Since version 1.6 (i.e. a long time ago) Java, and therefore Velocity, has had a built-in JavaScript engine. The JS engine has always been reliable (though admittedly not high-performance) and if you're better at JS than Velocity... →
I’ve been getting emails with the old-sounding-newish “Nice to e-meet you” a lot lately, and I always think of this scene. →
Twilio offers a pretty awesome Lookup API to enrich phone numbers with metadata: it can distinguish mobile and landline numbers (Sales will thank you!), determine carrier, and even do reverse Caller ID lookup. →
It's fairly common (in my world) for the same Velocity script to need to refer to a triggering object or, in a batch context, the most recently updated object. →
It's well-known that Marketo's pURL feature, out-of-the-box, has a fatal (and kinda fascinating) shortcoming. If someone has visited your site before — meaning either an anonymous or associated Munchkin session — then pURL-enabled pages aren't functional. →
User BJ asked in a Nation thread about changing mktoVideo dimensions from the default 420 x 315. Even though I don't typically use mktoVideo, I started probing the CrowdFactory API (that being the real name of the “Marketo Social” widget that powers video elements). →
> Updated 2021-05-06: A reader reminds me that per my own notes on the Nation (!) the latest Forms 2.0 library now caches the current URL as soon as forms2. →
While Forms 2.0 fires JS events at validation time, (pre-)submission time, and post-submission success, it lacks an event for a failed POST. So in the rare-but-not-impossible case that →