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I was reading an article about why projects fail and found interesting points and the following list has been inspired by actual mistakes encountered in real-world systems projects.

1. Don’t use a specific methodology because coding is all that is really important.
2. Create the project plan by working backwards from a drop-dead system completion date.
3. Don’t bother with a data model. Just build whatever tables you need.
4. Use a Technical Lead that has never built a similar system. Hiring such talent is too expensive.
5. Hire forty developers to make the coding go faster.
6. Selecting wrong tools and technologies for development
7. Three months before the system goes live, assign one junior developer to handle the data migration.
8. Skip the testing phase because the project is way behind schedule.
9. Change the system to support critical new requirements discovered during final development.
10. Buy a commercial, off-the-shelf package and customize it… a lot.

Read full article @ allpurposearticles.com.

To improve your site ranking you must optimize it for search engines. Search Engine optimization is a all time hot topic and full time career. We all know basics of SEO like:

• Submit your site to directories and search engines
• Optimize sites content and key words
• Get Reciprocal links etc…

But one more thing we must keep in mind that we must consider search engine and its working while optimizing the site, because trying to fool search engine always backfires. I think Google’s – 30 Filters, a must read article.

Are you still looking for a WordPress Ads Management plugin, that manages all your ads and decide who will see them, depending on the rules: first time visitor or long time reader, search engine visitor, timeframe, ad view count, age of post, etc…

Then your search is over, check out Who Sees Ads ?, which comes with an advanced user interface to visually create your ads and display rules. Who Sees Ads is an advanced ad management plugin that lets you decide who will see your ads, depending on user defined conditions. The association of an ad and these conditions is called a context, some of the display rules are described in the following image:

Here is the best part, it is a Google Adsense and Yahoo Publisher Compliant, that means it complies with Terms of Service of both the services.

• YPN: 3 ads per page
• Adsense (per page):
  • 3 ads
  • 2 search boxes
  • 3 link units
  • 3 referral units

If you haven’t used Who Sees Ads ? try it once and I bet you will love the experience and will not replace it.

To keep your brain in perfect shape and sharper through out your life, you just need little changes in your life style.  It’s just like you work out in Gym to keep your body in shape and healthy. Cynthia Green, Ph.D., the nationally recognized US expert on developing better memory and brain health, has spelled out some tips:

Exercise : Go for a walk or run, swim – anything to get yourself moving.

Seek new challenges : Look for some simple ways to push you out of your intellectual routine every day, like – brushing teeth with non-dominant hand, taking a new route to work.

Get your head in the game : Spend 10 to 20 minutes every day giving your everyday intellectual skills a good workout by playing games that require you to play against the clock. Play board games like Boggle or Set.

Socialize : Connect with others in a meaningful way each and every day.

These are small changes but can help you keep your brain sharp and tip top later in your life. Hmm, interested check out these additional resources:

• Brain Games & Training
• Total Memory Workout: 8 Easy Steps to Maximum Memory Fitness

I have stopped writing my blogs without any reason, but I realized there was a reason, I cut my self from books and literature and also kept my self busy doing nothing. But recently I was watching Jim Carry’s  movie “Yes, Man”, it was quite motivational and encouraging and helped me to come back to blogging and other stuff, I just stopped doing in last couple of months, 20 to be precise.

So here I am back with my writings, thoughts and other stuff. I am glad and thankful to Almighty that finally I am back on track to do something useful. I promised my self to write at least one posting every alternate day.  Pray for me and keep doing the good work. I would like to conclude this with a phrase, that suits my scenario very well.

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.