Back in ‘98 (henceforth “the good ole days”) I was doing some experiments with LDAP and web based delivery of information. Cobbling together the nascent web technologies of the time to create a, then revolutionary, on-line telephone directory application for AT&T.
Reading an article on the fast disappearing TLD TLDs (three letter domain top level domains) I cast about for a suitable candidate for my first registration. It occurred to me that since LDAP was a lightweight version of X.500, shouldn’t it really be called…. X50?
Since then, I’ve dipped my toe in various web and database endeavours for a wide variety of companies and X50.com has become a scratch-pad kind of blog. A “linked-to” record of the solutions I’ve found and used for all kinds of curious problems I’ve met along the way. Keeping them all together in one handy place for my future reference. Maybe you’ll find something useful here too…