Library Web Chic

After being gone to Internet Librarian for over a week, I came back to a huge pile for work. I’ve been digging myself out since then. Some of that has involved doing some more playing with WordpressMu. I’m trying to get the LDAP plugin to work securely with no success yet. Since I’ve had issues trying to communicate with Active Directory for LDAP purposes in the past, I thought it was a problem with my SearchDN. But after further tinkering I have a minor breakthrough when I remembered that you can send information to the LDAP server securely or insecurely. Lightbulb moment! If I use the secure port things don’t work, but if I use the normal port things do. Only problem is that I want to use the secure port to transmit which means I’m going to have to modify some of the code. Joy.

My coding endeavors seem to be revolving around LDAP connection these days. I’m trying to get ETD-DB (Perl) properly setup to authenticate off of the campus LDAP server. I also have been working on using LDAP with Coldfusion as well. My previous experiences with LDAP have been with PHP and a lovely little extension which was specifically written for dealing with Active Directory in PHP. Unfortunately, my level of success with LDAP of late has been low. Much of this has to do with not having a good block of time to work on any one of these things for a decent amount of time. Balancing management tasks and testing and coding has always been a struggle for me at this job. I do my best but something suffers and since Internet Librarian my blog has been seriously lacking.