Wilcox Development Solutions Blog

For early stage experiments I like deploying to Heroku. Heroku’s free model will spin down servers that haven’t gotten traffic in a while…

This weekend I took the time to play with Bitbucket Pipelines, a new feature from Bitbucket. Often, my goal with my setup is “get something…

Introduction Posted on this blog as comments may be insightful. My other - more personal - blog doesn’t have comments, so this one will have…

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…