I just finished setting up a Bugzilla Bug-Tracking system. Very powerful piece of software - and a decent pain to get working under OS X.

Things I had problems with, getting Bugzilla working under OS X:

• Perl 5.8
  
  OS X (even OS X 10.2) ships with an outdated version of Perl (Perl 5.6.0) you'll need to get the latest version, as 5.6.0 has problems with long file names (and you need these)
  
  
• Various Perl Modules
  
  Remember - always run CPAN as root. sudo is your friend
  
  
• mysql
  
  This really isn't all that hard to install, except I really do suggest using something like Fink or DarwinPorts to get it up and working. And reading the documentation on how to get it automatically starting up on bootup.
  
  
• Sendmail
  
  Read Configuring sendmail on Jaguar article on getting sendmail set up. You'll probably need to refer to the last few pages of Configuring a Site Server under Jaguar for some help as well.
  
  

  Also, the log files for sendmail are at: /var/log/mail.log. You'll probably need these.
  
  

• Symlink sendmail to /usr/lib/sendmail
  
  If you don't do this, Bugzilla won't be able to send mail. Sendmail's location under Jaguar is at: /usr/sbin/sendmail
  
  

  I guess there's a sendmail perl module, but instead Bugzilla's authors used hard links to sendmail. They may have had a good reason... but I really wish they would have used the module.

My thanks go out to O'Reilly's MacDevCenter and the people who posted messages in this thread on the netscape.public.mozilla.webtools newsgroup.

Oh, where is it?

Wilcox Design's BugZilla

I'm working on a prettier first page, I assure you.

And yes, I've learnt more about perl, apache, sendmail, and SMTP, then I ever really wanted to know.

Open-Source Windows? Uh, Kinda. By Michelle Delio. [Wired News]

I was wondering about this when I first got word of it. Unless the government has hundreds of hackers that really want to look over millions and millions of lines of C++, then it's probably an utter waste of time.

They may have the required number of hackers that deeply understand the Windows APIs, of course. But it may be like handling me a Spanish encyclopedia set and telling me to read everything looking for typos. (I had 3 years of Spanish in high school... like that means anything).

Use variable scrolling speeds in BBEdit [Mac OS X Hints]

In BBEdit holding down the option key scrolls faster. In other apps (like OmniWeb) holding the option key scrolls slower.

I guess you just have to experiment-and-remember, huh?

Oh yeah, I didn't mention that Command and Command-Option do things too, right? At least in BBEdit

decafbad, in this post points to Lazy Mac OS X: Weblogging with Folder Actions [0xDECAFBAD]

Very very very cool.