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Preventing Software Crashes from Culture-Sensitive String Casing Using Invariant Culture Settings

The Anatomy of a Crash Software stability relies on the silent assumption that basic data types behave identically everywhere on Earth. But when a software application executes a default string transformation on a device configured for a regional locale like Turkish, that foundational assumption shatters. The root cause is a profound mismatch between English-centric programming logic and the…

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Welcome Email Templates: Recovery Tests for Transactional Signup Service Setup

For transactional email service setup, deliver a working account verification link with welcome templates owned by the team that releases the signup flow.

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Talking to an IBM i (AS/400) from .NET: data queues, COBOL and a live web page

If you have ever heard "AS/400" and thought "that thing from the 80s", this article is for you. IBM i (the modern name of the AS/400) is still running payroll, banking and logistics in thousands of…

  • IBM i and AS/400 are modern names for same server OS
  • Data queues used for message queue in IBM i
  • .NET library simplifies communication with IBM i

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