Wilcox Development Solutions Blog

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

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

I spent a few hours with MochiKit, getting a feel for this neat JavaScript framework, and doing some dynamic HTML (aka: AJAX) programming…

Over the last few days there’s been a firestorm about unit testing. Some folks dislike it (Will Shipley), and some who think the other way…

It’s been a while since I’ve posted on here, but it’s been kinda busy these last few months. Anyway, Today I was writing some PyObjC, I…

I find myself using the Python Debugger (PDB) more and more, but I couldn’t find a quick reference “card” for it… so I made one for myself…

Mac OS X’s Cocoa frameworks provide a functionality called Cocoa Bindings, a way to eliminate code that simply connects your model object to…

Yesterday an app of my shipped. Today it showed up on VersionTracker. It’s a great feeling. Helix Maintenance Manager (HMM) is finally out…

Today I found a fun bug in AppleScript’s XML-RPC client support. Read on to find out what I discovered when you try to handle errors from an…