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Apple airport express’s join a wireless network feature

Suneth Mendis — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 08:50:39 +0000

I can see many of you go “HUH?!” looking at the title of this post… You are not alone, because this is an undocumented feature of Apple Airport Express (AE). Quite a handy one too. For the longest time I was looking for a way to share my wife’s laser printer over the network. The [...]

Unifying Ideas

dineth — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 03:14:57 +0000

Introduction to a world of frustrations Social networking is extremely useful in our modern day context. Being thousands of miles away from family and friends, I have integrated social networking into my daily routine. However, the technologies and concepts that drive social networking is changing rapidly. While existing ideas are improved and remodelled to fit into [...]

greeting randoms

dineth — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 11:44:24 +0000

this idea of “hey, how’s it goin?” is very odd for me. today in my social and mobile computing class, conversation with regards to computer supported cooperative work (CSCW) was the topic in discussion. for our lecturer, who is from England, this phrase felt like an invitation for a conversation. he elaborated how he would think [...]

The importance of “var” in javascript

Suneth Mendis — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 21:25:12 +0000

Last Friday while doing some testing I came across an interesting javascript problem. I noticed that my for loop variables in the script were going nuts.. After a little bit of tinkering around (by tinkering I mean putting a ton of javascript alerts) I managed to identify the problem. Background Javascript has two scopes for variables, local [...]

Do something different in Singapore

Suneth Mendis — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:15:43 +0000

Last month I went to Singapore to visit my parents. I had a great time meeting up with friends, trying out all the new eating spots and of course Singapore’s favorite pastime, shopping. But I was determined to do something different this time around. I wanted to visit somewhere i’ve not been before in Singapore. [...]

Updating the built in svn client on Mac 10.5

Suneth Mendis — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 06:54:36 +0000

Ever since I updated the svn version on the projects I checked out on IntelliJ I couldn't use the Mac's built in svn client with the terminal. It says "This client is too old to work with working copy…". This means I [...]

Ignorance is your loss

Suneth Mendis — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 02:27:22 +0000

Last week I got my credit card out to buy few applications from the apple app store for my iPod Touch. But I didn't!! Most of the applications I wanted did not have the support for Metric unit [...]

Auto coloring of child nodes using Prototype

Suneth Mendis — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:32:08 +0000

Inspired by David F. Miller's work in 2004 to color alternate table rows (Just like iTunes) I wrote this simple Prototype based script to do the same and a little but more. This script will color any list given that the list belong to a single parent. [...]

iFrame dynamic resizing revisited

Suneth Mendis — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 08:03:24 +0000

Its time to revisit the burning question once again! “Is there a reliable way to dynamically resize the iFrame height according to its contents?” Well according to my previous post I thought I nailed it! But I soon found out it wasn’t all that reliable! So it wasn’t the silver bullet I was hoping for. So [...]

Using jQuery with Prototype – Sweet!!!

Suneth Mendis — Mon, 19 May 2008 01:36:57 +0000

As many of us know there are 2 leading contenders for javascript frameworks. Prototype and jQuery. I have used prototype extensively in my applications but I do keep an eye on jQuery goodness from time to time. Being a Java developer, I personally like the syntax jQuery offers [...]

“Fun” with Prototype and IE7 and Tables

Suneth Mendis — Tue, 13 May 2008 08:07:08 +0000

Its a known fact that DOM manipulation on TABLE in IE is a mine field. I thought I could get lucky with prototype when it comes to creating DOM elements on the fly. But apparently not! In particular html TABLES. So here are some of the "gotcha" moments [...]

What serious lack of sleep can do to a developer…

Suneth Mendis — Fri, 09 May 2008 00:37:08 +0000

iSurprise

Suneth Mendis — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 01:58:04 +0000

Did you know, when you press APPLE+T on your Terminal.app on a Mac it actually opens up another tab in the terminal? What a nice surprise!

Offline blog editor

Suneth Mendis — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:44:35 +0000

Last year I started developing an offline blog editor during my free time. It started off as a self learning exercise to learn EditLive! codebase and polish up my long forgotten Java skills. I wrote a few tests, tried out a few APIs and after a few months I managed to come up with a [...]

What!?

Suneth Mendis — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 00:47:40 +0000

On the way back from Holy land trip to Israel I got myself a shiny new 16GB iPod Touch. More like an early birthday present from my better half… It was love at first sight! I love the sleek looking interface and easy of syncing with iTunes. Controls are much more intuitive as compared to my old [...]

