Books ToRead

eleven minutes - paulo coelho


jhumpa lahiri's The Namesake
The NoteBook by Nicholas Sparks.
i am reading "The Prophet" by Kahlil Gibran.
 The Splendor of Silence - Indu Sundaresan.

butter chicken in Ludhiana" by Pankaj Mishra ...
.those small lil things by rahul saina
pride and prejudice
The Road to Omaha by Robert Ludlum.......
Corruption in India by N. Vitta
diamond sutras
Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham
100years of solitude
far from the madding crowd
jonathan livingston seagull-rachard bach

my read
ry Zen And the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert M. Pirsig
THE FOUNTAIN HEAD
ATLAS SHRUGGED by AYN RAND

Power of Now,
A monk who sold his Ferrari,
The alchemist,
Seven spiritual laws of success.

indian books

'The Great Indian Novel
Mistry is " A Fine Balance"
unheard voices by harsh mande
An ordinary person's guide to Empire


fiction

Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
'India after Gandhi', the book written by Ramachandra Guha
7 habits of highly effective people by Stephen R. Covey
The monk who sold his ferrari !!

dekho
indominatable spirit
walking with the tigers
who eat that frog
the economist
who says elephant cant dance


rich dad poor dad


paul coelho
LIKE THE FLOWING RIVER

Wings of Fire --- Abdul Kalam
The Fountainhead -Aynn Rand
Atlas Shrugged... 1080 pgs...

An old man , A Young man,& LiFe's Greatest Lesson

short stories by gulzar. stories which can make you speechless.

It happened in India -kishore biyani

A Better India, A Better World By NR Narayana Murthy



Don't Ask Any Old Bloke for Direction: A Biker's Whimsical Journey Across India

Finding a Purpose in Life: 26 People Who Inspired the World

Remaking Higher Education: Essays in Dissent

Bazaars, Conversations & Freedom

What Did You Ask at School Today?

Some Random Bookmars (Very Old And Preserved For So Long)

http://www.startvbdotnet.com/ado/default.aspx

read about adonet. testing docs

www.c#station.com

how to improve performance of your website
http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html {good website}

w3.org good website
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/links.html#h-12.3

cookies ..good xplanation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie
http://www.csharp-station.com/Tutorials/AdoDotNet/Lesson04.aspx

webservices
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue29/gardner/

how to check a website
http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/webmatters/checklist.html

another checking website link
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum10/771.htm
http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/webmatters/whatnojs.html

software testing : good links
http://www.robdavispe.com/free2/

software testing: good site
http://www.sqatester.com/methodology/PositiveandNegativeTesting.htm

c programming;
http://www.cprogramming.com/tutorial/lesson16.html

testing question and answers
http://www.allinterview.com/showanswers/7077.html
http://www.allinterview.com/showanswers/70616.html


uttranchal music
http://www.readers-cafe.net/uttaranchal/category/kumaoni-music/

indian startusp
http://www.pluggd.in

social entrupenurs
http://socialentrepreneurs.typepad.com/the_school_for_social_ent/2009/07/social-media-for-social-impact-for-social-entrepreneurs.html

Uttaranchal: Dilemma Of Plenties And Scarcities
http://books.google.com.sg/books?id=ct6YMRvYJQ4C&pg=PA100&lpg=PA100&dq=rearing+cattle+in+uttaranchal&source=bl&ots=YtiMvcAVkO&sig=Fqce2c3yIdGcmuXUEhgMsrSY7vU&hl=en&ei=GlGXSq3hAafW6gPH7NDMBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2#v=onepage&q=rearing%20cattle%20in%20uttaranchal&f=false

cyclking
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPOS9b1yIYE&feature=PlayList&p=BA18F108F979EB05&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=7
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhE9ahpyIHM&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a25vC5zsf6A

epals
http://www.epals.com/esearch/?jmp=p8&uencode=no&es=st%3Dbs%26cou%3Din%26ixp%3D10%26cf%3D10

new trends in india
http://window2india.com/cms/admin/article.jsp?aid=4829

vishwajeet!!1

startups/entupunership
http://everydayentrepreneurs.blogspot.com/2006/09/review-bootstrappers-bible-seth-godin.html

books

bootstrappers bible - seth godin

7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill'

Built to Last : Successful Habits of Visionary Companies

# Iacocca - Lee Iacocca

# Losing my Virginity - Richard Branson

# Maverick - Ricardo Semler (not exactly an autobiography)

# My experiments with truth - M. K. Gandhi

2. The Wealth of Man - just started on this one. It's breathtaking in it's sweep of the human endeavor from the start of agrarian economies to the modern day knowledge economy.

