15 July 2007 | Life | Suneth Mendis

My apologies for MIA for awhile. I had been busy with few things in my life and work. 

Firstly I got my driving license.  (every boys dream!) Why wait until i'm 28 to get the driving license you may ask! Well the simplest answer is that I have been moving around quite a bit and never had the chance! What's truly amusing is that I got a license to drive a M113 Tank before I knew how to drive a car! (I was a Tank commander in Singapore Armed Forces so it was part of training)

Secondly I had been spending a lot of time learning Java… Not just learning, but putting into practice as well. Since I love the EditLive! rich text editor so much, I wanted to write a Java application to integrate Wordpress and EditLive!. I managed to get the basics right. The "EditLive Blog editor" can post, edit, delete and publish posts with images to Wordpress seamlessly. There is lot of work to be done if I really want to make this a full featured product. But i'm not too bothered about that at the moment because I achieved what I set out to do. 

Finally I wanted to create a new theme for Wordpress. I developed this theme (I call it "CleanBlue") for an internal test suite at work. After getting good feedback from my colleagues I thought I should do one for Wordpress. I also used few ideas from another very cool theme Sodelicious. But all in all I developed it from scratch. So I am quite proud of it! 

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