November 2011
2 posts
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’):
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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...