stimulant

Frustrated with the fact that MIT’s people search does not allow for first name searching (arbitrarily, I might add — it seems to just search MIT’s LDAP directory) — I wrote this little Perl script (change the extension to .pl to run) using Net::LDAP to search the directory and hooked it up to an online form. Currently, it handles wildcard searching of people’s names, which is all I needed it for.

If someone cares enough to ask, I’ll add regex support and display the results a little more coherently.

Feel free to download the script and play with it yourself. I’ll gladly post any revisions here and there.

firstnamebasis is also the first installment of the nascent “beautiliful” page, which will house various miscellany I’ve made that I’ve found useful. It’s still in it’s probationary period, meaning I’ll be slow to add the things I’ve made already.