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Permalink Reply by C. Hatton Humphrey on 11 November 2007 at 1:59am

Without a doubt it has to be the AJAX stuff!

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Permalink Reply by Niall O'Doherty on 11 November 2007 at 2:12am

Aside from the new added functionality, the best for me it has to be the improved performance!!

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Permalink Reply by JeremiahX on 11 November 2007 at 2:28am

the ajax stuff!

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Permalink Reply by Patrick Flynn on 11 November 2007 at 2:43am

CFimage tag, amazing!

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Permalink Reply by JeremiahX on 11 November 2007 at 2:45am

yeah that part is pretty awesome also...

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Permalink Reply by Steve Walker on 11 November 2007 at 1:03pm

I would say that the performance enhancements are the best technical improvement to CF8. Cfimage, cfpresentation, all the new pdf functionality, and most certainly the improved Flex integration are the gee wiz features that make the move to CF8 a no-brainer.

Now that I have posted this message and seen all the cool AJAX stuff you did, the AJAX stuff is cool too!

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Permalink Reply by Nick Cernis on 11 November 2007 at 1:30pm

cfajaxproxy - without a doubt! It's completely changed the way I develop (for the better).

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Permalink Reply by Nick Tong on 11 November 2007 at 1:40pm

cfajaxproxy is cool, Sam Farmer did a nice video on it:

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Permalink Reply by Nick Cernis on 11 November 2007 at 2:28pm

Ooo - video embedding too. This looks set to be a great site.

Re cfajaxproxy - there's a nice tutorial on learncf.com too.

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Permalink Reply by Paul Vernon on 11 November 2007 at 2:29pm

For me, the ones that I've found most immediately useful are the performance enhancement centric tags like cfthread. Having an event based framework that was unable to spawn threads was always a problem. Now every event can be launched into a thread where the processing is done in parallel. Just as it should be :-)

Threading is the one single thing that has the capability to make the responsiveness of ColdFusion sites legendary.

Other things that have caught my eye and I'm tinkering with are the cfpresentation capabilities and improved PDF functions.

On the AJAX side of things, I haven't had a client as yet that really needs it for their site to be workable so I can't really say. It looks cool though.

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Permalink Reply by João Fernandes on 14 November 2007 at 12:26am

My favourite is to be able to deploy CF and LCDS together.
CFThread would be my second choice.

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Permalink Reply by TJ Downes on 14 November 2007 at 3:59pm

The cfexchange and cfpdf functionality have opened up new areas of development for me that I have struggled with or waited on for a long time. With these, Adobe has made certain projects I have worked on for years MUCH easier.

Additionally the performance enhancements were a huge welcome. To see the memory usage decrease so much and the speed of existing websites instantly improve was very satisfying.

Now if we could just get 64bit CF for Windows....

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