Archives: Tech

When & When Not to Fully Discharge Your Batteries?

March 21, 2010 | By Rakhitha | 2 Comments | Filed in: Tech.

I wanted to write this post after reading “Battery Myths” by Foxhound. It was a very nicely written post on the myth of not recharging the battery until it is fully discharged. It made me want to write a post on maintaining rechargeable batteries. But it took me some time to finalize it. This post • Read More »

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Path to SharePoint – A SharePoint Blog Worth Bookmarking

March 17, 2010 | By Rakhitha | No Comments | Filed in: Me, Myself & I, Tech.

I am not a web guy. I have studied php, perl, ASP, ASP.Net, Java Servlets and JSP. I have done few websites with them for fun, studies as well as at my workplace. I have spent about a year working mostly on the web client at my workplace. But I mostly work on desktop and • Read More »

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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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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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