Wilcox Development Solutions Blog

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…

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…