As you can tell my web site has had an overhaul. I have switched hosting to Unix, and gone back to the trusty wordpress. Along with the changes my gallery has also been switched to Picasa Web. All this makes the site more interactive and easier for me to manage. When I have the inclination I may re-start work on my gallery application, but at the moment I don’t have the time.
I have recently been playing around with Apaches Directory Service, creating custom schema types and the like but came across a problem.
In VB.Net if I tried to add a new child to a directory entry, of a custom schema type (in this case in inherited from the person class) it would throw an exception when I tried to commit changes. On closer inspection I noticed that instead of creating an object of my custom schema class, it was trying to create an object of the person class, and the error being thrown by the LDAP server was because some of the properties I was trying to set did not exist for the Person class.
I managed to get around this by adding a property ‘objectClass’ and setting the value to the type of my custom schema class. This means that when I call commit changes, the LDAP server can validate it against that class.
AddUpdateProperty(newUser, "objectClass", "myUserClass") AddUpdateProperty(newUser, "mail", user.Email) AddUpdateProperty(newUser, "uid", user.ID)
Technorati Tags: LDAP, vb.net, directoryentry
I have recently encountered this really unhelpful error message in VB.Net whilst trying to code a connection to an LDAP server.
After much head banging I found the solution! It’s all down to the path you supply to the constructor:
Old Connection (doesn’t work):
Using dir As New DirectoryEntry(ldap://yourserver:port) ' Your Code End Using
New Connection (does work):
Using dir As New DirectoryEntry(LDAP://yourserver:port) ' Your Code End Using
Spot the difference? That’s right! the protocol part (LDAP) is case sensitive. Changing to uppercase works like a charm.
Update: I have posted an article and sample code on working with LDAP here.
Technorati Tags: vb.net, directoryentry, unknown error, ldap
After reading the story about a woman’s pet Boa-Constrictor, named ‘Fluffy’ it got me thinking about other good names for pets.
I’ve always thought that given a cat or a dog a human name would be funny. I don’t own a pet, but if I did I think I’d name a dog Kenneth, and a cat either Martin or Kevin. I don’t know why, I just would.
Apparently some of those nasty ISP are modifying web pages you request, so insert their own adverts into them, can you believe it?
To see if this is happening to you, visit this web site is designed by the University of Washington and ICSI to answer these questions.
This is a football club takeover with a difference. Not like Glazier, Lerner or Kroenke buying into English football - this is a web site that harnesses the power and enthusiasm of football fans around the world. They will have an equal share in the club, vote on team selection and tactics, buying and selling players and club business decisions.
I think this is a good idea and it will be interesting to see if this works, if it does it could catch on. Can you image the days leading up to a game, just before the squad list has to be submitted for a match with 50,000+ people studying the coaches form guide and picking their first 11? It will be exactly like football management games and fantasy football.
Another good thing about this if it takes off is that it should generate a lot more interest in the lower leagues. People will be looking for the score every week, whether they have invested in it or not, and as for all that extra media coverage!
I don’t think I’ll be investing in this, but I will be keeping an eye on it!
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