Wilcox Development Solutions Blog

Off to MacHack nee ADHOC

Jul 20, 2004

I’m off to ADHOC for the rest of the week. BTW: Any LaTeX wizards coming to ADHOC this year? I’d be interested in bending your ear, if you…

Flashback to Classic

Jul 13, 2004

Woh. For an upcoming application (technically, an add-on for an existing application) I have to do a Classic version and a separate Carbon…

When Is An AEDesc not an AEDesc?

Jul 07, 2004

Today I struggled with the problem where I was getting a -1704 (kAENotAEDesc) error from one of my AppleEvent functions. More specifically…

Corefoundation and documentation

Jun 22, 2004

Today I used the Core Foundation for the first time in, well, ever. Again, the state of Apple’s documentation is apparent - the reference…

Tricks for Flexible CGIs in Python

Jun 22, 2004

For one of our current projects we are using Python as an interface to a database as well as using Python to write CGI scripts containing…

Python - a readable snake

Jun 18, 2004

One of the neat things about Python is that it’s very readable - even when you’re learning a module you’ve never seen before. Take this code…

Unicode, wxWidgets, and I

Jun 15, 2004

Over the last week or so, I’ve had the experience of using wxWidgets with Unicode. I read a fair number of Unicode Character Charts, and…

Back to the portable

Apr 27, 2004

Last week I worked entirely on the G5, with my laptop in Firewire Target Disk Mode. This week the G5 is doing other production work, so I’m…

Numlock!!!

Apr 19, 2004

Anybody have any idea how to turn numlock on/off? Right now my logitech keyboard is stuck in a state where pressing numbers on the number…

The Cross In Cross-Platform

Apr 15, 2004

This week I’ve been working on the outstanding issues for the Daedulus project. One of the smaller issues I finished up yesterday, and now I…

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