When you try certain settings, SaaS apps may give a weak “Please don’t?” instead of a hard “NO!” Marketo does the right thing here for technical reasons, driving home that underscores shouldn’t be expected to work across your stack. →
And that’s my fault. This year’s resolution was to document more of FlowBoost’s secret functions — the “macros,” if you will, that are built-in so you don’ →
There are so, so many ways to break links. I’ve seen more encoding disasters than most, but this one was new to me. →
More dynamic date magic that can be done simply using Velocity and Java (after a little head-scratching). →
A subtle mistake in a link sent to 100,000 people was about to wreak havoc on attribution. Here’s how we avoided that with an emergency JS intervention. →
Chances are your site is only usable if multiple 3rd-party services are up and running — part of the cost/benefit of not building stuff in-house. But you definitely don’t want to rely on seemingly developer-only services being up! →
If one group is making guesses about another group’s datatypes, your project wasn’t ready for go-live. →
There’s no One Best Way™ to store complex data. To find the best fit, consider what — and who — will be doing the encoding and decoding. →