Tim Van Wassenhove

Passionate geek, interested in Technology. Proud father of two

15 Nov 2005

Wordfinder

I’ve noticed there are still a lot of shows on television that want you to find a word. So i wrote a little wordfi...
14 Nov 2005

Parsing http headers

Today i updated my HTTP proxy a little. RFC 2616 describes Message Headers as following: message-header = field-name &ld...
06 Nov 2005

Changing the include_path

PHP has a feature to change the include_path programatically. The problem is that the path separator is : on unix and ; ...
06 Nov 2005

Introducing the masterpage

Most websites have the same layout and an area with dynamic content. So most people choose for the following solution: g...
04 Nov 2005

Problem with Base and MySQL support

Today i decided to try out the new OpenOffice.org release. Creating a presentation with Impress went pretty smooth. Afte...
03 Nov 2005

GNU text utilities

I’ve already written that i like the GNU Textutils a lot. Today someone had the following problem: A textfile with...
20 Oct 2005

Passing a filehandle as parameter

To keep things maintainable we split our program in modules, classes, functions… In perlsub from the execellent p...
18 Oct 2005

a little hint for writing and testing a script

I noticed that most people think Vim sucks and they constantly perform the following keystrokes :wq perl somefile.pl vim...
12 Oct 2005

Odd behaviour with arrays

A while ago i was really stumbled by the behaviour of a server. This problem solved itself after the sysadmin noticed th...
01 Sep 2005

Image scroller

// +————————————————————————— // | // | // | A javascript picture scroller // +————————————————————————— var i = 0; var ...