Synology, NFS, and OS X

Sun, 27 Nov 2011 14:18:04 -0800

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

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 11:22:02 -0800

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.

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Synology, NFS, and OS X

Development books