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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: February 2007
Database to omni/graphviz
I was looking for a tool to reverse engineer a datamodel from a database in omnigraffle. I found one or two scripts to do this… but the installation wasn’t even worth the results. I decided to give it a go … Continue reading
Posted in java
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Grafflebaffle
Ever since I received my Macbook Pro I’ve been thinking about which software to run for drawing diagrams (which is something I have to do quite often). I’m not talking elaborate UML diagrams, ‘conceptual’ drawings… the stuff you would typically … Continue reading
Posted in osx, software development
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Passed the JBB Java tools exam
I managed to pass the Java SE Tools exam at Javablackbelt. As you can see on my score I had a bit of trouble with some of the questions: #Questions #Points TOTAL: 15 12/ 15 = … Continue reading
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Passed the JBB Java regex exam
Passed the Java regex exam! #Questions #Points TOTAL: 10 10/ 10 = 100% (80% required) Correct (+1) 10 10 Wrong (-0) 0 -0 Unanswered (0) 0 0 powered by performancing … Continue reading
Posted in java
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Yahoo pipes… programming made ‘easy’?
Occasionally when some non-programmer sees program builders like code generating UML tools or, in this case Yahoo’s new pipes service, they start making jokes about how developers are going to unnecessary in the future. Normally I would just forget about … Continue reading
Posted in ajax, ruby, web2.0
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Maven2 plugin for Eclipse
Over a year ago I tried working with the maven2 plugin for eclipse. After trying some of the nifty features, like a search dialog for dependencies, I was totally fed up by the amount of resources needed by the plugin; … Continue reading
Posted in java, maven
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Performancing
I came across the ‘performancing’ plugin for Firefox, which extends Firefox with functionality to publish items to my blog from a nice XUL interface. For now I’m just testing to see if it is useful or not… More about performancing … Continue reading
Posted in info, various
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Compass: guiding your applications through data
Recently we had to look for a solution to the ever growing problem of searching huge amounts of data. Requirements Initially the dataset will contain about 1.000.000 records entangled in complex ways using a lot of ternary relations. To solve … Continue reading