Be careful installing Adobe CS2 on a new Macbook (Pro) for now
What a nice way to spend a Friday afternoon with my new Macbook Pro… It appears Adobe CS2 has some issues installing on OS X.4.6 and for me it was a bit worse than not installing. My pretty new Macbook Pro just decided it wouldn’t respond anymore. The mouse is fine, it moves the cursor around, but I have nothing to click on. I have no idea the cause but many fingers point to the recent Quicktime security update if you follow that thread I linked to.
The workaround is to restore OS X back to ‘out-of-the-box’ set up and NOT run the system update until AFTER you have installed CS2. That seemed to do the trick for me.
The irony is that XP pro runs nicely thanks to Bootcamp. I even installed anti-virus software and Studio 8. After spending close to a week with XP on a Macbook Pro I am oddly impressed with its speed and how it feels. Just with it wouldn’t screw up the date/time settings when going back and forth between the two OS’s. The fix is simple, set auto update date/time in both but sometimes I don’t have a net connection. Ah well.
Back to doing real work… This Macbook pro will definately speed up my workflow and finally offer a proper Windows environment for testing—although it is a much better environment than most Windows users have 
Contribute for CMS at OUCC in Guelph
This afternoon I will be presenting with Pat Lafranier of IST at OUCC in Guelph. The presentation is available as a PDF in my documentation section. The real short version: we are talking about the last year or so with Contribute on campus with the new web standards friendly Common Look and Feel. If you want to check out what we are talking about, take a look at the presentation slides. If you have attended the presentation post your questions/comments below.
New CPA search version 3 ready for testing
After much delay we now have a version 3 of the CPA search ready for testing. Give it a try but be nice. The changes with version 3 are more to do with the code behind it than anything else. The test version is only a test. I know there are a few things missing but what have now is:
- queries UW LDAP instead of UW Dir for people
- automagic switch to the Yahoo! search API if Google fails
- way more MVC in the back end
A big thanks to Co-op students Jackie McKoy (winter 2006) and Mitch Hargreaves (spring 2006) for getting this rebuilt and ready to go.
Back from TODCon 8
Just a quick note about TODCon 8 – it was very cool. It is a small conference but probably one of the best if you use a lot of Adobe (Macromedia) products. You get to go to a nice place, meet some interesting people, relax, learn some things, and get some free books! Looking back at the past few days I think I have a changed impression of Coldfusion, Spry, and potential of extensions from companies like InterAKT and Webassist. A big thank you to Ray for everything.
My presentation slides should be up later this week. I hope to see all those that attended TODCon 8 next year in Vegas for TODCon 9! Although it would be really cool if there was a TODCruise, wouldn’t it Bogdan?
Down at TODCon 8
Just a brief note: Day 1 of TODCon 8 has wrapped up things for the day. The day opened with Derek Featherstone providing the keynote followed by some great sessions and discussion. I managed to get into a few sessions but the discussion in the halls is just as informative at TODCon. Scott Fegette has pretty much spent the day chatting with folks about everything Adobe. Tomorrow is a Dreamweaver 8 birds of a feather with folks from Adobe to start the day. Looking forward to that.
Good thing I have until Sunday to polish up my presentations!
