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I'm doing a developer presentation this friday and i've been talking to people who have been doing it for quite sometime now and they have given me some key pointers that i think would be useful to any future presenter. I got some valuable lessons from them and i wish to share them to you guys thru this post so here it goes:

A friend of mine sent me this email and it made me wonder what i say when my proggie gets some bugsy!

So here I am again.. bored the whole weekend without anything to do.. i played like 6 hours already of NBA LIve 2K6... have read a couple of chapters of Pro ADO.NET 2.0 by Sahil Malik (which I higly recommend! read my review in Amazon).. and have gone to the mall to get a new shirt for the brokers visit in the company which i work for (we need to wear suit and tie on the 15th). and still i havent gotten enough from the weekend... i guess its just the geek inside me thats telling me that he is not yet satisfied with just plain poking around with books and websites... so i called my friend Bill to ask him if he has something in mind that he wants me to help him with.. gladly! he has a problem on .wav files. he has this application wherein he wants to play a sound using a file from a website instead of a local file located on their server. It's an interesting problem since the SoundPlayer object only accepts a string poiting to the path of the .wav file and a stream object.

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...