Swedish Spring usergroup
Good to see things are moving here in Sweden aswell. (snipet from http://www.springframework.org/node/408)
The Sweden Spring User Group has been founded. The group will be backed by Jayway, the leading Java house in Sweden. The goal is to arrange activities and seminars, and exchange information, experiences and opinions about the Spring framework and other related technologies. The User Group is available at http://groups.google.com/group/swedenspring. The communication in the group is in Swedish. We are looking forward to meet you there and have a lot of interesting discussions!
Practices of an Agile Developer, a quick review
I’ve had this book laying around for some months, and because of time constraints I haven’t had the time to read it. Even if i consider myself quite “Agile” the book gives you quite a lot of insight into practices you haven’t used before, or it even serves as a stamp of approval to verify what your doing is the “right” thing.
I’m a big fan of the Pragmatic Programmers books, they seem just right (in terms of sheer size, and content) nowadays I seldom run through a 700+ pages book just to get up on speed on technology, I much prefer to have a short (200pages or so) introduction and this lets me get on with investigate further by myself.
So the practices then, I found some new that I haven’t used before that I will try to implement in future (and present) projects.
I highly recommend this book to everyone claiming to be Agile, or want to be more Agile.
Mounting .mac iDisk on Ubuntu
I tend to keep some files that I need access to from different computers on my .mac iDisk account, when on a windows computer Apple has a utility to mount the file system, but when using Linux (Ubuntu in my case) your out of luck.
But luckily iDisk is just a webdav share so mounting it is pretty easy.
Firstly do a
sudo apt-get install davfs2
This will install the required utility to mount webdav file systems.
Then fire up your favorite editor and edit
/etc/davfs2/secrets
And ad a entry like this
http://idisk.mac.com/username USERNAME PASSWORD
to mount the file system manually type
mount -t davfs http://idisk.mac.com/username /mnt/idisk
That’s it, your ready to go.
If you like to have it automatically mounted when booting you have to edit /etc/fstab and add
http://idisk.mac.com/username /mnt/idisk davfs user 0 0