New toy from the boss!!!

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New toy from the boss!!!

Posted in General, ColdFusion, Macbook Pro

I got a nice surprise this week, my boss bought me a new 15 inch Macbook Pro. It's been several years since I've developed on a Mac and being back on one for the past 2 days I wonder how I did it.

I must say Macs have come a long way since I had one, but the over all feel is still the same. Clean, simple, and powerful, oh and the pad short cuts rock. I'm still working on getting my development environment setup for developing ColdFusion applications. So if any one has any suggestions on must have apps pay or free I just shouldn't develop with out, please post a comment and let me know.

P.S. Thanks Boss!!!

Posted: Oct 30, 2009 at 10:26:PM by John Ramon | [12] Comments | Print | Views: 5970

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Oh I almost forgot, I need to thank Ray Camden for being so helpful answering my questions the past couple of days. Thanks Ray

John Ramon - Friday, October 30, 2009

textmate is a must http://www.macromates.com and of course the cf plugin to go with it - http://www.cftextmate.com/

Aidan Kane - Friday, October 30, 2009

seriously you will want to buy mamp pro, its by far the best all in one solution tailored to osx for web development + integrated cfm into it is pretty easy. it will give you a full setup of apache, mysql, php, all the php admin tools, than cfm. yes you can use the pre-built versions but than you have to know all of the server setups to update them, where mamp is nearly point and click. if you have any osk questions man, hit me up, i am addicted to apple

chris hough - Saturday, October 31, 2009

Man...pretty nice boss. What was the occasion? Did you need a new computer anyway?

andy matthews - Saturday, October 31, 2009

awesome man, let me know if you need any help with you set up! :-)

Garrett Johnson - Saturday, October 31, 2009

@ Aidan I was trying BBEdit but Textmate rocks Thanks.

@Chris I have a Windows development box that replicates my production box so I don't need have ColdFusion on my Macbook. I am installing Railo so I can run CFML for testing if I need to.

@Andy We get either a new laptop or desktop every year. This year was desktops but I opt'd for a laptop to replace my windows desktop. He got me the Apple care so I'm set for the next 3 years.

@Garrett, Will do bud, I'll save Ray some and ask you hehe, ps Garrett email me you im info for gMail so I can keep in touch.

John Ramon - Saturday, October 31, 2009

Matt Woodward has a pretty nice blog posting on setting up a mac dev environment. You can get it as a pdf at: http://mattwoodward.com/articles/setup_mac_dev_environment.pdf

Having been developing CF apps on both the Mac and the PC for the last few years, I generally prefer the Mac, especially since CFBuilder is available on both.

Larry C. Lyons - Sunday, November 01, 2009

Definitely try these out: Coda (editor) Sequel Pro (connect to MySQL) DbVisualizer (connect to virtually ANY database) VMware OpenOffice lynx

freelance web developer - Sunday, November 01, 2009

Anyone know if there is a solution to connect to MSSQL database something like SQL Server Management Server from Microsoft. Our production and development servers all use MSSQL and I would like to connect to them from my Mac

John Ramon - Sunday, November 01, 2009

Yes, try DbVisualizer: http://www.minq.se/products/dbvis/ It handles MySQL, too. So it's nice having the same UI for any database work.

Jules Gravinese - Monday, November 02, 2009

while not as robust as sql manager, try sequel pro, a very nice alternative for mysql

chris hough - Monday, November 02, 2009

For MySQL there's the mySQL GUI tools that do pretty good for mySQL admin and queries: http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/gui-tools/5.0.html

For other databases I'd look at SequelPro or Navicat.

If you're using eclipse, then there are plenty of plugins available for handling SQL

larry lyons - Monday, November 02, 2009

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