Occasionally ColdFusion decides email messages are undeliverable and moves messages from the spool directory into the undelivr folder. This can be that the sending mail server is offline, the attachment poses problems or the server isn't patched to handle attachments over a certain size for the number of recipients on your list.  Whatever the reason, it does so silently and one client needed a solution.I wrote a script you can schedule to run through the cfadmin.

To say I'm disappointed is an understatement but Amazon S3 is currently reporting Http/1.1 Service Unavailable since 6.02 AM.  Boooo.  I've added a cfhttp call to the top of WalkJogRun.net to detect the 503 error so I can at least offer an explanation to my visitors. <cfhttp url="http://s3.amazonaws.com/wjr/images/mile_1.png" timeout="8"></cfhttp><cfif not isdefined("cfhttp.statuscode") OR listFind(cfhttp.

In just a minute you can set-up an alert to keep a watch on your family's internet exposure with Google Alerts.I heard about some changes on the radar for Facebook or maybe MySpace yesterday to protect children online by requiring their parents to register and it reminded me that I was going to post a tip about Google Alerts.  When the name of one of your family members or your business appears on a blog, in the news, in a video or even in a newsgroup, you can get a daily summary of those listings.

In just over an hour with no prior experience, I created a mashup using Microsoft's Popfly application to allow WalkJogRun visitors to enter their username to see an overview of their running routes plotted on Microsoft's Virtual Earth.  Next, through the magic of the Popfly Facebook plug-in, I can share my new application with all my Facebook friends.I learned about Popfly just over an hour ago when my wife was reading the New York Times and asked me if I had heard of it.

Four years ago I began working with a content management system, DuoCMS, which was super flexible but the consequence was that the basic search engine optimization pieces could be missed when implementing anything other than a standard content block.  I developed a simple Search Engine Optimization spider to rip through pages of the site and generate a report of the meta data, keywords and titles on each page to help track down omissions.