Huawei modem in Slackware Linux

Finally, after several minutes (Linux software is getting better) I made it work. I bought a Huawei modem USB a few days ago, and the phone company who sold it to me only supports Windows and Mac systems.

After a while and thanks to a great tutorial, the connection was performed; this is the article I used: http://www.techonia.com/install-huawei-usb-modem-slackware

Note: You have to set manually your DNS nameservers and the default gateway route, that's it.

Configure DiffMerge on MacOSX

Based on this article, I modified it a little bit in order to make it work on Mac:

[diff]   tool=diffmerge                                                                                                                   
[difftool "diffmerge"]                                                                                                                      
  cmd = exec /Applications/DiffMerge.app/Contents/MacOS/DiffMerge \"$LOCAL\" \"$REMOTE\"                                                                                                                                   
[merge]                                                                                                                                     
  tool = diffmerge                                                                                                                    
[mergetool "diffmerge"]                                                                                                                            
  cmd = exec /Applications/DiffMerge.app/Contents/MacOS/DiffMerge --merge --result=\"$MERGED\"\n\"$LOCAL\" \"$BASE\" \"$REMOTE\"                                                                                           
  trustexitcode = false     

Distributed software development

As you have seen through the entries of this blog, I'm a distributed-stuff fanatic. I really think that the future of software development is closely related with this concept.

Many problems arise when you are working in a project that involves more than 2 developers, and the problems are even worst if new developers are included into the development process. It's a mess.

But you can make it work if you follow a simple goal: Every developer should be able to do whatever he wants without bothering anybody else.

This is very important when you are working in a database-based application, if several developers test their applications against a central database, you will have inconsistency problems in a matter of minutes.

I have worked in projects where this kind of problems arose more than once every day, it's a complete mess when testing and even worst when you are trying to integrate the work.

But not everything is bad here, I have also worked in projects where everything was meant to be distributed. Working with local databases such as H2 and versioning tool like HG or GIT. It's a big difference to be able to test all your changes without messing with other people data.

If you are working in a project with 2 or more developers, configure the project to be self-sufficient in all senses: Database, compilation, deployment, execution, tests.

Your development process will be shorter and the integration problems will be reduced, I can assure you that.