Tim Van Wassenhove

Passionate geek, interested in Technology. Proud father of two

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 ...
19 Jan 2006

Setting up an SSH tunnel

On the machine example there is a (tcp/ip) program listening on port 12345. The protocol it talks is some plaintext lang...
18 Jan 2006

Accept posted XML data

I remember that i have spent a lot of time finding something that allowed me to accept the posted XML data. The solution...
18 Jan 2006

Select the first 50 words of an article

I am cleaning up my code snippets and i found the following little trick in one of them that i have removed. Assuming th...
14 Jan 2006

Brainteaser

Earlier today Chung Leong, an intelligent regular at comp.lang.php, posted a little brainteaser: The two functions in th...