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Mr Yegge has some really good thoughts on how to build a large service platforms

I just finished reading Stevey's Google Platforms Rant.

Most of the attention this post has gotten is about the fact that Mr Yegge accidentally posted this publicly and how he goes on about his current company not doing things right. However if you look past the internal company politics rants and sarcasm about former employers this post is a really good article about how to build company wide service platforms.

It's really worth to read top to bottom.

Setting up SMTP server on a development test server running Ubuntu

This is a simple step-by-step tutorial to install and configure exim to route all e-mails send though a local SMTP server to one local user, regardless of the e-mail address or domain. I found this set-up very usefull when testing applications that send e-mail messages and you do not want to generate multiple HotMail accounts for testing or in case I'm wanted to do some testing and development when I'm offline.

Install exim

Start with installing exim.

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