I have been itching to look at the new features that I have been reading about on the blogs. So I said what the hell and signed up. (pops). It probably helped that I worked for a Management Consulting firm with a slick web site. Anyways CF 8 Rocks!

Some of the stuff that I liked was:

• The native AJAX and SPRY support.
• RSS support
• CFIMAGE
• Menu building via cfmenu
• Zip support via cfzip
• .NET support
• Support for Exchange Server inclusing support for calendar functions, contacts, tasks and so forth.
• Native support for PDF forms and PDF manipulation such as merging documents and filling in and submitting PDF forms

Another this is that is very cool is the Eclipse Plug-ins with CRUD builders for CF and FLEX using the ColdFusion/Flex Application wizard

It also has a full featured debugging environment much like the one for Flex builder and MS Visual Studio

And tons more... I am short on time and I just got it yesterday. More to come.