Gayan's Personal Blog

Horana CTB Employees on work stoppage demanding salary. Employees attached to Horana CTB Depot have gone on strike demanding their salaries and overtime payments on schedule. This has caused transport difficulties in the area. The employees point out they were compelled to take this action as there was no response to their continuous requests for a fixed payment schedule.

H. E. John Rankin, British High Commissioner to Sri Lanka and the Maldives, visited the operations of two UK-based garment companies in Sri Lanka – Coats Thread and Quantum Clothing. The High Commissioner visited the factories of the two companies in Horana town, in order to get an insight into customer-supplier cooperation between the two companies. This is my first visit to a garment factory in Sri Lanka. I think Sri Lankan products continue to be in high demand in the clothing sector in the United Kingdom, especially with higher end quality products for which it is renowned. I have been impressed by what I have seen here in terms of the quality and the production and labour conditions are great here and along with that the connection between the UK and Sri Lanka continues to get stronger, stated the High Commissioner

1) If possible, do more than one thing at the same time. (listen to edu tapes while travel) 2) Don't do something later if it can be done concurrently with an activity at present. (if two works can done same time do both, like shopping+dentist at same out) 3) Be organized in everything that you do.(hav a list of things you have to do, hav goal today, this week, month, year, life...) 4) Finish a work then and there(reply to an email when read it) 5) clean your desk everyday!!! (clean ur desktop, inbox, sms in 5 mintues) 6) Take breaks of 5-8 minutes every hour. Do exercises!! Dont!!! 1) Do not do something you dont need to do (checking email if you dont need to)

I just participated for a seminar about FAST protocol . Actually it was a Technical brief about the FAST protocol done by Mr.Daya Fernando of milleniumIT  at Colombo Stock Exchange auditorium. I am the assigned person to implement market data reading application for Mobitel. One interesting thing about FAST is that it used to keep “previous value” : where to keep this value is called “Dictionary”. Nother thing in this protocol something called “Presence Map” is used as the indicator of the interaction between template, dictionary and transmitted data. Wooo.. there is lot to learn about the protocol I guess…. Have to spend hours with specs.. save me!! If you guys know anything related which will be important to me, pls comment.

I just started an application to read data feed of The Financial Information eXchange ("FIX") Protocol. FIX is the industry-driven messaging standard that is changing the face of the global financial services sector... In Automated Trading System(ATS) of the Colombo Stock Exchange(CSE),ensures the validity of the incoming orders from broker systems and uses the Financial Information eXchange ( FIX ) Protocol to communicate with any third party software. The interface provides the mechanism for brokers to interface their internet order processing module and their broker back office systems to the Trading System. Serial Data Feed The data vendors obtain market updates from two serial data feeds that are available in the system Just start learning abt FIX and looking for 'better' JAVA libry to read FIX protocol.. if you guys know anything pls giv me a sup!

I tried to make a report to see a list of total records, grouped by month: Which i found from articles: SELECT Sum(someValues)  FROM Table  GROUP BY Year(date_feild), Month(date_feild), Day(date_feild)  what i wrote first: select count(*),Year(entered_on) ,Month(entered_on)  from receipt_table group by 2,3 I end up with: select Year(entered_on) as Year,Month(entered_on) as Month,count(*)  from receipt_table group by 1,2 order by 1,2 any comments guys?

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