My glasses broke last last week leaving me a right predicament as I had no spare pair and I am blind without them. All I could find was an old pair of prescription sun glasses which are far too dark to wear inside and also had a big scuff on each lens (thanks to my kids) making them pretty horrid to wear, but as that is all I had, that is what I have been wearing.
As I am clearly going to be stuck with these until the new year till I can get a new pair I thought I would research if it was possible to remove scratches from lenses.
I found a lot of weird suggestions, one of which was to use a "non abrasive" toothpaste with a soft cotton cloth (do not use kitchen paper or anything rough), which was about the thing I had in the house from all the suggestions, so I thought I would give it a try,

To my great surprise, it worked, and and all the scratches and scuffs have now gone and apart from being too dark and an old prescription they are about 10 times better and actually wearable now.

I suspect this only works on lenses which have an anti reflective, anti scratch coating or an outer tint and where the scratches are very minor as the cleaning chemicals in the toothpaste must take off a very thing layer of the lens coating, thus taking the scratches off with it.
So if your specs fall into this category and are a bit worse for wear, give it a try, you may just give them a second life.

Another of the big annoyances with Railo is that it won't handle SEO friendly URL's out of the box, you need to get into the application servers servlet mappings to add url filters for each of your SEO URL formats.

e.g. each of these would require a separate servlet mappings url-filter.

mysite.com/index.cfm/something
mysite.com/sub1/index.cfm/something
mysite.com/muraCMS/index.cfm/something

If you are on a shared server then this can be a big problem as you do not have the ability to do this, plus making changes may also break other sites.

Thankfully there is a solution that allows you to apply these url filters on a per site basis, at least for Jetty anyway, I have not tested on any of the other servlet containers such as Tomcat, but the same solution is likely possible.

in your web root you will have a "web-inf" folder which is created automatically and contains your Railo context, inside this folder create a web.xml file and paste in the below contents. 
This will allow the most common SEO URL  "index.cfm/something" to work, I have also included the required filters for MangoBlog. Now you just need to modify this file within each of your sites and add any required url-filters.
The only caveat is that you need to restart your app server in order for the settings to take affect, if you are using the Helicon Zoo module that I blogged about previously then you simply need to recycle your application pool. This can be achieved by editing your web.config as any change to this file forces IIS to recycle the application pool.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
 
<web-app
xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd"
metadata-complete="true"
version="2.5"
>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>CFMLServlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>index.cfm/*</url-pattern>
<url-pattern>/post.cfm/*</url-pattern>
<url-pattern>/archives.cfm/*</url-pattern>
<url-pattern>/page.cfm/*</url-pattern>
<url-pattern>/author.cfm/*</url-pattern>
<url-pattern>/feeds.cfm/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
</web-app>

Some weeks back I was talking with HeliconTech after they kindly donated a license for their Helicon APE product for use on cfmldeveloper.com my free CFML developer hosting community. And the topic of Railo came up as they noticed I also support Railo on cfmldeveloper, and they were telling me how they like to support niche technologies like this on Windows/IIS and were looking to add some new Java solutions, so we started discussing the requirements of a new Helicon ZOO module for Railo and what it lacked on the IIS platform. 
I explained to them how ColdFusion worked out of the box and the disadvantage of Railo requiring all the extra manual config of a Jakarta vDir, isapi Plugins, handler mappings and virtual hosts in the Servlet engine in order to make it work, and how a simpler ColdFusion like solution was needed, ideally using the Microsoft Web Platform Installer. 
They also asked for a popular open source app that they could also build an installer for and bundle with Railo, so I suggested Mura CMS.

After only 1 month and a few more email exchanges, I am excited to announce that HeliconTech have already completed the new Installer module for both Railo and MuraCMS and added them to the Web Platform Installer, now that is fast work I must say, I was impressed..... cont...

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When ColdFusion mail fails to deliver it will sit in the undelivr folder forever unless someone copies it back to the spool folder for another try. Mail that is actually invalid will just keep ending up back in the undelivr folder forever unless someone deletes it.

I am quite surprised Adobe have still not addressed this, especially considering they added a new feature to CF9 allowing you to view and manually respool failed mail, which is ok if you only have a few emails, but as it only displays like like 10 emails at a time, it is useless on a server that processes hundreds of thousands of emails per day.

Up till now I used a little VB script and a windows scheduled task to handle this, but I decided it was time for a CF solution that I could easily just plugin into the cfadmin.

So here it is, a custom extension for your ColdFusion administrator which allows you to specify how often you want to respool your undelivered mail and how long you want to keep trying for, after the retry limit is reached the undelivered mail will just get deleted.

FYI Railo retries sending mails by default.

DOWNLOAD HERE

readme.txt file in the download contains installation instructions.

I may also add the option to send a failure notice to the sender for failed mails that get deleted.

If you want the ability to manually view/edit failed mail and send back to the spool then try Ray Camdens Spoolmail.

Change log

1.0.1  - 01/01/2012

Added logging with CFLOG
Added ability to edit/save scheduled task url