. On Equilibrium -

1. The Wealth and Poverty of Nations

'Emotional Intelligence' by Daniel Goleman

Arthur C. Brooks’s Social Entrepreneurship: A Modern Approach to Social Value

Social Entrepreneurs - The Change Makers, Kumar K B S, 8131411898.

Social Entrepreneurship: Concepts, Cases And Experiences

socal entupunership
http://www.sankalpforum.com/
http://www.thinkchangeindia.org/2009/05/17/india-needs-social-entrepreneurs-and-social-intrapreneursh-to-fight-recession/
http://blog.wakeupindia.org/2009/01/changeindia-leading-from-the-front/
http://kumarsbol.blogspot.com/2009/07/thoughts-on-social-entrepreneurship.html
http://socialentrepreneurs.typepad.com/the_school_for_social_ent/books/
http://socialenterprisefocus.blogspot.com/2009/02/10-online-resources-for-social.html
http://managementhelp.org/books/socentrep-bks.htm
http://www.socialedge.org/features/resources/social-entrepreneurship/books-and-articles-on-social-entrepreneurship

Arundhati Roy

http://www.csharp-station.com/Tutorials/Lesson14.aspx

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/aspnet/dynamicThemes.aspx

css float tutorial
http://css.maxdesign.com.au/floatutorial/


this is alos a great site
http://www.vectorform.com/silverlight/blog/

silver light //really great site man follow i t
http://www.silverlightcream.com/
http://geekswithblogs.net/WynApseTechnicalMusings/Default.aspx

50 Sites That Will Help You To Become a Better Designer
http://dzineblog.com/2009/04/50-sites-that-will-help-you-to-become-a-better-designer-part-1.html

www.sitepoint.com

great articles

another silverlight example great site
http://www.silverlightshow.net/items/Image-slider-control-in-Silverlight-1.1.aspx

Ken's Silverlight, WPF, and C# Techie Blog
http://kenwatts.blogspot.com/2008/08/digital-logic-simulator-in-silverlight.html

a great blog on silverlight examples
http://www.cynergysystems.com/blogs/page/josefajardo
http://www.chromazone-imaging.co.uk/flashindex.html

item control image scroller
http://www.silverlightshow.net/items/Custom-controls-Weather-forecast-control-Part-1-Introduction.aspx

Multicasting with Silverlight 3 Local Messaging
http://dvanderboom.wordpress.com/category/silverlight/

Using the Grid control in Silverlight 2
http://www.silverlightshow.net/items/Using-the-Grid-control-in-Silverlight-2-Beta-1.aspx

Asp.net Articles

Master Pages: Tips, Tricks, and Traps
http://odetocode.com/articles/450.aspx

asp.net page life cycle
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms972976.aspx
http://www.theserverside.net/tt/articles/showarticle.tss?id=IIS_ASP
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms178472.aspx
http://weblogs.asp.net/infinitiesloop/archive/2008/03/24/onload-vs-page-load-vs-load-event.aspx

Serving Dynamic Content with HTTP Handlers
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms972953.aspx
How to: Determine How ASP.NET Web Pages Were Invoked 

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms178141%28VS.80%29.aspx


Implementing Client Callbacks Programmatically Without Postbacks in ASP.NET Web Pages
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms178208.aspx

Script Callbacks in ASP.NET

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163941.aspx

ASP.NET Page Life Cycle Overview
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms178472.aspx

some Useful Blogs

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/7c5ka91b.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/brada/archive/2005/01/26/361363.aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms731069.aspx

How is a Request Processes (IIS articles)

http://www.theserverside.net/tt/articles/index.tss
http://www.theserverside.net/tt/articles/showarticle.tss?id=IIS_ASP
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms972974.aspx#
http://www.west-wind.com/Weblog/posts/2287.aspx

CallBacks in WCF

http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/john_charles/CallbackoperationsinWindowsCommunicationFoundation.aspx

http://idunno.org/archive/2008/05/29/wcf-callbacks-a-beginners-guide.aspx#related-results

