Codepages
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Recently, I encountered the issue of codepages again. The problem was that the name of a Turkish city (İstanbul) was not represented correctly. Again a codepage issue. The character İ…
PIN code
A few days ago, I got the suggestion to protect a transaction with a PIN number. But how does that mechanism work? It looks as if this mechanism is used…
Strange characters
In some cases, you get unexpected weird results being returned from your database like: Testù�Summary. This may be expected as one inserted TestùęSummary. Apparently symbols like ę were not recognised…
Starting vbscript
I recently came across vbscript. I was a bit curious to see how this works. As a first step, I created a small batch file (“tom.bat”) that invokes a vbscript.…
Security certificates
I got interested in security certificates. What are these? How does it work? It is possible to use it on your own website? Those were my questions. The principle is…
XML records in Oracle tables
It is possible to store XML records in an Oracle table. This is one (of the many) way to retrieve XML information from an Oracle environment. It is actually quite…
Product Types
I recently encountered a nice model on product types that I would like to share. A product type can be understood as an concept of a product, much like the…
XML and XSLT
Several possibilities exist to read XML files. One such possibility is to have it read via XSLT. This procedure is composed of three elements: The XML file that is to…
Some Javascript to read XML
I know that lots and lots of possibilities exist whereby an XML file can be read. One set of possibilities is to use a Javascript. One then stores a script…
Send an attachment via email
It is possible to use telnet to send an email. This is even quite straightforward. The idea is to start a telnet session with: telnet mail.wxs.nl 25 (or something alike…