Tim Van Wassenhove

Passionate geek, interested in Technology. Proud father of two

25 Jul 2005

value-of in an attribute

There were days that i did not like XSL because it seemed to be impossible to insert a value inside an attribute. For ex...
24 Jul 2005

Read from STDIN without echoing the input back

Today i was looking for a way to read passwords from a PHP-CLI script. So it was important the password didn’t app...
10 Jul 2005

Scriptable browser

Last couple of days i have been trying out Simple Test. It allowed me stop stop echo and print_r variables all over the ...
06 Jul 2005

GNU text utilities

More and more i seem to recieve requests from people that need to manipulate some text files. And they do not feel like ...
06 Jul 2005

I am the manual

I found this in my inbox on my favorite PHP forum, DevNetwork Hi timvw, you’ve won an award! I Am The Manual Award...
04 May 2005

Exploring the FTP functions

I am still drowning in the work, and exams are coming close too, but i decided to blog something about the FTP functions...
19 Mar 2005

Formatted input

I was in need for formatted input and the decomposition of the input into a stream of tokens so i came up with the follo...
04 Mar 2005

More on recursion

Yesterday i already wrote that an interative implementation for a recursive function is more efficient. And i gave you a...
03 Mar 2005

Calculating Fibonacci

What is a recursive function? It is a function where the value for input n is calculated as a linear combination of the ...
08 Feb 2005

Getting started with CVS

I got an e-mail that asked me how to get started with CVS as quick as possible. The first time i got lost too. So i&rsqu...