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms734653%28v=VS.90%29.aspx

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/76364/what-is-the-single-most-effective-thing-you-did-to-improve-your-programming-skill
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1959295/i-cant-create-a-clear-picture-of-implementing-oops-concepts-though-i-understand

ASP.net MVC

All mvc here (25) lines post (DO check for Brad Wilson ,Eric ,Scott for MVC)
http://www.weirdlover.com/2010/07/01/the-big-boy-mvc-series-part-22-whoop/

MVC tips
http://haacked.com/archive/2010/05/05/asp-net-mvc-tabular-display-template.aspx

MVC Blogs
http://www.lostechies.com/blogs/jimmy_bogard/archive/2009/06/29/how-we-do-mvc-view-models.aspx
http://mvcsharp.wordpress.com/category/html-helpers/
http://www.lostechies.com/blogs/jimmy_bogard/archive/2009/06/29/how-we-do-mvc-view-models.aspx

view model & mvc
http://www.lostechies.com/blogs/jimmy_bogard/archive/2009/06/29/how-we-do-mvc-view-models.aspx
http://weblogs.asp.net/rashid/archive/2009/04/01/asp-net-mvc-best-practices-part-1.aspx


Unit Testing in MVC
http://dotnetslackers.com/articles/aspnet/aspnetmvcframeworkpart2.aspx

ASP.NET Portal
http://msdnstage.redmond.corp.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb400852%28v=VS.90%29.aspx



UML Associations
http://www.agilemodeling.com/artifacts/classDiagram.htm#Associations

Design Patterns and UML Basics

UML bASCIS
http://cnx.org/content/m11658/latest/

Design Patterns
http://www.blogtoplist.com/rss/design-patterns.html
http://www.dofactory.com/Patterns/Patterns.aspx
http://www.unwesen.de/articles/design-patterns

all desing Patterns
http://dotnetwithme.blogspot.com/search/label/Design%20Patterns


C# coding Standards
http://www.csharpfriends.com/articles/getarticle.aspx?articleid=336
http://weblogs.asp.net/lhunt/archive/2010/08/10/the-pitfalls-of-gdd-addiction.aspx#comments

When Should I deploy assemblies in GAC
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2451123/when-should-i-deploy-my-assemblies-into-the-gac


http://www.objectmentor.com/resources/articles/dip.pdf
http://butunclebob.com/ArticleS.UncleBob.PrinciplesOfOod

C# Blog

C# Functionality
http://www.dijksterhuis.org/10-c-coding-shorthands-that-improve-productivity/

genric sorting /Comparing two elements using IComparer
http://www.dijksterhuis.org/sorting-generic-lists/

C# EnterPrise Library (Every Thing about it )
http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/Articles/Default.aspx?ArticleId=e72daaf9-e4cd-4e4f-baab-958e694226cf

Asynchronous I/O Operations
http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/logisimo/107252009003250AM/1.aspx

Memory Leaks in C#
http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/shivprasadk/BestPractices509292009045327AM/BestPractices5.aspx

Oops Principles

The Liskov Substitution Principle

Derived classes must be substitutable for their base classes.



dEPENDENY iNVERSION
A. HIGH LEVEL MODULES SHOULD NOT DEPEND UPON LOW
LEVEL MODULES. BOTH SHOULD DEPEND UPON ABSTRACTIONS.
B. ABSTRACTIONS SHOULD NOT DEPEND UPON DETAILS. DETAILS
SHOULD DEPEND UPON ABSTRACTIONS.



OOPS Principle Redifiened
http://butunclebob.com/ArticleS.UncleBob.PrinciplesOfOod
http://www.objectmentor.com/resources/publishedArticles.html





The Interface Segregation Principle (ISP)
CLIENTS SHOULD NOT BE FORCED TO DEPEND UPON INTERFACES
THAT THEY DO NOT USE.
When clients are forced to depend upon interfaces that they don’t use, then those clients
are subject to changes to those interfaces. This results in an inadvertent coupling between
all the clients. Said another way, when a client depends upon a class that contains interfaces
that the client does not use, but that other clients do use, then that client will be
affected by the changes that those other clients force upon the class.



The Common Reuse Principle (CRP)
THE CLASSES IN A PACKAGE ARE REUSED TOGETHER. IF YOU
REUSE ONE OF THE CLASSES IN A PACKAGE, YOU REUSE THEM
ALL.

