Archive for March, 2006

I found these ten principles in a mail that I received from a colleague. This was a publication by the Institute For Business, Technology & Ethics.

Treat all employees as unique, valuable individuals – Never treat anyone as though (s)he is dispensable, without value or just a number.
Support each employees freedom, growth and development – Never [...]

Today I was trying to deploy a ASP.NET 2.0 app on my Win XP machine. This machine did not have .NET 2.0 framework or any of .NET 2.0 development tools, hence it is a clean deployment. I faced a few problems upfront, so I thought of recording issues faced and the solution here for greater [...]

I know this I am making somewhat of a late entry. This is not ground breaking stuff at all. But I am happy that I made at least a late entry now.
What am I talking about? I started on .NET 2.0. I have been putting off getting my hands dirty with .NET 2.0 coding for [...]

Workplace Conflict Resolution: People Management Tips: Managing Your Human Resources is a pretty good article on resolving conflicts at workplace. If you are a boss like, you are likely to faced at least one such situation where you would have had to step in to resolve conflicts between people in your team. I have had [...]

A very interesting article; Aspiring Mangers: Do it Your Way on the British Computer Society (BCS) web site re-confirms the basic notion of intention-manifestation.
In this article, which is based on a speech given by David Taylor, author of the Naked Leader series of management books, it is said: “work out where you want to go [...]

If you look around there are plenty of smart people, far more smart people than rich. And if you really look around not all the rich are smart. I mean they are smart, but not as smart as some of the not-rich smart guys. But it is generally accepted that in order to accumulate wealth [...]

If you have developed and deployed .NETCF Pocket PC/Smartphone apps by creating the CAB files, then you would have wanted to do this.
You create the CAB files using ‘Build CAB File’ option. Then you copy the CAB into the device and install it. Now if you go to the Settings -> System Tab -> Remove [...]

This is something I was trying for sometime and the only way I managed to do it earlier was by disabling the datagrid. The other solutions proposed were by sub-classing the datagrid control and by overriding the default behaviour. But I found a better and easy way described in this blog.
I am posting the code snippet [...]

**Ok, I admit that this may be old news and some of you may be using this already. But if you were not aware of this, you may find this very useful. 
I am sure that most of us are used to carrying our files around in a USB flash disk. I am on my third USB [...]

Kottu.org

This blog of mine is now blogrolled on kottu.org, a blog aggregator for Sri Lankan blogs. I have been kottu.org for sometime when I have some time to kill and want to find out what’s going on around town. There are some pretty interesting people there. People who move about the town, and knows what’s [...]

Today, was a good day in a way. I was given a new assignment. It is an opportunity to manage a new project from start to finish. This is a good opportunity in the sense, I get the chance to put my Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) knowledge into practice and to manage it [...]

For the past two weeks or so I had a few experiences of intention-manifestion. I was hoping to get a few meetings to materialize and I made a strong mental need to manifest these meetings. And usually within a few hours of making these intentions, I got calls from teh relevant parties confirming the meetings.
So [...]