May 10, 2010

The other week I created Email Form Relay: a Google App Engine app to make it really easy to implement a “Contact Us” style form. As web…

Apr 20, 2010

So I’m on a Rails project, we use Git for source control, and we have a team policy of good test coverage (validated by a CI server…

Apr 17, 2010

I find myself writing more and more sample projects for Turbogears 2. These sample projects are actually meant to be read by going through…

Mar 06, 2010

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

Feb 23, 2010

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…

Jan 27, 2010

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…

Dec 04, 2009

This is a test to make sure I have the blog up and working

Apr 19, 2009

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…

Mar 18, 2009

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…

Feb 19, 2009

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