Sending UTF-8 Email with Oracle

Originally written Wednesday, 18 April 2007

I have seen several examples of sending email using oracle with non-ascii characters floating around the Internet, but few seem to tackle sending these ‘special’ characters in…

Sharpening Screenshots in Photoshop

Originally posted Friday January 14, 2011

I often find myself wanting to clean up screenshots for use on our site and in various places after they’ve been resized down to a typical thumbnail size of say 250 pixels…

Hibernate and your Getters and Setters

Originally posted Sunday March 11, 2007

When you’re using Hibernate and are mapping to properties, keep your getters and setters as simple and self-contained as possible. The receiver being initialized may not…

CVS Update: Move Away foo.bar; It is in the Way

Originally posted on April 26, 2007

A client site still uses CVS, the ever trusty version control system. After what seemed a run of the mill merge I noticed this:

How To Base64 Encode with C/C++ and OpenSSL

Originally posted April 11, 2006

I’ve been doing a little C programming lately and I have found that if you have a up to date distribution of linux there are a lot of libraries out there that make doing…

Accessing as400 databases with Ruby, Java, and the RubyJavaBridge

Originally posted August 24, 2006

iSeries systems and Ruby are separate universes right now; I know of no native Ruby way to connect to an AS400 system. However, with…

Three Benefits of Starting an Innovation Lab

Innovation labs have been a buzzworthy feature of corporate operations for the…