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Twenty Ten Last Day

Today is the last day of this year..This will be the last post in this year . Lot of things happened in this year and already every things has added to our life as a experience. For everybody……         HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Importance of good user message

Problem Company 1 Dear Valued Customer,Your Mobile invoice value for [date] is Rs[Amount] & the total outstanding value at date is Rs[Amount]. Thank you. Our record indicate an overdue of Rs.[][date] pls settle the same by date to enjoy uninterrupted services.Pls ignore if settled. Company 2 Dear Valued customer,Your bill dated date is now due.Please make payment.if already settled pls ignore this sms. Given messages are received from two different telecom company in Sri Lanka when there is a due payment . Mistake The way messages has presented is different .In company 1 first reminder message sends very polite manner. but it’s second message is not polite it directly gives the message . But message is informative but company 2 message is very polite and short but it s not informative.When reading, user gets two different impression over the message. Lesson Learned So good message should polite,short and informative.

Appreciation

Today I got this touching email: One young academically excellent person went to apply for a managerial position in a big company. He passed the first interview, the director did the last interview, made the last decision. The director discovered from the CV,  that the youth's academic result is excellent all the way, from the secondary school until the postgraduate research, never has a year he did not score. The director asked, "Did you obtain any scholarship in school?" and the youth answered "none". The director asked, " Is it your father pay for your school fees?" the youth answered, my father passed away when I was one year old, it is my mother who paid for my school fees. The director asked, " Where did your mother worked?" the youth answered, my mother worked as cloth cleaner. The director requested the youth to show his hand, the youth showed a pair of hand that is smooth and perfect to the ...

Chain of Responsibility Pattern

This pattern I used for handling scenario as follows; Applying permission on user to view some data is based on many criteria and those are having a sequence. By Appling this chain of responsibility pattern I could able to arrange the code nice manner , very easy to add new criteria as well as change the sequence.

Organized well

In your desktop where is your taskbar? Most of them keep it as default . That is in bottom of the screen like this. Till few months back I also kept as that manner. But now I have positioned it right side of the screen. By keeping in this position its is very comfortable to access the list . High number of items can be arranged in this position in a very organized manner. If you are using wide screen, this is the effective position to use the maximum use of the screen. Following screen gives idea of comparison of the positions. Other than those when positioning the task bar we should concern about followings; Continually remove unwanted items, otherwise cant directly access the what we want so it will be a time consuming task. Arrange the width of the task bar up to user preference. Enjoy the right side arrangement of the taskbar.

Before You Refactor

Refactoring need to be done by every programmer and it leads to have a maintainable code base.Rajith Attapattu has highlighted very good points when doing refactoring The best approach for restructuring starts by taking stock of the existing codebase and the tests written against that code. Avoid the temptation to rewrite everything. Many incremental changes are better than one massive change. Many incremental changes are better than one massive change. New technology is an insufficient reason to refactor. New technology is an insufficient reason to refactor. Remember that humans make mistakes. Other than above, good practices can be found in here .