Hi, I am Max Westen, Father of 2 girls and a boy and husband of Sibel.

I'm a tech enthousiast and was working as a softwaredeveloper before my brain damage due to a neuroborreliosis.

Right now I'm interested in indieweb, php, node, genealogy, ukuleles and building them.

You can find my Genealogy site at Westen Genealogy and the backstories at FamWesten.nl.

Last 5 posts:

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I've added the Dynamic sitemap add-on to my Statamic Add-ons page

Enjoy !!

History:

Since running my own sites, I've been using several techniques to keep the site running.

In 1996 when I started having my own site just HTML with javascript, in 1997 I started toying around with some vanilla PHP sites and in 2001 I put up some sites with phpNuke. In 2003 I started using Drupal and in 2005 I settled with Wordpress.

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NOTE : This post was sitting in my drafts for way too long (over 7 months now), so I'll just post it in the hopes someone likes it. There could be rough edges here and there, but hey, that's what the contact page is for... ;)

Because I tend to do some PHP development on my MacBookPro runnin OSX 10.7(Lion) and want to be able to test the email-functionality, without the system actually sending email to people, I was on the lookout for an easy way to accomplish this in such a way, that I would be able to collect all mail and display both text and HTML versions of it. I found MockSMTP, and it works like a charm. In this post we'll set it up and configure the system to route all mail to MockSMTP, even when it's not running.

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If you enable mod_security on your apache server and you install the base-rules, you'll probably notice the WordPress blog isn't functioning correct anymore.

To fix this, you could add the following between the <vhost> tags in your vhost file that powers your blog:

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After being part of their highly skilled team for over 17 months I've decided to leave Ibuildings. I'd like to thank Ivo for believing in me and helping me out if needed. I've learned a lot and it's been a privilege to work there.

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