Tim Van Wassenhove

Passionate geek, interested in Technology. Proud father of two

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...
14 Jan 2006

Format sourcecode with VIM

I once read an article that explained how i could make Vim format my code but i forgot what the command was. Many websea...
12 Jan 2006

How private is private really?

Today i ended up at private properties exposed (Apparently it is also used by PHPUnit) class foo { private $bar = 42; } ...
12 Jan 2006

Restore from a MySQL dumpfile

If you are a longtime user of mysqldump you may have experienced that restoring with mysql < dumpfile doesn’t a...
20 Dec 2005

Simple HTTP proxy with Perl

Today i had to demonstrate my version of a HTTP proxy and hand in the code. There are already various programs that do t...
17 Dec 2005

Problem with switch from mandatory to roaming profile

Today i was experimenting with my Windows Server 2003 and the Active Directory. I was able to setup Roaming and Mandator...