How to Improve your code Quality,Better Programmer

Version Control like svn, or git, ...

automated build a build definition that works without manual steps is really important

UnitTesting to start implementing testing

a incident database to track bugs and requirements

if you have implemented all of the above start thinking about

code metrics like codecoverage of the unittests, qualitymetrics, ...

A continuus integrationsserver like hudson to generate nightly builds and testruns

more automated teststing like loadtests, regtressiontests, ...

Desing GuideLine (bookmark_11 Oct)

OOPS Concepts
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1959295/i-cant-create-a-clear-picture-of-implementing-oops-concepts-though-i-understand


Design Guidelines
Internal Coding Guidelines
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/brada/archive/2005/01/26/361363.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/czefa0ke%28v=VS.71%29.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/kcwalina/archive/tags/design+guidelines/

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/kcwalina/archive/tags/design+guidelines/

How do you convert a string into an enum?
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tims/archive/2004/04/02/106310.aspx


The MARS ROVER problem
http://thefundoowriter.wordpress.com/2009/10/01/the-mars-rover-problem/
http://shekup.blogspot.com/2010/05/interview-questions-when-5-or-6-years.html


Unit Testing With Visual Studio
http://www.softwaretestingnet.com/2010/03/unit-testing-with-visual-studio-team.html
http://www.packtpub.com/article/ensuring-quality-unit-testing-microsoft-visual-studio-2010#more
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vstsqualitytools/archive/2009/09/04/extending-the-visual-studio-unit-test-type-part-1.aspx


Attributes Every .NET Developer Should Know About
http://www.devcurry.com/2010/10/attributes-every-net-developer-should.html

Chain Extension Methods in .NET
http://www.devcurry.com/2010/08/chain-extension-methods-in-net.html

Pex and Mooles
http://coolthingoftheday.blogspot.com/2010/10/interested-in-pex-moles-wish-you-could.html

xtreme Programming
http://xprogramming.com/xpmag/whatisxp#whole

BackGroundWorker
http://weblogs.asp.net/rosherove/articles/BackgroundWorker.aspx

ALM(Application life cycle management)

http://notgartner.wordpress.com/2010/10/10/the-case-of-the-burn-up-chart-the-importance-of-release-planning/

http://teamsystemrocks.com/page/2/



Load Testing
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/buckh/archive/2006/12.aspx


wcf using certificates  for autheticaion
http://notgartner.wordpress.com/2007/09/06/using-certificate-based-authentication-and-protection-with-windows-communication-foundation-wcf/
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/brada/archive/2005/01/26/361363.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/czefa0ke%28v=VS.71%29.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/kcwalina/archive/tags/design+guidelines/

DesignGuidelines
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/kcwalina/archive/tags/design+guidelines/

How do you convert a string into an enum?
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tims/archive/2004/04/02/106310.aspx


The MARS ROVER problem
http://thefundoowriter.wordpress.com/2009/10/01/the-mars-rover-problem/
http://shekup.blogspot.com/2010/05/interview-questions-when-5-or-6-years.html


Unit Testing With Visual Studio
http://www.softwaretestingnet.com/2010/03/unit-testing-with-visual-studio-team.html
http://www.packtpub.com/article/ensuring-quality-unit-testing-microsoft-visual-studio-2010#more
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vstsqualitytools/archive/2009/09/04/extending-the-visual-studio-unit-test-type-part-1.aspx


Attributes Every .NET Developer Should Know About
http://www.devcurry.com/2010/10/attributes-every-net-developer-should.html

Chain Extension Methods in .NET
http://www.devcurry.com/2010/08/chain-extension-methods-in-net.html


Pex and Mooles
http://coolthingoftheday.blogspot.com/2010/10/interested-in-pex-moles-wish-you-could.html

xtreme Programming
http://xprogramming.com/xpmag/whatisxp#whole

BackGroundWorker
http://weblogs.asp.net/rosherove/articles/BackgroundWorker.aspx

ALM(Application life cycle management)
http://notgartner.wordpress.com/2010/10/10/the-case-of-the-burn-up-chart-the-importance-of-release-planning/
http://teamsystemrocks.com/page/2/

Load Testing
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/buckh/archive/2006/12.aspx

wcf using certificates  for autheticaion
http://notgartner.wordpress.com/2007/09/06/using-certificate-based-authentication-and-protection-with-windows-communication-foundation-wcf/