Here is the 2010 list, made based on the 2010 desk calander published at http://documents.gov.lk
Note that the Poya days are no longer shown as mercantile holidays, same as in the gov.lk calander.
If you don’t know what to do with the following list, please see the 2008 Sri Lanka Holidays post for instructions on adding this [...]
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2010 Sri Lanka holidays for Microsoft Outlook
2009 Sri Lanka holidays for Microsoft Outlook
The New Year is just around the corner, and it looks like some folks just like to prepare for it in advance. So for the pleasure of those of you who like to have your Microsoft Outlook calendar ready for the next year, I’m posting the 2009 Sri Lanka holidays list a little earlier than [...]
Combating SQL Injection: Free tools
Earlier this week Microsoft IIS team released its URLScan 3.0 (beta) to help fight SQL injection attacks at the Web Server, now Microsoft has put
out another tool, this time in the form of a Code Analyzer. Microsoft Source Code Analyzer for SQL Injection should help out to quickly analyze and secure any existing ASP
code.
Microsoft Source [...]
Escaping SQL injection attacks
Those nasty SQL Injection attacks have not stopped. They’ve probably just started!
If you’re still in the process of going through your SQL code and making sure it’s not susceptible to SQL injection attacks that means your websites are still wide open to the attack.
However not to worry, the Microsoft IIS team has come to the [...]
2008 Sri Lanka holidays for Microsoft Outlook
Since Merill has migrated to Australia, it looks like he wont be positing his usual “Add 200x Sri Lanka Holidays” to Outlook post this year. So this year I’ve compiled the list of holidays, and copied the instructions on how to add them into Outlook. Hope this helps.
Holidays
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Windows logging out immediately after logging in
Recently a friend of mine complained that he was unable to login into his PC. Windows kept logging him out just after validating the user name and password.In summary this is what happened (Windows XP Professional)-Booted up the PC. The Windows login screen appears without any problem.-Entered valid domain accounts/local accounts with and without administrative [...]
Why Google is loosing market share
I was surprised that Microsoft Live Search had managed to gain market share from Google and Yahoo according to recent comScore ratings. It was attributed to the Live Search Club. A place where you play games, earn tickets and get prizes.
The games were setup with a search box at the bottom so that when you [...]
How to: Delete old [log] files.
Here is a little command that I came across when I was looking for a quick and easy way to delete some old log files from my system.
C:\>forfiles /?
FORFILES [/P pathname] [/M searchmask] [/S] [/C command] [/D [+ | -] {MM/dd/yyyy | dd}]
Description: Selects a file (or set of files) and executes a command [...]
Innovation Surfaces From Microsoft
A very exciting technology that Microsoft calls “Microsoft Surface” was unveiled at the All Things Digital conference by Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer. It’s a “coffee table” that not only is a multi touch interface but it can also recognize what’s kept on it.
Although multi-touch interfaces like the ones that Jeff Han from Perceptive [...]
How to enable HTTP compression [IIS6]
Recently I had some time to look into the built-in HTTP compression abilities that IIS6 has. There seemed to be too much incorrect/misleading information floating around on this subject, especially about things like needing “Web Service Extension” and about dynamic compression not working without enabling static compression and so on, so this is me trying to [...]