Aaron

Recent Blog Comments By Aaron

• Sending And Receiving SMS Text Messages With Twilio And ColdFusion

  Posted on Aug 19, 2013 at 5:11 PM

  @Omar - Twilio doesn't support MMS yet so you're limited just to text.... read more »

• Detecting Spam In User-Submitted Content With SpamAnalyzer.cfc

  Posted on Dec 5, 2012 at 1:26 PM

  @Farah, I've noticed it too. Also, a lot more spam seems to be getting through the Gmail filter.... read more »

• Detecting Spam In User-Submitted Content With SpamAnalyzer.cfc

  Posted on Oct 18, 2012 at 12:23 PM

  Slight detour to this thread: It looks like you're mainly concerned with automated spam. The most successful (and easiest) way that I've found to prevent this kind of submission is to put a CSS hidden field in the form and on the server side, make sure that field is blank upon submission. ... read more »

• Mapping CSS Sprite Image Coordinates With ColdFusion

  Posted on Aug 14, 2012 at 12:02 PM

  Ever try http://www.spritecow.com/ ? Makes this whole task super easy although not as educational as doing it yourself.... read more »

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

  Posted on Mar 15, 2012 at 11:56 AM

  Interesting idea, Chris. Basically roll your own Square using Stripe. If you search for "iphone credit card reader" in google shopping, you'll see there's a bunch of them. My guess is that, like regular magnetic stripe readers and barcode scanners, it's just a keyboard interface. Techni... read more »

• 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 opening up th... 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 everything but in... 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: http://www.lifehack.org/articles/management/how-to-break-all-the-rules.html #4 - The inexperienced rul... 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-" & i]> </cfloop> ... 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 their phone. Kin... 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 each line as a JSON data packet. I never was able to figure out how to get this to w... 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 »