ColdFusioning - Tips

Need Multiple EMail Addresses For Testing?

Sun, 22 Aug 2010 23:08:00 -0400

Many times when we're debugging software or testing new functionality, we need to use an email address to register, over and over. Well, rather than create multiple accounts over and over, you can just use Gmail.

Let's say your email address is:

james@gmail.com
(it's not because they require 6 letter minimum so this is a good example)

If you append a plus sign (+) after your username, but before the @, you can enter any number or combination of characters and you will still receive the email at your normal Gmail address. For example:

james+test@gmail.com
james+test1@gmail.com
james+test2@gmail.com
james+testOneMillion@gmail.com

All of these would be delivered to james@gmail.com and save you from having to create one million email addresses.

Load jQuery From Google Without Risk of Breaking Your Site

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 03:23:00 -0400

We've all heard the best practices recommendation to load jQuery (or other JavaScript libraries) from a CDN, such as Google's for performance reasons. But what happens if, in the rare chance, Google's network is down or inaccessible? At a minimum, your site would start throwing errors & wouldn't function properly.

Fear not, all is not lost. Using the code below, we can try to load the file from the Google CDN and then quickly test if it successfully loaded. If it did load properly, we don't do anything different. But if it didn't, we can load the file from another location, assumingly our web server. Then our site will function properly and once Google's CDN is re-accessible, visitors will continue to benefit from the use of the CDN.

Microsoft Outlook 2007 Hide / Show Non-Printable Characters

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:11:00 -0400

I accidentally turned on non-printable characters in an email in Microsoft Outlook. I couldn't figure out how to turn it off until I pushed:

ctrl-shift-8
(the number eight above the keys (NOT the 8 on the keypad).

Also, ctrl-shit-8 turns on non-printable characters, if you'd like to see them....