Iframe dynamic resizing… SOLVED!

Suneth Mendis — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:10:59 +0000

UPDATE (05/06/2008): Check out my next post for a better solution using CSS. During the E2 development I ran into a very annoying iframe resizing problem. In simple terms iframe did not automatically resize in IE after the contents of the iframe had been loaded. This used to drive me nuts since the iframe appeared to be [...]

Evolution of “Breaking-up”

Suneth Mendis — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 23:08:45 +0000

There was a time when a couple who wanted to end their relationship would meet and talk things through and say goodbye. Then things became much easier with the invention of the phone. Breaking up on the phone, though a cowardly way out, seemed to be a more attractive option to some people. With the [...]

Little gem I found on the way to Santa Cruz

Suneth Mendis — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 03:58:25 +0000

Last Thursday, my wife and I drove down to Santa Cruz in Monterey Bay. On the way, we took a detour on to highway 9 and then to highway 236. After a twisting 17 mile drive we found this absolute gem! It was a 80,000 acre of old-growth coastal redwoods forest. Big Basin Redwoods State [...]

Russian Hill walk

Suneth Mendis — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 05:38:02 +0000

Last weekend me and my wife took a self guided walking tour around San Francisco. We started off from China town and walked about 2-3 hours to Lombard street through Russian hill. Though it was a tiring walk, the views were breath taking. This is the map we followed.

First Weekend in San Francisco

Suneth Mendis — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 06:12:44 +0000

I met up with my good friend Rishi and his girlfriend, Surina, on my first weekend in San Francisco. We had lot of fun and did a bit of sight seeing around the city too. Well, lets call it “Rishi’s Guide to SF”. Pictures

Mac-Zen woes

Suneth Mendis — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 23:45:21 +0000

Yeah you guessed it right! I bought a Creative Zen vision:M few months ago. Last month Ephox gave me a MacBook Pro laptop. Now I have a problem! I can’t sync my Zen with my Mac. Only ray of hope is this software I found called XNJB. It does not sync but you can add/remove [...]

Yosemite

Suneth Mendis — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 08:17:20 +0000

Last weekend I went to visit Yosemite National Park. It was a 5 hour drive from San Francisco. Here are some of those pictures. Honestly these photos don’t quite do justice. Quite simply put, Yosemite (pronounced as “yo-sam-ee-ty”) is just majestic! One place you should visit before you turn 50. [...]

The great convergence

Suneth Mendis — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 08:07:04 +0000

Today I attended the QCon conference in San Francisco. Kent Beck , the "father" of XP, opened the conference with his keynote speech on Trends in Agile development. It was pretty interesting to hear what Kent had to say about the all the hype in XP community. [...]

Ask and you shall be given

Suneth Mendis — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 05:31:40 +0000

During my yearly review with Brett, I mentioned that it would be beneficial for both engineering and marketing teams, if i could go over to our US branch at sometime. It would help the engineering team in Brisbane to turn around most of the support cases quickly and give the [...]

Zen Vision:M undocumented how to & tips

Suneth Mendis — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 04:39:09 +0000

Creative is below par when it comes to explaining the real capability of Zen Vision:M player. The user manuals are NOT very helpful either. Like iPod, Zen does not have the "All" option to play all the songs from a particular artist or an Album. I was really annoyed [...]

Continued Innovation

Suneth Mendis — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 02:29:08 +0000

In my view there are 2 forms of innovation. Invent something really new Combine already existing 2 products and come up with something unique [...]

10 COOL things you didn’t know about Ephox

Suneth Mendis — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 05:43:17 +0000

We have the best coffee machine in the world and we are proud of it! Engineering manager can actually code! [...]

Do you know what you are thinking?

Suneth Mendis — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 05:23:32 +0000

On my way home from work couple of days ago, I was listening to a podcast by Dr.Nigel Warburton. The podcast was essentially about John Locke essay on "Human Understading". It was purely by accident I came across this podcast and quite honestly made me think! [...]

Good vs Great Customer Support

Suneth Mendis — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 11:34:08 +0000

I am working as the support engineer at my current job. I had no prior customer support experience and hence I am learning the job along the way. Quite honestly, customer support is a challenging job. In fact, any job [...]

New Location, New interface!

Suneth Mendis — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 22:30:02 +0000

My apologies for MIA for awhile. I had been busy with few things in my life and work. Firstly I got my driving license. (every boys dream!) Why wait until i'm 28 to get the driving license you may [...]