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You have to love a software product that makes developers, even relatively inexperienced ones, productive quickly and empowers them to do seemingly impossible things. The more I work with and learn about ColdFusion the more it seems as if there are no limits to what can be done with it...
This article describes a basic method for indexing and searching images and digital photographs based on color using ColdFusion and CFImageHistogram (www.leavethatthingalone.com/projects/cfhistogram/). This method indexes and searches color in images quickly using ColdFusion.
It seems that there's a lot of talk in the ColdFusion community about data access objects and data gateway design patterns. Everyone talks about how great they are and why everyone should be using these patterns.
While recently channel surfing, one of the 'Geico caveman' commercials came on the tube to remind me that Geico.com is so easy to use, even a caveman can do it. Plenty of ColdFusion developers are not what some people might call 'real programmers.' This is not necessarily a reflection ...