Free crash course on Java web programming - Yarl IT Hub

Start date: 21st April 2012 - 9 AM to 10.30 AM

Location:  Online

Technologies to be introduced: Java web programming, introduction to source control, JSP, JPA, JSF2, Bootstrap, JQuery, Java scripting and Ajax.

Intended audience: students and programmers who are passionate about learning technologies and those who wish to code on the ySchool open source project on a volunteer basis or/and as interns.

Experienced expert programmers will conduct training sessions on technologies that will be used on ySchool project.  The course will also have hands on exercises and the students who develope the best solutions will be walking away with surprise gifts!

Make sure you do not miss this opportunity! If you want to participate, please drop a mail to jk at yarlithub dot org or sayanthan at yarlithub dot org . Send in the mails at the earliest to avoid disappointment because of bandwidth limitations we can only handle limited number of students.

"Teachers open the doors, but you must enter by yourself”. Chinese Proverb

Sayy's (365/365) ~ The END!

Dear All,

All good things should come to an end, so does all bad things! So today, its the 365th post on a self proclaimed "365" challenge. Just like a typical human being while in the journey I yearned for the destination and today when I reached the destination I started feeling nostalgic about the journey.

It happened during school days too, when I was at school wanted to grow up as soon as possible and attain a perceived notion of "freedom" . So that the world will be all out to be explored. But then, from the day that "freedom" was attained, I started missing whole list of things including school, the carefree life without responsibilities, a mind filled with joy, the child like innocence, etc. 

Like wise during the 365 days, I badly wanted to reach this post. But when I sat down to write this post was thinking that 365 could have been a bit longer. Was thinking whether to extend it to reach 500 posts. But my mind reminded me of the irony that during the 365 journey there are countless fake posts. So after a few days of contemplation I decided that a post a day will end here! I would definitely blog,  but probably it will be a post a week or when ever mind says that I have something nice to write about. At least I hope that I will not be making fake posts hereafter.

So now its time for the vote of thanks, so ladies and gentlemen with that I would like to thank each and everyone of you who had been reading the stuff I put up here, special thanks to JK, Nee, Sach, Angel, Roshni, Sanderenu, Gayathiry, Indi, Uthaya, Dee, Jack Point, Gowri, Sabesh Anna, Ishara, Vimal and all the others who took time to leave comments on the blog and apologize me for replying to those comments very very late at times. To be honest, when the comment arrives, it brings a child like joy and it  also reminds me that - "oops! there are people who read this crap!, so let me try to do a better job on my next days post!" Last not least, a big thank you to all the others who had been silently reading the stuff I put up here and had given me feedback in person at different times. Don't worry I can hear those people who are cursing, after 365 days of fake posts, now he wants to add a vote of thanks. Its all part of the game - Politics is the name of it :D

Wishing all the locals a very happy new year! Have fun!

Signing off after 365 days,

Yours truly,

Sayy

Comedy around Tsunami warning

One of the peculiar abilities of the people in this Island, is to keep our selves entertained with jokes even in the worst of situations. While all the panic and chaos was raining, the social networks were with its own share of comedy but I guess the best comedy was from the metrological department itself.

When daily mirror tweeted this,

Out of curiosity I visited the official site of the metro logical department and this is what it had to say!

Probably the guys were on New Year holidays, but anyway the guys came back to work by about 6 PM to update the withdrawal of the warning visit here - God bless this country!

Out of Jokes, we haven't still realized the importance of technology during crisis and how technology could help in such situations, luckily nothing serious happened this time but we are playing with lives.

Some Gems on this warning from FB and twitter,

"டேய் நகுல பாண்டிகளா .. facebook ல சுனாமி வருது என்று ஸ்டேடஸ் போட்டு லைக்ஸ் வாங்கிற ஆசையில .. தக்காளி சுனாமி முதுகுல தட்டபோகுது .. ஓடுங்கடா! ஸ்டேடஸ் போடுற வேலைய நாங்க பாத்துக்கறோம்!" [ JK ] 




ஹலோ மணிக்கு 400 கி,மீ ஓவர் ஸ்பிடில சுனாமி சென்னை கடற்கரையோரமா வாறானாம்,உடனே ஸ்பாட்டுக்கு சென்று பைன் அடிக்கவும் ஓவர்..-தமிழக பொலிஸ் [ https://twitter.com/#!/Mrkunchu ]

Bogambara Ariel views

 Some times walking around Kandy we do not realize how big the Bogambara prison area is. It just takes a view from one of the hills to figure out how big this place is and what kind of space its taking up in the center of the city!

The Bogambara ground and the adjoining Bogambara prison 

A zoom in of the bogambara prison complex. A prison right in the center of the town. Has been the topic of relocation from the day I know. 

The beauty of Kandy Lake! [ Pictures ]

Dalada Maligawa and the mini Island in the middle of the lake

View of queens hotel

Birds' shadows

Counting light posts

In local exams for failures the grade given is "F". For some weird unknown reason "F" is usually called as "light post" in local dialect,  on second thoughts probably due to the resemblance of the shape of the light post to the  letter F. When I am not studying properly for exams, I had been asked countless times by my mother on how many light posts I had ordered,  to annoy her; I used to reply with a very generous number.

Today I was standing just outside home and gazing at sunset, when my mother came and showed me the light post, I remembered her age old question, but I am too and she didn't ask that and for once I missed not being asked that. Instead she admired the shining light post with the back ground lit with sun set. I didn't do a proper job when she referred light posts to warn me years back and even today when she showed me a post so I could capture it on camera, I failed again. Probably I now agree - Light posts has something to do with failure.