The Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams

Mr. Lakshman Kadiragamar's Lesson

In 2005, almost fifty years after he left Oxford, Mr. Lakshman Kadiragamar's portrait was unveiled at the Oxford Union. This was a great honour bestowed by the Oxford Union on only 15 others in its 183 year history.


Mr Kadirgamar had this to say about that event;

'......I would like to, if I may, to assume that I could share the honour with the people of my country, Sri Lanka . I had my schooling there, my first university was there, I went to Law College there and by the time I came to Oxford as a postgraduate student, well, I was relatively a matured person. Oxford was the icing on the cake … but the cake was baked at home ......(applause) .'

This is indeed true. People appreciate only the icing on the cake not where it was baked first.

King of Pop - MJ

Michael Jackson died yesterday. He was considered the King of Pop and a megastar of music industry. Despite all accusations, he is one of those people who really made a difference. RIP MJ.

Prof: V. K. Samaranayake Commemoration

The Students' Union of UCSC commemorated late Prof. V.K. Samaranayake by donating equipment to Army Hospital at Narahenpita on 18.06.2009. Prof. Samaranayake was considered the "Father of Information Technology" in Sri Lanka.

RESTful PHP web services by Samisa Abeysinghe

Samisa has authored a book named "RESTful PHP web services". It has a dedicated chapter for WSF/PHP, the enteprise grade open source PHP web service framework from WSO2.

Quickstart Apache Axis2 by Deepal Jayasinghe

Deepal Jayasinghe has published a book on Apache Axis2.I think this is the first book, dedicated to Apache Axis2. Deepal has been a contributing member of the Apache Axis2 project since it's origin. He is an architect and a developer of Apache Axis2 Web Service project. In addition to Axis2, he has made major contributions to Apache Synapse, Apache Axiom, and Apache XMLSchema projects. Deepal has written more than 30 technical magazine articles, research papers and has delivered speeches in various SOA and Web Services conferences. He is a Apache Web Services PMC member as well.

You can check out his book here.

Paul Fremantle among InfoWorld's TOP-25 CTOs

WSO2's co-founder and overall visionary Paul Fremantle has been recognized as one of 2008 InfoWorld Top 25 CTOs. You can checkout the infoWorld article here .

Congratulations Paul!