End of the Financial Year

March 30, 2007 in Management, Project Management, Raves

It is the 30th of March. The end of the financial year. I had a few targets to meet, to ensure that the company meets the revenue targets set for the year.
We were following up on the projects that were planned to be closed for this year very closely. We were reminded of the targets [...]

Google Calendar – yet another calendaring app???

March 23, 2007 in Web

I am sure most of us who have used Google beyond the searching platform would have had a look at Google Calendar (GCal). I did too and then thought to myself, why would I want to enter my diary again into another application. I mean, not that my schedule was packed, I was already using [...]

Dinara’s day out

March 22, 2007 in Personal

We took our baby Dinara on a small trip today. There were some pledges which were made before her birth, when Lushi was pregnant. Those were to be fulfilled after the baby passes her third month birthday. Now that our D is more than four months old, we thought it was high time to fulfill [...]

Connecting to SQL Server Express from a Pocket PC application

March 20, 2007 in .NET, Pocket PC, Software Development

I was recently trying to do a small sample application with SQL Express and Pocket PC’s. Basically I wanted to try out a code to automatically synchronize with a database running on a network, when the application was cradled.
My solution was very simple. I used a dataset in the PPC application and updated to and [...]

Sri Lankan classifieds web sites

March 11, 2007 in General

One thing I like doing on Sunday is to go through the classifieds. Not because I am looking for something to buy. But because, I like to figure out the market value of things and at the same time to figure out what’s in demand.
When it comes to the web, the classifieds web sites for [...]