Today *el 7amdolelah* I successfully passed the SCJP 310-055 exam, the exam which I was delaying for months because of work overload, now I’m heading for the SCWCD isA soon.

Actually I decided to take the exam just the day before taking it and it was risky because I didn’t prepare well but I got good score 79% *more than I ever expected, due to my poor preparation* but actually unlike most of people who enter the exam here, I didn’t save brain dumps, but I read some of the common exam questions and I faced about 10 questions of them in the exam, the rest took me alot of time to solve because I’ve been working with many programming languages and sometimes things become a little bit tricky with it comes to differences between languages, so I was fighting to focus of the differences between Java, C# and C++.

While I was coding my first “not-so-large” java program I got a phone call from my collegue in linux-plus ‘Ahmed Kamal’, he said to me that they are doing a major migration project from windows to Linux in some company that uses Oracle eBusiness Suite. They had everything done except for one thing.

The version of the Oracle eBusiness suite they are using exports the reports to “pdf” which contains encoded arabic characters in ISO8859-6 (old) encoding, and it can’t be read correctly unless you open it using Acrobat Reader 3 on windows (which is very old) and for some reason, all the pdf viewers in linux and the recent versions of Acrobat Reader cannot decode the arabic content!. they tried to convert the encoding of the pdf file into unicode *utf-8* and I tried too with complete failure, so they told me that they decided to run “wine” under linux and run acrobat Reader 3.0 to open the file correctly under linux.

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