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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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I woke up, and was blown away: Oh, and the website can be found here but is winxp/vista only… so I cant enter. Auch.
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2007: A partially loaded association oddity
When rewriting some code to increase performance in some parts of the application I came across a rather questionable feature of Hibernate (3.2.0GA). Consider the following (simplified) model: The ternary association between Movies and persons has a property to store … Continue reading
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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
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To scrum or not to scrum
Yesterday evening we had a company session on the how and what of Scrum. Scrum is an agile methodology and assumes that the software development process is complicated and unpredictable and treats it as a controlled black box instead of … Continue reading
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