http://www.wilcoxd.com/blog Blog for project status and lab notes Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:54:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 going to make it easy for people to see my reputation online. For right now it's just wxWidgets links, because I'm out of time ... http://www.wilcoxd.com/blog/ryan-and-wxwidgets-on-the-web.html 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. If your output doesn't conform to this rule, the new document populated by TextMate will ... http://www.wilcoxd.com/blog/textmate-and-high-level-ascii-characters.html PyAWS (originally py-Amazon by Mark Pilgrim), is a neat, simple, Python API for getting requests from Amazon Web Services. But it doesn't let you do any batching: allowed by the Amazon Web Services API to reduce requests. THe other day I wrote py_aws batch: which uses PyAWS as a springboard for batch ... http://www.wilcoxd.com/blog/batching-requests-to-amazon-web-services-via-pyaws.html 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. For example, in the Finder with Applescript you can say: tell app "Finder" to get selection if you want the alias (and not a reference to the finder ... http://www.wilcoxd.com/blog/appscripts-get-syntax-advanced-concepts.html So, while this might be very obvious to other people, I found out an interesting thing about bundles today. In short, if you configure your Info.plist correctly, and have the right permissions for everything, it doesn't matter what you put as you executable. For example, I have a shell script I ... http://www.wilcoxd.com/blog/turn-any-shell-script-into-a-double-clickable-app.html For a while now I've been thinking about class attributes in dynamically typed languages. I usually view these languages as "less than 50,000 line program languages". For more lines than that I personally want the type safety and compile checks of a statically typed compiled language (like C++). Granted, a ... http://www.wilcoxd.com/blog/python-properties-and-future-class-changes.html For the adventurous: there's a sample on how to integrate PyObjC with FSEvents at /Developer/Examples/Python/PyObjC/FSEvents/watcher.py Neato. http://www.wilcoxd.com/blog/pyobjc-20-fsevents.html I use appscript - a Python module letting me talk to scriptable applications on the Mac - everywhere I can. It means I can write less in the verbose, cranky, sometimes read-only AppleScript. Appscript is nice, but in earlier versions seemed very... verbose. Where AppleScript did all kinds of magic behind ... http://www.wilcoxd.com/blog/appscripts-get-syntax.html 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. My advice for the latter group would be: test, let people know that you're testing, even if you ... http://www.wilcoxd.com/blog/betas-and-testing.html Today I tried out Google CTemplate, as I said I would. In addition to what I liked about the template language, it has tools to check your templates and generate C constants for the template elements (aka: the things to replace in the template). Meaning (if you use those constants) ... http://www.wilcoxd.com/blog/google-ctemplate-integration-check.html