Tim Van Wassenhove

Passionate geek, interested in Technology. Proud father of two

27 Feb 2006

Reading unmanaged structs with .NET

Last week i’ve spend a lot of time studying System::Runtime::InteropServices. It took me a while to figure out how...
25 Feb 2006

Access a control by name

I know a mathematician that can do magic with stats. That’s also the reason why he works at Eurostat. He’s a...
16 Feb 2006

Removing selected items from a ListBox

Today i was experimenting with a couple of windows controls. For some reason i wasn’t able to remove the selected ...
12 Feb 2006

Pagination for all

Suppose you have a a large collection of items and you want to display them. Users don’t want to see 5000 items at...
11 Feb 2006

Preparing for my internship

Only two more days before my internship starts. I’m a bit nervous and excited to dive into this adventure. Today i...
06 Feb 2006

GNU screen

Another tool that belongs to my favorites is GNU Screen. A couple of years ago i had a bad internet connection and when ...
06 Feb 2006

GNU sort

I already wrote that GNU Core Utilities (GNU Textutils) have become my favorite text processing tools. Today i wanted to...
03 Feb 2006

Multiple joins explained

I’ll try to explain how a join on more than one table works. I’ve noticed people get confused by it. Assume ...
28 Jan 2006

ManyToMany relationships with Java Persistence (JSR-220)

The scenario is as following: each table can have many reservations, and each reservation can span many tables. Here is ...
25 Jan 2006

OneToMany relationships with Java Persistence (JSR 220)

Let’s experiment a bit with Hibernate. We want to model the tables employee and shift. Each employee has multiple ...