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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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Maaike
I’ve been a bit silent on my blog lately. This is primarily caused by the birth of my second child Maaike. She is everything we could have hoped for! I’m mostly running around with diapers, towels and video/photo camera’s if … Continue reading
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Did you pass math
Some people complained about the fact that they had to register to add comments on this blog. Requiring people to login was the easiest way to get rid of spam after problems I had with SpamKarma. While waiting for eclipse/subversion … Continue reading
Hello Spring!
Finally a post about the season Spring instead of the framework. Apart from the occasional stroke of pollinosis I’m really enjoying the first rays of sun (and the first SAS BBQ of the year last weekend). And since my son … Continue reading
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Busy week
What a busy week I it was! This week: I started dieting, I’ve got to loose some weight I managed to get my part in the project back on track after Arne was taken of the project I prepared (and … Continue reading
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Learning Dutch
Someone sort of complained about the fact that my Blog is starting to look like a resume. Maybe he’s right, but I didn’t really intend it to be… This post however is about another training I attended today. The training … Continue reading
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SamsoNOTe
A couple of weeks ago the zipper of my Samsonite laptop bag broke. Could happen you would think. Well, it could.. but something similar happened last year to the bag before. Luckily Samsonite replaced my bag again, for the third … Continue reading
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Back in business!
We’re back online! Average speed seems to be around the 8/1 , which is far under the max of 20… but still much faster then the previous connection… and much cheaper
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Switching internet provider
Pricewise our old and trusted Demon ADSL was getting a bit old. The 4/1 mbit line was quite a bit more expensive then most of the current 20/1 mbit connections; and with the new types of VOIP based plans we … Continue reading
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WordPress security upgrade
Due to a security issue in wordpress, the software behind this blog, I upgraded it to the latest (hopefully safe) version. Let me know if you notice something broken…!
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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
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