Starting a new life

I was reading up an interview by former first lady Laura Bush. One of the things that struck me is how humble they have been in their private life. I really cannot see in my mind former president riding on his bicycle up and down his neighborhood to meet his neighbors. Really amazing!

According to former first lady, the current first lady gave her a journal during their farewell tea party with inscription,

‘There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.’ – Louis L’Amour

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How true. So many times I keep looking at the closed door ignoring the fact that for each door closed to us multiple new doors opens.

 

 

C# pirates

Yesterday I came across a wonderful coding challenge. C# pirates is a game developed by software architects. Basically you need to write a player and upload your player to their site to compete against other players. The game is a simple game and does not really need any knowledge about writing gaming software.

I believe that “Idle mind is devils workshop”. When I feel bored then I do more damage to my own self, so keeping my mind busy with some interesting problem is to keep problems at bay.

Personal productivity quotes

J. D. Meier has a nice collection of personal productivity quotes

I really struggle with

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. ” – Lao Tzu

Need to work really hard on my procrastination problem.

.NET Application architecture videos on web

J. D. Meier has compiled an extensive list of videos to watch .NET Application architecture videos on web. Enjoy!

How to write a short e-book

I have been thinking about how to spell out some of the ideas that i have regarding development, investing etc. Writing a book seems a natural way because it not only puts the idea out but clarifies the thinking as well. But writing a book seems like a very big project.

Seth Godwin describes “How to make an ebook“,

Also some good resources can be found at “A simple guide to compiling a free ebook“

I got the idea from J. D. Meier’s Zen of result free e-book

Hope someday i will have clear idea as to what i need to write on. Then these resources will help a lot.

How to post C# code in wordpress

This is a code is generated using c# code format at manoli.net But wordpress does not allow to include the necessary CSS files to be included in the header. For that you need to pay 4 cents a day. So i created a image file out of it (using paint) and published it. This is the most inefficient way of publishing code. I did this to see the results. Looks great!! Hope i don’t need to do this in future.

Publishing C# code by copying pasting directly from Visual studio into w.blogger

Hello here is some code using w.blogger. I really liked the way it works, no need to store the posts locally you can retrieve published posts and edit them and re-publish them. It’s cool!. My only concern is when i copy paste code from visual studio it removes the indentation. catch (Exception ex) { throw new Exception (“An unexpected error occurred while creating the reject message.”, ex); } finally { reject = null; header = null; reject = null; header = null; senderCompID = null; targetCompID = null; doc = null; }