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AWS SDK for .NET

It looks like Amazon is marching towards IaaS-domination with the release o...

ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Released -- Finally!

Be still my beating heart... its finally arrived! No more view states and p...

Generate a Visualforce Page from an Existing Page Layout

We have a rather large Org with 600+ Page Layouts. When Visualforce came ou...

ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Release Candidate Now Available

The ASP.NET MVC RC is now available and I am so excited that I can hardly ...

WaveMaker's IDE for the Cloud

Yesterday at Appirio we had a private demo of the WaveMaker platform from t...

Amazon Announces Simple Notification Service

Amazon recently unveiled yet another infrastructure building block to their...

Amazon Releases AWS SDK for Java

Today Amazon released the AWS SDK for Java allowing developers to tap into...

AWS SDK for .NET

It looks like Amazon is marching towards IaaS-domination with the release o...

Learn Amazon Web Services

I sat in on the Amazon SimpleDB webinar the other day and it was really int...

Appirio Announces Cloudsourcing Focus

The Appirio CIO Blog has a great new post called, Cloudsourcing- Where Clou...

Amazon Announces Elastic Block Store (EBS) Shared Snapshots

Amazon EBS shared snapshots allow you to back up point-in-time snapshots of...

SpringSource and VMware - A Match Made in the Cloud?

VMware recently announced the acquisition of SpringSource , an open-source...

Amazon Announces Virtual Private Cloud

This morning Amazon announced the support for a Virtual Private Cloud- We ...

Amazon SimpleDB Plugin for Eclipse

Amazon once again is again stepping up its game in the IaaS space. This mor...

AWS Toolkit for Eclipse

Yesterday Amazon launched their new AWS Toolkit for Eclipse. The toolkit is...

Amazon's EC2 Console Makes Cloud Computing Fun and Easy

The new Amazon EC2 Console is a slick point-and-click, web-based user inter...

Saleforce.com & Google App Engine... these are a few of my favorite things...

Salesforce.com just announced the release of the Force.com for Google App ...

My EC2 Instance is up!

I finally got around to getting my EC2 instance up and running . I debated ...

Install My Salesforce Chatter for Android App on Your Phone

Salesforce.com invited me to attend Cloudforce last Tuesday to demo my Sal...

Stop by the Appirio Booth at Cloudforce 2010

If you live in the Bay Area and are not coming to Cloudforce 2010 on June 2...

Salesforce Chatter for Android

My blog has been a little quiet since I left for Google IO a few weeks ago...

AngularJS and Salesforce.com Tutorial

A couple of weeks ago I attend the Building Enterprise Apps Rapidly with Sa...

Apex Financial Calculations for Salesforce

An Apex implementation of RATE, PV, PMT, FV, IPMT & PPMT Excel functions....

Writing Unit Tests for v24 Apex REST Services

With the Spring 12 release, salesforce.com made some great enhancements to...

Salesforce Trigger when Rollups Summaries Not Possible

Master-Details relationships in Force.com are very handy but dont fit every...

Roll Your Own Salesforce Lookup Popup Window

Lets talk about the standard salesforce.com lookup popup window for a few m...

OpportunityAccessLevel Not Writable

I was working on a project the other day where I needed to dynamically add ...

Dynamically Group & Display Query Results

I was working on a Visualforce page that displays the results of a query in...

Fun with Salesforce Collections

The Apex language provides developers with three classes (Set, List and Map...

Force.com Programming Best Practices

Wes and I are adding a few more topics to our Salesforce Handbook before we...

Error - Portal account owner must have a role??

I wrote the following test class for a PRM deployment and received this cra...

Managing the Heap in Salesforce.com

With the Spring 10 release, Salesforce.com removed the limit on the number ...

Using the Salesforce.com OAuth Playground

My article on developer.force.com, Using OAuth to Authorize External Applic...

Email a Document with Salesforce.com

After my last post, Create and Email a PDF with Salesforce.com , I receive...

Create and Email a PDF with Salesforce.com

This is a continuation of my post a couple of days ago, Attach a PDF to a R...

Attach a PDF to a Record in Salesforce

Salesforce.com makes it extremely easy to generate PDF documents on the fly...

Building a Dynamic Search Page in Visualforce

I brushed this code off and thought it might be useful to someone as a star...

Using RSA-SHA1 with Salesforce Crypto Class

This is a rather obscure post but it will definitely come in handy to someo...

