Nothing much to say, but inspired by Himal‘s blogging from phone business, I just installed the official WordPress application for Android which is really cool.

Hopefully this will improve the rate of my blogging. Really hopeful..

Posted from WordPress for Android

I think its high time to move on. I’m planning it to make it a portal for the Sri Lankan geeks. The aggregator will remain but just be a part of the site. I won’t spoil things up but you will know when it happens. When I launched lkgeeks.org, my initial plan was to keep it limited to FOSS Blogs. But with the revamp it may change. So all the geeks who represent Sri Lanka will get equal opportunity to get listed and share their Blog posts and Tweets. Also there would be some sort of filtering that will take place. Non-technical posts/Tweets have to be filtered while @ Replies will be taken off from the Twitter feed. I haven’t really figured out this process yet but I’m just trying to plan things out and you will also know what you can expect. Its a mixed thought and I welcome your feedback on this.

Since Twitter has introduced the Lists feature, I have created a List for lkgeeks.org and once the site is revamped, the Twitter aggregator will be based on this list. I made a tweet about this sometime back. If you are not listed, send me Direct Message on Twitter to get listed.

Also I will be adding a News/Events section. This way everyone can track events around Sri Lanka. Its something I can’t do alone so any voluntary help is much appreciated.

The good thing is that I have a lot of ideas but executing them doesn’t really happen most of the time mainly due to lack of time I get to work on these ideas. You will see changes happening soon. Would love to hear your thoughts as well.

Couple of months back I made the decision to switch to WordPress. Since then I have been stealing time and migrating my blog to WordPress. It was not easy but since WordPress has a tons of features to import it was just like a walk in the park. But that was just for posts. Importing comments was bit tough but I was able to write few custom PHP scripts and MySQL queries to make the transition smooth. Then I had to categorize and tag posts which I did manually. URLs have changed. But I made sure that I do 301 redirects to all the previous URLs to make sure that I don’t lose my search engine rankings and traffic that has been flowing in. All in all it was fun. I took my own time, and finally its up.

Now I make another promise. My blog posts will continue. Its your support that has kept this blog alive.

Early this month I put up lkgeeks.org a Blog Aggregator for Sri Lankan FOSS/geek Blogs. This site is not intended to compete with other Sri Lankan Blog Aggregators but its goal is to let everyone read Blog posts only from the Blogs of FOSS/geek Bloggers. I'm a fan of Kottu, but it consists of Blogs from various categories and its too crowded. Its difficult to filter out Blogs that sounds more technical. So that kinda influenced me to start this site.

If you fall into the category of a SriLankan FOSS/geek Blogger send me the URL of your blog to nazly dot ahmed at gmail dot com. There is a review process and once its approved it will be added to lkgeeks.org.

There are few ways that I have implemented AJAX in my Web Applications. Rasmus' 30 second AJAX Tutorial is one of the neat and basic ways. Sajax and libAjax are couple of tool kits I have tried out. On my blog I have used Prototype which is a Javascript Framework that can be used to implement AJAX in our applications quite easily.

Note the fact that I haven't listed any of the websites that I have developed for clients. These are basically the projects that I developed to fulfill certain needs. Planning to grow that projects list as much as I can in the coming years..