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FLAIM is a very scalable, quite fantastic database technology. However, it is sorely neglected outside of Novell / Attachmate. This Cool Solution is an effort to make it slightly more available by fixing some problems compiling it on OS X.

This is a very simple PERL script that may be quite useful when working with delimited text files, especially for those of you who write/maintain Delimited Text drivers in IDM.

Check out this new Novell Connection magazine article by Joseph Hill that presents a straightforward, five-step process for using Mono and Mono Tools for Visual Studio to move from .NET to Linux. The Mono Tools automate much of the work.

Base64-encoding data is found in places all over the IT world and in home users' systems as well. Being able to encode data in Java or ECMAScript/JavaScript can be valuable when those are the languages available to you. This sample shows how to convert from one format to another and eventually encode data for use within a directory like eDirectory.

Have you ever been coding Java and suddenly wanted to do something using loosely-typed variables or worked out an issue with a little less Java-ness? Have you ever wanted to take advantage of the familiarity people have with some languages (ECMAScript/JavaScript) while still using something that is not a web browser as an environment? Have you ever wanted to debug your JavaScript without refreshing a web page and your cache that just won't seem to ever refresh properly for you? This and more will be covered today with practical examples in both the Novell Identity Manager (IDM) and Novell Sentinel applications plus any other Java-based applications that you may have around your own environment.

For increased styling, layout, and functionality flexibility, jQuery can be employed to greatly enhance your workflow request and approval forms. Two examples are outlined in this document. A Simple Example shows and hides blocks of fields using CSS and injects labels to the right of some fields. An Advanced Example creates tabs, places controls / fields on the tabs, and inserts a Google Map for obtaining latitude and longitude coordinates.