Testing Salesforce.com Controller Extensions

One thing that salesforce.com is working on is providing developers with a ...

Uploading an Attachment using Visualforce and a Custom Controller

This is a follow up post to Uploading a Document using Visualforce and a Cu...

Create a New Record in Force.com Sites

So someone asked me yesterday for some code to allow external users to crea...

Uploading a Document using Visualforce and a Custom Controller

The Salesforce docs for the inputFile Visualforce component has an example ...

Enforcing Apex Security With Sharing Keywords

Security is a major foundation of the Force.com platform. Not only is secur...

Using AggregateResult in Salesforce.com SOQL

In Spring 10 , Salesforce.com released new Apex functionality for aggregate...

Easily Search and Edit Records with Visualforce

I tend to over think Visualforce development sometimes and make it harder t...

Visualforce Row Counter for Iteration Components

I have been working on a Visualforce page that displays a list of items fro...

Writing an Inbound Email Service for Salesforce.com

Creating an inbound email service for Salesforce.com is a relatively straig...

Locking sObject Records

I dont see this discussed often, but Salesforce.com has the ability to lock...

Passing Parameters with a CommandButton

This post is a slight tweak of yesterdays post, Passing Parameters with a C...

Passing Parameters with a CommandLink

Heres a small example of how you can pass a value to another method via a c...

Relationship Lookup Objects in Triggers are NULL?

I see this question once in awhile on the Salesforce.com message boards so...

Using List Custom Settings in Salesforce.com

Salesforce.com recently introduced Custom Settings in Winter 10 which allow...

Calling a REST Web Service (JSON) with Apex

Cross-posted at the Appirio Tech Blog . Using JSON RESTful Web Services wi...

Automating Salesforce Approval Processes with Apex Triggers

This question came up on LinkedIn asking how to automatically fire off an a...

Problems Parsing JSON Responses with Apex

A couple of weeks ago I wrote an article and small demo of a REST web servi...

Calling a REST Web Service (XML) with Apex

This is a cool little example of calling a REST web service with Apex. You ...

Force.com Demo with Twilio

Cross-posted at the Appirio Tech Blog . During Dreamforce 09 Kyle Roche an...

Programmatically Creating Sharing Rules with Apex

Heres a small Apex Trigger that demonstrates how to programmatically create...

Can't Get On The Apex Scheduler Pilot? Here's a Short Term Solution.

In Winter 10, Salesforce.com released the Apex Scheduler . This feature all...

Apex Deep Clone Controller

I wrote the following code at the Admin To Hero App Building Workshop and i...

ActionSupport Example using Facets and JavaScript

You can make your UI much easier on your users by giving them clues on what...

New Contest - Twilio for Salesforce with Appirio

Twilio just announced a new developer contest in conjunction with Appirio....

Using Saleforce DML statements or DML database methods?

Salesforce allows you to perform database transactions (insert, update, del...

Book Review - Development with the Force.com Platform

I spent a good part of the weekend going over the newly released book, Deve...

Preventing Recursive Future Method Calls in Salesforce

Governor limits are runtime limits enforced by the Force.com platform to en...

Salesforce.com ActionSupport Component Not Calling Setters

I ran into what I thought was a bug yesterday with the actionSupport Visual...

First Force.com Book NOT Published by Salesforce.com

Appirios very own Jason Ouellette is the first author to write a book about...

Roll-Up Summary Fields With Lookup Relationships – Part 2

In the first part of this post I outlined the issues involved with creating...

Roll-Up Summary Fields with Lookup Relationships – Part 1

Roll-Up summary fields are a great way to perform calculations on a set of ...

Hacking a Salesforce.com Autonumber Field for Importing

Joe Krutulis here at Appirio revealed this little gem to me today and I tho...

Visualforce Page with Pagination

Salesforce.com introduced the StandardSetController in Winter 09 and Im fin...

I Passed the Salesforce.com Certified Advanced Developer Exam - So Can You!

I passed the Salesforce.com Certified Advanced Developer exam yesterday but...

Force.com Sites vs. Google App Engine - Why We Chose Sites

Late May we released our Force.com Sites application for one of our interna...

Use an Inline Visualforce Page with Standard Page Layouts

Lets face it, using standard page layouts is easy. Throw some field on the ...

Constructing the Correct Salesforce.com URL?

Ive seen this question on the Salesforce.com message boards but have never ...

