I was reading these different articles on how to install Maven on Mac OSX and I had to create the /usr/local directory, check the md5sum, untar and then modify my profile.

All this to realize that Maven is already installed on my Mac by default. It is version 2.2.0 and not the latest 2.2.1 but for the book I am reading this is perfect.

A little bit of testing before starting to do all sort of crazy things would have simplified my life.

I installed the m2eclipse plugin in my Eclipse so I can get ready to see how it simplifies my life by not having to write the pom.xml.

http://m2eclipse.sonatype.org/installing-m2eclipse.html

When you look at the synergy+ page it does say that it is beta and mostly stable in most cases so all the warnings are there to inform you that it may not work perfectly. I have no problem with them but I do with CentOS 5. When I did the upgrades this morning it upgraded my synergy to synergy+ and caused me all sorts of issue for most of the morning. CentOS on the workstation in question is installed to be a stable system and not a system that installs beta software. If I want cutting and bleeding edge I will play with Fedora.

After reverting everything back to synergy I am back to a productive environment.

I read this blog post this morning and taught that it was giving good advices:

Five tips for starting a programming career

http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/programming-and-development/?p=2231&tag=nl.e055

The tip to work on more projects and getting involved with an existing project are ones I will put in practice in the coming days. I am expecting that it will make life a bit harder but I am certainly ready to learn a lot from this.

I had to setup a forwarding DNS servers today and since I had never done it before I was looking for a quick way.

I installed the bind rpm package that comes with RHEL5 and was puzzled since it did not create the /etc/named.conf. So I created one with this content:

options {
directory “/var/named”;
forwarders {10.1.1.1; 10.1.1.2;};
forward only;
};