Tom Rouillard February 1, 2020 Uncategorized Leadership Lessons: Appreciation There are plenty of lists, books and seminars out there that tell you how to be a leader, a good…
Tom Rouillard August 5, 2017 Software Development, Testing 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…
Tom Rouillard June 23, 2017 Software Development, Software Security 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…
Tom Rouillard April 9, 2017 Perl, Software Development, Testing 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…
Tom Rouillard July 23, 2015 Mac OS X, MySQL 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…
Tom Rouillard November 1, 2014 crontab, Git, Perl 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 +…
Tom Rouillard September 28, 2014 Mac OS X, MySQL 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.…
Tom Rouillard September 28, 2014 Mac OS X, MySQL, Perl 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.…
Tom Rouillard September 28, 2014 Uncategorized 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…