John Sieber

Recent Blog Comments By John Sieber

• Ask Ben: Getting The Date Based On The Year And Week In ColdFusion

  Posted on Apr 13, 2011 at 12:27 AM

  I'm currently using the week(now()) function to pass the current week to this and it is working great, thanks! My only issue is that I would prefer the start of each week to be based off of Monday instead of Sunday as the week function is using. Any ideas on how I could create a function that would ... read more »

• Creating A Simple ColdFusion Cache With Java Soft-References

  Posted on Aug 2, 2010 at 11:15 AM

  Just curious as to what you think is causing the timeouts? Is it just normal traffic to the site that is causing a bottleneck? It seems odd that peak traffic would be at 4-5 AM. Could this be a bot or spider that would be worth blocking from the firewall or in CF code for the overall health of the s... read more »

• Using GMail's Plus-Style Addressing To Track Bounce Back Email Meta Data

  Posted on Apr 17, 2010 at 6:46 PM

  @Uly - Plus addressing is a feature that some email servers support. Some info can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail_address#Sub-addressing... read more »

• Using GMail's Plus-Style Addressing To Track Bounce Back Email Meta Data

  Posted on Apr 16, 2010 at 12:12 PM

  Ben, I just recently reworked the bounce back system where I'm at so it is interesting to see your posts on the same subject. I thought about using + addressing, but after some testing found that my success rate of using a regex to find the email address in the bounce message body was very good. T... read more »

• Monitoring The ColdFusion Mail Server With GMail And A Scheduled Task

  Posted on Apr 6, 2010 at 1:13 PM

  @a cf fan: the failto address is used for directing bounced emails to a specific account. I'm not sure that it would help in this situation as the message would need to be sent out by the smtp server before it could fail.... read more »

• Creating Flickr-Style Photo Tagging With jQuery

  Posted on Feb 2, 2010 at 3:55 PM

  Very cool post, I look forward to the follow up post with server side interaction. Your videos really add to these posts as well, thanks for sharing so much with the community!... read more »