Alagad Image Component

Yesterday I attended an online meeting with Doug Hughes presenting his Alagad Image Component and Alagad Captcha.

I must say that the presented functionality of the Image Component blew me (and pretty much everyone else attending as well) away. I've worked with several cfx tags for manipulating images, and none has been close to the ease of use, richness in functions or quality of result as Dougs cfc. Yes you read right. It's just a cfc. No dll file to install, no third party software to mess around with, just a plain cfc file. For just $75,- this is a steal for anyone in the need of working with images through their web site, intranet or other CF powered application.

The Captcha Component, which is a subset of the Image Component, was pretty darn nifty also.

At the end of the presentation Doug asked everybody to write in a number between 1 and 100, and the one coming closest to the number he had pre chosen would win licenses for both the components. I guessed 89 and the pre chosen number was 85, making me the winner of the license for these awesome products .