Wilcox Development Solution's Blog

So I need to update my website a bit.

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 must be either free of high level (extended) ASCII characters, or UTF-8.

PyAWS (originally py-Amazon by Mark Pilgrim), is a neat, simple, Python API for getting requests from Amazon Web Services.

So if you read my previous article on appscript’s get syntax, you might now be wondering how to do more advanced things with getters.

So, while this might be very obvious to other people, I found out an interesting thing about bundles today.

For a while now I’ve been thinking about class attributes in dynamically typed languages.

For the adventurous: there’s a sample on how to integrate PyObjC with FSEvents at /Developer/Examples/Python/PyObjC/FSEvents/watcher.py Neato.

I use appscript - a Python module letting me talk to scriptable applications on the Mac - everywhere I can.

Steven Frank: Betas and Testing Lots of truth in the article, from both ends (running a beta cycle, being in QA, and also giving some advice to people in a beta testing program.

Today I tried out Google CTemplate, as I said I would.

For the last 2 weeks I’ve been down to only one machine, from my usual two development machines.

In case you haven’t noticed, the work so far in Project Distribute has simply been gathering components: finding a solid HTML control, finding a HTML template system.

We know a lot about the JavaScript to/from C++ API in WebKit.

Further progress on the WebKit front.

My blog now looks like the rest of my site, almost a year after I moved to Wordpress.

I didn’t know there was going to be a part 2 to this little adventure: I thought Part 1 was enough.

Given Apple’s 64 Bit Carbon plans, a lot of people are wondering if Carbon is dead (or not).

I figured out how to call JavaScript functions from C++ with WebKit today.

The reason I picked WebKit is that it (seemed) to be easy to call JavaScript from C++ and (hopefully) the reverse too (by some glue JavaScript magic).

In Project Distribute we want to display some HTML in a wxWidgets application.

So I’m using a little bit of Cocoa in a client’s application.

Every once in a while I have to write some Core Graphics code.

On a topic that may be interesting to both potential employees, employers, and clients, let me detail my personality (which reflects in my work, goals, and in general how I interact with members of a team).

The March Issue of Linux Journal has one of my articles in it: MochiKit By Example.

Here’s a parable for you.

Unit Tests are very useful.

For our wiki system we used to use sakana.

I’ve reset up my blog, now running on a machine destined to become my main webserver.

The Oompa-Loompa trojan has caused a bit of stir in the Mac community.

I got bit by it: I loaded a Icon\r file into my subversion repository accidentally and blew it up (just like Andrew Pontious).

Introduction Today I worked on making Helix Maintenance Manager, a universal binary.

In web design it is customary to include a navigation bar somewhere on your pages.

In Python you can add a description to any class or function.

I spent a few hours with MochiKit, getting a feel for this neat JavaScript framework, and doing some dynamic HTML (aka: AJAX) programming too.

Over the last few days there’s been a firestorm about unit testing.

It’s been a while since I’ve posted on here, but it’s been kinda busy these last few months.

I find myself using the Python Debugger (PDB) more and more, but I couldn’t find a quick reference “card” for it… so I made one for myself.

Mac OS X’s Cocoa frameworks provide a functionality called Cocoa Bindings, a way to eliminate code that simply connects your model object to your view object.

Yesterday an app of my shipped.

Today I found a fun bug in AppleScript’s XML-RPC client support.

The last few days I’ve been working on the CallHelix Webservices… well, server.

Tonight I did a massive push to get support for my CallHelix Webservices application on OS X.

Late in 2004 the CallHelix team discovered that communications between OS 9 and OS X machines over remote AppleEvents (“eppc://” protocol) were flakey at best.

For the last several years I’ve been doing ghost-programming for the company now called QSA Toolworks, LLC.

The other day a colleague noted that (regular) diffs are hard to read: it’s very easy to get the updated lines confused with the original lines (especially if the file is on the right side of your monitor.)

As you can see, we’ve added a new look to our blog.

I think I’ve made peace with how branching and tagging work in Subversion, and it makes sense.

I’ve closed comments for old entries, using MT-Close2.

While working on a project for one of our clients, we realized that we needed to create a Cocoa application that uses a NSTableView to display a list of files and the order in which our application should process them.

All of the Python (and, increasingly, all my other programming) happens in Barebone’s wonderful BBEdit text editor.