Tim Van Wassenhove

Passionate geek, interested in Technology. Proud father of two

01 Oct 2016

Docker toolbox to the rescue

With the help of Docker Toolbox a lot of apps become easily available… By default volumes can only be mapped on f...
29 Jan 2016

About maven dependency type 'bundle'

Earlier this week my build failed because maven was not able to resolve an (indirect) dependency on some package. It too...
29 Jan 2016

Composing functions and leveraging scala.util.Try

Last couple of days I have been hacking around trying to find a cute way to express the intent of my code. Typically it ...
14 Jan 2016

Using Gson to serialize Scala objects

gson is a pretty nice library that converts Java objects into JSON and back. When using this library from Scala things b...
27 Aug 2015

Notes on running spark-notebook

These days Docker makes it extremely easy to get started with virtually any application you like. At first I was a bit s...
19 Aug 2015

Scaffolding scala projects

These days the cool kids scaffold their projects with Yeoman. Obviously I could not stay behind, so here is my first generator for scala.
20 Feb 2015

ConcurrencyCheck with EF/Devart on Oracle

Earlier this week I was wondering how I could easily achieve optimistic concurrency in a system using EF/Devart targetti...
27 Sep 2014

Failure to load mono-supplied .dylib (libgdiplus.dylib) when running from console

So earlier this week I was bit by the following bug: Bug 22140 – Failure to load mono-supplied .dylib when running...
15 Aug 2014

Deploying a Cloud Service to Azure with Octopus

Currently Octopus has limited support to deploy a Cloud Service on Azure. A typical use-case is that you need a differen...
28 Jul 2014

Cute sort implementation

For years I had been implementing my sort functions as following: (x,y) => { if (x.PartName == null && y.Part...