Matt Woodward's Mac Guide

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Matt Woodward recently released a nice guide for those of us who have left the "joy" of Windows and moved over to the Mac:

Setting Up a New OS X Development Environment for ColdFusion

This is a nice little PDF with a great overview of the tools that folks moving to the Mac will need for development.

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Comment 1 by Kyle Hayes posted on 2/15/2007 at 7:31 PM

OOoohh. Does it cover Intel Macs? CF MX 7 doesn't support Intel Mac yet does it?

Comment 2 by Raymond Camden posted on 2/15/2007 at 7:35 PM

It points to Mark Andracheck's guide. This isn't a "Everything in one PDF" type doc - well it is - but some of things are pointers to other PDFs.

Comment 3 by Jeff Self posted on 2/15/2007 at 9:19 PM

The first application anyone should get when they get their Mac is TextMate from MacroMates. It is far and away the best text editor I've ever used. Its even got a ColdFusion bundle available for it.

Costs about $40 US. Well worth it.

I recommend using DarwinPorts for installing MySQL or PostgreSQL (for those of us who value our data :-) ), Subversion and Apache. Basically, you install DarwinPorts then install the apps you need with the following commands:

sudo port install apache2
sudo port install mysql5 +server
sudo port install subversion +tools

MacPorts will download and compile everything including dependencies. To upgrade your packages, just type:
sudo port upgrade subversion or
sudo port upgrade installed if you want to upgrade everything

Comment 4 by Damon Gentry posted on 2/15/2007 at 10:03 PM

CFMX 7.0.2 is supported on the Mac Intel systems. I happen to be running both CFMX 7.0.2 and CFMX 8 (Beta 1) right now on my Mac Book Pro.

Comment 5 by Lola LB posted on 2/15/2007 at 10:09 PM

You aren't supposed to be telling us about that, are you, Damon? ;-)

Comment 6 by Peter Bell posted on 2/15/2007 at 10:43 PM

Mactel is NOT supported on 7.0.2. It pretty much works, but it is NOT officially supported. As for Scorpio, guess we'll just have to wait and see as I don't *think* they've made any official announcements!

Comment 7 by Jeremy Prevost posted on 2/16/2007 at 12:14 AM

@ Ray: Thanks for the link. Great stuff even for us long time Mac users.

@ Jeff Self: Is there a reason you use the DarwinPorts MySQL rather than the MySQL.com provided binary?

I'd also recommend a peak at the the free, open source, and excellent text editor Smultron:
http://smultron.sourceforge...

Comment 8 by Jeff Self posted on 2/16/2007 at 12:46 AM

Jeremy,

Actually I don't use MySQL. I use PostgreSQL. But installing an app with DarwinPorts allows me to "sandbox" it. Everything gets installed to /opt/local and OS X's /System or /Library paths don't get affected.

Comment 9 by Peter Tilbrook posted on 2/16/2007 at 5:30 AM

Excellent! Added to Web Links at www.actcfug.com !

Comment 10 by Dee Sadler posted on 2/26/2007 at 6:37 PM

Matt, I'm shocked. After all the grief you gave me at last years manager Summit about having a Mac. LOL I knew you'd all come around. (evil laugh) JK.

But seriously, I've been on the Beta and a little afraid of trying to install on the Mac side of my MacBook, so thanks. It's nice to hear how to do something from people you trust.

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