van Laanen Online

There is no place like 127.0.0.1 (or ::1)

About me


Who am I?

I am Caspar, living partly in the Netherlands, and partly in the Czech republic. I created this website with the hope to let other people learn from things I have encountered, sharing what I found out and wasn't able to easliy find myself.

This site has been created in Ruby on Rails, and was made together with my partner Jana.

Next to that I am a general IT specialist, working in almost all parts of IT, specializing in network (switching, routing, firewalling), server, storage, WiFi and VoIP

Hobbies

On hobbies, I like to play around with network and server related stuff. Think about running my own servers, virtual machines, etc. As well as playing around with switches, routing, and other network related things. Some tools that I use you can find on the links page.

Other hobies that I have are amongst the following:

  • Gaming
  • Reading Comics
  • Watching certain TV shows
  • Watching some moves
  • Watching Anime
  • Driving a motorbike (although haven't done that in a while)
  • Streaming

Work related skills

For work I work with a lot of different software and hardware. Among these are:

  • Cisco
  • VMWare
  • Ubiquity
  • Windows Servers
  • Linux (mainly Ubuntu and Debian based)
  • Microsoft Exchange
  • Microsoft Office 365
  • Checkpoint
  • Powershell
  • Bash scripting

I have worked with a desktop client with all different types of operating systems, Windows, Linux and MacOS. Currently for my main "production" I prefer to use MacOS as my daily driver, however I can use and work with all of them

What is used for the website?

For the theme I am using a bootstrap there called clean-blog. Links:
Start bootstrap
Github link

The image I used for the background I have found on the Public domain website:
Public domain pictures