"Clarity is a Splunk like web interface for your server log files. It supports searching (using grep) as well as trailing log files. It has been written using the event based architecture based on EventMachine and so allows real-time search of very large log files. If you hit the browser Stop button it will also kill the grep / tail utility."

How to compile APC into the Marc Liyanage PHP5 package (which is clearly the most sensible one to be using on OSX). Though this is for Server, it works fine on desktop, and as such comes recommended.

"Playdar is a music content resolver service - run it on every computer you use, and you'll be able to listen to all the songs you would otherwise be able to find manually by searching though all your computers, hard disks, online services, and friends' music collections." Feels a lot like Audioscrobbler did when that first launched; it'll be interesting to see what user-friendly services get wrapped around it.

"The easier way to monitor servers and web applications." Single-server plan is free; looks like it could be very handy indeed.

"masquerade - an OpenID server based on Ruby on Rails." Server, not client-library. Looks quite nifty, and well worth knowing this is out there.

Yahoo expand their Exceptional Performance best practice; there are some interesting new tricks in here that might seem counterintuitive, but you can actually implement "right" if you think about it. Great that somebody (else) cares about this stuff.

SixApart's MySQL DBA shares some thoughts on running tight ops ships. Lots of good wisdom in here.

"SwitchPipe is a proof of concept "Web application server" or, more accurately, a Web application process manager and request proxy." Wow. Peter Cooper comes good on his "RBoss" concept. Could be interesting to see if there's mileage in this.

"Mommy, why is there a Server in the House?" A lovely book to explain the "stay-at-home server" to kids, snapped by the gang at Gizmodo. Well, it made me laugh

"This free, open source LAMP production stack for RedHat Enterprise Edition, CentOS, Debian, and Ubuntu will allow users to quickly put Rails applications on production servers."

Phil kept pretty detailed notes on moving hosts. Worth bearing in mind, as I think about doing the same...

"Mon.itor.us is the only external website monitoring service which provides commercial grade distributed monitoring services absolutely for FREE."

"Pacific Gas & Electric is giving companies cash rebates for using virtualization software to consolidate their applications onto fewer servers." Interesting approach to a global issue.

Headdress helps you run multiple Apache vhosts with its simple graphical interface

Will probably need this.

I'm going to need this at some point in the future.

Interesting selection oif technologies to pay attention to; lighttpd looks aweomse

Building your own OSX server environment