Wilcox Development Solution's Blog

In 2010 ago I wrote My Base Rails Setup.

As a long time Rails consultant, every new Rails project I come on to I go through the same dance: Does this project have a useful README.markdown?

A client of mine contacted me the other week.

Intro In the last several years Apple has been pushing us Cocoa developers away from thread based concurrency.

I’m doing more Django work and find myself contrasting how Rails does things and how things are done in Django.

First of all, my blog is now back up!

Introduction I really enjoy using Vagrant to do my development.

Today I decided to record what my workflow is when I get a new potential project.

Today I ended up writing a white-paper in which I collect links for early startup people.

A client wants me to write an import task for their Django app.

I spent some time last night giving node.js a serious looking at.

Lately there’s been a lot of buzz in the Rails community about using the Presenter Pattern to organize common view related code outside of the model.

Today I wanted to post a Gist from the OS X Services menu.

Introduction to the Problem Capistrano is the standard way to deploy Rails apps.

In my last blog article I talked about Returning HTML content from AJAX requests.

The problem: semantic formats for returned HTML for AJAX In a previous Rails 2 project, we decided that Rails apps return 3+ kinds of content: A complete HTML page, for user viewing JSON (for JS/web API viewing) A partial HTML page, for jQuery DOM swappin…

Sometimes I find myself with more work than I can handle, or internal work I want done but can’t do myself.

Today I did a poll, using PollEverywhere to get a feeling of the Ruby on Rails communities favorite CI server PollEverywhere limits responses to 30 for the free version, and 50 for one pay level up.

Installing Radiant with Passenger (Standalone), RVM and Launchd on OS X Introduction - why Passenger Standalone I like to deploy all my basic sites on the same host.

Intro: What is Passenger, and why I want to use it I seriously want to love Passenger Standalone, I really do.

Since starting Wilcox Development Solutions I’ve understood two things: Programmer time is expensive - indeed, prohibitive - to most people or companies.

One of my projects has a problem: while we all try to be in the office for scrum, sometimes we can’t all be.

Git flow is awesome, and accomplishes everything you might want easily.

Over this weekend I read some of W.

My title here at Wilcox Development Solutions is Owner, Chief Engineer and Master Toolsmith.

BBEdit is a pretty awesome editor.

Want to feed XPath expressions into jQuery in Firebug?

I’m going to start a new practice.

So I decided to switch things around and write a sample application in Django.

So I’ve noticed there’s not one central place for Turbogears newbies to go to see a bunch of sample applications.

I’ve been working with Rails for 2 years now, and I’ve developed a collection of tools I really like.

When I first designed the Wilcox Development Solutions website it was meant to say one thing, stylistically: I design simple, clean websites that look functional.

I’m playing with Turbogears 2 more and more, and as part of this process I wanted to improve and codify my process for getting a new TG2 app up and running.

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.

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 - specifically CruiseControl - running tests and alerting the team on a failed build).

I find myself writing more and more sample projects for Turbogears 2.

Turbogears uses Python’s logger module to perform logging operations.

If you have a batch of Applescript .scpt files to convert into text, do NOT use the command line osadecompile tool.

Tonight I was debugging something for a client.

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

The Intro, and the frustration So SVN’s command line interface could be a lot better.

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 on regular expressions.

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

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

Today I got distracted by Review Board, a tool to help companies do code reviews.

So Rails has a feature called “migrations”.

The release of a new book from one of my favorite authors gave me incentive to write this list.

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

Introduction BackgrounDRb is both a blessing and a curse.

Update: Yikes, I hit the Post button before I really wanted to!