Ruwan Ranganath's reminiscence

This is a post with little proud , about myself :p . Well I've work with several volunteer organizations and open source communities.this is the one thing I really happy about , Establishing Firefox Club at National School of Business Management ( NSBM ) . We did lot of events including FirefoxOS App development days , Localization events , Maker parties  etc . this event "grow up with Mozilla" also really important to be for two reasons . One is this is the first event happening after I become Regional Ambassador Lead to Asia , Sri Lanka at Mozilla Foundation for Firefox Student Ambassadors. Second one is bit of sad but every one have their time to left . even though I've founded this great community which runs by bunch of cool undergraduates now , They are doing great job now . Since this is my final year and we just had final lecturer I decided to resign as club lead and let them continue what are they are doing . Hossain Al Ikram , Mozilla Rep and RAL did a s...

I was trying to add new form UI class form to the Qt and since I'm a newbie ( actually started today) with C++ Qt framwork at this time i got stuck when I tried to add Push button to open new Class Form. it showed this damn error several times. mainwindow.obj:-1: error: LNK2019: unresolved external symbol "public: __cdecl DialogDemo::DialogDemo(class QWidget *)" (??0DialogDemo@@QEAA@PEAVQWidget@@@Z) referenced in function "private: void __cdecl MainWindow::on_btn_cancel_clicked(void)" (?on_btn_cancel_clicked@MainWindow@@AEAAXXZ) Rebuilding and cleaning the project not worked since I've tried several ways to display that new GUI form. Solution was simple here i quote stackoverflow answer. Solution Right click on project > Clean Right click on project > Run qmake Right click on project > Build Run - worked first time Why it works The reason this worked is because Run qmake updates your Makefile. For some reason qt is not automatic...

SL2College is a Volunteering organization which focus on provides unbiased information about education . Joining with SL2college  is the one of my life opportunity. most important thing is I got to chance to meet people , A lot of people , which is I love always. Everything started with I came to NSBM as undergraduate, after attending few hackathons and Google Student ambassador events and Idea Mart API development workshops , I got to know this awesome person call Shafraz Rahim , He was in my senior batch and already working with sl2college. One day Shafraz posted on facebook that they taking volunteers for Voices , which is Australian education fair organize by SL2college . of course I went there with my buddy Tharindu Samarasinghe ( bawwa) . It was cool , after few months volunteering and enjoying my life experience with sl2college family,  I got chance to working with Sl2college web team where I met Rashmika , Nayana , Navaka and others , I got cha...

  It’s been a while, I checked my blog if it’s still running. So everybody is welcome again as usual. So the news is I lately got the chance to work with mozilla Sri Lanka Community since it’s Reestablishment and I must say it’s one hell of an experience. Thanks to Danishka Navin, I have met other Mozilla Reps Malinda Prasad, Kalpa Welvitigoda and of course others too.   (Read:   my very first meeting with Mozillians) With my journey started with mozilla, we launched the Firefox 29 Code name Australis in Sri Lanka. (Read Article here). Not only that, with the mozilla Sri Lanka community we are reaching to schools with FOSS (Free and open source software) communities also.   Kingswood College Kandy event was one of the most successful events we hosted with interesting topics such as FirefoxOS App Development and other informative sessions. Lately we have hosted FirefoxOS Application Development day at National School of Business Management ( NSBM ) wh...