I cant wait to get my macbook pro. Apparently, it has been shipped and should be with me before the weekend. This will be my first ever non-windows expereince and I am getting ready for the adventure. I realize the migration from Windows to Mac is not an easy one and there will be some (may be lots 
) hurdles along the way but I think nothing really major.
Any tips for regular Mac users on what / what not to do, would be really handy.
#1 by Todd Rafferty on April 22, 2008 - 9:14 pm
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Reading up on Ray’s blog about his Mac-switch gotchas would probably be wise. Sean Corfield also has a ton of information as well.
#2 by Robert Jesionek on April 22, 2008 - 9:33 pm
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No worry, you can always switch to Vista thing on it when you run into trouble with Leopard
#3 by Anuj Gakhar on April 22, 2008 - 9:41 pm
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hehe, I havent even used Vista for a day yet, never had the desire to do so. But yeah, might have to use Windows for a couple more months until I am used to Leopard….
My first attempt would be to get the dev enironment working..Eclipse, CF, Apache, SVN etc…lets see how it goes..
#4 by J.J. Merrick on April 22, 2008 - 10:25 pm
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Yeah I just got a MacBook about 2 months ago and the best thing was the CF 8.0.1 Updater since it now has true leopard 64 bit support. Everything else should be pretty easy especially since you use eclipse.
The hardest part has been giving up TortoiseSVN…
#5 by Anuj Gakhar on April 22, 2008 - 10:39 pm
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I use the Eclipse SVN plugin more so giving up TortoiseSVN might not be a big issue for me. Have you found an alternative yet though ?
#6 by J.J. Merrick on April 23, 2008 - 2:08 am
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No I haven’t. There is one called SCPlugin or something like that but it just isn’t the same. Subclipse has helped though.
#7 by David Brannan on April 23, 2008 - 7:22 am
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Try SmartSVN on the Mac instead of TortoiseSVN. It seems to be a full featured SVN that is working well for me. Also, you’ll need to memorize the command link to launch CF:
/Applications/JRun4/bin/jrun start cfusion
#8 by Anuj Gakhar on April 23, 2008 - 8:32 am
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Thanks for the tip, David. Can I not set it to start automatically like windows services?
#9 by J.J. Merrick on April 23, 2008 - 12:56 pm
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Yeah with the CF8.0.1 updater you can use the ColdFusion Launcher.
so the command is Command + Spacebar “ColdF” then enter
ahhhh spotlight!
#10 by Anuj Gakhar on April 30, 2008 - 9:19 pm
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after some delays, i have finally received my macbook, i am liking it a lot, so far so good!