A friend of mine asked me today about encoding a string Base64. The scenario was that he has some files that he wants to be allowed for download on their company website and that he doesn't want the people who are downloading the files from his website to see where the downloads are coming from. The files are located in a folder inside the webserver outside of the virtual directory. The decision that the came up with was just to Base64 encode all the paths, pass ito to a new page via querystring and then decode that value on the download page. I gave it a shot and this is the code i gave him to serve as a guide on how he can effectively implement this.

Communicating to users/clients is hard... specially if they are not that knowledgable about software developement. so here's a list of things that i think could help you to better communicate with people.

Finally! I got the the shirt i ordered from Zazzle.com. I was abit dissapointed on the quality of the print... I guess i was expecting more... but it sure is a great shirt! something i would be proud to wear anyday and anywhere!

"With the advent of free software coming of age and the dawning of Open Source applications being a moving force in developement.. it seems that it is timely for database servers to go and be free as a bird could be... and guess what... Oracle has been set FREE"

Anybody who has thought about this? putting Microsoft, corporate and software logos as their tattoo.... i'm just wondering how many people who have thought about doing this.. anyway, here's a some notable people who have done this...

This is my tribute to the people whom I learned and helped me understand C/C++.. although i'm not that great with it unlike MisterClay(he was my college buddy) whom i consider to be a totem pole when it comes to C and C++!!!

Somebody in the UK(..i think) has some sense of humor... check this out! This is via Google Maps nad you'll be amazed on how this happened... that some serious Google hacking right there.. :)

I found this in Channel 9 and it was hilariously funny that i need to blog about it! Enjoy!

Finally! After 30 minutes of coding and 5 hours of modification(I wasn't satisfied on how it looks so i ended up revising it a couple of times.. :P This also includes me watching UFC at the same time:D) I have finally released the first beta of the DevPinoy Visitor Locator. DPVL is an application that displays the geographical locations of visitors in the DevPinoy.org website and plots those visitors location to a Google Map control.

i think this is the coolest feature implemented by the GMail team.. having to chat to you GTalk inside Gmail! That's impressive! alot of AJAX i bet, but totally remarkable! Way to go guys!