Devaka Cooray

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Devaka started programming with Pascal and BASIC languages when he was 13, and he has been coding with Java since 2003. Devaka got his bachelor's in computer science from the University of Moratuwa, and currently holds SCJP, SCWCD, and SCBCD certifications. He is mostly known as the author of ExamLab , which is a popular exam simulator for SCJP certification.
When he is not wrangling with his JavaEE and enterprise projects, he likes to play with sneaky web application security stuff.
More about Devaka can be found at his website http://www.devakacooray.com/

Moratuwa, Sri Lanka (zone 12)

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Recent posts by Devaka Cooray

Scavenger hunt bug

Happy to help

2 weeks ago

tinkering with this site

Scavenger hunt bug

Thomas,

The scavenger hunt task wants you to 'embed' the video. To embed a youtube video, you are supposed to surround the youtube address with [youtube][/youtube] tags.

For example:

This makes the video render on permies like this:

On your post, it seems that you had posted a link without the [youtube] tags, and someone in the staff has fixed it for you.

2 weeks ago

tinkering with this site

Scavenger hunt bug

Luke Mitchell wrote:I have just noticed that the scavenger hunt item for "posts with a video" also counts all posts with a picture. For example, taken from my profile:

Create a post with an image (97/1)
Create a post with a youtube or vimeo video (98/1)

I'm pretty sure I have only posted a single Vimeo video, for a BB, yet the count seems to be that video plus all of the image posts!

Excellent observation!

This is fixed now!

2 weeks ago

tinkering with this site

having trouble creating my first sales thread

This is fixed now. Please try again.

2 weeks ago

tinkering with this site

k k2 k3 k4 k5 - the green k that shows you backed one of my kickstarters

KW,

It looks like there was something odd happened with one of your secondary email addresses.

I guess that if you add it back as a secondary email, it would help the forum software map your account to the correct kickstarter projects.

Please try adding it from here:
https://permies.com/forums/user/edit/#email-preferences

(The email address in question was something like this: m*******@big*****y.net)

3 months ago

tinkering with this site

All about the Daily-ish Email!

Thanks for confirming that, Erick!

I just merged the two accounts for you. You should now be able to log in as Erick Miller with your email.

3 months ago

tinkering with this site

All about the Daily-ish Email!

Bob Wilson wrote:It’s odd …after dinking around a bit it looks like the forum login thinks I’m two different people both under the exact same email

I looked around from the back end of the software and.... you were right! We have two accounts with the same email. That's odd!

I can merge the two accounts for you. Would you prefer to keep your name as "Bob Wilson" or "Erick Miller" ?

4 months ago

tinkering with this site

permies.com affiliate program

jordan barton wrote:can i just add ?f=384 to the end of https://permaculture-design-course.com?f=384

Now you can do that. I just added this feature for you.

4 months ago

permies affiliate program

Tour of Wheaton Labs, the Movie!

Greg Martin wrote:

T Blankinship wrote:Just finished watching the movie.

Nice! I'm excited to watch it....how did you view it T? I went back to the email that I got when I paid and clicked on the code...but it just seems to have sent me to this thread, so I figure I screwed up somehow. It's not listed in "My Stuff" so I'm needing some help!

Gregg, it seems that you bought it as a "gift code". When you buy something as a gift code, you can either send it to someone or redeem for yourself. Since paul has given you direct access to the item, I just cancelled that gift code for you.

FYI - I noticed that you have a bunch of gift codes never redeemed. To see a list of these gift codes, go to your ledger and then select "DM threads - gifts I manage" from the left.

4 months ago

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