Wilcox Development Solutions Blog

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…

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…