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Two days of UTF-8 happiness

23 Jan 2009 6:16 | Tags: bluedragon,cfml,cfquery,character,coldfusion,encoding,iso-8859-15,latin1,mysql,utf-8,utf8 | No comments made

Had "one of those days" .. actually two of them. With the joys of trying to make sense to the swamp called character encoding. Now, to explain the situation, you must understand ...

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Moving UTF-8 encoded data from latin1 table to another latin1 table..

20 May 2008 9:34 | Tags: alter,conversion,convert,latin1,mysql,table,utf-8,utf8 | Comments: 1

Encountered weird problem today, when moving data from an ancient Wordpress installation to AfterDawns own table structure. Apparently, for whatever reason, WPs tables were set by default to ...

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10 years as a web developer

01 Apr 2008 8:12 | Tags: 10,afterdawn,developer,new,web,years,york | Comments: 7

Phuh, today, despite it being April Fools Day, marks a milestone for me, personally. Exactly ten years ago I began my career as a professional web developer. My first employer was called LPG ...

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Shoutbox

Are you still here?
19 Mar 2012 18:53
Shoutbox goes v-forth
18 Mar 2010 6:11
joo, kyllähän siellä intissä pärjää;)

Nyt oon ekoilla lomillakin;)
25 Jan 2009 5:19
Seasons Greetings! Have a Safe and Happy Holiday.

Best Wishes,
Bill
22 Dec 2008 15:24
Wishing you a a wonderful christmas! :)

xxx

Eva


21 Dec 2008 17:48

About me

Nickname:
dRD
Joined:
10 Jun 1999
User level:
I hate titles
From:
Finland
One liner:
"Make it idiot proof and someone will make a better idiot."

My software watch list

My links

  • Test regexp matches online

    The place to test those damn regexp patterns online, so you dont have to code it in before you get it properly working :-)

  • BetaNews

    One of the best software directories in the world.

  • Filepedia

    AfterDawns sister site, listing hundreds of useful freeware and shareware tools, with user reviews and technical details.

  • useit.com

    Web usability articles. Excellent resource for web developers.

  • User Interface Engineering

    Site covering how to build easy to use and easy to access websites.

  • Blasteroids

    Our latest project, a gaming site called Blasteroids.com..

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