I saw this article today and it reminded me of my early years in IT. Users and developers banging heads over and over again 24/7.

Working in the financial industry is a tough job, specially if you are in the IT department. There are alot of factors that you need to consider whenever you build an application.. theres those State Laws that you need to follow.. corporate guidelines... And at the end of the day after you have followed all these mumbo jumbo they only boil down to one specific topic... SECURITY. In the financial industry, an application must be secure at all times... in fact it should be 110% percent secure since you are dealing with peoples information, money and ALOT MORE MONEY.

How To: Check if application is already running

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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.