View source for assela Pathirana:General disclaimer

==What this is==
* Bits of information that I want to share with other people are published here.
* Content can range from useless bits of personal information to not so useless (?) items related to
** my [[my work|work]],
** [[my teaching|teaching]], etc.
* Sometimes I jot down my computer programming experiences that are related to my work or [[my hobbies|hobbies]].

==What this is NOT==
* A complete work: I write this whenever I have free time. Not based on any plan or framework. I create links first, and may complete the target article later, if ever. So, if there are links [[article-that-will-be-never-written|in RED]], don't follow and more importantly, don't keep your fingers crossed -- it might never be written.
* Serious work: Well... at lest most of the stuff appear here are not to be taken too seriously. Read the [http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html|copyright notice] if you are so inclined -- but I'll state it here anyway: Most of the content may be useless.

==Why bother==
Let me explain it this way. I was [[creating web based dynamic systems]] back in late nineties, when such things were magick. I spent two years writing code for a database-backed, multi-user hydrological  analysis system using {{wikip|Oracles}}'s {{wikip|PL/SQL}}. It worked and I was happy. Then I moved away from the area for a several years before started reading about the subject again. Then I was in for a sort of 'Culture shock'. What we have thought as work has become play and anyone with half a day to spare and a old computer could have a nice dynamic web system going! 

So I am simply enjoying the magick!