Writing Bulk Triggers for Salesforce.com

Its exciting to see all of the new members on the Salesforce.com message bo...

How to deploy Apex without test coverage (part 2)

Ive spent the better part of the last two days deploying a custom lead assi...

Vote for My Idea - Enhanced Apex Testing Functionality

I just posted the following Salesforce.com Idea and am offering a reward f...

Using PHP to call an Apex Web Service

I had the pleasure the other day of integrating Drupal with Salesforce.com ...

RESTful Web Service Callout using POST with Salesforce.com

The addition of asynchronous Web service callouts to external services is a...

Triggers and Order of Execution

This topic came up again today in reference to a trigger to modify lead ass...

How to deploy Apex without test coverage

A couple of weeks ago I had written some Apex controllers and Visualforce p...

Returning Contacts and Leads with Custom Wrapper Class

Unfortunately alot of companies use Leads and Contacts interchangeably. Her...

Enhancing the Lead Conversion Process in Salesforce.com

During the Salesforce.com lead conversion process, you can create an accoun...

Apex Search with Checkbox Results

This demo is a single Apex custom controller, two Visualforce pages and a w...

Use Visualforce and Apex to Populate PDF Forms

Somehow I missed this post on generating PDFs , but in addition creating P...

Dependent Multilevel Selectlists

Ive had a number of follow-up emails regarding the code I used for my Disp...

Redirecting Users to Different Visualforce Pages

We have a large Salesforce.com org with 400+ recordtypes and 600+ page layo...

How to Unit Test Sending Mail in Apex

I ran into an issue the other day where I wanted to send out an email notif...

Real World Experience with Salesforce1 Heroku Connect

Cross-posted from the Appirio Tech Blog . Today Heroku announced the gener...

DF13 Session Recap - Build your API with Force.com and Heroku

My talk at Dreamforce 13, Build your API with Force.com and Heroku went off...

The 'Real' Reasons Appirio Bought TopCoder

Yesterday, we announced that Appirio has acquired TopCoder , which, when co...

Recap 2013 Salesforce MVP Summit

Im sitting in the Atlanta airport on my redeye flight home trying to catch ...

Win $1000 for your Artwork!

Hop on over to http-//popart.appirio.com for a chance to win $1000. Heres ...

1st Annual Future of the Cloud Day

Last Friday at Appirio we held our 1st Annual Future of the Cloud Day where...

CloudSpokes Hits 2000 Members in 6 Weeks!

Yesterday was a big day in the history of CloudSpokes as we hit 2000 member...

I'm Starting a New Job!!

No... Im not leaving Appirio ...but I will have a new role starting next we...

Appirio Company Meeting -- In Napa!

Im going to be out of pocket for the next couple of days as I head off to t...

My VMforce and Facebook Demos Today at Dreamforce

If you are at Dreamforce today here are the sessions that I am speaking in....

Appirio Announces Workday Patnership

Since we started Appirio in 2006 weve centered our efforts around salesforc...

Appirio Marketing has too much Free Time

At Appirio we routinely hold customer-exclusive webinars to talk about feat...

Install My Salesforce Chatter for Android App on Your Phone

Salesforce.com invited me to attend Cloudforce last Tuesday to demo my Sal...

Appirian Chat Bot for Salesforce.com and Google Apps

At Appirio not only do we develop cloud-based applications for our customer...

Appirio Announces PS Connect at Google Campfire One

Last night at Google Campfire One we demonstrated PS Connect , a new exten...

Appirio Company Retreat 2010

We had our first annual company retreat at the Boulder Resort in Phoenix AZ...

Calling a REST Web Service (JSON) with Apex

Cross-posted at the Appirio Tech Blog . Using JSON RESTful Web Services wi...

Performing Lookups and Transformations with Talend

I recently did a video on how to use Talend Open Studio to import data int...

Dreamforce '09 Hackathon Coverage

Dana Le posted recap of the DF09 Hackathon with the results of the competit...

Force.com Demo with Twilio

Cross-posted at the Appirio Tech Blog . During Dreamforce 09 Kyle Roche an...

NOW I Get Chatter!!

As part of Appirio I was exposed to Chatter before the public announcemen...

Salesforce.com Robot for Google Wave

Cross-posted at the Appirio Technology Blog This is a small Google Wave rob...

New Contest - Twilio for Salesforce with Appirio

Twilio just announced a new developer contest in conjunction with Appirio....

