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XML, or eXtended Markup Language is fairly a new buzzword in web development things. It’s just a simple text file with tags that we can define ourselves. The aim of XML is to create a “simple and re-distributable data”.

But I’ve seen many sites/companies using XML in a wrong way. Well, not so wrong. Just don’t match with XML aims. Many sites using XML as a replacement of common RDBMS. They use XML for storing the data and keep it in their harddrives.

It’s okay if it’s a new system. But spending money rebuilding the system so it can be used with XML just to be “up to date” is a kind of silly things. Just DON’T USE XML if you DON’T REALLY NEED XML.

Bubu Awards, one of anual Indonesian web design competition just begun. There are three participant categories. For Students, Individuals and Corporates. Nice prizes will belong to the winners. And after all, you’ll be famous.

Just go to 5th Bubu Awards Official Page to take your part. Just one sad thing to say, its official page uses frame that most people I don’t like.

Many of us are knowing Friendster as a large friend-seeker website with many users. And many of us know that there are many sweet girl’s profiles over there. And it’s a good luck when we see her email address on her profile. But what if not?

In this article, I will show you how to add the girl into your friend list without her email address. Well, it still need her permission to aprove your request, but at least we can give it a try ^_*

1. First, we need to open her profile:
   
   Look at yellow circle above (I’ve changed her original nickname into cute girl). Mostly you’ll see a phrase (two words). Remember this phrase, or write it down somewhere, or copy this. Click Add as Friend button/link.
    
2. Then, you’ll see this familiar phenomenon page:
   
   Just split the name into two, first as first name and second one as last name. Just hit Continue button to continue.
    
3. Yeah, almost done. Just click this lovely button:
   
4. Last step, praise to Lord that she will approve your request to add her in your Friendster’s friend list ^_*
    

That’s all folks. After you read this and want to practice, I warn you that all risk are yours. I’m not responsible for any damage, nose bleeding nor any bad things that might happen to you after you tried this tutorial. Have phun V^_^

Some of us are happy enough having nice internet connection, full access anywhere. But for those who use internet from office, sometimes the network administrator restricts some website to visit (friendster, myspace, altavista etc). Many reason for it. Mostly, to enhance worker performance and to avoid virus and other malwares.

But it feel like we have a gun with bullets inside, but we can’t shoot at the target because we’re inside a very thick wall. So how to trick your office’s rule? Simply using any online translator!

I’m not telling you a joke. Let’s give it a try. Okay, let me mention two famous translator: Babelfish and Google Translate.

Open one of them (Babelfish or Google Translate), fill the URL you want to see in the input box and select any language into English. We choose “into English” to avoid the translation. We don’t want to translate the page, right? We only want to open the page.

If you’re lucky, your desired page will be opened. Just enjoy it and watch you back, your boss might behind you and watch you crawling on cool Japanese girl site ^o^

 

I got new PC at my office, yesterday. So, I need to transfer all my chats, email and any account from my old PC into the new one.

One of my favorite application is FileZilla that I use to transfer file from and to remote server. Surely it will be a pain to write down all servers, usernames and passwords. So I decided to take a look in FileZilla’s installation directory.

I found a XML file named FileZilla.xml located in C:\Program Files\FileZilla\FileZilla.xml and that’s where my accounts saved. So, I only need to copy that XML file into my new PC at the same directory as the old one. Surely, after I installed FileZilla on my new machine :p

And it works!

Well, the method can be successfull only if you choose XML file for saving all the accounts instead of the registry key. FileZilla will ask for the method when you first installing it on your machine.

By the way, I haven’t tried this method with different version of FileZilla.

Today I downloaded Vim form Windows. It’s cool.

Just don’t figured out how to activate the syntax highlighting >_<

Today is my last working day of this month. Me and all moslem around the world are gonna celebrate our holly day, Ied al Mubarak, next week. And all office in this country, will stop their public service for 3 days upto one week, even more.

I will visit my parent’s house in a little village. No internet nor computers there, sad but happy to be home. So, see you next November everybody ^_*

When I use Webmaster Tools from Google, it requires sitemap of my site. There are several formats allowed, easiest one is RSS 2.0 format. I already have it as my blog feeds.

Then I realize that it need to be in the root directory, while my blog have the XML file within “feeds/” directory. Changing my code will be a pain, so I decided to do some trick.

I simply create a PHP file in the root directory which read the RSS file and echo its content.: // sitemap.php
$feeds = "feeds/rss.xml";
$read = fopen($feeds,"r");
$isi = fread($read,filesize($feeds));
echo $isi;
?>


Then I open my Google’s Webmaster Tool page and submit sitemap.php instead of my RSS file. And the best thing is, it works as I expected ^_*