I am having a really strange email issue here and I just can not figure out what is going on. Then I thought to myself only really smart people read my blog, why not ask them. There is a contact form on this site that collects name email and comments. This is just a simple way for visitors of the site to get in touch with me.

I originally had the email sending from my Gmail account to the same account. This raised a red flag and Gmail flagged it as spam. I ended up changing the from address to my Google Apps domain and I was now getting the email but there was still one problem. No matter where the email is coming from Gmail is stripping the body content of the email and I end up with something like this.

I thought maybe something was wrong with my code so I double checked it and quickly realized I never write bad code (joke). I changed the to address to my work email and sure enough it came through fine. In Gmail you can click on a drop down to the right and show the original which is the raw email headers and all.



As you can see the email content is there but for whatever reason Gmail does not want me to see it. Does anyone know why this is happening and how I can fix it?

This entry was posted on June 11, 2011 at 12:26 PM and has received 1508 views. Comments 15 | Print this entry.

Google Analytics (GA) is a free service offered by Google that generates detailed statistics about the visitors to a website. I have to admit that I was guilty of this as well but you will often see some code that looks like the code below. Basically, if were are not in development then enable Google Analytics tracking. <cfif not $.config.get("development")> <script type="text/javascript"> var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-1234-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })(); </script> </cfif>

The problem with this is you never get to actually test if GA is working correctly. Just like any other code you write in a development environment it needs to be tested. Even if all your using it for is basic page tracking like we are here, you still want to make sure it works. This becomes even more important when you start doing things like event tracking. My friend Matt Aster wrote a nice post on what you should be doing.

This entry was posted on February 3, 2011 at 9:15 AM and has received 2198 views. Comments 0 | Print this entry.

I totally forgot to mention this before break so better late than never. I want to send out a big thanks to Google TV and logitech for hooking me up with a free Logitech Revue for testing. I got this email before break, signed up for my free revue and had the device in days. I am really loving what Google TV has so far (though limited) and can't wait to start working on ideas for the next big platform!

This entry was posted on January 4, 2011 at 9:13 AM and has received 1842 views. Comments 1 | Print this entry.

I was listening to This Week In Google and they mentioned a ccouple really fun searches that I thought I would share and 1 I already knew about. These are some really great easter eggs that are sure to get a laugh from everyone.

• Search "ascii art" - http://www.google.com/search?q=ascii+art
• Search "recursion" - http://www.google.com/search?q=recursion
• Im feeling lucky "google chuck norris" - Make sure you type type the full text and hit I'm feeling lucky! - http://www.google.com/search?q=google%20chuck%20norris&btnI=I'm+Feeling+Lucky

This entry was posted on September 8, 2009 at 3:43 PM and has received 2566 views. Comments 9 | Print this entry.

I first learned about the Google Ajax Libraries about a month ago when I was reading through one of Hal Helms jQuery blog posts.

The AJAX Libraries API is a content distribution network and loading architecture for the most popular, open source JavaScript libraries. By using the Google AJAX API Loader's google.load() method, your application has high speed, globaly available access to a growing list of the most popular, open source JavaScript libraries including:

• jQuery
• jQuery UI
• Prototype
• script.aculo.us
• MooTools
• Dojo
• SWFObject
• Yahoo! User Interface Library (YUI)

What does this mean to you? Let's say your working on a project and you need the latest copy of jQuery or the jQuery UI. You could go out and download the latest versions of each and install them on your server or you could use use the Google Ajax Libraries. The other advantage is they are minified and gziped so the size is pretty small along with the fact that it may already be cached in you end users browser. Here is an easy way to include both in your application. <script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min.js"></script> <script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.7.1/jquery-ui.min.js"></script>

I would love to hear others thoughts on this but here go mine. I don't like the idea of relying on this for production. Something about the thought of not having this on my server for production just gives me an uneasy feeling. I think for creating tutorials / demo's or even using this in development is a great idea and I am loving it. What do you guys think?

This entry was posted on April 15, 2009 at 11:20 AM and has received 2872 views. Comments 8 | Print this entry.