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I had problems setting up postfix to run properly on my macbook pro.

Then I found this very clear, step by step how to. And now everything works like a charm.

The only drawback is that I can now basically only send email from my gmail account. Well that will do it for now.

I’ve decided to dig a bit into Erlang.

The setup has been painless. I first installed Macports (look here for a step by step guide). With this installed, to install Erlang is a single command:

sudo port install erlang

Then I looked up the recommended development environment. What a surprise: a lot of people suggest Emacs. And so I followed the instructions of lisp Guru extraordinaire Bill Clementson on how to setup Emacs to develop in Erlang. I won’t repeat what he has explained perfectly in the post linked above.

Now since yesterday I am going through “Programming Erlang” with a development Erlang node embedded in my Emacs session and I am enjoying it very much.

My mind wanders freely on the power and the ease Erlang will give me to develop massive, concurrent, real-time, next generation services.

Right. Given the fact that July 31st I’ll have to hand in my company laptop I’ve decided to invest a fair chunk of my last salary to buy a new one. One powerful enough to stand heavy coding sessions and running multiple virtual machines at the same time. One beautiful in design and with a solid OS … alright I bought macbook pro.

For the vast crowds of geeky friends reading this here are the specs:

MacBook Pro 15-inch Glossy WS
2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
4GB 667 DDR2 SDRAM – 2x2GB
200GB Serial ATA @ 7200 rpm
SuperDrive 8x DL
US Keyboard

Oh and I couldn’t resist, I also upgraded my iPod touch to version 2.0 of the software so that I can start downloading all the amazing apps that are coming out at the iTunes App Store.