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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 every week and during the last few weeks, a few times during a week as well. I am not complaining about anything. I was happy to be reminded as that was helping me stay on course. For some strange reason, I never felt pressurized by the responsibility. I felt completely at ease.

I even volunteered to push one of the projects which was due to finish in April into March, in order to be able to invoice this year. And I am happy that I was able to meet the targets. My team also delivered. It was them who felt pressured and worked their butts out in order to deliver on time. Thank you guys! you stood tall and delivered!

Now that we achieved the financial targets for this year, from Tuesday on, I will have to start planning for the financial targets for 2007 now that we have secured more work and the securities project set to go live in the coming months.

I would never have believed it if it hadn’t appeared on the front page of the Sunday Observer.

“…under the prevailing laws carrying a condom is still illegal and those carrying condoms would be subjected to a fine…”

“In Sri Lanka, a woman with a condom can be arrested by the police and this is a hindrance in popularising condoms…”

Hindrance? HINDRANCE? Are you on crack? This is a freakin’ outrage. The Ministry of Watcha-ma-callit is trying to popularize the use of condoms but it’s still illegal? Exactly how many such un-enforced laws do we have in this country? Next thing you know, they may dig up an old law book which says it’s illegal to… oh never mind. And while I’m at it:

“Talking about condoms with politicians is still a difficult task in Sri Lanka…”

So what exactly are “condoms with politicians” and why is it so hard to talk about them? Well, anyway, I gotta get back to work.

Hmm Here is a picture of my firefox T-shirt. Sent to me free by Firefox crew.
If you like to hear the story, here is it.
I got some money from an affiliate progarm. Got 26$ and I had to have a paypal account to get that. As a lankan Payapal is dream 4 me. Aked fo help from Aza Dotzler & Nazly. You know both helped me. Aza sent me a T-shirt through Rhian Bakers & Nazly has finally got the T shirt throgh his friend.

I’d like to thank Az,Rhian & Nazly & also Nazly’s friend Shosu. Love you guys .

[Fox Rox but unfortunately Firefox 2.0 doesn’t work (May be it’s after the upgrade). Better try downloading 2.0.0.3 coz Have no time to hack around & fix things]

In our current project I came up with a situation where in needed to filter some values in a generic List. So I used generic’s FindAll method. Its very powerful way to find elements that we want in a generic collection. and it’s use a Predicate to do all the filtering part  . Here is an example of to use the FindAll method. I think is will be useful to the people who work with generic collections . using this you don’t need to use a foreach loop

Ex:-
Let’s assume we have a generic list of USER Object, and USER object has properties call FullName (string), Age(int) And isActive(bool) . So let’s think we get list (LIST<t>) of user objects from a method call GetAllUsers, so our code  will be like

 List<User> ListUsers = GetAllUsers();

Ok now we want List of users that are only active. So to this where we can use the   FindAll method

List< User > ListActiveUSers = ListUsers.FindAll(ActiveUsersOnly);

Predicate<User> ActiveUsersOnly = delegate(User user)
    {
        return user.isActive == true;
    };

Here we call the FindAll method for the ListUsers’s List, it take a Predicate as the parameter. So in the Predicate deligate what we have to do is create a user object and check of the condition we want pass. So here it will check with each element of our old list and the elements that match will save in a return list.

This is a real performance booster and time saver