Sri Lanka is a great place for used stuff. Cars and phones are in the top bracket here. But these days there is a problem selling. Although there is a demand once you sell you can’t afford to buy the next best thing.
The rupee is falling and businesses are not spending as much.
So that means my hosting fees are going up and it’s getting harder to get paid. 
I know I should have blogged more. But then I was busy working. Now that I’m out of work do you think anyone following this blog would notice and hire me?
Lets find out http://www.linkedin.com/in/dilantha
I did a small intro to HTML5 at the last Refresh Colombo meetup last week. Here is the main presentation I used from html5rocks.com.
Here is a better list of resources as well. I specially like Dive Into HTML5 by Mark Pilgrim.
I met @geekaholic and @SeeJay of SinhalenFOSS at Refresh Colombo but had to head back soon after.
Thanks @nazly for the invite will try to hang around longer next time. 
Update: Mark Pilgrim’s websites went away. I’ve changed the above link to a working mirror. Also you can get a PDF of the book from this site.
Paying yourself first is good financial advice. I’m going to need to do some of that for my sites as well. I was going through some of my old sites, ideas and domains and they are not doing so well.
Dilantha.info is okay as far as WordPress core is concerned but the old K2 theme and numerous plug-ins are killing my page performance.
| Date | 05/12/2010 |
| Average page load | 10.9s |
| Home page size | 1MB |
| Requests on home page | 49 |
| HTML requests | 7 |
| CSS requests | 7 |
| JavaScript requests | 19 |
| Images | 11 |
| Flash | 4 |
I was getting very few search hits as well. The reason was my Sitemap plug-in was broken, and the web crawlers were not picking up the latest content. Bummer.
So looks like I have some tinkering to do over the holidays. That’s good considering I was demoted from Christmas decorations due to my lack of taste
I’m looking to hire a PHP and or Java person with about 2 years experience.
Also a Linux admin / QA Release manager
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