Hope you enjoyed my moving to Australia posts, cause just after posting those I moved back to Sri Lanka. I won’t get into “moving back to Sri Lanka” cause its pretty painful and I’m sure no one will want to read it.
Why move back? Well although its a bit crappy here most of the time its home, and with the end of the war one can hope again. Here are a few first impressions of Sri Lanka for someone returning after a few years.
Driving has got worse and kind of easier. Before there were only a few idiots who drive bad, now everyone does, so you go with the flow and try not to hit anything.
Everything is more expensive. The quality of products are lower. A bar of soap has been carved in so many creative ways now its about half the weight at the old price.
There seems to be a few new local products trying to fill in the gaps of more expensive imports so that’s kicked off a bit of business.
Everyone seems to be doing more business than going to a 9 to 5 job.
2009 has been a decent year. I’m still working so I survived the recession. I thought coming down in time for the holidays would be a great idea, but this season was a bit damp and low-key. Not my kind of Christmas.
Most of the time I feel very few reads this. Since I got down I’ve spoken to a few people and it seems a few more do. So I’ll try to post a bit more often even if its not too technical.
By the way if anyone is hiring Java people drop me a line I know a decent J2ME developer looking for work.
I’ve finally got around to putting up a page (ya just one for now) showing my freelance work. I’ve been freelancing here and there since around 1996. Most of the things I built have been too small to mention.
I give you Open Path IT.
Just a basic start for now. Open Path IT (Information or Inspiration Technologies) was supposed to be a software company that never got formed. One day maybe.
So if you got some work or looking for work within the skill-set I’ve mentioned get in touch.
Pradeep Kodikara is a young and hip Sri Lankan architect. I’ve known him for many years now since we first worked on the Sri Lanka Architects website (www.slia.lk).
I recently helped setup an online portfolio for him over at
pradeepkodikaraarchitecture.com
He showed me this great house when I met him last. It seems so spacious yet it was built on only 6 perches or so. If you are ever in the market for a dream home like this give him a buzz.
I had a problem on a PHP page that was supposed to redirect to another page after some process was done. This is the code I used.
header("Location: http://example.com");
This kept giving me a
Web: no gateway reply
So after looking at the PHP manual for the header function and HTTP status codes I managed to get it working with this redirect.
header("Location: http://example.com", 307);
I’ve been getting some requests for small PHP projects. At the moment I’m not taking on any projects. If you still think I should have a look email me a specification or the requirement and I will try to give some feedback or recommend another person who might be willing to take it on.
Freelance developers! Please contact me with a brief of your skills so I can contact you when I get requests like this.
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