GoogleTalk Translation

Google now allow you to translate from and to dozen of languages using any XMPP client (including GTalk of course).

Add [src language]2[dest language]@bot.talk.google.com

to your GTalk contacts and bingo — you’ve got your personal machine interpreter.
For example en2zh@bot.talk.google.com will translate from English to Chinese.

The quality of translation looks pretty good in simple tests (I tried English to Italy).

The following language pairs are supported:
ar2en, bg2en, de2en, de2fr, el2en, en2ar, en2de, en2el, en2es, en2fr, en2it, en2ja, en2ko, en2nl, en2ru, en2zh, es2en, fi2en, fr2de, fr2en, hi2en, hr2en, it2en, ja2en, ko2en, nl2en, ru2en, uk2en, ur2en, zh2en.

Nice work Google.......

APIIT - Software Freedom Day 2007

Software Freedom Day (SFD) is a worldwide event that is celebrated annually (http://softwarefreedomday.org) on the third Saturday of each September. This year, it will be celebrated on the 15th of September. The goal of this celebration is "To educate the worldwide public about of the benefits of using high quality Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in education, in government, at home, and in business -- in short, everywhere!"
Therefore, as a part of the SFD celebration by the Sri Lankan FOSS community (http://sfd.foss.lk) we at APIIT plan to hold a series of talks on the 14th of September 2007 as a part of the islandwide SFD events. The talks will be presented by members of the Sri Lankan FOSS community and will describe the value and potential of the use and development of FOSS.

APIIT SFD Photos
APIIT SFD (DayBefore) Photos
www.softwarefreedomday.org

Software Development Project (SDP)

We completed successfully the SDP project after about 2 months of hard work and had our Presentations for it today.
Our project was to develop a Medical Office Management System for a Hospital. we chose Arogya Nursing Home - Gampaha to implement our system.

Used Programming Language

• JAVA

Software Used

• Java 1.6 with Net Beans 5.51
• iReports 2.0 with Jasper Reports
• My SQL 5.0

-Presentation Photos-




-Program Screenshots-

FOSS-ed for Windows...

I was also among the participants for the "FOSS-ed for Windows" seminar which was held from 26th to 28th. It was so much interesting and I learnt so much about *FOSS world and FOSS for Windows..

The keynote by Brian Behlendorf(A co-founder of Apache Web Server) about FOSS was much informative. The other key speakers @ the seminar were Suchetha Wijenayake, Buddhika Siddhisena, Mifan Careem and Anuradha Ratnaweera. They all did their best in there sessions..

I would be much pleased to thank the organizing committee for their immense dedication for organizing this even in a much successful way..

*FOSS = Free Open Source Software

Our New bording house...

Me and Madusha Aiya rented a house in Baththaramulla as it is easy to go to APIIT from here. This place is only about 25min. from APIIT.

Passed the 'SCJP' exam.....

Finally after 8 months of hardwork and dedication, I got through from the SCJP exam with good results.

SCJP = Sun Certified JAVA Programmer.

This is a internationally recognized certification which is awarded by Sun MicroSystems, Inc, USA (the JAVA creators).

I studyed @ the Institute of Java Technological Studies(IJTS) in Thummulla under the guidance of Sir Rajitha.

SCJP certification ensures that I have the necessary skills to efficiently meet the challenges of programming in JAVA.
So now I think I had climbed some steps towards my ambition which is to be a highly talented Software Engineer.

Party @ my home..

I threw a little party for my beloved friends @ APIIT on 11th Feb. 2007.

The guests were Madusha, Pubudu, Danushka, Chathura, Yuwanthi & Thashila.
First we played some interesting games in our home and sang songs while Madusha played the guitar .
Then we went to the nearby beach which is about 50m from my house to play cricket.. We had a great time there.
After that we came back to have lunch after a long time being in the beach. At home my mother had prepared a special lunch with about 5 or 6 deserts which everybody enjoyed.

Below are some cõõõõÏ photos......

& Vidëôs.....

• Video 1 - @ Home (950 KB)
• Video 2 - Cricket Match (763 KB)
• Video 3 - Beach (969 KB) (click the links to download)

My visit to Malaysia & Singapore,,,

I went on a small journey to visit Malaysia and Singapore on 28/Dec/2006 with my friend Rasitha for 3 days.
Here are some photos of my trip.....

In Malaysia.....














In Singapore.....