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	<description>reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting</description>
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		<title>Dreaming Programming</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Do you dream your programs? Do dreams help you sovle programming logic?

Yes, they do.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jawed.info/blog/2008/08/06/dreaming-programming/</link>
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		<title>What CNG price you are paying?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today on my way to office I stopped at Shell gas station, between Teen Talwar and Shaun Circle underpass, to fill my gas tank. It was unusual for me to stop there because I prefer to fill my gas tanks from stations associated with Pakistani companies like PSO or Parco.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jawed.info/blog/2008/07/23/what-cng-price-you-are-paying/</link>
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		<title>Quality Driven Development</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was reading an article about Reasons to write bad code !!, the author was sharing his experience about having problems with some bad code, written by his senior colleague. He further elaborated that his fellow wrote bad code to avenge his company for stress and frustration. But I don't agree with it completely because developer alone can't be blamed for his bad code and there might be very few exceptions that will avenge the company. My argument is; ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jawed.info/blog/2008/07/16/quality-driven-development/</link>
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		<title>Firefox 3 on the verge of making Guinness record</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Firefox 3 has been launched and with notable impact. Downloads crossed the 10 million mark on day 2. Last download count, while writing this post, was approx. 13 millions.

To promote Firefox 3, Mozilla has created Download Day campaign designed to persuade users to download Firefox 3 the same day as it ships in an effort to set the Guinness World Record as the most downloaded software in 24 hours. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jawed.info/blog/2008/06/20/firefox3-on-the-verge-of-making-guinness-record/</link>
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		<title>Success at work</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was reading an article &#8220;11 keys to success at work&#8220;, the author jotted down 11 keys that  will lead to success at work and  job satisfaction.  These 11 keys are :

CONFIDENCE
CURIOSITY
DECISIVENESS
EMPATHY
FLEXIBILITY
HUMOR
INTELLIGENCE
OPTIMISM
PERSEVERANCE
RESPECT
SELF-AWARENESS

Getting success might depend upon how well you observe these keys to success. Let see how successful I could be at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jawed.info/blog/2007/10/04/success-at-work/</link>
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		<title>Illusion - Can you beat it?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Few days back on of my friend sent me an email with following picture and I think this has to be the best illusion ever created or I have seen.

If you look at the above images from your seat in front of the computer, Mr. Angry is on the left, and Mr. Calm is on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jawed.info/blog/2007/09/28/illusion-can-you-beat-it/</link>
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		<title>Highlighting Source Code in HTML</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have just finished with configuring the code prettifier on one of my site. It was so easy to implement and took hardly 5 minutes to complete the configuration.
Code Prettifier supports many language syntaxes, like Java, C, C++, PHP, HTML, Bash Scripts etc.
Here are the steps to setup Code Prettifier on your website running wordpress [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jawed.info/blog/2007/07/05/highlighting-source-code-in-html/</link>
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		<title>Semester Exams are here !</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another semester is complete and I am preparing for the exam. I am gradually moving towords completion of my MS program.
This semester, I believe, was one of the best I have had so far. I studied Marketing Management and Design Patterns, both were wonderful courses and the Professors were brilliant.
I have enjoyed the class room [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jawed.info/blog/2007/06/12/semester-exams-are-here/</link>
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		<title>Two days hardwork</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week was full of learning, atleast for me in the office. My company switched to Linux Operating System. Details about why switched? isn't important here. But the whole experience of switching to Linux was very exciting. By the way we have installed Ubuntu Linux in the office.

Configuring Linux was tedious but interesting because I wanted to learn how it works. I have been installing and uninstalling Linux on my home PC but that was just for fun, never thought of setting up development environment though I tried to do many times but I lost my interest all the time :).]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jawed.info/blog/2007/06/02/two-days-hardwork/</link>
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		<title>Java Caching System</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Caching web pages and other data in distributed environment makes your application faster and better. I was wondering if Java has something for caching web pages for fast response and better performance. Few days back I found Java Caching System (JCS) project on Apache Jakarta Projects website.
JCS is an open source library for creating distributed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jawed.info/blog/2007/05/24/java-caching-system/</link>
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		<title>Java Foreach Loop</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Java 5 introduced foreach loop, a much needed feature since it was first relaeased. Java foreach loop provides code simplicity, readability and eliminates the repetition of code that we write for type casting and assignments, when we are iterating arrays and collection objects.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jawed.info/blog/2007/05/12/java-foreach-loop/</link>
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		<title>Google&#8217;s -30 filter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Google seems to apply the -30 filter to web sites that use spammy SEO methods. If Google finds out that your web site uses invisible text, JavaScript redirects, doorway pages or similar spam techniques then your rankings will drop by 30 spots.

The Google bomb filter seems to be applied to web sites that get too many identical links in a short time period. If a web site gets many links with exactly the same link text then Google will downrank the page because such an unnatural linking behavior indicates a manipulation attempt.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jawed.info/blog/2007/02/28/googles-30-filter/</link>
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		<title>Quotes - Ultimate Truth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of my friend sent me an email with following quotes and after reading them I couldn't resist to post it on my blog. These quotes are wonderful and ultimate truth.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jawed.info/blog/2006/12/13/quotes-ultimate-truth/</link>
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		<title>Evil does not exists</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A University professor at a well known institution of higher learning challenged his students with this question. "Did God create everything that exists?"

A student bravely replied, "Yes he did!"

"God created everything?" The professor asked.

"Yes sir, he certainly did," the student replied.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jawed.info/blog/2006/12/11/evil-does-not-exists/</link>
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		<title>Top 10 Ways that Guarantee the Failure of a Project</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jawed.info/blog/2006/12/08/top-10-ways-that-guarantee-the-failure-of-a-project/</link>
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