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Sep 29

posted by Steven Erat in ColdFusion, Macromedia | 7 Comments

Todd Matthews posted to the CF-Talk list that eWeek has published a very positive article about CFMX 7.01 support for Mac OS X in production.

Macromedia ColdFusion Supports Mac OS X 'Tiger'

Yahoo's Finance news is running a similar, but longer article:

Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7 Offers Mac OS X 'Tiger' and Mac OS X Server 'Tiger' Support, Achieves Rapid Customer Adoption

Further, Sean Corfield just posted about a new CF_OSX Blog that is looking for contributors.

Also, check out my screenshots of the ColdFusion MX 7.01 GUI installation.

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#1 by Bob Flynn on 10/9/05 - 3:13 PM

Steve, I am working on some CF exercise files for a book. With the release of 7.0.1 I can get a lot more platform agnostic in the book. I have hit one minor wall and wonder if you could shed some light on the OS X side.

For windows users I can supply an MS Access file with some sample records for the exercise. Is there something similar I can do for OS Xers that does not require them doing a full install of MySQL? How are the sample apps set up in the default install of 7.0.1? They do have sample apps, right?
#2 by Steven Erat on 10/10/05 - 6:13 PM

Hi Bob, CFMX on Unix uses PointBase datasources by default rather than MS Access. Here`s a link to the docs and a brief blurb regarding the example applications or tutorials:

[a href="http://livedocs.macromedia.com/coldfusion/7/htmldo...cs/00000110.htm" target="_blank"]http://livedocs.macromedia.com/coldfusion/7/htmldo......[/a]

Tutorial Requirements: Database Management System A database management system can be installed on the same computer as ColdFusion MX or on a separate computer. For the purpose of this tutorial, a Microsoft Access database file for Microsoft Windows users and a PointBase database file for UNIX users have been provided.
#3 by Bob Flynn on 10/12/05 - 11:28 PM

That certainly fills out the picture for me a bit, but I`m afraid I`m still at a bit of a loss to simply create a two table Db file for an exercise. I tried using Aqua Data Studio to get into the existing files but I don`t understand enough about pointbase to get going. I was reading [a href="http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/server_archive/ar...ticles/using_pointbase_server_db_w_jrun31.html" target="_blank">http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/server_archive/ar......" target="_blank"]http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/server_archive/ar......[/a] and don`t know if it gets me going in the right direction. I don`t know if I`d need to install the Pointbase server just to be able to create and save a database for it. Any other leads would be greatly appreciated.
#4 by Steven Erat on 10/13/05 - 1:31 AM

CFMX 701 on Mac OSX should come installed with PointBase if during the installation of CFMX the option for Examples and Documentation was selected.

Several default pointbase databases were created by default and have corresponding CF datasources.

You could then either create additional CF datasources pointing to the same PB database and then create your new tables there, or run the PB Console to launch a graphical tool that will help you administer PB. From the graphical PB Console tool you can create new databases, users, and tables.

When I took the Servlet/J2EE course at Sun Microsystems, for some of our labs they had us run the PB Console to get the GUI and create our own databases before beginning the labs.

The JRurn article you cited shows how to run the PBConsole, so perhaps you could have the students create their databases and datasources as part of the exercise.

Try the pointbase.com website for more about usage:

[a href="http://www.pointbase.com/search/default.aspx?Searc...hString=console" target="_blank"]http://www.pointbase.com/search/default.aspx?Searc......[/a]
#5 by Uno on 10/18/05 - 11:03 AM

Steve, I`m looking for a solution to add image resize function to CF7 on MacOS.

I`m converting my PHP website to CF website. Now I`m working on my MacOS and then I transfer it to Win. So It should be work on almost platform. - I know that on Win base but...

I found one article, but not easy for me - which one & how to install, how to use, no sample.
[a href="http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/coldfusion/articl...es/jai_images.html" target="_blank">http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/coldfusion/articl......" target="_blank"]http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/coldfusion/articl......[/a]

I hope to read this in your blog ^^ Thank you.
#6 by Steven Erat on 10/18/05 - 11:46 AM

I recommend the Alagad Image Component from Dough Hughes.

[a href="http://www.alagad.com/" target="_blank"]http://www.alagad.com/[/a]
#7 by Uno on 10/19/05 - 6:18 AM

Thank you very much. also web hosting company linked alagad.com is good information for me. Thank you again.

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