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The Alchemist presents inspirational story of a Shepard boy who chases his recurring dream which later turns out to be his personal legend. The story is told in a steady pace where the boy goes through set of experiences that build one top of another. Its message simply is that the universe helps all those who are chasing their dreams and encourages others to do it as well. Very easy read I recommend it.

Writing unit tests often requires access internal classes and methods of another assembly. InternalsVisibleTo attribute provides clean way of accomplishing this. In the target assembly whose internal classes and members need to exposed specify it in the following way. .[assembly: InternalsVisibleTo( "MyUnitTestAssembly,PublicKey=002400000480000094… 26e0b3" )]

I came across this article by Dijkstra. While reading this article I found it quite relevant to some day to day situations even now. Sometimes we discover unpleasant truths. Whenever we do so, we are in difficulties: suppressing them is scientifically dishonest, so we must tell them, but telling them, however, will fire back on us. If the truths are sufficiently impalatable, our audience is psychically incapable of accepting them and we will be written off as totally unrealistic, hopelessly idealistic, dangerously revolutionary, foolishly gullible or what have you. (Besides that, telling such truths is a sure way of making oneself unpopular in many circles, and, as such, it is an act that, in general, is not without personal risks. Vide Galileo Galilei…..) Rest of the article

Twilight Children: Three Voices No One Heard Until a Therapist Listened I finished reading shocking novel today, I picked it up based on recommendation from our local libray’s good reads. The novel Twilight Children: Three Voices No One Heard is written by Torey Haden who works with children in a hospital. This book is well written. Tony brings the stories of these unlucky children into the readers mind slowly by sharing the intimate details of their plight. I never read any child abuse articles. This is really shocking to me that such things do happen and how cruel the world is to these kids. I am especially saddened by the story of Cassandra. May she have a long fulfilled life. Drake’s story is really unfortunate. Somehow I relate the grandfather to someone in my own family. But the father seems really not concerned with him until the very end of the book. I am not sure how much author really know about him. Overall a good book.

Until recently I haven’t heard about these until a use case came up which required SAN certificates. Lets say you have a site that has DNS name mysite.com which uses SSL. You wanted to create another DNS name for your site myothersite.com. You do not want to create another instance of the site but wanted to bind to the existing site. This is where SAN certificates are useful. In this case you can obtain SSL cert that contains mysite.com as the subject and myothersite.com as the Subject Alternate Name. Neat!.

Based on the work of Carl Jung   people can be described as a combination of four communication styles. Red: Aggressive Blue: Deliberate Green: Considerate Yellow: Outgoing  

This is the opening song from Enterprise. It's been a long road Getting from there to here. It's been a long time but my time is finally near. And I will see my dreams come alive at last   I would touch the sky. and they're not gonna hold me down no more no they're not gonna change my mind. (CHORUS) Cause I've got faith of the heart, going where my heart will take me I've got faith to believe. I can do anything. I’ve got strength of the soul, No one's gonna bend or break me I can reach any star. I've got (4x), I've got faith - faith of the heart.