In Android

Started working on a new project. and this one seems to be quite out of the way with what i ve been used to doing. for me at least this is cutting edge - damn bleeding even. so what is android you ask. android is the next gen mobile OS developed mainly by google. No there is no gPhone as such as of now. but google does offer integration of some of their services like google maps and so on in to the OS. but that is optional and there are no bindings. Best thing is inside it runs linux. So if you are really in to open source mobile development, this is the product for you. It runs everything open source since java is also kinda open sourced now. graphics come in the form of OpenGL ES. and there are dedicated telephony, GPRS, GSM, 3G support. in fact you name it's got it - sql, content providers everything. I think that google has come up with a winner this also. lets just wait and see how evil MS will fare. They actually increased the staked last year with shipping of Windows CE 6. It was a major revamp. but i dont think any amount of revamping is going to get them closer to this. So lets wait and see what they are going to come up with to combat android.

Back at work

Hi all, think that i should have been writing this earlier. but got the chance only now. So guess the title says it all. I AM BACK AT WORK. sorry if all caps offended you but i really am SHOUTING. boy am i happy to be back here. it really feels like home. I mean after an year and a half of open ended mind boggling research it is really good to be at work on a project knowing what is required and what we will deliver at end. at least it feels safer. So i am back on familiar territory. And guess i will start blogging in some stuff i leaned during the last year or so soon. See ya.

The BIG DAYS

ok guys. It's show time. seriously, our project demonstrations are gonna start today. yep it's a big event and i m celebrating it with style. by doing 24x7. not really i need to get our project up and running and seems only my part is left and if i give up the whole project is going to blow. boy how i wish that this would be over. i just long for a day when i can sleep at 10 and get up at 6 and then wonder how the hell come i aint sleeping more....... and go to sleep again. so if all goes well, ll be blogging again mid week.

The Big Crunch

Ok I admit i did it. please please please I did it. I m gonna scream if i have to keep this up for another three weeks.

but then i m gonna have to. The final design of the software system of the project is going to be spectacular apart from being back breaking and mind boggling. how it works is real simple and elegant. but how i have to do it as far as Siberia from moscow, from being simple. It is complex and rich and boy wouldn't i be proud to put my head up and say "Guys this was my final year project and I was like, you know not well informed as now then so i only managed this ;-) . And watch their expressions. Anyways enough of a high. back to work. see ya.

In the eye of the Storm

The big crunch is in progress and I am exhausted like hell. heck I aint seen a bed proper for weeks. And each day my eyes seem like they have just come out after being underwater for a week. So these are the hard times i guess. these are the times when they separate the toughest from the tough ones. this is when the stamina comes in to the play. so guess it is "HOLD ON FOR YOUR DEAR LIFE"

Anyways the project is coming of shape and I will have tons of stuff to share with you guys one this calms down. Boy havent I learned from this project. Ok gotta go the tug is strong there.

Hi

Boy are these hectic days. We are finishing up our final year projects and this is the time of the big crunch. we are working day in and day out. Usual working hours you ask ? From 9.00 am to 3.30 am. been like that for bout two months now. Guess this is what you get for a single small mistake. but these times have taught me so much. made me in to a far more matured person. i was talented and i always knew that. may be others didnt but i did. that is not the point. the point is that i now know what it is like to lose. before i have always been the winner. if not fully at-least partially. but now i know how easy it is to loose everything you have. how fragile the life is and how small and feeble we are. I am confident about myself now but not in that dashing stubborn way like before. now i feel confident in a way that is more reassuring. I dont feel confident that i wont make mistakes. I feel confident that even if i do make one or two, I will still have the courage and the strength to overcome them.

And i learned how to be humble and not think that we are the means and the end. I learned about life and the meaning of living. I listened to randy paush giving his last lecture and it inspired to me to make my dreams a reality. so much happened and i think that i am better off at the end of the end.

Hi guys, this is my first blog post so I'll keep it short n sweet. I am an undergrad from University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka and am just finishing my degree. I hope to go for my higher studies after a brief stint of working in the industry. I love anything to do with comps n ICT. I major in Electronics but my real interest lies in HCI and AI areas. I love reading watching comedies and classics, alternative rock and spending time with my family. So more to come and hope to see all of u guys at the blog.