Programming fun at startup

I work remotely for a company in california from texas and was working on a customer ticket and saw that the customer account in my city only. Feels good to see that the product you work on is used globally and even at a stone's throwaway from you.

We use ldap to store customer metadata like users, customers and other stuff. Right now each node has a ldap and we are trying to consolidate ldaps across different nodes. So I loaded one ldap with data from 20 nodes and some of the queries were taking 4000 msec.  So I saw that indexes were missing . I went to  slapd.conf  and  added index customerNumber,customerDomain,email   eq index customerName eq,sub I also updated the cache size to 4G in DB_CONFIG file set_cachesize   4 0 1 I restarted ldap and suddenly things were flying but something  was fishy as the new numbers for 100 threads was faster then previous 1 thread time for all operations. So I picked one query and ran it manually and found that a simple query like below was coming empty ldapsearch -x -H ldap://localhost:389 -b "dc=xxx,dc=com" "(&(objectclass=objuser)(email=kpatel@comcast1.net))"|grep email|more I removed the index and restarted ldap and same quer...

  Traffic to my blog was down to 60% in december and I was worried what had changed but I am glad to see that its back to original level in 2nd week of January.  It seems people work less in December.

Received this spam email today morning and first thing i saw that instead of image it had a path of "c:\users\Manoj". :)

I was able to make a LDAP query with wild card on a field username like (&(username=*kpatel)) but I wasnt able to make it on a field like (&(customername=*kpatel)) me and my teammate searched and finally found that username was inheriting from a super type uid and thats why it was working on it but customername was not. Luckily solution to the problem was to add a SUBSTR clause to enable wildcard match on a field in ldap schema. SUBSTR caseIgnoreSubstringsMatch