Yesterday I decided to change my headshot on GMail and noticed that when I uploaded my new image there was a slick little tool to crop my headshot. Obviously Google is using some sort of client side JS to do the cropping and then doing the actual image resize on the server (so I assume). I was pretty impressed by this and it got me thinking how simple it would be to throw something together like this for use with the new imageCrop function in ColdFusion 8 (or any image manipulation package for that matter).

If you do much work with JavaScript you've probably found yourself desiring some additional control over dates at some point. Enter the DP_DateExtensions Library, a library of functions for working with JS dates. There are some handy functions like dateFormat(), compare(), add(). Check it out.