Don Bowen has left the building
Don Bowen passed away on October 31 after a long struggle with brain cancer. The news came in a final post on his blog entitled Don Bowen’s Miracle.
Although I never had the privilege to meet Don, like many others I benefited from his work in identity management systems when he was at Sun, and [...]
Hotlinking, WordPress and other Horrors
If you’ve worked around the web back in the days before unlimited bandwidth, you’ll know this trick: putting an .htaccess file at the root of your web site to prevent hotlinking to images you’ve got stored there by others (hotlinking is where someone else displays images they found on your site by creating a referral [...]
apologies
There aren’t really that many people who visit this site. Really. But those who do, like me, rely on it for information that would be impractical to put anywhere else. Like the procedure needed to manually link an EBS (Oracle’s Enterprise Business Suite) user account with it’s corresponding OID (Oracle Internet Directory) entry in an [...]
A little merger
After maintaining 3 separate blogs for a few years, first over at Blogger, and now here on my own hosted site, I decided it was time for some consolidation. The result is that my general technical blog, which used to be called onemoretech.lembobrothers.com has been merged into this blog — originally confined to LDAP-related matters. [...]
Clarification
Just a point of clarification, for anyone who might be confused.
El Guapo
Eldapo
Hope that clears things up.
Why do you document all this stuff on your blog, instead of at work?
Mainly because I’m one of those few who believe in “sharing the wealth” of whatever little knowledge I’ve built up on this stuff. Also because the extensive doc I have done for work over the last 7 years never gets read by anyone there — mostly because in almost every functional area we’ve got [...]
from blogger to wordpress
Today was the day I decided to import this blog from Blogger into a copy of WordPress I have running on my new personal site, under the URL eldapo.lembobrothers.com.
While the import itself went smoothly (thanks to a slight hack to the blogger.php file under wp-admin/import (an instance of www2.blogger.com needed to be changed to www.blogger.com), [...]