I was very excited my New Mac Book Pro got here yesterday. It is so much faster than my old G4 Powerbook :). My old laptop wrote a lot of great code and it will be fondly remembered.

I was rolling along getting my music and mail copied over ( important stuff first :) ) and having a grand time with the new multi-touch track pad. That I thought I would brave the install of Coldfusion on Leopard.

I figured since there were posts going back to OCT 2007 I'd be safe, by getting my laptop now. How wrong I was. After 7 hours of not working and trying all of the blog posts and suggestions the web had to offer I had almost given up. When I came along this blog post with a video :

www.flashalisious.com/2007/12/14/installing-coldfusion8-on-leopard-using-mamp/

Well that worked after many hours of frustration so kudos for figuring this out and saving the day.

On a side note the weakest part of coldfusion since they have switched to java has been the installer. Even on linux systems they do offically support. I think it really hurts us as a developer community. It's fine if Adobe doesn't support every operating system in th world but it should at least install and function for development. And they do support OS X just not this version. I would have expected them to have had a fix for this by now. It's a huge barrier to developers even more so than the costs associated with buying the server. My New Mac came already working with PHP ....

Oh well off to setup CFECLIPSE :)

*Update 3/19/2008 - I got an email from Adobe for the Beta Test of CF8 Beta 1 waiting to get the download.