LuckyDonkey

I use VMWare Fusion to run Windows XP and FreeBSD on my Mac Pro. To be honest I mostly run in for the single Windows App I can't find a replacement for RegexBuddy.

I'll admit it's an expensive way for me to be lazy. I could test regular expression in the python command line. I'm just to lazy Anyway, to get to the point. There is a good google tech talk by one of the authors of VMWare Fusion. He goes in to the ins and outs of OSX development touching on the 'Apple creates API's for it's own needs' which I think most OSX developers know. For some reason embedding is disabled so here is the link.

I've been hearing about DTrace for years now and I kind of knew what it was and that I would like to have it. In the back of my mind I've been waiting for it to appear in FreeBSD (although this seems to be faltering a little) so I could play with it.

Well one of the engineers from Sun that gave birth to DTrace has done a google tech talk about DTrace and it's very interesting indeed. Highlights for me were the amazing instrumentation of Python which I will definitely use. He also muses on the lack of support for DTrace on linux and tries to gather a posse of developers from google to kick it off, porting DTrace to Windows and how he can't find a good book on programming.

The current port of Lighttpd 1.4.13 (FreeBSD 6.1) doesn't support WebDAV. I'm not sure why the port has been left like this. Any way I applied this patch to the port and did some quick testing and it all seemed to work with MacOSX and Windows clients.

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