Leadership Lessons: Appreciation
There are plenty of lists, books and seminars out there that tell you how to be a leader, a good…
The Toughest Software Bugs
Someone recently asked me what I thought were the toughest bugs to find and fix. I’m pretty sure they wanted…
Software Security is Not an Option
When it comes to software development, many customers (external or internal) will not request, require or even ask you about…
Unit Testing Your Code (aka Test-Driven Development)
A few years ago, I scheduled a meeting with the software engineers on my team to introduce them to Test-Driven…
Setting MySQL to Load on Startup (Mac OS X 10.10)
It used to be that you could easily set up MySQL to load at startup using a MySQL plugin on…
Setting up Git Pulls in Crontab
I have a small application that reads Git data and processes developer contributions based on lines of code (inserts +…
MySQL Time Zone on OS X Mavericks
Setting up the time zone table on your MySQL instance on OS X shouldn’t be this hard, but it is.…
MySQL & Perl on OS X Mavericks
After upgrading to Mavericks, my local development environment stopped working — more specifically, Perl would no longer talk to MySQL.…
Requisite First Post
Hi folks, this is the requisite first post of a new blog to tell you what to expect. The reality is that you…