While working with your computer, no doubt that you wish you could schedule running some application or make the computer do a specific job without you have to stay at computer for hours. For me, I want to shut down the computer automatically at a scheduled time, so that I can sleep without waiting till the computer finish the job. ...

While working with your computer, no doubt that you wish you could schedule running some application or make the computer do a specific job without you have to stay at computer for hours. For me, I want to shut down the computer automatically at a scheduled time, so that I can sleep without waiting till the computer finish the job. ...

Computer technology has become more and more powerful over the last few decades. Yet still there’s a clear margin - actually a gap - between Computers’ (artificial) decision making ability when compared with human intellect. Filling out this gap is one of the most important problems that needs to be addressed, because this digitalizing world requires devices and applications ...

If you are an IT professional who daily interact with the technology, no need to tell how hard it is to keep up with the continually evolving technologies and practices. Often that is the toughest part in leading a career in IT.There are always new emerging concepts and technological breakthroughs, so in order to keep yourself up in the ...

It has already been a month after “IFO++”; the ICT exhibition held by University of Colombo School of Computing. As I told in one of my previous posts, this was planned and organized with the purpose of celebrating the 25th anniversary of Computer Science higher education at University of Colombo. I’m happy and proud to say, the exhibition was a ...

It’s the cricket world cup season! So, all the fans are getting excited, and the game is getting competitive.Cricket is a game where win or loss is defined by a thin margin. Currently, a lot of money is involved in the game and a huge number of spectators are waiting to see a favorable result for their team. Therefore, not ...

It has been a long time since my last post. I was busy with exams, projects and of-course with my first job! Few months back, me and few of my colleagues were working on a project. This was an essential part of our academic curriculum, and luckily, the selection of the topic and the scope was in our purview. So, ...

End of a journey. But still couldn’t believe it! Though this wasn't un-expected, I never anticipated that reaching the end of my undergraduate life would make me this much emotional. Even though we (me and my batch mates - UCSC 6th batch, 2007/2008 intake) are not graduated yet, yesterday was the final remarkable day at university for most of us ...

During my work I had encountered a situation where I need to get a comma separated list as an output from the values in a SQL query result. To elaborate it more, my query returns set of records (multiple records which match a certain criteria) as its result. Then there’s a column which I need to take as a comma ...

If you have experience with SQL Server, you may have heard the terms MDF, NDF and LDF already. Those are the commonly used file name extensions in SQL Server for specify the Primary Data files, Secondary data files and Log files respectively.In SQL Server, data and log information are never stored in the same file. Furthermore, those individual files (primary ...

Computer technology has become more and more powerful over the last few decades. Yet still there’s a clear margin - actually a gap - between Computers’ (artificial) decision making ability compared with human intellect. Filling out this gap is one of the most important problems, since with this digitalizing world it is necessary to make the devices or the ...

Installing Windows 7 from a DVD is the most common way and anyone won’t need any advices on that. Absolutely it is a very straightforward process and what you just need do is following the instructions. But there may be some situations where you need to use a USB as the installation media. For example, some notebook computers doesn’t have ...

If you are an IT professional who daily interact with the technology, no need to tell how hard it is to keep up with the continually evolving technologies and practices. Often that is the toughest part in leading a career in IT. There are always new emerging concepts and technological breakthroughs, so in order to keep yourself up in ...

During my work I had encountered a situation where I need to get a comma separated list as an output from the values in a SQL query result. To elaborate it more, my query returns set of records (multiple records which match a certain criteria) as its result. Then there’s a column which I need to take as a ...

Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 is a flexible business application development tool that can be used with Visual Studio 2010 IDE. It gives you a simplified development environment which give the capability to create CRUD based business applications within few minutes. Typical business application manage data through user interfaces, provide search facilities and provide data validations. Usually, if you want ...

Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 is a flexible business application development tool that can be used with Visual Studio 2010 IDE. It gives you a simplified development environment which give the capability to create CRUD based business applications within few minutes. Typical business application manage data through user interfaces, provide search facilities and provide data validations. Usually, if you want ...

While working with your computer, no doubt that you wish you could schedule running some application or make the computer do a specific job without you have to stay at computer for hours. For me, I want to shut down the computer automatically at a scheduled time, so that I can sleep without waiting till the computer finish the job. ...

End of a journey, But still couldn’t believe it! Though it was already expected, I never realized that end of my undergraduate life would make me this much sad. Even though we (my batch mates, UCSC 6th batch, 2008/2009) are not graduated yet, yesterday was the final remarkable day at university for most of us except our friends who’ll be ...

Recently I was working with some database restoring and configuring stuff. And I was getting errors due to the conflicts on database users, server logins and their permissions. In the ideal scenario, there should be a 'login' in the database server, and a corresponding 'user' for the database. Sometimes people get confused with the difference of these two. But they ...

Recently I was working with some database restoring and configuring stuff. And I was getting errors due to the conflicts on database users, server logins and their permissions. In the ideal scenario, there should be a 'login' in the database server, and a corresponding 'user' for the database. Sometimes people get confused with the difference of these two. But they ...