Wilcox Development Solutions Blog

Intro Functional programming means different things to different people. Personally I’ve come to the - somewhat incremental but somewhat not…

Playing with GToolkit’s Lepiter Notebook and its support for Node.js cells One of the components of GToolkit is Lepiter, a knowledge base…

Introduction CircleCI recently announced an extension for Visual Studio Code, allowing you to view the status of your CircleCI pipelines. I…

These days most of my analysis - or even short scripts! - start in GToolkit. GToolkit’s paradigm of executable notebooks - with human…

Scaling Specialized Expertise Modern software engineering is very enabling to an individual engineer, but with that enablement comes…

Introduction: Setting the stage Years ago I explored writing system level tools in Groovy. The idea here was to create OS independent…

Introduction What is functional programming?, you may ask: In computer science, functional programming is a programming paradigm where…

In this DevOps world deployment diagrams help document not just how a system relates to other components, but how the underlaying…

Note: previously I tried to keep personal stuff off this blog, and have that be on another site. I decided to revisit that decision, and now…

My 2021 Year In Books 2021 saw a lot of reading and thinking and - mostly, except towards the end - not a lot of new tech. However, like…