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The miscellaneous ramblings and thoughts of Dan G. Switzer, II

jQuery: Understanding the "chain"

Yesterday I was writing some jQuery code and I thought I came across a bug—until I realized it was a bug in my way of thinking and not with jQuery.

What I was trying to do is to dynamically append to the body tag some html that looked like this:

<div>
    outer
    <div>
        inner
    </div>
</div>

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Using CFMAIL to send attachments stored in memory

Awhile back I was looking for a way to send e-mail attachments in CFMX without writing data to disk. That solution uses the Javamail API to directly send a e-mail with attachments to an SMTP server. This method also completely bypasses the CF mail spool.

Charlie Arehart linked to the article from an article he wrote about storing CFDOCUMENT and CFREPORT contents in a variable. In the comments on his post, Jon Wolski posted a solution that uses the built-in ColdFusion tags CFMAIL and CFMAILPART. So, I thought I'd re-do my original example using Jon's technique in this post—just so you can see an example of both methods.

Below is some source code that will show you how to use the CFMAIL tag to send a multipart message that contains:

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