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How important are soft skills for IT professionals? To find out, we met with Lalin Dias, Vice President of Product Development at Millennium IT.
Seems like almost everyone should posses 2 indispensable items nowadays. Camera and a smartphone. But do you know this much of details about them. Find out for yourselves. Credits of this wonderful infographic goes to creativebloq. Read more below.
In Sri Lanka you don’t see many quality game apps being developed, even though games are the most lucrative app category. If you consider the local gaming app developers, Dawn Patrol Games have created a good set of games for the international market, while Sri Droiders have made a name with their locally popular Omi game. This list doesn’t go much further from here.
In that sense it is good to see that Arimac contributing to the gaming sphere with their game Kimaki. This is quite an enjoyable game where you have to assist Kimaki jump from pillar to pillar using a ninja pole. You have to tap on the screen till the pole is the correct length to move to the next pillar. If the pole becomes too long you fall off. If the pole is too short, you have up to three chances to put a new pole. It follows the endless gaming genre where there are no levels and you just need to keep going on and on (Similar to flappy bird, temple run). The graphics are good, giving it an orient look along with the music. However we believe the sound effects could be improved a tad.
The game is currently on Google Play, and hopefully an iOS version would be released soon. Go ahead and try it out here. The high score was 870 at the time of writing. Can you beat that?
Here is the current status in ever evolving, super messy, indispensable – “INTERNET”. Thank goes to Cisco for providing this snapshot.
28th July, 2015; Colombo – Founded in 2010 from a humble home, Frontcube has become a formidable force to reckon with in the techsphere in Sri Lanka with its highly successful and widely profitable designs for clients ranging from Al-Jazeera, Microsoft to successful Silicon Valley Start-ups.
FrontCube also marks a momentous fifth anniversary today. “Although five years may not be a long time, it is a major milestone for us, because we are proud to have done this completely on our own and feel blessed of having achieved as much as we did in such a short time,” said Aslam Najeebdeen founder of FrontCube. “Innovation is the cornerstone of every business aspect and together as a team we’ve built a formidable team with creative solutions that are unrivalled.”
The tech start-up firm was the driving force behind media giant Al-Jazeera STREAM, a daily television program on Al-Jazeera. Branded as a web community with a Global TV Show, the STREAM taps into the extraordinary potential of social media to disseminate news. FrontCube helped The Stream grow their traffic by 130% in 2012 by implementing a responsive design.
The company is also working closely with AJ+ (Al-Jazeera Plus) team from the beta phase to design and build an engaging mobile and web user experience.The current website which is the 4th redesign was completed in March last year. The first design created big buzz in the Twittersphare. To-date, Al-Jazeera frequently sources the services of FrontCube for their internal Research & Development as well as web experience projects.
“Aslam is a wonderful anomaly,” says Jorge Soto, Sales Team Lead at Twitter. “He has a tremendous amount of passion for his craft and is always hungry to learn more. I am honored to be partnering with such a great and talented individual. There is no doubt that he will continue to emerge as one of technology’s future leaders.”
FrontCube also helped Mobile Action, the mobile app marketing platform to raise USD 2 million by creating their first prototype by designing the new UI and developing a stellar great front-end user experience. Currently the company is also assisting well known start-up investor Jason Lemkin by redesigning his start-up educational platform Saastr.com
When inquired about the team that makes FrontCube the success it is, Aslam commented saying that the workforce at FrontCube was akin to a family unit. “We are a small team and we create a niche dominating presence for start-ups and small businesses.”
FrontCube has also started a weekly screencast series called FrontCube TV to share their knowledge and insights to help aspiring designers and developers. The company is also launching the first Sri Lankan start-up podcast next month called “Moving to the Front”. This Podcast will feature interviews of industrial experts who would address the issues that every start-up and small and medium enterprises face.
For those wishing to get in-touch with the team at FrontCube, you may visit their site on http://frontcube.com or simply call them on +94772272655.
“Nobody gives way to anybody. Everyone just angles, points, dives directly toward his destination, pretending it is an all-or-nothing gamble. People glare at one another and fight for maneuvering space. All parties are equally determined to get the right-of-way–insist on it. They swerve away at the last possible moment, giving scant inches to spare. The victor goes forwards, no time for a victory grin, already engaging in another contest of will. “ – Andrew Pham
Although the above is a quote describing the traffic in Vietnam, it isn’t far off in describing the traffic experience in Sri Lanka. The traffic rage and traffic violation in Sri Lanka is not the worst in the South Asia region, but it has always been bad. Lately, pretty bad. Traffic lights and traffic signals are not considered as rules, and are followed if convenient . Road lanes are ignored, right of way is ignored and form of courtesy is thrown out the window. These are confirmed by the fact that there have been over 35,000 reported accidents for 2014 with over 2000 fatalities in road accidents.
