: පාසලට පරිගණක, "මෘදුකාංග දිරුම" | |
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Ranjith is the Programme Manager for Volunteers for Educational Support and Learning and he has worked as project coordinator for Prabhavi Resource Centre and Lak Daruwo Trust. He teaches English as a second language to both children and adults. |
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| J.Mayooresan | Contributor for: தமிழில் விண்டோஸ் லைவ் மெசஞ்சர் & &தமிழ் இடைமுகத்துடன் (Interface) ஹொட்மெயில், லைவ்மெயில் | |
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Mayooresan is a graduate from University of Kelaniya, and currently employed as QA Engineer in Virtusa, Colombo.He is an enthusiastic blogger (Tamil and English) and a freelancer. He is so passionate about localisation and an active contributor in online localisation communities such as Tamil WordPress, Thamizha.com. His other interests are WordPress and Making money online. |
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| Grahame Priest | Contributor for: PixFix - Smoke Free Photo Recovery | |
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Grahame Priest is the Development Director behind NotsoSoftware Ltd | |
| Buddhika Siddhisena | Contributor for: FOSS, The smart GIT | |
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Buddhika Siddhisena is the Co-Founder&CTO of THINKCube Systems which specializes in Collaboration Technologies for the Enterprise by integrating widely used and proven FOSS Technologies. Buddhika Siddhisena obtained his B.Sc (Physical Science) from University of Colombo and is also a Member of the British Computer Society (MBCS). Buddhika has also been involved through theinception of several leading FOSS projects, such as Sahana Disaster Management System and Tarprobane GNU/Linux Distribution. He is an active member of the Lanka Linux User Group, Sri Lankan FOSS Community and does a weekly podcast about FOSS in Sinhala over at sinhalenfoss.org. |
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| Sukanti Iyne-Husain | Contributor for: Mobile Learning & Tech for Social Change, | |
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Sukanti Iyne-Husain is a native Sri Lankan currently working in the US in the field of educational technology. Her research and work encompasses user experience design, usability and educational software. Twitter: @sukant |
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| Sanjaya Ratnayake | Contributor for: Blackberry Development | |
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Sanjaya Rannayake is currently working as a Software Engineer at Calcey Technologies Pvt Ltd. He is a graduate from University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka obtaining a Bsc in Information Technology from the Faculty of Information. He is interested in mobile technologies and currently working on Blackberry development at Calcey Technologies. He is interested in Research work and has published several articles on national and international conferences. Further he has been engaged in CIMA lecturing for three years. He is very keen at learning new technologies and sharing what he knows with others. |
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| Chanuke Senevirathne | Contributor for: Firefox party in Sri Lanka | |
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Chanuke Senevirathne, a SLIIT undergrad, Blogger, Podcaster, tech geek, loves GNU/Linux, believes in Software freedom&dare to be different. And a web junkie too. A co-host of SinhalenFOSS podcast (sinhalenfoss.org). |
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| Kalinga Athulathmudali | Contributor for: Techkatha | |
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Kalinga Athulathmudali has over 8 years experience in computer networks. He has in interest in seeing more Sinhala webpages coming up and also promoting Sinhala Unicode. He maintains a very useful blog where he freely gives out helping tips. You can follower Kalinga on twitter @kalinga |
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| Chandika Jayasundara | Contributor for:Creately – Online Diagramming and Design | |
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Chandika is the CEO and Co-Founder at Cinergix. Before Cinergix, Chandika has held leadership roles in engineering, consulting, research for a number of Global organizations over 7 years. He holds a Master of Information Systems from The University of Melbourne, a Postgraduate Diploma in Marketing and a Bachelor of Science with First Class Honours from the University of London. He's an old boy of D. S. Senanayke College, Colombo. |
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| Dhanika Perera | Contributor for:මානවයා - සිංහල ජීවවිද්යාත්මක විශ්වකෝෂය | |
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Dhanika Kaushalya Perera is an undergraduate (Bachelor of the Science of Enginnering) of University of Moratuwa. He is an old Crusader&a past Head Prefect of Holy Cross College, Kalutara. He is the developer of 'Manavaya', the Sinhala Biological Encyclopedia&he won the Silver Award for it from the competition, Young Computer Scientist 2007 organized by SLASI. He currently works for the SchoolNet of Sri Lanka as a volunteer. Dhanika is also a blogger&he is the author of a Sinhala BlogSinhala Photo Blog .
