Products

Along with consulting work, Wilcox Development Solutions also develops some applications for end users. Products that we have worked on include:

• Scrum Status
  Scrum StatusI've made to help teams do daily standup meetings (or "scrums"), when not everyone can be in the same room or even on the phone together.More Info

  The idea of a daily scrum is awesome: everyone on your development team has a general idea of what everyone else is up to. This keeps your developers in sync and lets the team collaborate better.

  The downside, in distributed or highly mobile teams, is that getting the team together on one big phone call is (sometimes) a challenge.

  Usually the solution is "email your status out", but then you have more email cluttering your inbox. Ugh. And maybe you're the guy who missed the meeting: you missed (potentially) being able to help a colleague out.

  Enter scrum status: a centralized place to have one place to check for all the statuses of the people on your team

• Email Form Relay
  Quick, simple, contact-us service for static sites More Info

  As web developers we find ourselves coding "Contact Us" forms a lot. In addition to having the form to write, we also have the backend logic to deal with: gather up the TO information, from, subject, body and send it off.

  Email Form Relay takes care of sending the email from this point - without your users knowing that there was another site involved

• SessionNotes
  Session Notes is a time tracking application made for obsessive note-takers, responsible adults, contractors, and anyone else who is frustrated at the lack of reporting detail in other web based time trackersMore Info

  Some programmers find it helpful to keep notes while working, above and beyond the notes they put on their invoices. Todo items, scribbles to map out some functionality, general stuff. Scientists do this too: think lab notes. Traditionally, programmers have used paper notebooks, assuming their computers might restart at anytime and lose their notes. Session Notes’s focus is to make it easy, and 100% reliable, to keep these notes on your computer. Keeping these on your computer means they are easily searchable, and Session Notes also seeks to cut down time it takes to create an invoice based on these notes.

• CallHelix
  AppleScript your Helix data. More Info

  CallHelix allows you to use AppleScript to retrieve, store, or delete records from Helix databases. Wilcox Development Solutions has provided programming for CallHelix since 1999, and Autograph Systems provides documentation, sales, and ongoing support. Original concept by Fred Stevenson.

  Go to official CallHelix site

• Helix Maintenance Manager
  Painless maintenance of Helix Databases. More Info

  Did you know your Helix collections need regular check-ups? Helix Maintenance Manager makes sure your Helix collection are in tip-top shape by running both Helix diagnostic utilities on your collection, fixing or reporting any damage found. Maintenance Plans can be run automatically, scheduled regularly or via an iCal calendar.

  Go to official Helix Maintenance Manager site

• HRLFEditOSX
  Edit your Helix collection's HRFL edit with drag and drop simplicity More Info

  One of the mechanisms Helix has to avoid collection damage is the Recover File, the placement of which is controlled by the HRFL (Helix Recover File Location) resource specified in every Helix collection. HRFLEditOSX lets you edit this resource easily, without ResEdit.

  Go to official HRFLEditOSX page

Experienced Man's Guide Booklets

Over the years we've bought a lot of programming books and refer to them often. When we discover something cool, or where the book is outdated or wrong in a particular situation, we write this information down in the book itself. We call these Experienced Man's Guides.

Now these guides are available for purchase in .PDF documents.

These Guides could be printed out and inserted into the appropriate pages in the appropriate book (which is what we suggest), or just viewed on the screen.

This is a new service and we'd love your feedback on how to make this better. we intend to release these with updates and new versions, just like software. This is a very 1.0 idea - help us make it better by suggesting ways we can make it better!

Experienced Man's Guide To Cross-Platform Programming with wxWidgets Our notes on Cross-Platform GUI Programming with wxWidgets More Info We got this book about 3 years ago and can't stop writing in it. From clarifications to notes to platform specific notes, we've packed a lot of our experience in this 60+ page PDF Go to official Experienced Man's Guide To Cross-Platform Programming with wxWidgets page

Open Source

Wilcox Development solutions has several products, utilities, and libraries available under Open Source agreements (mostly a Creative Commons type license.)

View our open source utilities at the Open Source Page