Wilcox Development Solutions Blog

Turbogears uses Python’s logger module to perform logging operations. This has an advantage (it uses Python’s logger module) and an…

If you have a batch of Applescript .scpt files to convert into text, do NOT use the command line tool. You use this tool like so: If your…

Tonight I was debugging something for a client. Our Rails app uses SyslogLogger to log to syslog (instead of the files in log/*.log, like…

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The Intro, and the frustration So SVN’s command line interface could be a lot better. Specifically, svn diff. Use case: I update and see a…

I’ve been doing a lot of Ruby on Rails Cucumber testing, and was inspired by the simplicity of controlling the flow of executing by matching…

Today I’m proud to announce a product launch: Experienced Man’s Guide To Cross-Platform Programming with wxWidgets. When I buy a computer…

So, after trying to install ReviewBoard on a virtual machine (and failing), I decided to install it on my real server, a machine running…

Today I got distracted by Review Board, a tool to help companies do code reviews. Because I was too lazy to deal with the dependancies I…

So Rails has a feature called “migrations”. The idea here is that your database will change over time and you need a way to change this…