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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.

In a recent Identity Management project I found myself reading information from an HR system via JDBC, then needing to write it into the Identity Vault. From there it would disperse to other systems, one of which was GroupWise.

The HR system stored all information in a capitalised fashion. It's quite obviously undesirable for all entries in a GroupWise address book to be capitalised, so I needed to transform the data. Read on to see how the data transformation was done.

This shell script optimizes some of the Gnome configuration options for simplicity and performance.

For those cases where converting from Base64 encoded data to a hexadecimal output similar to what you get from other utilities this script may simplify your life. The script takes input and decodes it finally converting it to hex output for use in other applications.