I have been running FreeBSD on my servers for years and have made many attempts during that time to use it on my Laptop - all attempts failed… But with the recent commit of xorg 7.2 to the Ports Tree I might just have to give it another go 
The upgrade has been 6 months in the making and would not have been possible without the dedicated work of Florent Thoumie
I have spent the last few days trying to find a decent tool to help with software design. I wanted something that could do everything, UML diagrams, Use Case etc, but of all the tools I tried not one of them felt right. There are many tools out there but the majority seemed too slow to work with or too complicated to just whip up a quick diagram.
After all the searching I have yet to find a tool that works better than good old pencil and paper! One tool however does stand out from the crowd and although it focuses on a single task, it performs that task exceptionally well. The tool you ask? Freemind.
I have been using Freemind for a few months now and keep finding new ways to make use of the simple Parent / Child Node tree. Project planning, personal achievement records, website maps etc etc. The list is endless and after reading an article on Developer.com now includes Software Design.
See Wave2 Informeer for a simple example.
I hope to get the mmEvents Daemon running this week, time permitting of course. I seem to be having so many ideas at the moment and unfortunately so little time….
