Wilcox Development Solutions Blog

One of the themes of this blog has been writing programs that are small enough so they can be easily distributed, without needing the user…

The trend, to the great benefit of the software industry, is to have separate career paths for management and non-management people…

My early history with Rapid Application Development Tools As a teenager I played with Hypercard, Userland Frontier - with MacBird of course…

An Architecture Notebook Sometimes changes in a codebase are straight forward, sometimes they require a bit of research and investigation…

The quest for request makers As a backend developer I’m often looking to make some one-off requests to test new API endpoints, or to explore…

Rash and Unix Exit Codes I continue to play with Rash as a language for small shell scripts I know I’ll have to enhance over time. Through…

GToolkit provides AST analysis tools for Javascript & others! Let’s see how much we really use a dependency! The problem with any package…

A long while ago I - Ryan Wilcox - wrote an article for Toptal on Behavior Driven Development (or BDD). I’ve learned a lot in the years…

The term “software artifact” is often seen as being about only the runnable bits of a program: what’s the steps to getting ideas to bits…

Intro In a long standing blog patterns start to emerge. I’m interested in what I call ”Systems Level Programming“. By “Systems Level…