I'm a web, database, and network architect based in NYC, with specializations in the financial services, publishing, and SaaS sectors.
I build complex Marketo integrations for companies large and small... and can make Marketo forms and emails do things you never thought possible!
Check out my blog at https://blog.teknkl.com, which has Marketo-specific technical insights you won't see anywhere else, along with wider topics from my programming and systems work.
I can hear your inner thoughts: “Don’t dowhatnow?Marketo already enforces the rule that two programs can’t have the same name (at the same point in time).”
Ah, but that rule isn’...
Being paranoid about encoding — URL encoding, HTML encoding, UTF-8 encoding,anyencoding — helps avoid uncomfortable post-mortems.
But here’s one type ofapparentencoding bug that’...
Interesting thread over in the Products discussion area, where userDNasked:
I am trying to create an unsubscribe form that has various values for the reason someone is unsubscri...
Some apps (but not Marketo) are far too open-minded about underscores in host names. Here’s one SaaS setup guide saying underscores aren’t “web best practice,” but allowing them a...
@Kevin_Tuttle1 wouldn’t advise using contains() directly on the String value because it can lead to unexpected results when subvalues have text in common.
Rather, use a proper spl...
Know what youdon’t want every recipient seeing if they click your CTA? A completely blank screen with the URL stuck on the tracking link:
And you don’t want them seeing this (no...
A client gets regular uploads of quarterly sales data into Marketo custom objects. They send a “your recent activity” email to customers when each quarter ends or a few days after...
Behold a very simple Marketo form that auto-fills 3 familiar fields from the current query string:
(Of course this setup is wildly insufficient for multitouch tracking, but that...
FWIW, I've found placeholder.com to be must less reliable than fpoimg.com for serving placeholder images
Could be! I use gifpng.com usually. But when the placeholder service is b...
When you think about images and page load time, you typically think aboutlargeimages — that is, “large” in terms of bytes, not necessarily dimensions — especially over mobile conn...