Category Archives: Technical Journal

The adapter pattern

The adapter pattern is a structural pattern also known as a wrapper pattern. It is mostly commonly used in software engineering where the adaptee can not be altered as it is outside the control of the system and the developer.

LDAPS – The server is not operational

What is LDAPS? LDAP stands for Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. It is the protocol used to talk to Active Directory (AD). Some people confuse to two and refer to AD as LDAP. LDAPS is the LDAP protocol but with security similar to HTTP and HTTPS. an SSL certificate is used to encrypt the traffic flowing… Read More »

unable to check revocation

The revocation function was unable to check revocation .. huh? The error ‘The revocation function was unable to check revocation because the revocation server was offline.’ is raised when an application is trying to check if the provided certificate is valid but it is unable to connect to the revocation server.

Complex password validation

Complex password validation Our team had to build a  regular expression for a client to password validation and it had the following requirements. Below is the expression for anyone that needs anything like this. Hopefully I safe someone some time.