Wilcox Development Solutions Blog

The March Issue of Linux Journal has one of my articles in it: MochiKit By Example. The article shows off MochiKit by working through…

Here’s a parable for you. One day a programmer was writing a script (in Python, if it matters). It was a complicated script, so like any…

Unit Tests are very useful. Lately I find myself writing tests for even small scripts - a few hundred lines. Even in a few hundred line…

For our wiki system we used to use sakana. In the process of migrating to a new server machine I also wanted to take the time to change wiki…

I’ve reset up my blog, now running on a machine destined to become my main webserver. Eventually. I’ve also moved from Movable-Type to…

The Oompa-Loompa trojan has caused a bit of stir in the Mac community. Our first, self-replicating “virus”. (Although technically it…

I got bit by it: I loaded a Icon\r file into my subversion repository accidentally and blew it up (just like Andrew Pontious). However…

Introduction Today I worked on making Helix Maintenance Manager, a universal binary. HMM is an AppleScript Studio application which needs to…

In web design it is customary to include a navigation bar somewhere on your pages. Links on this navigation part point to other points on…

In Python you can add a description to any class or function. This description is called a docstring in the Python community. `if…