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Unicode processing in perl

There’s a really terrific article over on ahinea.com, called
Unicode-processing issues in Perl and how to cope with it
Anyone who programs in perl and has to deal with Unicode, including the kind of UTF-8 encoded name data that’s all over the directory service I manage, should print out this article, read it and keep a copy [...]

Posted 21 November 2008 † Phil Lembo § Best Practices § Open Source Software § Programming § Tools ‡ Comments Off

Building a camel by committee, Chapter 4

Sometimes the inconsistencies in the identity components of various Oracle products really crack me up.
Take, for example, the alternate realities of case sensitivity of user names and passwords in their E-Business Suite as compared with Internet Directory.
From MetaLink Note 295606.1, “Oracle Application Server 10g with Oracle E-Business Suite Release 11i Troubleshooting Guide”:
4.14 Case sensitivity for [...]

Posted 18 November 2008 † Phil Lembo § Applications § Best Practices § Configuration § Operations ‡ Comments Off