mind the explanatory gap

Thanks to Dave Dribin for pointing this out.
In http://opensource.apple.com/source/CF/CF-550/CFBinaryPList.c
So really there’s no reason why we can’t have plistlib etc for Ruby/Python/whatever deal with binary plists on non-Mac platforms.

/*
HEADER
magic number (“bplist”)
file format version

OBJECT TABLE
variable-sized objects

Object Formats (marker byte followed by additional info in some cases)
null 0000 0000
bool 0000 1000 // false
bool 0000 1001 // true
fill 0000 1111 // fill byte
int 0001 nnnn … // # of [...]

Posted on October 30th, 2009 under macosx. Comments: None

We’ve uploaded the 0.25.1 debs, but due to this work, it might take a little while before they appear.
http://blog.ganneff.de/blog/2009/10/27/debian-ftpmaster-meeting.html
It will appear here when done.
http://packages.debian.org/sid/puppet
Instructions for building yourself….
$ git clone git://git.debian.org/pkg-puppet/puppet.git
$ cd puppet
$ git-buildpackage –git-upstream-branch=origin/upstream

Posted on October 29th, 2009 under puppet. Tags: puppet. Comments: None

If you’re a Mac IT person, and you don’t know about Greg Neagle’s Managing OS X blog, you need to fix that situation now.
One of the reasons Greg is so awesome in our field is that he’s eminently pragmatic, with enough hacker mentality to make sure he simply gets the job done with a minimum [...]

Posted on October 8th, 2009 under macosx, puppet. Comments: 1

I’ve submitted a diff to update facter in MacPorts to 1.5.7, so it should be available soon.
Note that I’ve set the maintainer for both Puppet and Facter in MacPorts to ‘openmaintainer’. This means that I accept patches from anyone, and it’s really quite trivial to update either of them, as is the case with the [...]

Posted on October 7th, 2009 under puppet. Tags: facter, puppet. Comments: 2

This has been flowing all over the #puppetcamp twitter tag, but it’s worth repeating.
“Think of the complexity in your environment as a form of technical debt that you’re going to have to pay down” – Paul Nasrat
This is so awesomely pithy you just know he’s a bloody Pom.
(England 3/83 in the Champions Trophy semi-final as [...]

Posted on October 2nd, 2009 under puppet. Comments: 3