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Tech Job Hunting in Sri Lanka – Part 2 – To the Interview and Beyond!

February 26, 2010 | By Rakhitha | 4 Comments | Filed in: employment, Sri Lanka, Tech.

This is the sequel to my earlier post “Tech Job Hunting in Sri Lanka – Part 1 – Getting that Interview!“. If you haven’t read the first post yet, please read it before you continue. That will probably change your mind bout reading this one. Part 1 was my thoughts about the application process. This • Read More »

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Tech Job Hunting in Sri Lanka – Part 1 – Getting that Interview!

February 26, 2010 | By Rakhitha | 4 Comments | Filed in: employment, Sri Lanka, Tech.

These days there are so many people looking for jobs. But only few are hiring. If you find one, it’s even harder to keep it. Whether you get to keep the job or not does not depend only on your performance. It depends on your employers performance too.  If you lose yours, don’t get too • Read More »

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Software Quality & Marketing

February 23, 2010 | By Rakhitha | No Comments | Filed in: Tech.

This is not a full article. I am writing this because this is something I wanted to share. Few days back I came across this article named “Headcount” on Joel on Software.  In the article Joel Spolsky talks about a common myth that most of us programmers share. And he goes on to discuss how • Read More »

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Eton or Not…!

February 21, 2010 | By Rakhitha | 6 Comments | Filed in: Royal College.

This is bit of an old news. I was planning to write something on this some time back but could not find time. If you have studied or are studying in Royal College you already know this. It’s about the articles on BBC News website and Lakbima News Online Edition. If you have no clue • Read More »

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Outlook Could Have Done Better!

February 18, 2010 | By Rakhitha | 1 Comment | Filed in: Tech.

I have used MS Outlook 2007 for some time now. And I had no complains until I try to send a large attachment through it. It was too large to send in one mail because GMail has 25Mb attachment limit. I break it up to 20Mb files using winzip and sent in number of mails. • Read More »

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Outsource…..!

February 18, 2010 | By Rakhitha | 1 Comment | Filed in: Education, employment, Sri Lanka.

Assignments, Student Projects, Assignment…! We all have gone through that hell. If you are too young to say that well just hang on your turn will come. Some of us copy pasted stuff from web, and we helped each other to do the assignment. If you are lucky enough you may have been offered money • Read More »

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