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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.

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 ...

Sometime you can be able to view Data compare menu in you visual studio toolbar. Once you go there and select one option nothing will happen. To get it into work you have to run following command in your VS command prompt. devenv /setup

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.

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.

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 .

Some sections of above book I read few months back and today I got a thought to read it again. There are more than 97 things programmer should know but this is great collection and good prioritized list to follow. No need to read it from top to bottom , can switch to any topic as we like. . Also it’s proud to find one author from Sri Lanka who is Rajith Attapattu

You need to focus following three area to built up a great product and ship it successfully ; Techniques Infrastructure Process The book highlights importance of following areas comes under the tools and infrastructure, Manage Assets , Script Your Build , Build Automatically , Track Issues, Track Features, Use a Testing Harness , On Choosing Tools ,When Not to Experiment. These factors lead  for building a good infrastructure by saving time, and enhancing effectiveness.In the beginning of the chapter two ,it gives nice quote by John Carmack. . . the cost of adding a feature isn’t just the time it takes to code it. The cost also includes the addition of an obstacle to future expansion.. . . the trick is to pick the features that don’t fight each other. Shortly the code should be according to the Open close principle .

Actually this is great concept we can used for improve our coding and also to find the missing areas in our scenario. Find More Concept : Place a rubber duck on your monitor and describe your problems to it. There's something magical about stating your problems aloud that makes the solution more clear.