Peter Ruiter

Now hiring: PHP Web Developer at Comrads B.V.

Location: Purmerend (Amsterdam Area, Netherlands) URL: http://www.comrads.nl Type: Full-time Experience: Mid-Senior level Functions: Other, Information Technology Industries: Internet, Information Technology and Services, Program Development, Marketing and Advertising Job Description: Comrads is looking for experienced PHP Programmers! Are you that motivated and creative PHP web developer with a passion for Internet? Do you have affinity with [...]

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.

No more Windows betas

I’m all for beta testing of new products and when Windows 7 first beta came out I was one of the first to install it on my Dell XPS 1530 laptop. All was good except some video resolution problems when switching to HDMI output and back. I installed Ubuntu aside so this wouldn’t be a [...]

Hello world!

Finally, At last I took the step to start blogging. You might call it a early new year resolution.