A couple of weeks ago I switched jobs (I’m now working at Improving Enterprises) and I wanted a quick solution to switch from one MacBook Pro laptop to another. I had recently upgraded my old laptop to Leopard and had been using Time Machine in conjunction with Time Capsule. My experience using Time [...]
Today I was asked to help setup integration testing for a Maven build. This seemed terribly simple to me so I was surprised that after an hour or so I was still struggling to get this configured right. I have documented the solution on my wiki site at: http://wiki.rodcoffin.com/index.php?title=Maven_Integration_Testing. I learned two [...]
I have recently received a new MacBook Pro and decided that this was a great opportunity to test my backup strategy that I have previously blogged about. So I forced myself to use my backup mechanism as a conduit to transfer everything from my old MacBook Pro to my new one. What I [...]
Last weekend a friend of mine who plays in a band sent me a link to a google calendar he maintains with their performance dates. I thought it was very cool how I could superimpose his calendar onto mine online with google calendar. Since then I’ve been wondering how to synchronize my online [...]
I have recently started work at a new company which does not yet have very mature infrastructure. One of the things I have been struggling with is the lack of a naming server. I really don’t want to have to remember the IP addresses for the different types of machines I need to [...]
Since getting my MacBook Pro I have been using BackJack to backup my data. To me it is important that my data be backed up automatically (I’m lazy) and that it be offsite (so if something catastrophic happens to my house and laptop my data still lives elsewhere). BackJack has met both of these needs [...]