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Welcome to the weblog of Peter Maas. Here you'll find various posts related to stuff I like (like my kids and espresso) and stuff I do (like developing software).
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I am a very opinionated software engineer. Well I'm a very opinionated person in general. I work for eBay/Marktplaats.nl, but everything written here is my own crazy ideas and not my employer's. This text might have some similarities to the disclaimer found at fupeg.blogspot.com.
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Monthly Archives: January 2006
Cobertura
Today the autobuild failed reporting us that our trial license of clover had expired. Instead of buying a $1500 license I decided to check cobertura.
Java Black Belt
Last friday I had a talk with the head of my unit about my future career. We talked a bit about Sun Certifications (yes, I will FINALLY have to get a programmers certificate). But he also introduced me to something … Continue reading
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Acegi, Spring & JSF
Last week I spend some time on the basics for securing the myfaces/spring/ibatis application I’m working on. Since the default j2ee container managed security isn’t particulary flexible I decided to have a look at Acegi.
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new design
As you might have noticed I finally replaced the default wordpress header image with something more personal. The image used to create the header from was taken by me; it is a close-up of my beloved espresso machine The picture … Continue reading
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Rapid j2ee development
Today I bought myself a new book: Rapid J2EE development – ‘An adaptive foundation for enterprise applications’ by Alan Monnox. The book covers iterative development, model-driven architecture (MDA), code generation tools, aspect-oriented programming (AOP), test-driven development and much more! Most … Continue reading
Oracle ADF Faces Goes Open Source
Serverside reported ADF to be donated to the Apache Software Foundation… can’t wait to have all those components availlable in MyFaces! [from the announcement] Why should J2EE / Web application developers care? This is going to give a boost to … Continue reading
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Configuration issues
You might have noticed a short outage today… at the end this seemed to have been caused by the fact that someone updated the DNS settings with my new settings (I renamed the virtualhost I use for my database server).
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Ubuntu overheating…
Today my system overheated…. and died while doing some heavy compiling. Somehow this totally managed to screw up my harddisk (reiserfs). After downloading RIP I tried to fix the problems using the fsck reiser utilities… but it kept on complaining, … Continue reading
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Spring & Velocity
Brainstorming a bit on creating e-mail templates I remembered I had seen people use Velocity to do this. Together with Spring it seemed ideal for the job!
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IntelliJ Idea for Maven2 & Spring development
Last week I tried Spring IDE 1.2.6 which is basically a set of plugins to support Spring development in Eclipse. The IDE provides excellent features like autocompletion (on class and property level) and a graphical view of the bean stack. … Continue reading
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