Thumbnails were always square, at least in my applications. But thumbnail images in different shapes popping up here and there nowadays, I decided to give that a try too. It is quite easy and looks quite elegant. This can be done with CSS alone or with few line of CFM. Here is my large image and I created a face recognized traditional square thumbnail using ColdFusion. (more..)

Yesterday I played around face recognition in ColdFusion with Jviolajones and it did a good job detecting faces off an image and providing with the coordinates. The final goal of this exercise is to create thumbnails of images focusing on faces, if there are any to be found in the image. Here is my sample image. There are two faces on them. First I want to bring them into a single frame. I would like to include all the faces into the final thumbnail if possible. (more..)

I was trying to do face detection with ColdFusion and JJIL Java library last week. Today I gave Jviolajones library a stab and it turn out quite well. It misses some faces, occasionally returns false positive results, but overall it did pretty good job. My final goal is to create thumbnails of image cropped around faces, not rather crucial face detection. Jviolajones seems to be a good candidate for that. (more..)

I was trying to do face detection with Faint Java library and noticed quite disappointingly it only works with 32bit processers. Looking elsewhere found the JLIL Java library build to do face detection in mobile applications and also quite a nice blog post by Richard Nichols. It was a good start. I suggest you to read that post first since I build a new copy of JJILCore.jar with Richard's updated codes. (more..)

If you have administrator access to your server, it is better to have server wide error handler than setting up individual error handlers on each application. It is easy to manage and you do not have to set it up over and over again. IronGate is easy to install as the Site-Wide Error Handler. Download IrongGate, unzip into your web site and browser to it. It will prompt you to the installation wizard. (more..)

IronGate is a ColdFusion Exception Manager software that helps you to keep track of errors occurred in your applications and provide you with all possible information you need to sort them out. When an error occurs in your application anytime anywhere, IronGate logs the families ColdFusion error message for you and display a friendly error message to the user. Also send you an email if you wish. Not only that, it also records all available surrounding variables and server statues. (more..)