Tim Van Wassenhove

Passionate geek, interested in Technology. Proud father of two

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 ...
29 Aug 2005

Currency convertor

I discovered that the European Central Bank (ECB) has a page with Euro foreign exchange rates. I thought it would be a n...
20 Aug 2005

Telnet server

A telnet server that writes the content of a file to it’s clients: banner.txt.
20 Aug 2005

Tests if $host is a proxy server

Code: php/proxytester.txt
29 Jul 2005

Generating JavaScript strings

Well, I’ve always experienced the generating JavaScript strings with PHP as a PITA. An example, which requires you...