Adobe vs Apple

Ok this is going to be hard. I’m a self confessed Apple fan boy. Steve Jobs is God. Yet I’m a web developer that has been using Adobe products for over 10 years. So this spat between the two companies is a difficult one to judge in my eyes.
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The demise of Coldfusion in the UK…(and Adobe???)

I love Coldfusion, there I said it. I really do. I’ve been using it now for over 9 years and I’ve made a career out of it. I’ve worked at a huge US financial institution for over eight years in the UK using it and pushed and pushed for them to continue to use it when they’ve looked at alternative solutions. I moved to an IT ‘cloud computing’ company and managed their website using Coldfusion, building great functionality and the company is going from strength to strength and is a major player in the industry. As I said, I’ve made a career out of it. My knowledge and expertise of Coldfusion has put me in roles which have helped me pay for the wedding when I married my amazing wife. It’s helped me bring up and and look after my beautiful children. Pay for an amazing house we live in, and give me a good standard of living.

Yet over the last few years, I have started to worry, and it comes down to this simple statement.

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Installing CF9 on MAMP (Snow Leopard)

Following on from my original post of Installing Coldfusion 8/9 on MAMP (Leopard), I’ve struggled to replicate the same installation using Snow Leopard. To be honest, due to lack of time (with the kids), I had given up. I’d even sent a bug report to Adobe during CF9 testing to advise of the issue, but to be fair to Adobe, they’re not going to be that interested in fixing a small issue with a Development Version.

So thanks to Stefan Richter at Flashcomguru.com, who has used my original post and completed the jigsaw. I’m not going to take any of the credit for this one, thanks to Stefan’s work, it is now possible to get CF9 installed onto MAMP with Snow Leopard.
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CF8/9 and MAMP (Leopard only)

Hi,

There’s been many a post about getting Coldfusion installed on MAMP. None, seem to describe the issue I have had, and none gave me the solution I needed. So if you’re having the same issue as me, feel free to see below on how I managed to finally get it installed.
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