Like all blogs these days, I decided to add a favicon recently. In case my Photoshop skills needs interpretation, what you’re looking at are the letters af tied together. It’s actually a lot easier to recognize this in the larger version. Still plan on adding something up top, as it’s looking a little barren, but that’ll come soon. The logo itself is the Coldfusion icon, with the curves copied to create the a in the same style. Not a bad first attempt for someone who considers himself completely useless in Photoshop.

Today was the start of Max 2006, Adobes yearly convention exploring emerging developments with an outlook on the new year. With Coldfusion 8, codenamed Scorpio, waiting the weeds, a very recent Flex 2 release and now the much publicized Apollo project, looks like it’s going to be an exciting convention. Here’s some of the highlights from those giving firsthand accounts

Image processing will be available in Coldfusion 8! This is one of the features that’s lagged behind in Coldfusion. There have been ways to get around this weakness using java, or libraries that extend it such as Alagad, but it’s not built into the language. Raymond Camden posted about some of the features such as resizing, adding text, pasting images over each other and capthas.

There will now be a good deal more server monitoring features in CF8 such as active sessions, active queries, request throttle data, database connection pool, highest hit counts — and much more are explored in Brooks Bilson‘s blog. Ray Camden also has a great article on server monitoring.

Working with .NET won’t be as much the pain in CF8 either with the new .NET Integration. The ease at which web services can be consumed is one of CFs stengths, especially with other CF web services. Now .NET objects will be just as easy to work with. Ray Camden gives a nice example of just how easy this will be.

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Sean Corfield covers all other Max links I’ve stumbled upon. Hopefully more details tomorrow.

One of the projects I’d love to work on in the future when i have a better footing with current projects is a system for organizing movies online. There’s surely a million of them out there, but none seem to do what the little ap I made back in college do. The main point of this ap was to have a place where I could enter in a ton of movies available, and from those sort by a variety of criteria including IMDB rating for them. I’m amazed it still works considering it was made so very long ago as one of my first projects. Man, what I had to learn to make that thing. PHP OOP, PHPs PEAR library to grab the info from IMDB, Amazon API, and some pretty damn good styling and colors if i do say so. Redoing this would definitely be one of the more fun projects I might work on in Model-Glue, with the ability for people to register of course.