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Comment on Web Directions “North” (time for a Canadian solution?) by J Lane

J Lane — Tue, 25 May 2010 21:15:12 +0000

Relevant conversation from 2005 (pre Web Directions North) about a Canadian variant can be found at my friend Kim’s blog:

http://blog.hotpepper.ca/archives/2005/12/calling-all-canuck-web-developers-and-designers/

I think that one of the biggest factors in picking a city is airport/accessibility. Nanaimo’s pretty much out, and Victoria isn’t great for direct flights. I think Vancouver is the strongest option.

Comment on Web Directions “North” (time for a Canadian solution?) by Grant Palin

Grant Palin — Tue, 25 May 2010 20:55:13 +0000

Sigh. I too was quite happy for a general web conference in Vancouver, relatively close to home, that I could get to with a reasonable budget and little hassle. I attended the first event in Vancouver in 2007, and would have attended again a couple of years later, but it had moved to Denver. And now it’s in Atlanta. So much for convenience.

An Event Apart is Seattle is not bad, and I can get there directly via the Clipper, but I would be very interested in a conference that would stay north of the border and on the west coast.

Vancouver is a clear option, but Victoria and Nanaimo may be possible as well. They have their own tech scenes and companies.

Comment on Flu vaccine: to be or not to be by Kim Siever

Kim Siever — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 18:04:48 +0000

I had the measles, chicken pox, and mumps naturally. I have had the flue several times. Same goes for my four siblings. None of us have had any lasting side effects of any of these diseases. I honestly see no reason for a healthy person to vaccinate against such diseases as these.

Comment on ColdFusion 8 on Snow Leopard by J Lane

J Lane — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:05:11 +0000

Just for posterity:

I just did a clean install of Snow Leopard and re-installed ColdFusion 8 from scratch. The only additional step to the ones listed above was that I created a symbolic link to the CFIDE directory in the web root:

1. cd /Library/WebServer/Documents
2. sudo ln -s /Applications/ColdFusion8/wwwroot/CFIDE/ CFIDE

Comment on ColdFusion 8 on Snow Leopard by Rob

Rob — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:31:16 +0000

You are a lifesaver! Ever since the upgrade I had been trying to get this to work, and eventually gave up and built a VMware instance of Ubuntu that I could run it on. That was killing my available memory, I’m so glad to have CF8 back on OS X.

Comment on ColdFusion 8 on Snow Leopard by Andy Roberts

Andy Roberts — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 20:35:25 +0000

I’ll do that tonight. I’m at work and away from my server. Thanks Jonathan.

Comment on ColdFusion 8 on Snow Leopard by J Lane

J Lane — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:21:26 +0000

Did you run the “apache_connector.sh” script first? (just notice I had a typo in that command, fixed it). It should create a wsconfig/1/ directory structure with the proper permissions.

Comment on ColdFusion 8 on Snow Leopard by Andy Roberts

Andy Roberts — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:14:22 +0000

1. The Admin was on port 9010 and worked great. But when I tried to bring up my own pages, it was pure unprocessed code with cfoutputs, etc.

2. In my set up, there isn’t a “1″ directory… mine looks like this:
/Applications/ColdFusion8/runtime/lib/wsconfig.jar

Comment on ColdFusion 8 on Snow Leopard by J Lane

J Lane — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:05:03 +0000

As far as I can figure, it’s a permissions issue. The virtual mapping is there.

I’ll experiment a bit and see if I can figure it out.

Comment on ColdFusion 8 on Snow Leopard by Jefz Lim

Jefz Lim — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:59:57 +0000

That was a great piece of step-by-step instruction for a Mac newbie like me I’ve managed to installed CF8 on apache for my new Snow Leopard MBP. However, I wonder why all the images link appeared as broken in the CF Administrator screens. Checked all image links and the images are sitting well within the CFIDE/administrator folder – not a big concern but would look less irritating.
Cheers.