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Recent Blog Comments By Aaron

• EmailYak.cfc - A ColdFusion Wrapper For The Email Yak API

  Posted on Dec 14, 2011 at 3:01 PM

  I wonder if we should do a Git/GitHub deep dive one day. I'm in the same boat with sort of understanding it but it's still kind of an unknown. Especially in the CF community where SVN is still tops, I'm guessing. I've hijacked this thread enough. We can take it offline.... read more »

• EmailYak.cfc - A ColdFusion Wrapper For The Email Yak API

  Posted on Dec 14, 2011 at 2:47 PM

  Nice. I'm going to try this out and see how it stacks up with mailgun and sendgrid. Thanks for the effort. Have you been using GitHub all this time without telling me?... read more »

• Using Email Yak To Provide Bidirectional Email Communication In Your Web Applications

  Posted on Dec 7, 2011 at 4:08 PM

  Ben, You made it to the front page of Hacker News! http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3325330... read more »

• Accepting PCI-Compliant Payments Without A Merchant Account Using Stripe And ColdFusion

  Posted on Nov 17, 2011 at 11:02 AM

  @Justin Good to know Braintree has changed their offering. In June 2011 I asked them about CF/REST and I received this response: We use the client libraries to ensure backwards compatibility, stability, and security for merchants as our backend gateway API evolves. We've talked about... read more »

• Accepting PCI-Compliant Payments Without A Merchant Account Using Stripe And ColdFusion

  Posted on Nov 16, 2011 at 5:28 PM

  I'm a huge fan of Stripe. I looked into Braintree but in order to use it, you HAVE to use one of their client libraries. Since there's no CF library, you'd have to use the one for Java. A cfhttp call is just more elegant IMO. Stripe isn't the be-all-end-all-perfect solution for... read more »

• Tales Of Revolution And A Sense Of Community

  Posted on Apr 22, 2011 at 11:30 AM

  That's badass... read more »

• Maintaining Key-Case During JSON Serialization In ColdFusion

  Posted on Apr 1, 2011 at 11:59 AM

  @Ben Totally agree. I think it boils down to consistency. There's no magic bullet that works in all cases. You need to understand all the rules so you can break them. Reminds me of this post: read more »

• Maintaining Key-Case During JSON Serialization In ColdFusion

  Posted on Apr 1, 2011 at 11:35 AM

  @WebManWalking We said the same thing, at the same time :) I completely agree.... read more »

• Maintaining Key-Case During JSON Serialization In ColdFusion

  Posted on Apr 1, 2011 at 11:33 AM

  I know this is a philosophical debate, but I find array notation way easier to use when working with dynamic variables. I think this is much cleaner: <cfloop from=1 to=100 index=i> <cfset session["repeater-" & i]=form["repeater-&quo... read more »

• Playing An MP3 Over The Phone With ColdFusion And Twilio

  Posted on Mar 17, 2011 at 12:57 PM

  @Lola, Twilio can't send files as attachments. MMS is coming soon which will be able to attach media files but I doubt PDFs. But, you can create a system that posts the file to a server and then text messages a short link to the person. They click that link and it's downloaded to thei... read more »

• Video Presentation: Regular Expressions, Extraordinary Power

  Posted on Mar 11, 2011 at 4:45 PM

  Great presentation @ NYCFUG, Ben. You really helped fill in some of the missing pieces for me. And, today, I used what I learned to debug some htaccess rules that were giving me problems!... read more »

• Long Polling Experiment With jQuery And ColdFusion

  Posted on Aug 3, 2010 at 10:24 PM

  Do you think you could use something like this for the Twitter streaming API? http://dev.twitter.com/pages/streaming_api Basically, you have to hold the connection open indefinitely (on the server) and process e... read more »

• Using SMS Short Codes And TextMarks To Send Text Messages With ColdFusion

  Posted on Jul 6, 2010 at 4:29 PM

  I'm continuing my exploration of SMS/Voice Driven Apps with a presentation this Tuesday at the NYCFUG: http://www.nycfug.com/Meetings.cfm#NextMeeting... read more »

• Sending Mail And Monitoring Bounce Backs With ColdFusion And Postmark

  Posted on Apr 14, 2010 at 11:52 AM

  Never heard of Postmark. Looks like a great service. I'll have to look into it.... read more »

• How To Unformat Your Code (Like A Pro)

  Posted on Nov 6, 2009 at 11:43 AM

  Funny stuff. I second Michael's suggestion for a link to download the deobsessified version of your code :)... read more »

• Creating jQuery Templates Plug-in Using Textarea Elements (Thanks Kurt Bonnet)

  Posted on Oct 8, 2009 at 12:44 PM

  Quick note - I used this idea to build a similar system. You just have to watch it if you have textareas as part of your content. It breaks the template. In my case, i was able to switch it to a DIV instead but I wondered if there is a better solution.... read more »

• The Processing Instruction Target Matching "[xX][mM][lL]" is Not Allowed

  Posted on Sep 16, 2009 at 10:05 AM

  I know this is an old post but saved me a ton of frustration today!... read more »

• Maintaining ColdFusion Sessions Across SMS Text Message Requests Without Cookies

  Posted on Sep 11, 2009 at 12:28 PM

  Wow. You're really taking this to the next level. Great work!... read more »

• Using SMS Short Codes And TextMarks To Send Text Messages With ColdFusion

  Posted on Sep 10, 2009 at 10:26 AM

  Hey guys, Aaron here, the guy that did the presentation at NYCFUG. Glad I inspired you, Ben. I'm looking forward to seeing what everyone else comes up with. I'm going to look into the advanced API too...maybe then I can give an 'Advanced SMS Integration' presentation :) @Dan Great ser... read more »

• Win A FREE Ticket To CFUNITED 2009

  Posted on Jul 31, 2009 at 2:25 PM

  I'd definitely love to attend 'Developing and Marketing A 2.0 Startup' By Todd Sharp. As a fellow entrepreneur, I would love to hear how Todd built up a successful business with CF as the back end. Taking a concept from idea to successful execution is a phenomenal accomplishment.... read more »