Since all of my projects lately have been offsite, I've moved to
having everything stored locally for development.  I got a shinny new
laptop to support this (it helped that my older t21 died).

Anyway, I run CF 6, 7, and 8 installed as multi-server.  The each have
their own windows service.  I run apache on this machine as well, and
it's really very easy to define which JRun install to point to as part
of the the VirtualHost config.  Combine that with named hosts (eg
test.something.com) defined in apache, and also defined in the hosts
file, and everthing can be run through port 80.  Locally, I use MySQL
4.x for my DB needs, however the power of a good virtual machine comes
in handy here.

I've got an Ubuntu VMware image that handles my MySQL 5 requests.  The
reason here is that my hosted sites are running on Linux.  When
running MySQL in linux, the table names become case sensitive.  If you
install FarCry on a local windows Dev environment, bad things happen
if you try to move the database through an export/import.

I've also got a download of Oracle Personal ready to be installed on a
Windows 2000 VMware image as well as SQL Server 2000.  SQL Server
won't install on anything but a server OS, hence I required this
server image.  I think (but have yet to try) that 2005 (or at least
the express version) can be installed on a non-server OS.

I've also moved to SVN for maintaining all of my local projects.  The
next step is to start jumping into CFCunit and Selenium for testing.
Then using ANT to push changes from SVN to production.

Matthew Williams
Geodesic GraFX
www.geodesicgrafx.com/blog


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