The 8th meetup of UX Colombo was held at Dialog Axiata Auditorium on the 10th November, 2016. The topics discussed were “5 Psychological Facts behind creating a Great User Experience” and “Branding and User Experience”. These are some of the notes I took that evening.
Author: Muhammad Muhsin
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JavaScript Promises – a meetup and an example
The Colombo JavaScript Meetup group organised an event titled ‘JavaScript Promises’ on 20 October, 2016 at WSO2, Colombo 3.
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Distractions, Deep Work and Flow – a programmer’s take
Since I started working as a Web Developer (and when working on projects at college) I have been fascinated with how I could sometimes work effortlessly and enjoy myself while at it. And the other times when the thought of working made me cringe – I wanted to do everything I could do except work.
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Shortcodes and Meta Boxes in developing a WordPress theme
I was fortunate to attend the meetup #4 titled ‘Meta boxes and Short Codes for Theme Development’. This event was organised by the WordPress Colombo Meetup group and held on 21 July 2016 at JKCS Auditorium, Colombo.
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Evernote or Keep – or both?
One of the first productivity apps I used on a smartphone was Evernote. Needless to say it blew my mind away – the simplicity, ease of use and the sophistication too.
Then came along a product by Google called Keep. I tried this and never looked back – except when I needed to check for older notes on Evernote.
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Risk Management in Software Development
This is a report I wrote for a course at college. The reading that went into preparing and writing this helped me manage my own final project for college.
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WordPress Colombo
Ever since I started out with mtwoblog.wordpress.com I have been fascinated by the whole WordPress ecosystem. Among many factors like the platform, the themes, the plugins, it also largely includes the active, growing community behind WordPress. One such community is WordPress Colombo which is essentially a group of WP enthusiasts in Sri Lanka on meetup.com.
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Hybrid Mobile Apps with JavaScript – a meetup
The ‘JS in Mobile App Development’ meetup was held on 17 March 2016 at WSO2, and I was fortunate enough to attend this event with my friends.
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Get SSD for a solid performance boost!
When buying a new computer, we look at a few specs such as the processor, memory, storage and sometimes graphics. However, many of us fail to realize that what is actually slowing down our computer is the good old Hard Drive. Let’s take a look at one solution for this.
Last week, I purchased a new laptop. After discussions with a good friend, I was convinced that the best way to increase performance is to get an SSD. (more…)
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A quick look at the Onion Omega!
Those of you who have worked with or heard of the Raspberry Pi know how awesome the tiny device is. The power of a full blown computer was literally in the palm of your hand, allowing you to experiment with cool projects and get your ideas and experiments to shape.
Onion Omega package