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| Upake de Silva | Contributor for: GEEKRULZ | |
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Upake de Silva works as a Software Engineer at IFS R&D Intl. He has interest in Oracle, Java, J2EE, EJB, Web services, Mobile Apps, PHP. A product of APIIT, he plays squash and is into gaming during his free time. |
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| Kushan Dodanwala | Contributor for: ‘The Gamer’ magazine | |
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Kushan Dodanwala is the editor of ‘The Gamer’ magazine. A past pupil of Royal College, he is a student of Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA). He has a keen interest in everything regarding gaming. |
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| Srimal Andrahennad | Contributor for: APNG Sri Lanka Local Camp 2009 | |
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Srimal Andrahennadi is currently a software engineer at Ridgecrest. He graduated from University of Moratuwa with BSc (Hons) in Information Technology. Currently he is reading for an MSc in Enterprise Application Development at Sheffield Hallam University. He is an active member of Asia Pacific Networking Group (APNG) and he has participated ‘APNG Camp’as a fellow representing Sri Lanka. He enjoys cricket, movies and swimming in leisure times. |
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| Varuna Wijesundera | Contributor for: SLCG 2009 | |
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Varuna Wijesundera is a final year student at the faculty of science university of Colombo, studying/reading for the BCS PGD level examination. He is the Co-chairperson of SLCG and part of the gamer.lk administration. |
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Ex-contributors |
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| Dinesh Nadun Kumara | Contributor for: O/L ICT | |
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K.S Dinesh Nadun Kumara de Silva is a 3rd year student at the Faculty of Information Technology, University of Moratuwa. He has a keen interest in ICT and has successfully tutored a number of students to successfully pass the O/L ICT exam with flying colours. |
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| Prasad Dissanayake | Contributor for: Hardware : Video Introduction | |
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Prasad Dissanayake is currently an undergraduate at the University of Moratuwa, Faculty of Information Technology. He has a keen interest in computer hardware. He regularly blogs at http://prasadev.tk |
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| Donald Gaminitillake | Contributor for:Do we need Unicode Sinhala?,Simple Programming, Leonardo Torres&Floating point | |
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Donald Gaminitillake has been deeply committed to and involved with Information Communications Technology, both on a professional and a voluntary level for several decades. A graduate of the University of Chiba Japan and an old boy of S. Thomas College, he has vast international experience especially in Japan. This included heading the IT Management Department of the Toko Printing Company in Tokyo. Mr. Gaminitillake is a pioneer in his field and had innovatively introduced a new system within his company, which significantly improved the efficiency of data assembly and transference. He has also been responsible for introducing IT to rural education in Sri Lanka. Today, Mr Gaminitillake is engaged in revolutionizing ICT in Sri Lanka by introducing a character allocation table for the Tamil&Sinhala language, which would enable it to be utilized with efficacy and gain international recognition. Consultant to the Ingrin Institute of Printing and Graphic Sri Lanka Ltd. |
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| Uditha Bandara | Contributor for: XNA, | |
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Uditha Sampath Bandara is a 3rd year student at Sri Lanka Institute Of Information Technology (SLIIT). He is a Microsoft student ambassador in Sri Lanka and has a very keen interest in spreading Microsoft technologies. More information about his activities can be found on his blog. |
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| Amila Chathuranga Mendis | Contributor for: What is Rich Internet Applications | |
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Amila Chathuranga Mendis is an undergraduate at the Faculty of Information Technology – University of Moratuwa. He has worked as a part time web developer at GTS and is now working as a freelancer after undergoing an internship at Eurocenter DDC. He is interested in .net technologies, PHP and flex. |
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| Rohita Hemachandra | Contributor for: J2ME | |
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Rohita Hemachandra is a 3rd year Undergraduate of faculty of Information Technology, University of Moratuwa. He is currently employed at WSO2 pvt Ltd. He is SCJP certified. |
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| Lakshan Perera | Contributor for: Ruby | |
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Lakshan Perera is a web geek and passionate Rubyist from Sri Lanka. He is happily employed at Vesess, where he leads several web app projects, including CurdBee. He is also an Undergraduate in Information Technology at University of Moratuwa. He regularly blogs at laktek.com and loves sharing his code on GitHub |
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| Kasun Herath | Contributor for: Study guide to Sun certified Programmer (Java2) | |
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Kasun Herath is an undergraduate in Information Technology at university of Moratuwa. He is a Sun Certified Programmer for the java 2 platform. |
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| Dasun Weerasinghe | Contributor for: Python | |
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Dasun is a 3rd year student at the University of Colombo (UCSC). He is also the proprietor of Sigma Digital which mainly focus on distance learning and astrology software. |
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| Malinthe Samarakoon | Contributor for: WordPress | |
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Malinthe Samarakoon is a freelance graphic and web designer, translator and content producer. He writes a Sinhala Blog named Malinthe's Note and is the founder of the Sinhala Bloggers' Union. He also leads the WordPress Sinhala Localization Team, and contributes to other localization projects. |
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| Nazly Ahmed | Contributor for: PHP | |
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Nazly is a Web Applications Developer with more than 8 years of experience in Web related technologies. PHP has been his greatest strength all these years and with experience he has gained a lot of knowledge in GNU/Linux, Apache, MySQL, XHTML/CSS, jQuery and SEO. He is a FOSS enthusiast and a member of the Lanka Linux User Group. Nazly is currently working at Dialog Telekom PLC as a PHP Developer. He regularly blogs at Nazly's Blog |
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| Kusal Arthanayake | Contributor for: Kuppiya.com &Free resources that help web development. | |
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Kusal Arthanayake is the co-founder of www.kuppiya.com and is a freelance web developer | |
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