Wilcox Development Solutions Blog

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…

The release of a new book from one of my favorite authors gave me incentive to write this list. Techno-geekery Fiction Because I read so…

I’m starting something new on this blog - along with my normal content, I’ll give out book recommendations on topics or languages. I’ve got…

Introduction BackgrounDRb is both a blessing and a curse. First, it allows you to farm off work to other Ruby processes, so that your main…

Update: Yikes, I hit the Post button before I really wanted to! So you’ll get to see more of my revision process than normal. Sorry about…

So I need to update my website a bit. After a bit o reorganization and backend rework. But, in the spirit of Useful Information Now, I’m…

Here’s a fun gotcha when creating commands for TextMate: if your command’s output is set to Create New Document on output, then that output…

PyAWS (originally py-Amazon by Mark Pilgrim), is a neat, simple, Python API for getting requests from Amazon Web Services. But it doesn’t…