Converting Integer 1/0 to Boolean true/false in Velocity
Another disquisition on a seemingly simple topic. You should be used to it by now! →
Please anchor your regexes & stop driving me to distraction
What you meant — your code-head-canon, if you will — doesn’t matter if you don’t implement it. →
Accessing the Program ID and Campaign ID from Velocity, the new way (post-June 2019)
Yet another way to get at these important values in Velocity. It’s weird-looking, but makes total sense in retrospect. →
Masking (mildly) sensitive data values using Velocity
A one-liner to mask parts of sensitive fields, like ABCD0123 to ****0123. →
Emulating ##MKT_TOK## in Velocity
If you know what ##MKT_TOK## is good for, you may have checked for it in Velocity and been disappointed. But it’s there too, just with a different name. →
The *only* time you should use the + sign in Velocity instead of $math.add()
A single interesting exception… that *does not change* the rule that you should use $math.sub and $math.add instead of - and +. →
Base64-ing a String in Velocity without using Reflection (i.e. after June 2019)
Somebody challenged me to implement the Base64 encoding algorithm in pure Velocity and Java. It can be done, but… yuck. →
Even when Velocity isn’t doing anything, it’s doing something good
Velocity doesn’t HTML-encode values unless you tell it to, and that’s a good thing for user control/delegation. →