Pete Freitag's HomepageCovering ColdFusion, Java, Web Development, and other topics3 New Image Effects for ColdFusion 8- April 28, 2008 Foundeo has released 3 new Image Effects for ColdFusion 8! The first is sepia tone, you can see an example image to the left. Sepia tone was popular in the 1800's (used to give black and white photos a bit of color), but thanks to modern photoediting technology is making a comeback. The idea for this effect came from a customer suggestion. I also added two other effects to the component which can lighten or darken an image or photo. You can score all 8 of the effects (rounded corners,...http://www.petefreitag.com/item/672.cfm Googlebot to Submit Web Forms- April 23, 2008 I saw recently on the Google blog that the Googlebot will start submitting web forms. Specifically, when we encounter a <FORM> element on a high-quality site, we might choose to do a small number of queries using the form. For text boxes, our computers automatically choose words from the site that has the form; for select menus, check boxes, and radio buttons on the form, we choose from among the values of the HTML. They also listed some important limitations, which makes this seam much.http://www.petefreitag.com/item/671.cfm ColdFusion 8 Update 1 Fixes some Image Processing Quirks- April 5, 2008 It was nice to see that two of the quirks that I talk about in my Image Processing in ColdFusion 8 presentation were fixed in ColdFusion 8, Update 1 - they are: The cfimage tag and image functions now retain EXIF data after operating on an image. The height and width attributes are now optional for cfimage action=captcha. If you omit these options ColdFusion sizes the Captcha image to fit the generated text. This is nice because if you specified a height or width that was too small it would...http://www.petefreitag.com/item/670.cfm 10 Most Useful Image Functions in ColdFusion 8- April 5, 2008 Last week when I gave my Image Manipulation with ColdFusion 8 presentation at the New York City ColdFusion Users Group, several people asked me to blog this slide. It was titled The 10 Most Useful Image Functions and here they are in no particular order: ImageRead ImageWrite ImageNew ImageDrawText ImageGetWidth ImageGetHeight ImageScaleToFit ImageSetAntialiasing ImageSetDrawingColor ImageSetDrawingStroke There are over 50 image processing functions added in ColdFusion 8, which can make...http://www.petefreitag.com/item/669.cfm |