Synology, NFS, and OS X

I bought a Synology diskstation for a home backup/fileserver, and overall it’s been ok if not great.  The big problem I had was I could not figure out how to get an NFS filesystem mounted on my machine.  It turns out the ‘-P’ option was the trick.  Here’s the final command that worked for me (with a ‘homes’ volume, mounted at ‘/Volumes/homes’):

sudo mount -o proto=tcp,-P,port=2049 192.168.0.6:/volume1/homes/ /Volumes/test

Note that you can add this to Disk Utility for automounting; you just need to add the ‘-P’ as an Advanced option.

Development books

This comes up periodically, so I figured I’d record at least the last list I sent.  One of the Puppet Labs PS guys asked for a list of development books to read, and here’s the list I rattled off:

• Analysis Patterns:  A great book about designing large applications
• Domain Driven Design: Another great book about application design
• Pragmatic Programmer: The best way to not do stupid development
• SICP (free download): Learn about the structure of programming
• Refactoring: I didn’t learn anything new in this book but wrote code completely differently when I was done.
• Everything Jay Fields has written on testing:  I disagree with almost everything he says but it’s made me a much better programmer.  He tended to write from the position of a great developer on a struggling team.

I also recommend reading some design books, but the only good one I’ve read recently is The Design of Everyday Things.