Don’t remember where or how I came over this font… Might have been a tweet linking to this post… Either way, it’s a very nice font I think. Sure looks a lot better than the default Eclipse font anyways 
The font is called Bitstream Vera Sans Mono, and you can download it for free at dafont.com/bitstream-vera-mono.font. Go try it out!
Some strings you can shove into your application and see if you at least sort of handle Unicode correctly. For example, if you have a form which stores a text value in a database and then shows it later on a webpage, you can try to stick these in the form and see if they come out correctly in the other end.
First one includes many non-ascii characters. Second one starts with a multi-byte character.
Tried to find out how to convert windows-1252 code files to utf-8 without messing up Norwegian characters today. Couldn’t really find anything good other than linux tools and php stuff. Finally, *facepalm*, I remembered it might be possible using Notepad… And sure enough, seems to work great. Just open up the windows-1252 encoded file in Notepad, then choose ‘Save as’ and set encoding to UTF-8.
Hopefully I won’t forget this the next time I need it… *sigh*
Usually when I develop websites, they will be deployed to a domain, for example www.geekality.net. But when I develop this site locally, I usually want it to be in some sub-folder of localhost, since I usually have more than one website going on, and I don’t want the trouble with virtual-hosts. So, to solve this for my Kohana websites I do the following simple thing. This technique would work for other websites programmed in PHP as well, but the PHP part would probably be a bit different.
Found an SQL script to list all constraints in an Oracle database together with affected columns. Putting it here in case I need it again… Took a while to run, but sure beats having to look through all the table definitions to find what exactly is preventing me from deleting a row…
If you’re just looking for one particular constraint you can of course also add and UC.CONSTRAINT_NAME = 'SOME NAME'
