The first Kolamba DZone Community Meetup

We successfully completed the first Kolamba DZone meetup with 5O+ attendees from WSO2, University of Moratuwa, University of Colombo, Informatics and IFS.

We started the event by introducing DZone - since some guys were new to it..

Then we had a very interesting panel discussion on Big Data - which was followed by a demo.. and we ended up with some music.. and some 'nice' food.. Hope everyone enjoyed..











Thanks a lot WSO2 for sponsoring this event.. and thanks DZone for helping us to make this event a success..

Also thanks Srinath, Tharindu, Senaka, Wathsala, Deep, Shankar, Anjana and Buddhika for taking part in the panel discussion..

Thank you very much Pradeeban, Udedhika, Flora for your help in different aspects...

Thanks Charitha, Dassa, Chamara, ChamaraA for the wonderful performance at the end of the event...

At last , not least thanks a lot Harindu for owning everything and making everything perfect..

Kolamba DZone Community Meetup

The first ever DZone meetup in Sri Lanka happens on 15th December at WSO2 #58 office..

Sri Lanka has the highest number of Apace Committers out side USA and further in Google Summer of Code, University of Moratuwa - Sri Lanka was ranked as the top university Worldwide in terms of the number of awards received by students for the five year period from its inception in 2005. So, the interest among Sri Lankan tech community towards DZone Community Meetup undoubtedly expect to be very high...

We have picked "Big Data" as the theme for this meetup and have invited the experts in this area to share their thoughts.. All topics related to Big Data has lots of traction these days and DZone NoSQL Zone has a good collection of resources..

We would like to invite any of the DZone members/users around Colombo to join this meetup to share your thoughts..

WSO2 is happily sponsoring the event and we would expect DZone to send us some RefCards to share between the attendees..

Please confirm your attendance via http://www.meetup.com/DZoneVIP/Kolamba-LK/537342/

Location : WSO2, 5th Floor, 58 [ICIC Building], Dharmapala Mawatha, Colombo 07.

Adding DZone to iPhone / iPod Touch

I was looking for an aplication or an add-on to iPod/Safari where I could post a link to DZone - from the corresponding web site it self.

Failing to find one - I followed the following work-around - which worked perfectly for me - so, thought of sharng it for the benefit of others.

1. Open up Safari and go to http://www.dzone.com

2. Add a bookmark to it - and set the Title of the bookmark as - 'Submit to DZone'

3. Now - tap on the Bookmarks link, as in the image shown below - click 'Edit' and select 'Submit to DZone'.

4. Remove the current Address of the 'Submit to DZone' bookmark and set the following..

javascript:window.loaction='http://www.dzone.com/links/add.html?url='+escape(window.location)+'&title='+escape(document.title)+'&description='+escape(document.title)

5. Now - go to any web site you want - and to submit that link to DZone - just tap on the Bookmarks link on the bottom of the browser and select 'Submit to DZone'.