Wilcox Development Solutions Blog

First of all, my blog is now back up! Instead of self hosting my Wordpress blog, now the fine people at ZippyKid host it. These guys are…

Introduction I really enjoy using Vagrant to do my development. I’ve even posted my Base Vagrant Package. But I found I was still doing the…

Today I decided to record what my workflow is when I get a new potential project. Maybe you’re a new client and what to see behind the…

Today I ended up writing a white-paper in which I collect links for early startup people. Particularly, early, non-technical, startup people…

A client wants me to write an import task for their Django app. They already use Fabric to deploy their site, so I figured that writing this…

I spent some time last night giving node.js a serious looking at. I was looking for best practices from the node community, and didn’t find…

Lately there’s been a lot of buzz in the Rails community about using the Presenter Pattern to organize common view related code outside of…

Today I wanted to post a Gist from the OS X Services menu. Because I love Services. I use Services probably a dozen times a day. Call me…

Introduction to the Problem Capistrano is the standard way to deploy Rails apps. Yesterday I was using Capistrano to deploy to a machine…

In my last blog article I talked about Returning HTML content from AJAX requests. However, I’ve been struggling with a question since then…