Peter Ruiter

Windows 7

As I told you in this post, I am not guinea pigging for Microsoft anymore, but now the ’stable’ official version of Windows 7 came out. They promised that they fixed all the things that were wrong or not working in the beta so installation and running it should be a breeze. And I must say [...]

Back from vacation!

Hey there all, I managed to get back from vacation in one piece. As I told you in this post we went from Costa Rica, to Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatamala and then Mexico. I was very excited to go to that part of the world because it’s one of the last contents we still have to visit (we [...]

Roundcube webmail – Auto reply plugin

RoundCube programmers state that they think auto-reply functionality it is not something the webmail programs should manage. I disagree. I think users should be able to set their auto-reply message from within their webmail and not having to go trough Usermin or Webmin to do so. Since SquirellMail DID have the auto-reply functionality available and SquirellMail also runs on PHP and MySQL I decided to just take that plugin and port it to RoundCube. I wrapped the whole thing in a RoundCube plugin format and voila, it works brilliantly.

The end of (A)DSL

In the past year lot's of ISPs started to offer 20 Mbps internet for € 20. This was the fastest internet subscription that was available at that time for a fraction of the price cable providers charged for the same speed. Cable internet providers like UPC and Ziggo started to lose a big share of their customers to ADSL providers, but now with the implementation of EuroDOCSIS 3 the cable providers (consumer) strike back.

Dutch PHP Conference 2009

Yesterday I visited the Dutch PHP Conference 2009 at the Amsterdam RAI. I only went to the tutorial day as the tickets are quite expensive (300 euro).  I went with a collegue from work to the Zend Framework workshop. At well over 10 million downloads, Zend Framework has become a standard PHP development tool worldwide. The [...]