Great test tool for web apps

Even thought our final year project was a web application framework, we weren't able find a good enough testing tool to test the web apps. Finally I found the solution from Amil ayya. It is a tool called Selenium. It have several cool features and web application tests can be automated using it. Also there is a macro recording which is kind of cool way to automate test applications. Also it can test application using several browsers. If you are into web applications development, I will tell you this is quite a handy tool. Also don't forget the firebug ;). More information about Selenium can be found from http://www.openqa.org/selenium/. BTW Selenium here is not as in Chemistry ;).

I've got a new mobile

Finally I've decided to the give away my long standing Samsung X100 phone for more feature rich Sony Ericsson W810i.

Also with me, Osandi and Omega got the same model. Before us Dimuthu and Nirman got the phone. So all in all W810i is becoming a trend. :)
Phone seems to be really a good one. It covers all most all the things I want. Most important feature of it is the cool earphone set. This is more cool to me as those are only earphones that can be stucked in my ears. Hope others will also follow the same trend. :)
More information about the phone will be followed.

Pathetic Sri lankan railway/police

It's a week since Osandi lost her phone at Pettah railway station while she was in the girls' rest room. Those memories were brought back when I saw yesterday news, where fair amount of people protesting poor quality of service of Railway by blocking the train transport and creating chaos. And funny part about it that all station master, fellow from transport board and the minister accept that there are misconducts by Railway. And like in Sri Lanka, no action is taken so far to irradicate any problems. Same happend when we went to complain the phone was lost. First it was the station police, who said that those sort of stealing happens every day and you can make a compain go home and forget that anything like that happened. Even the women who is looking after the things in the women rest room says that she has no idea what happened to the phone. I thought here job is to look after things! If someone (A thief) is coming each and every day she should be able to note down he/her. Also it wouldn't be difficult to identify a thief if she's careful enough to link between thefts and the people appearing in a theft scene. It can be assumed with common sense that people working there including the railway staff and some police members may be involved in the theft taking place in the railway station. Also when we went to the police to put an entry, they were not very keen to take down it. BUT it is of utmost important as your SIM card may be used to carry out illegal activities after steeling and only way to protect is to report your loss to the police. Also they requested the IMEI number of the phone, which I didn't have any idea of. Then I figured out that it is the number used to identify the phone uniquely. You can find out the EMEI number of anyphone using *#06#. It would be useful to take that down. Also I learnt from the police and Mobitel that it is possible to track down the EMEI number from the logs of the servers. But required a court order to do so. But stealing of phone under the worth of 30000 isn't good enough to get a court order. (It's funny how law allow thiefs to get away). Anyway if you have access to servers you can track it down as every call that is being made using the phone record phone number and the EMEI number of the phone. BUT most IMPORTANT of all things is that BE CAREFUL every where you go.

Photos from campus are here!

Finally I'm receiving photos from people who took them. These are few photos taken by Saranga's Phone( or Camera?).

At Department, Near Microsoft lab

At Department, Near Microsoft lab









With Saranga and Pati(driving), Going out for our last lunch of Uni life.












Inside the final year research lab with Tripod(from June term video production) in hand

I'm Employed!!

Last few days lot of thing happened! Latest of them is now I'm employed at Wavenet International (pvt) ltd. It's too early to comment of what I do and how new life with working. So more information will follow in coming weeks. And before that we spent last few days of our campus life filming the short video. It has been 4 years from the first day when I stepped in to the campus. Time has flown away like a bullet not even letting us enjoy the campus life. Some times I feel very sad for being a campus like our one since it offers no joy at all. It's just studying and studying.
At least we could forget such thing by wonderful subject like video production in the June term. More on the video production will be posted as soon as we are done with the video. Also before we finished shooting of the video, we were busy taking photographs inside Uni. Actually I took more photos than whole my University life in last week. Hopefully I will upload then here when Sujith and Saranga return them to me.