ME! OK, so it's second place, but still, I just found out that my cfImageCropper has won in the first ever RainFest over at AjaxRain.com! Pretty cool!
I've had about a dozen other cool ideas floating around in my head over the last few weeks but have been so busy I've not had time to work on them. I promise some more cool stuff soon!
Speaking of contests, I hear there is another really cool one coming very very soon...
I just noticed that AjaxRain is running a contest called Rain Fest in which they give away some cash to the month's coolest entries. My cfImageCropper demo made it into the contest (so did a few entries by some other guy). Make sure you stop over there and vote for your favorite. Let's show the world that CF makes Ajax great and easy!! Vote early and often!!
I've finally put together some proper documentation for my cfImageCropper custom tag. You can get the latest release here which includes the documentation and a few minor code tweaks. If you're not familiar with the tag see this post
I'm also cooking up some other very cool client side image stuff in the labs, so stay tuned.
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).