Now it seems the community has had enough. They are taking on the issue through social media in the form of the Sri Lankan Traffic Violations facebook page. In this page, people submit their daily experiences of traffic violations in Sri Lanka through photos and videos while highlighting the vehicle number as well. This would help in a couple of ways. One, the perpetrator may see his violation online, and would deter from repeating due to public shaming. Secondly other people on page would be extra careful not to do any traffic violations, as they have a sense of responsibility to be better drivers being a part of this community. In addition the page posts educational images on traffic rules and regulation.
The page already has over 11,000 people following it, and is steadily growing. We really hope that this would be a major force in future in curbing the traffic violations in Sri Lanka. This alone would be far from enough, and the police need to really step it up to keep all drivers on the road aligned to the rules. Kudos to the admins for starting and managing this page, and hoping it would have an everlasting impact on the Sri Lanka drivers.
Cover image credits to infolanka.com
Now GTA V is available on pc from 2015 April 14 the onwards although xbox and playstation versions were available since 2013.Grand Theft Auto or GTA is not an unheard name if you are gamer. GTA does not need an introduction. But for people who want to know what GTA is, it is one of the most controversial new breed of computer game series developed by Rockstar games. GTA falls into the genre of 3rd person shooter, action adventure games and it is one of the rated,reviewed and one of the best selling titles of the past decade.
GTA originally started in 1997 with the name “Grand Theft Auto”, and since then there has been many version of it GTA V being the latest one . GTA is based on fictional characters in fictional cities. Vice city, Liberty City, San andreas are some of the popular cities among GTA fans and for most of them those city maps are more familiar than their real ones.
It is said that the open area in GTA V is much larger than any of the games in the series. Like in the previous games there are set of user controls attached with the game character and user can do pretty much everything with it. Unlike in Vice city or San Andreas user can play 3 characters in GTA V single mode named Michael de Santa, Trevor Phillips and Franklin Clinton and with them user can complete the intended missions or roam in the free world. Lot of new vehicles including vintage car models, airplanes,submarines are available with new set of cool features like playing your own mp3 collection while you are driving.
Can I play GTA V ?
One of the burning questions GTA die hard fans have right now is this.GTA V’s official system requirements as below. This will give you an quick idea about the requirements you should have. And also GEFORCE official site give you an indepth understanding about graphics required comparing it with different graphic cards and with various graphic qualities like shadow,texture,particle,water qualities.
Minimum requirements
OS: Windows Vista 64-Bit or later
Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600, AMD Phenom 9850, or newer
Memory: 4GB RAM or above
Graphics: GeForce 9800 GT 1GB or newer
DirectX: Version 10 or above
Recommended Specifications
Processor: Intel Core i5-3470 @ 3.2 GHz or AMD FX-8350 @ 4.0 GHz
Memory: 8GB RAM or above
Graphics: GeForce GTX 660 or above
Where are the cheats ?
One interesting thing about GTA is the gameplay cheats. Although the pc version has been released under a month, worldwide GTA community has downloaded the game like crazy and already updated cheat lists are available for peer gamers. This is one of sites where they have an updated GTA V pc cheat lists.
How to become a successful software engineer – සාර්ථක මෘදුකාංග ඉන්ජිනේරුවරයෙක් වන්නේ කෙසේද ? [Video]
How does one become a successful software engineer? To find out, we met with Ishan De Silva, an expert in the software industry at the Millennium IT premises in Malabe.
Mobile phones are everywhere. Every nook and corner you can easily find a mobile phone, most probably a smart phone. There was a time that you worry about your phones appearance rather than its functionality and inner workings. Flippable, side kick, colored screen phones were most peoples choice back then. Now the things have changed. It matters what kind of phone you are using or on what kind of OS its running, what kinds of apps its supporting or does it has a good hardware spec. These are really important matters to consider whether you are a developer who wants to build mobile apps or a user who want to buy a good smart phone to use. This is a really good overview of iOs,Android and Windows mobile that can be a good starting point to free from the “best mobile OS dilemma”. Inforgraphy credit goes to nerdgraph.
The cricket season is on, and the cricket fever is catching up with Sri Lanka doing reasonably ok, in the group stages. It is in this time, that a lot of cricket related promotions are introduced. One such promotion that caught our eye, was the Book Cricket game introduced by Dialog.
Book cricket was quite popular in our school days, a method of playing cricket without a bat or ball. Turning the pages of the book, and the last number of the page depicts the score you got, while getting a 0 would mean your out. The Maths book was mostly used for this, owing to its large size.
This is now simulated on http://sm.dialog.lk/book/ (works only from Dialog connections) , where you can try your skills(luck) on a game of book cricket. It might seem a bit monotonous, but trying to beat the high score, keeps you going. You might even win an IPhone 6.