While I was setting up my Mac last week, I installed Eclipse, because I use CFEclipse exclusively for CF development and Subclipse for my SVN interaction. Well, I had already installed CF and changed my default JVM by doing these steps so that ColdFusion would use Java 1.6 which I need for some Java libraries that I use, I noticed that Eclipse would not work.

One of the developers on my team (thanks Chris!) found that Eclipse needs to use jre1.5 so if you change your systems CurrentJDK, you will break Eclipse. The solution is to open the Eclipse.app package (show package contents command) and edit the info.plist with a text editor. Uncomment out the line that uses jdk1.5 and save the file. Eclipse will work again.

I hope this helps some people out that make the change to Java 1.6 for ColdFusion on a Mac and still want to use Eclipse for CF development.

My Mac Book Pro showed up last week in my cube! Woohoo! I started to install stuff, ColdFusion in particular, and well, what can I say other than I totally crashed my Mac OS. Nothing like sudo and chmod and what kind of havoc they can create in the hands of a total newbie to Unix. So yeah, I did a sudo chmod 666 on my Private folder, hoping to fix some permissions issues. LOL.

Yup, in under 24 hours from getting my Mac, I had to put the DVD in and set it up again. But, we live and learn. And learn I did. I learned to use Google ALOT and make sure to write down what I was doing or what I had to do (or print it off) and boom, in about two days, I got CF set up and all of my other applications, and of course VMWare Fusion because I just can't part with my TOAD for SQL Server.

Today I was put to the test. We had an issue with one of our products in our test environment, and I had to spin up an instance of CF to run a test script, use CoRD to remote into a server, spin up my VM and TOAD to get some query data, and use Subclipse to check the history on our latest release branch. After we had fixed the issue, I sat in my cube and thought, heck yes, I can do this. Some growing pains, but now I am comfortable and just showed myself that I can use my Mac to do everything that I could with my PC.

I have to say that I really like the Mac OS interface and that stuff just works; setting up my mouse, keyboard, wireless, and printer. Sometimes I find that I can't figure things out, and then I sit back and when I stop trying to over complicate things like Windows often does, I figure it out immediately. I am a fan of my Mac and of Mac OS X. Oh yeah, and my wife named my named my Mac, Macenzie.