Just want to say that myself and two of my colleagues (Rolando Lopez and Jim Archy) from AboutWeb will be attending MAX North America next week.
Aside from all the great sessions I always look forward to some of the great conversations in the hallways between talks, so if you see me and want to talk shop or bounce off ideas or questions be sure to say "Hi". Hope to see you there!
So I'm here in Rockville,MD doing my best to follow MAX 2006 from a distance, keeping an eye on blogs, Adobe.com, labs.adobe.com, etc...
One of the things that I'm excited about is the announcement that CF8, codenamed Scorpio, will have built in image manipulation tags. However, after looking at some of the examples on how it works, I wish that the syntax would follow a more object like approach.
For example, here you create a new image to be manipulated, say we're resizing it, using the default CF8 way:
Changing the subject a bit:
Now, I know that for years we have done the same thing with Array, Struct data types. I feel the same about them as I do about the image manipulation feature. If we treat Arrays, Structs, and Images as "data types" in a more Object-Oriented manner, my opinion is that it will help CF users become more aware of Object Oriented concepts, than if we just give them a set of methods to do a particular set of functionality. "CF is not an Object-Oriented language!", I totally agree, however, if we are to market ColdFusion as an enterprise level application platform, we need to start following some sort of proven development methodologies that attract decision makers, Object-Oriented concepts have been proven in ColdFusion with the creation of CFCs, however the number of CFML developers in our community that are ready to take on such projects are lacking.
Phill Nacelli has been developing software for over 10 years, and has been using ColdFusion since version 4.5 and Flex since version 1.5. He has engineered and developed multiple enterprise web based applications for the federal government, non-profit association/education market and enjoys playing with the latest in programming techniques, frameworks and development tools. Phill is very active in the Adobe ColdFusion community via serving as the Capital Area ColdFusion User Group manager, a member of the Adobe Community Champions Program, speaking at conferences, magazine articles, user group presentations, community forums/chat rooms and this blog. He currently holds a position as Senior Software Architect at AboutWeb, a leading provider of technology and career development services to small businesses, corporations, associations and government agencies based in Rockville, MD. 
