Rendezvous Virtual Hosts

This is one of three websites I find myself involved in either setting up from scratch or giving a major face-lift. The other two are my hobby website for country guitarists that I’ve been doing for 10 years, COWPIE and my church website, Hope Reformed Church. So, on my TiBook I’ve got all three setup as apache Virtual Hosts. I thought it would be really cool to have them all published under Rendezvous, but it’s not as easy as it sounds. I’ve emailed Joe Maller a bit about it after reading his post on macosxhints and he told me today that he’d published an article on it over on O’Reilly’s site.

It’s getting late, so I doubt I’ll fully digest and play with his ideas this evening, but from a quick skim, it’s still too hackish for my tastes. For now I’ll just do without rendezvous. I’ve already entered the cowpie.local and hrc.local hosts in my /etc/hosts file, so it’s not too hard to bookmark them.

There’s an app called Rendezvous Beacon I downloaded the other day that I had high hopes for because it says it can advertise on behalf of another host, but I can’t get it to work. Maybe it’s because I registered my hosts in my /etc/hosts file and it’s only looking in the netinfo database. I haven’t had time to dig any further.

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Transparent Prefs

I love the fact that OS X has a hackable preferences infrastructure. So much of it is hackable which is what makes it such a great developer platform. I’m bringing this up because in order to get around the Blapp prefs problem I mentioned yesterday, I just opened the prefs file in the plist editor and took care of it :-)

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