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Drupal 7: automatically logging users in with their Windows credentials (LDAP, NTLM)

April 4, 2016 / by Rimu Atkinson / APPLICATION, LDAP, LINUX, Programming / 0 comments

So you want to build an intranet site with a seamless onboarding process that doesn’t require users to remember yet another login? This is hard to do and a lot of things can go wrong along the way. Hopefully some of the below steers you through these treacherous waters. I built an intranet using Drupal […]

Reduce MAMP memory usage by limiting the number of Apache processes

January 25, 2015 / by Rimu Atkinson / LINUX, Programming / 2 comments

When developing web sites on a Mac it is common to use MAMP. By default MAMP will run several Apache processes because that’s just what Apache does by default – having several processes means several requests can be served at once. But, in a local development scenario, this is very unlikely to happen because the […]

Ubuntu – gnome panels hanging randomly after using “Connect to Server” (gvfs)??

August 7, 2009 / by Rimu Atkinson / APPLICATION, LDAP, LINUX / 0 comments

For ages I put up with random hangs and where some or all of my panels would stop responding, and completely rebooting was the only solution (killall gnome-panels wouldn’t unfreeze things either; all the hung panels disappear, but then nothing comes back in their place)… I knew it had something to do with connecting to […]

ruby gotcha: exec command

September 11, 2008 / by Rimu Atkinson / APPLICATION, ASP.NET, LINUX, Uncategorized / 0 comments

Surprisingly small amount of documentation on the net about this…. When using the exec command, don’t expect any of your ruby code after it to execute! This is because the command you run using exec replaces the currently executing script! Use the system command instead, or the “ trick