Tim Van Wassenhove

Passionate geek, interested in Technology. Proud father of two

16 Mar 2011

Global hotkeys for iTunes on windows

These days i use iTunes as media player. Unlike winamp this program does not seem to support system-wide hotkeys to cont...
16 Mar 2011

Navigation to the webpage was canceled

Earlier today i ran into the ‘Navigation to the webpage was canceled’ when i tried to open a CHM file: Navig...
12 Mar 2011

Consume locally build software without overloading your $PATH

How do you consume locally build software? For a while now i have used the following approach: Create a ~/bin folder Add...
12 Mar 2011

Dynamic scriptblock with PowerShell

Earlier this week i tried to run a command on a remote computer but it did not seem to work: $name = 'tim' $comp...
12 Mar 2011

Some PowerShell functions to work with SSIS packages

Here are some powershell functions (using XPath) that come in handy when working with SSIS packages: function FindConnec...
12 Mar 2011

Some tips for .Net developers using git on cygwin

Here are some tips that i want to share with fellow .Net developers that use git on cygwin. First of all i defined some ...
12 Mar 2011

Using WinMerge as difftool on cygwin/git

Last couple of weeks i have been using Git on cygwin and i got very satisfying results out of it. One thing that i wante...
08 Mar 2011

Get/SetVariable value from SSIS VariableDispenser

Here is some code that allows you to Get/Set a variable (object) value from/on the VariableDispenser in an SSIS package:...
05 Mar 2011

Consume custom SSIS tasks without GAC installation

For a while i thought that in order to consume a custom SSIS task you had to install the assembly in the GAC. Now i know...
26 Feb 2011

Exploring messaging at lower levels...

Yesterday a colleague of mine, Neil Robbins, asked me how a piece of code would look like if I apply the Hollywood princ...