Grumpy Monkey
There are certain settings worth setting in settings.php:$conf['error_level'] = '2';
$conf['block_cache'] = 0;
$conf['cache'] = 0;
$conf['page_compression'] = 0;
$conf['preprocess_css'] = 0;
$conf['preprocess_js'] = 0;
By default, the Google Analytics module for Drupal (https://drupal.org/project/google_analytics) places the Google javascript in the header.
To place it in the footer, visit admin/config/system/googleanalytics, open the Advanced Settings at the bottom of the page and change the JavaScript scope from Header to Footer.
gzip compression may well be set up by default, but there are further tweaks you can make:
http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-save-traffic-with-nginxs-httpgzipmodule...
Logwatch prefers postfix but can be set up with sendmail.
http://www.gobbledygooks.com/installing-logwatch-with-sendmail.html
I've been using Open Terminal Here, which gives you a button to open the terminal at the current Finder window. Useful, but not without issues.
Just found http://homepage.mac.com/thomasw/OpenTerminal/ which, as an application rather than an AppleScript, is nice and responsive.
Gives the option of using pushd rather than cd, too.
Just noticed this: http://drupal.org/project/dcss
Looks interesting and could be quite useful. Think I'll try it out at the earliest opportunity.
http://drupal.org/project/drush_make
Use it. That is all.
There's a module for that...
devel has a setting at admin/settings/devel to switch Drupal mail to log emails instead of sending them out.
Set "SMTP library" to "Log only".
Puts useful debug data into $messages, too.
Recently, I built a site for a recruitment agency. Each advertised vacancy has a userreference field (userreference is bundled with the CCK module) to associate the vacancy with the relevant recruitment consultant.