Blog Archive for December 26, 2009

Adding Users to LDAP and Querying

December 26, 2009

This entry covers adding users to the Apache Directory LDAP server and using python-ldap to compare values against the respository.

Adding Users

Assuming that you have added the domain (drumcoder.co.uk) as specified in Adding a domain to Apache LDAP, we now need to add users to it.

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Book: Designing Social Interfaces

December 26, 2009

I've just finished reading Designing Social Interfaces: Principles, Patterns, and Practices for Improving the User Experience by Christian Crumlish and Erin Malone.

This book is written by the creators of the Yahoo Pattern Library, following research into how people use modern social website interfaces. It is a catalogue of design …