Monthly Archives: March 2009

Java Readability

Posted on March 25, 2009 by Dominic Mitchell

Re: The Positive Legacy of C++ and Java: “Java got this balance correct – Java might be verbose and lack lots of ‘cool’ features, but it’s really easy to figure out what some random code is doing.” (Via infoq) I … Continue reading →

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Mixed Character Encodings

Posted on March 20, 2009 by Dominic Mitchell

I’ve been given a MySQL dump file at work. It’s got problems — Windows-1252 and UTF-8 characters are mixed in. Bleargh. How can we clean it up to be all UTF-8? Perl to the rescue. use Encode qw( encode decode … Continue reading →

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