As I recently made the switch from my PC notebook to my new MacBook Pro, I had to install the proper software to replace those tools which I was proficient with on the PC in order to become productive. Tools I use include:

- Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, now Entourage)
- Adobe Photoshop w/ ImageReady
- Macromedia Flash
- BBEdit (Text Editor)
- Fire (multi-platform chat client)
- Skype
- Transmit FTP tool
- Apache Web Server
- PHP / MySQL
- Java / Tomcat

I have found some great resources online that help with setting up your Mac. Marc Liyange’s site, entropy.ch, is a great resource. In addition, I found mamamusing, a nice blog with some how-tos.

Installing Tomcat 5 on Mac OS X Tiger:
http://mamamusings.net/mt/mt-tb.cgi/758

I have one update to her tutorial, the chmod 755 command specifically. I believe that the chmod command should be /Library/Tomcat/bin/*.sh instead of /Library/Tomcat/*.sh and the startup script is also located in the bin directory.

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