Archive for February, 2009

Unibody Macbook Pro Boot Camp Drivers

Sunday, February 22nd, 2009

I haven’t seen any update from Apple for the new aluminum unibody Macbook Pro drivers for Boot Camp. Justin and I spent countless hours and 3+ Win XP/Boot Camp installs to finally get the drivers to work.

The drivers that boot camp provides on your OS X DVD don’t work with the new Aluminium unibody Macbook Pros, don’t install them!!!

Steps to success

  • Grab these drivers from Timur: Download Drivers
  • For bootcamp we did a 32Gig FAT, full (slow) formatting.
  • On the fresh install don’t let windows try to find your drivers for you. If it asks just hit cancel.
  • If your network connection isn’t working(very possible).
    • You can boot back into the mac (hold down option when the gray screen and sound plays for 10 secs)
    • Drag those unzipped boot camp drivers on to the drive that says ‘No Name’. Preferably onto your C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop or which ever user you are logging in as for Windows so you can spot it.
    • Reboot, (remember hold option for 10sec when gray screen appears), login and install those new drivers.
  • After your drivers have been installed you may upgrade and patch windows like mad:)

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Dreamweaver Find/Replace Custom File Extensions

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009

First off, Adobe Dreamweaver’s find/replace is fantastic. That and it’s integration with WinMerge are the only two reasons I still use it on occasion. Otherwise I am trying to learn Vim or hanging out in Textmate.

Problem

Ok I have been noticing for a while now that when I search that it would never look in files with custom extensions. For example, SilverStripe‘s .ss files and someone at work’s .inc files at work.

Background

I thought as I am sure many of you have tried that maybe adding that .ss file to the code view file types like in the image below.

File Types Dialog - Dreamweaver Prefs

Our Director of Systems & Technology, Alex at work ran into this same problem so I though I would post it to their forum as there was no reference in the forum of such a problem. I spotted a TechNote page that wasn’t a direct answer to the problem but had an example that looked promising.

Solution

The file I noticed was on the TechNote was called Extensions.txt. Here is what the first line looked like.

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HTM,HTML,SHTM,SHTML,HTA,HTC,XHTML,STM,SSI,JS,AS,ASC,ASR,XML,XSL,XSD,DTD,XSLT,RSS,RDF,LBI,DWT,ASP,ASA,ASPX,ASCX,ASMX,CONFIG,CS,CSS,CFM,CFML,CFC,TLD,TXT,PHP,PHP3,PHP4,PHP5,JSP,WML,TPL,LASSO,JSF,VB,VBS,VTM,VTML,INC,JAVA,EDML,MASTER:All Documents

I thought maybe if I just add the extension there someplace in CAPS the find/replace would start picking up those files and sure enough it did.

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SS,HTM,HTML,SHTM,SHTML,HTA,HTC,XHTML,STM,SSI,JS,AS,ASC,ASR,XML,XSL,XSD,DTD,XSLT,RSS,RDF,LBI,DWT,ASP,ASA,ASPX,ASCX,ASMX,CONFIG,CS,CSS,CFM,CFML,CFC,TLD,TXT,PHP,PHP3,PHP4,PHP5,JSP,WML,TPL,LASSO,JSF,VB,VBS,VTM,VTML,INC,JAVA,EDML,MASTER:All Documents

Hope that helps.

Here is a list from that help page on where you will find the Extensions.txt

  • Dreamweaver CS3 on Windows Vista:

    C:Users[username]AppDataRoamingAdobeDreamweaver 9Configuration
  • Dreamweaver 8 on Windows Vista:

    C:Users[username]AppDataRoamingMacromediaDreamweaver 8Configuration
    • Dreamweaver CS3 on Windows XP:

      C:Documents and Settings[username]Application DataAdobeDreamweaver 9Configuration
    • Dreamweaver 8 on Windows XP & 2000:

      C:Documents and Settings[username]Application DataMacromediaDreamweaver 8Configuration
    • Dreamweaver CS3 on Mac OS X:

      Mac HD:Users:[username]:Library:Application Support:Adobe:Dreamweaver 9:Configuration
    • Dreamweaver 8 on Mac OS X:

      Mac HD:Users:[username]:Library:Application Support:Macromedia:Dreamweaver 8:Configuration

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