Tim Van Wassenhove

Passionate geek, interested in Technology. Proud father of two

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...
06 Dec 2005

How (not) to apply for a job?

Today i was part of a jury looking for a junior programmer. Most of them had an extensive list with programming language...
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...