The new Wordpress 1.5.2 should finally fix the slow posting - caused by pinging - by moving the pinging to the shutdown, i.e. after the actual request-response chain. In German: with 1.5.2, pinging should no longer cause an eternal wait on the browser. It would be very nice if that actually works.
Since there are also security fixes included, an upgrade is generally sensible. Although WordPress, for a PHP application, functions surprisingly stably - but still, there are undoubtedly one or two skeletons in the closet.
Update: well, it hasn't really gotten faster when posting ...
Seashore is an image editor for OS X based on GIMP libraries and formats. It already looks quite nice, even though it currently has almost no features (especially the filters are missing). But maybe something like this will one day become a native OS X GIMP ...
sudo mdutil -i off -E /Volumes/VOLNAME/ should disable Spotlight on a volume and discard the index. Hopefully - it's annoying when my backup drives are supposed to be indexed every time. Or when the found applications appear in the Open With lists, even if the drive is not connected at all ...
trac is a web interface for Subversion repositories. However, it is not just the appropriate web interface - it also includes a wiki, a bug tracking system, a milestone management, and very comfortably created reports based on the bug tracking. And all of this in a very easy-to-install package - on Debian, an apt-get install trac is sufficient and then with trac-admin initenv a Trac instance can be created. It also looks quite appealing and the functions are very well integrated - links from the tickets to the wiki or links from changeset descriptions to the wiki or the bug tracking are easy to make and of course help enormously in managing software changes. Additionally, there is a nice timeline that documents and links changes to the system over time - among other things, also to a very comfortable changeset browser.
I have now thrown away all the handmade stuff for TooFpy and switched to trac. Just the possibility of assigning my ToDo list, which was previously managed in the source tree, to planned releases via tickets brings a lot of overview to the project.
Yep, anyone who has to manage a software project should definitely take a look at trac, because anyone who is not necessarily a control fetishist will certainly be happier with the rather open structure of trac than with some overengineered parts.