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I’ve been wanting a lightweight travel machine for ages. I’ve been looking longingly at the MacBook Air as several folks I know own one, but the price has always been too high for me to easily justify to myself. And with the recent price increase in Australia to AU$2899 base, I just couldn’t do it.
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Matt Woodward’s recent HOWTO on setting up your Intel Mac Development Environment and Mark Andrachek’s CFMX on Intel Macs – The Definitive Guide are valuable resources for the growing number of Intel Mac-based ColdFusion developers. If you are a part of this group, they should definitely be among your required reading.
One thing I recommend [...]
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I’ve been reading Matt Woodward’s entry Setting Up a Mac for ColdFusion Development and I’ve noticed he’s missed one minor, but kind of important thing – in order for ColdFusion to be able to connect to datasources that use the downloaded drivers, you actually need them findable in the ColdFusion classpath. So, Matt’s recommendation that [...]
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I’ve finally set up CF on my MacBook Pro using the Definitive Guide from Mark Andrachek. It all works brilliantly.
Now, like any good geek, I’ve begun thinking that this must be able to be done with Apache 2.x. The most recent release available is 2.0.52 from ServerLogistics, which is the one I use [...]
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SWEET! Check out Virtualization Daily for this tutorial on converting a VMWare appliance to work with Parallels. I haven’t tried yet, but if you have a go, comment here and let everyone know how it went.
As an extra there are some pre-modded applicances ready to download.
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Dear Lazyweb
I’m trying to get Ruby on Rails and OpenLaszlo to play on OS X (so I have an OS X equivalent of what’s described here). I cannot for the life of me get the OpenLaszlo bit to work with RoR.
Everything installs and behaves beautifully as far as I can tell. Right up [...]
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Over at Living Digitally, Christian Cantrell has a useful post on recovering data from corrupt Parallels VMs. Worth the read.
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So, simple question… Or so I thought…
I want to get the Neverwinter Nights Premium Modules to play on my OS X version of NWN. But be buggered if I can get a clear picture of whether they will:
work on OS X
work on a MacBook Pro
Do I get the Linux versions? Searching the [...]
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UPDATE – Hmmm… Reboot, make sure everything is in the right place with the right settings and voila! It all works. One should try to solve one’s problems before panicking publically.
I got my PowerBook back from repair yesterday, and I decided to play around with XAMPP for OS X, and the new [...]
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I bought my PowerBook back at the end of November last year. Functionally, I couldn’t be happier with it. That said, I’m more than a little irritated at the hardware issues I’m having…
The local Apple Repair Centre replaced the motherboard (they call it a logic board) about eight weeks ago, after it had [...]
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