Climate Change – Is Pakistan Prepared?

Pakistan is ranked as in ten most vulnerable countries on the planet affected to climate.

Is Frequent Job Switching Good for Career?

How often switching job is not too often? If the reason of being job-hopper is not poor performance or difficulty in getting along with team, then it’s certainly not under bad lights.

Oreo Creamy Custard | Step-by-Step Recipe

A mouthwatering cold dessert recipe including very favorite Oreo cookies, to enjoy with family & friends.

He like stones!

One of the symptoms of ASD includes fascination/liking of unusual objects like bottle caps, rocks, sticks etc. “N” also likes to pick up small stones from ground of park, school, street, random road; use your imagination.

Opinions

Private Therapist: He’s about to turn 3 and you’re already too late to start speech therapy. Start it aggressively while taking break from preschool. After all, it would only cause him isolation.

Book Review – The Lost Symbol

If you are a Da Vinci Code fan, then you must be stalking Dan Brown’s latest book: The Lost Symbol.

The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown is Brown’s third Robert Langdon thriller. In Brown’s first two Langdon books — Angels & Demons and The Da Vinci Code — Langdon uncovered conspiracies within the Catholic church that involved art and science. The Lost Symbol takes place in Washington D.C. and explores the secrets of Freemasonry.

Brown is not the first to use the Masons as a launching point for a thriller. Indeed, I couldn’t help but compare my experience reading The Lost Symbol with watching National Treasure. I enjoyed the movie more because it took itself less seriously than The Lost Symbol and enjoyed a visual advantage (always nice to be able to see the symbols and buildings involved in a conspiracy).

Robert Langdon has been invited to Washington at the last minute to make a speech about the fraternal order of Masons and to bring a certain box entrusted to him by a 33rd degree Mason. This box allegedly holds the secret to the Ancient Mysteries. A very real angel of death is searching for it; indeed, he has made all the arrangements that have brought Langdon to Washington. The story unfolds at breakneck speed, the main action taking place in less than twenty-four hours.

The best thing I can say about “The Lost Symbol” is that it made me wants to visit the U.S. capital and see all its architectural treasures for myself. Read this novel and you will never look at Washington, D. C. in the same way again.

Why Pakistani Engineers Are Introvert?

Are you an engineer?
So are you an introvert?

Book Review: Three Cups of Tea

Title: Three Cups of Tea
Author: Greg Mortenson and David Oliver
Pages: 349

 
Three cups of tea is a story of one man making a huge difference by building schools for boys and girls in Pakistan. Greg Mortenson; a climber; goes for K2 expedition and fails. He is given shelter by the people of Korphe Village situated in Baltistan. He was awed to see children studying without any teacher and roof over their heads. He promises Pakistani people to return and help. Many promises have been made to poor people there but none fulfiled but Greg proved to be different.

“courtesy Central Asia Institute”

It is a truly mesmerizing story of one man promoting peace at world’s most dangerous place on place. Being a Pakistani myself, I enjoyed every word of the book…all felt real and close. I’m copying my favourite quote from this book:

Let sorrowful longing dwell in your heart.
Never give up, Never lose hope.
Allah says, “The broken ones are my beloved”.
Crush your heart, be broken.

I recommend you all to read(/purchase) it…especially Americans, Afghanis and Pakistanis.
Happy Reading!

Book Review: Professional ASP.Net 3.5 AJAX

There are many books available on topics like ASP.Net & Ajax. The book that I read is titled “Professional ASP.Net AJAX” from Wrox. Its written by four .Net experts: Bill Evjen, Matt Gibbs, Dan Wahlin and Dave Reed. I found this book very easy to understand as it gives in-depth explanation of every topic covered in the book. Although Bill Evjen wrote on his blog that: “This book is aimed at experienced ASP.NET developers looking to add AJAX to their applications, and experienced Web developers who want to move to using ASP.NET and AJAX together.”  But I can say that this book can be helpful for all levels of readers having basic knowledge of ASP.Net.

To begin with, Chapter 1 “Overview of AJAX” explains need, benefits and libraries. Following chapters cover other topics like JavaScript for ASP.Net, ASP.Net Ajax Client library, ScriptManager and so on. Chapter 7 gives a thorough explanation of Ajax Toolkit from downloading & installing to using the controls in your web-application. Despite of vast material written against every single control, I would recommend tutorial videos (available on —link comes here—: ) for a better understanding.

The book continues to cover State Management (explaining sessions, cookies, view-states in a simplified manner with easy-to-understand examples), Testing & Debugging and in the last Deployment of ASP.Net Ajax Application.

Over all the book is well-written with well-organized contents. Reading technical books is usually (or normally) too dry and boring, but the authors of this books knew how to keep the readers interested in reading it. I would conclude by saying that it’s a good book to add up in your collection to learn ASP.Net Ajax fast.

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