Thursday, November 29, 2007

How to get listed in a search engine

Following is a useful link for people who would like to get their web site listed in a search engine..

http://www.2createawebsite.com/traffic/search-engine-traffic.html

Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Effort Estimation tools

I was searching for some open source estimation tools, found the following links useful, some of them were free ware....
http://www.laatuk.com/tools/effort_estimation_tools.html

Online Quran

People who are searching for a good online version of the holly Quran might find this useful....

http://www.quranexplorer.com/quran/

Employees’ Provident Fund

Employees’ Provident Fund web site shall provide employees lot of information they are not clear of regarding the EPF. visit the following link for more info:

http://www.epf.lk

Tuesday, July 24, 2007

R U an outlook user migrated to Thunderbird ... some useful tips

How to add UR Signature in Thunderbird ?

  • Open a word doccument
  • Create your signature as you want...... or copy one from ur freinds one and modify ;)
  • Save it as a webpage
  • Open the saved page using ur browser..
  • goto View menu -> select source
  • Save the source file in the html format.
  • Now open ur Thunderbird client
  • Go to tools -> select account settings
  • Click on UR email address
  • Click on "Attach this signature" check box
  • Brows the html file
  • Select OK............................UR done.

How to use Calendar with Thunderbird? or U wanna drag and drop your contact details to ur mail??

All these can be done using an add-on for each
Download the add-on from the following link

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/70
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/4631


Open Thunderbird client
Go to Tools menu
Select Add-ons
Click on "install"
Browse the add-on to be installed........!!! thats it.

How to take Mysql backup/ export an existing database to a new one

Normally its better to go for shortest way possible.....

Backing up a database

  • Go to /usr/local/mysql/bin/ (This is where normally mysqldump file will be installed- recomended or /usr/bin/ )
  • ./mysqldump -u[user] -p[password] -d[databasename] >> [Output_filename.sql]


Exporting...
This is a common need with database users or administrators simple way is restore a dump to a new database :)
  • Copy the dump file to /usr/local/mysql/bin/
  • ./mysql -u [user] -p [password] -h [host IP] -D [database name] < [filename.sql]

Thursday, March 1, 2007

never make simple mistakes

Ohh what a relief ...... because of a simple mistake i had to suffer hours thiking.

grant all privileges on *.* to 'user'@'%' identified by 'password';

this simple line in mysql made me suffer..... ;-(

Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Oscar without sarala

???? sarala Kariyawasam a srilankan child actress who played a majour role in the film "Water" was not invited at the Academy Awards in Los Angeles.... this captured the front pages of Sri lnakan news papers.

water was nominated for the best fogeign film

is sarala another curry leaf ?

more http://www.dailymirror.lk/2007/02/27/front/06.asp

Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Me on Hi5

check this out i am on hi5..... http://shamly.hi5.com

Export Jem

Jem !!
Ya i dont know how to start with.. because of my friend only i got this stupid idea i guess. He is a real good businessman and he has been in the jem industry for a long time! well we like to export gem i dont know will there be any one to buy... actually im an IT guy and any how this sounds a good idea ! !

Finally I did it

Oh my god !
I wanted to do this for a along time..... i mean i wanted to start blogging for along time but i didnt get a chance. Any way i hope to continue ... !