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Run ColdFusion on your Mac
ColdFusion MX 7 is Macromedia's (now Adobe's) powerful server side programming language. It is easy to pick up and allows for rapid development and deployment of web applications, and best of all for us Mac users it written entirely in Java.So what you ask? Well, that means that you can run a developer's version on your Powerbook (or Mac mini, or PowerMac, or.. well you get the idea). Sean Corfield has posted some very good instructions on how to get CFMX running on OS X (which may or may not change thanks to Tiger).
What is configd and why is it running on my Mac?
The Unix underpinnings of OS X deliver unto us Mac users many good things. We have protected memory, great multitasking, lots of open source software, and heaps of security.But, as the sages of the 'Facts of Life' have taught us, you have to take good with the bad. Thanks to Unix being designed by geeks who were more interested in have a fast and rock solid OS and less so with having naming conventions that would make sense to non geeks we have to deal with a number of oddly named processes that may or may not be very important.Enter Westwind Computer with its list of process names and what they do. It hasn't been updated in a little while, but it is still relevant.Oh, and configd 'Maintains dynamic configuration information about the computer and its environment (e.g. network).'
Stop copying me!
Microsoft and Apple have a long history of saying one is copying the other (I think you can figure out where we at TUAW stand on this issue). The most recent example of this comes from His Steveness himself, at the recent shareholder's meeting. Flush from all those profits he couldn't resist take a few shots at Microsoft.Jobs said that Microsoft is busy copying Apple's innovations, but that they 'can't even copy fast,' referring to Longhorn (the next version of Windows) ever changing ship date.
You can't hide from Spotlight
Spotlight is one of the 'wow' features of Tiger. Your Windows using friends will drool with envy when you show it to them in action, however, with that said I wasn't too excited about it. Sure, it looks cool and it might be helpful but the search feature in Pather is pretty darned fast, and it hasn't changed the way I use my Mac.After reading this post I am pretty excited about Spotlight because I came to a realization. It isn't about how fast Spotlight is (though that is important) but rather how far reaching it is. Text on a layer in a Photoshop file coming up in the results? Now that's awesome.Now I have to start using Photoshop.
