View sunset from Galle Fort

My home town is Galle. I did my studies there. When we were in Galle, we had a habit of going to Fort in the evening. With higher studies and job, I was out of this for a long time.

Last weekend I had time to visit the Galle Fort in the evening and see the sunset.

It's really a wonderful view to see. My recommendation is to plan your trips or visits (if you are going on that way) to be on the Galle Fort in the evening, to watch the sunset.

Demotivating a (Good) Programmer

Found an interesting article on programmer's life, Demotivating a (Good) Programmer.

When I compare my experience and thinking, I feel majority of this article is true.

We oya river, a place to go in the weekend

Last Sunday morning, we were wandering what to do. Suddenly my friend Chamindu came with an idea of going out of Colombo. Janaka took the lead by agreeing to it without any hesitation.
Initially we thought to go to Kithulgala. If we go to Kithulgala, bath in the river and white water rafting is possible. But when we were on the way to there, we heard about a nice place to have a swim.

We Oya, when you travel on Colombo-Hatton road, turn right just before the Yatiyanthota town. The road goes parallel to the We oya river. You have to go around 8 Kms. Then turn right to the road leading to the school there. Less than one kilometer on that road, you will find the place. Best thing to do is, ask from someone there. I can’t remember the exact name of the place, but if anyone of you interested, please mail me.
[Thanks Janaka for the photos.]

Life in Oslo

I am getting in to the last week in the Oslo visit. In this visit, we have a team from Exilesoft for a set of discussion with one of our client. The discussions going on for requirement identification for their new system. The work is interesting, some times it's kind of too much Microsoft Word these days. But, that's the nature of a requirement gathering phase.

We, developers, tends to avoid Microsft Word/Visio and like to use their development IDEs as soon as possible. But everyone understand that lesser you put time for Word/Visio, more effort you have to put the development to cover the missing requirements. Mostly that ends as a failure or closer. That's a real pain. By reminding that consequence to myself, I am using Word/Visio these days.

Apart from the work, we all enjoy our weekends a lot. We tried to spend our weekend outside as much as possible. We traveled a lot.

	The Tusenfryd amazement park was great. We enjoyed roller coasters and the sky monster a lot.
	The boats in the sea (Båter i sjøen) was a display of large number of boats. There was different boats from small speed boats to large luxury boats.
	We went to Holmenkollen ski jump. Went there by walk, but returned by train.
	We took the boat from Oslo to islands nearby. It was a nice view in the evening watching sun down from a boat.
	On a Sunday we bought tickets for Oslo Bysykkel (City bikes). With the tickets we can ride bikes for one full day. Everyone enjoyed the bike ride. Especially, we had to depend a lot on maps to find places.
	We went to see the Viking Museum. The museum was a good collection of viking ships.

Came to Oslo

Me

It's almost a week, after we came to Oslo. We came here on Sunday (31/09/2008). We took express train from airport to Oslo central station.

That Sunday was cold for us. In Sri Lanka we were used to temperature range from 25 to 30. So, even 20 C is cold for us. We had a little rest and went out to see the city.

We went to Oslo harbor. It's a great place to see. Large number of boats and yachts were there. Our company CEO, Finn, took us around the harbor. His explanations helped me a lot to understand the nature of the harbor and it's current status. It's always nice to have a walk around the place.







Oslo weather is changing day by day. Worse is the rain. If it is not raining, we can more or less manage the temperature. But, during the weekend, people expect warmer (still cold for us) weather.

Thanks Shameera for photos. I tried to cover visits with my HTC 3452 Touch, but the photos are not that much good at the end. So, most of the photos in this blog in Oslo visit will be from Shameera.

Shameera

Last day @ Kandysoft and first day @ Exilesoft

I have spent the last day at Kandysoft. I was in Kandysoft for more than 2 years. I really enjoyed friendly and nice atmosphere there. Every colleague was a friend for me. So, the last day was bit difficult than I thought. Thank you all Kandysoft for friendship and cooperation during the period. Especially I really thank for the gift I got, Dianome mug. That’s worth a lot, really.

This week, I spent the first day at Exilesoft. Exilesoft offered a different challenge for me. I thought it’s good to have a change and rethink about way we live from time to time.