Wilcox Development Solutions Blog

I’m constantly looking for new innovations that I can use on brown-field projects. You know the ones: you come in and there’s a large…

I like Puppet with Vagrant. Puppet 4 removed an option I really liked: You see, often when I’d start a greenfield project, I’d include a…

Introduction: Setting the stage Lately I’ve found myself turning to Groovy for — oddly enough — system level development tasks. This is an…

A Vagrant setup that supports my blog entry on “Vagrant / Puppet and Hiera Deep Dive”. Below is a reproduction of that article. Introduction…

Today I had to use the CSV Node Module. It looked like the best and most mature of the alternatives. The disadvantage about it is that the…

In 2010 ago I wrote My Base Rails Setup. I looked at it again and it looks pretty dated. The Rails community changes a lot in just 3 years…

As a long time Rails consultant, every new Rails project I come on to I go through the same dance: Does this project have a useful ? Maybe…

A client of mine contacted me the other week. He lives in NYC, and was hit as part of Hurricane Sandy. The trouble with all the relief…

Intro In the last several years Apple has been pushing us Cocoa developers away from thread based concurrency. Thread based concurrency…

I’m doing more Django work and find myself contrasting how Rails does things and how things are done in Django. Routing is one of those…