I just bumped into the Sun BluePrints Wiki and I think it is worth a visit. It is a companion to the BluePrints Blog and part of the move towards Self-Published Content at Sun, which increases agility and responsiveness to user's needs.

The Recent Content page lists chronologically the latest changes. The more recent entries are created in Wiki format, while the earlier ones are PDF attachments.

Some of the documents that caught my attention include:

Recently, I came upon Baron Swartz's (xaprb's) great now_usec UDF:
http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2007/10/30/how-i-built-the-now_usec-udf-for-mysql/

I use an Intel Macbook Pro for my primary development environment. GCC on OS X has some interesting quirks. Usually to compile a UDF on GNU/Linux I use the following command line:

gcc -fPIC -Wall -I/usr/include/mysql -shared -o udf_now_usec.so udf_now_usec.cc

When I tried to execute the above on my OS X box, I got some errors:

$ gcc -fPIC -Wall -I../include -shared -o udf_now_usec.so udf_now_usec.cc
i686-apple-darwin8-gcc-4.0.1: unrecognized option '-shared'
/usr/bin/ld: Undefined symbols:
_main
___gxx_personality_v0</b>
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

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