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Interestingly I found out that the most rewarding talks were about either compliant technologies (HTML5, JavaScript ("JScript" for Windows Heads), and REST/JSON integration with the User Experience) or some 'cool' trends that I agree the industry might soon follow, overall satisfied indeed, but too much MS Kool-Aid that borders on the boring.

The irony of all of this is that around 70% of the speakers (including those that deal greatly with security), were using their awesome MacBook Pros, Using MacBooks also was the registration booth and many of those who attended, I have pictures of not one but several conferences in which the entire row in front of me were using iPads, of course every single one of the people sporting iPads, MacBooks, MacBook Pros, iPhones, etc that I overheard talking about the 'apple issue' were confidently expressing how quick they'd toss out that piece of junk as soon as Microsoft releases their [insert a vaporware product here, and append its name with some precious metal, gold platinum, etc]. Pathetic.

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https://bitbucket.org/speedbird

QA-Stack (A stack-overflow-inspired python web app in web2py) is located in:

https://bitbucket.org/speedbird/qastack
Live Website: http://www.qa-stack.com

ITrack (An issue tracking system python web app in web2py) is located in:

https://bitbucket.org/speedbird/i-track
Live Website: http://www.i-track.org

pyForum (A message board python web app in web2py) is located in:

https://bitbucket.org/speedbird/pyforum
Live Website: http://www.pyforum.org

(All non-https links should open in its own new window)

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If you happen to have an Apple Airport Extreme which has one of those USB hard drives attached to it, it is extremely convenient if you use this hard drive as a centralized location for your music/documents/scans etc, and accessing it from any mac is a as easy as clicking on the disk available from the finder, typing it the optional password and voila, you have a device connected to your mac. Applications like iTunes or iPhoto can even automatically connect to it when started, effectively creating a centralized location for your entertainment.

Problem arises when you are in Linux, yes, that nerdy-looking interface and that "DOS" command window with allows to type impossible to remember commands such as "grep", "ls", "df", "du", etc, etc.

Fear not, my friends, you can raise the ugly-ducky to the same level of that expensive mac that your wife comfortably uses.

All you need to do is "mount" the disk into one of your local folders, first some assumptions for the sake of the example:

1. Router IP Address is 10.0.1.1
2. Hard drive is protected with the password "D33pSp@ce9"
3. The "name" given to airport express for the hard drive is "Seagate GoFlex 2T"
4. Your Linux username is "julio" :)
5. There is an empty folder locally at ~/ExternalHDD

Type this:

Just substitute the appropriate values and you should have a local folder in ~/ExternalHDD containing the remote hard disk's contents, and will be able to read and write files on it, you can add this to your /etc/fstab so you don't have to re-run this after a reboot.