SendGrid’s documentation suggest using the ASchroder.com SMTP Pro Email free extension, but for some reason it didn’t want to install even though it supports the Magento version I have. After a little digging it turns out that there is one simple method to override in Magento Core, that will allow…
Ubuntu extracting SFX “No such file or directory”
I ran into a problem this morning trying to get a IE10 VM from Microsoft to extract and install. It turns out that the sfx files require 32bit libraries to extract, so you have to install the following libraries: You can then run the sfx file and it will work
CF Quick Tip: Lower case structure keys
Note: This article originally appeared on tedparton.com on 03/10/2013 Recently I needed to return a JSON representation of a ColdFusion structure, but I needed one of the Key’s to be all lower case. I knew that CF natively uppercase’s Key names, but figured there had to be a way to…
CF Quick Tip: Checking available free space with Java io.File
Note: This article originally appeared on tedparton.com on 02/26/2013 Earlier today I noticed on Ray Camden’s site a blog post about determining the amount of free space on a drive from ColdFusion. It looks like in CF10, a new function, getFreeSpace(‘path’) was added that will return the amount of free…

jtyper: The Making of a jQuery Plugin
If it’s worth building once, it’s worth repeating, right? And if I’m going to repeat it, why not take the extra step and keep it DRY by creating a customizable plugin? Here is the making of the jQuery plugin: jtyper.