First Cloud Computing RAP Ever!!!

This is a newly posted video in the Appirio Cloud Computing video challenge...

Developer Preview of the Adobe® Flash® Builder™ for Force.com

Cross-posted at theAppirio Technology Blog Yesterday Salesforce.com release...

Book Review - Development with the Force.com Platform

I spent a good part of the weekend going over the newly released book, Deve...

Cool Code at Lunch Webinar – Flex & Salesforce

I was the guest speaker on our Cool Code at Lunch webinar yesterday where I...

Appirio Announces Cloudsourcing Focus

The Appirio CIO Blog has a great new post called, Cloudsourcing- Where Clou...

Appirio Is Hiring - Like Crazy

At Appirio we are always looking for bright, hardworking people. If you are...

PS Enterprise Hackathon

We had our second PS Enterprise hackathon tonight with multiple Salesforce....

First Force.com Book NOT Published by Salesforce.com

Appirios very own Jason Ouellette is the first author to write a book about...

Appirio Launches Professional Services Enterprise (PS Enterprise)

The cat is finally out of the bag with Narinder Singhs announcement today o...

Drinking the Kool-Aid

Its my first real week at Appirio and Im at the San Mateo office for my App...

Mad Money- Why a Cloudy Forecast is Good

This is an awesome segment with Jim Cramer refruting some negative-nay-saye...

Snow Leopard Breaks Google Web Toolkit

I installed Snow Leopard the other day in under 60 minutes without a hitch....

OutOfMemoryError PermGen Crash with Force.com IDE 15

I upgraded my Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 (beta VM) and OS X machi...

Connect OSX 10.4 to Windows Server 2003 Share

We run a Windows network at work with mostly XP clients. We have a few OSX ...

Mapped Drive Volume Names

Im new to this whole Mac-thing. I run on a Windows network and have a coupl...

AWS Lambda aka Node.js meets IFTTT as a service!

Amazon Lambda was announced last November at re-Invent and billed as an ev...

AWS Lambda aka Node.js meets IFTTT as a service!

Amazon Lambda was announced last November at re-Invent and billed as an ev...

Wrestle Your NoSQL Data with DynamoDB

Im at gluecon all this week hanging out with cool guys like James Governor ...

Wrestle Your NoSQL Data with DynamoDB

Im at gluecon all this week hanging out with cool guys like James Governor ...

Guest Blogger on Amazon's Web Services Blog

So yesterday I was a guest blogger on Amazons Web Services blog highlightin...

Guest Blogger on Amazon's Web Services Blog

So yesterday I was a guest blogger on Amazons Web Services blog highlightin...

Scale Java Applications with AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Amazon just announced AWS Elastic Beanstalk,an even easier way for you to q...

Scale Java Applications with AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Amazon just announced AWS Elastic Beanstalk,an even easier way for you to q...

My EC2 Instance is up!

I finally got around to getting my EC2 instance up and running . I debated ...

My EC2 Instance is up!

I finally got around to getting my EC2 instance up and running . I debated ...

Introducing CloudSpokes

CloudSpokes brings the crowd to the cloud. It is the industrys first commun...

Scale Java Applications with AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Amazon just announced AWS Elastic Beanstalk,an even easier way for you to q...

CloudWorks - Industry’s First Cloud Broker Technology

Today Appirio is introducing CloudWorks , the industrys first cloud broker ...

Appirio Announces Workday Patnership

Since we started Appirio in 2006 weve centered our efforts around salesforc...

Get Ready for VMForce - Here's How!

VMForce is coming (sometime in the near future) so what can you do to get s...

Force.com Toolkit for Google Wave Demo at Google I/O

I attended this demo at Google I/O and am glad that the video is finally av...

WaveMaker's IDE for the Cloud

Yesterday at Appirio we had a private demo of the WaveMaker platform from t...

THIS is why I love the cloud...

I blew out the harddrive on my MacBook Pro yesterday during a meeting. Kapu...

Amazon Announces Simple Notification Service

Amazon recently unveiled yet another infrastructure building block to their...

Appirio Announces PS Connect at Google Campfire One

Last night at Google Campfire One we demonstrated PS Connect , a new exten...

I Ordered My DF09 T-Shirts

Here are myDreamforce 09 t-shirts that I ordered from zazzle.com . Please s...

New Contest - Twilio for Salesforce with Appirio

Twilio just announced a new developer contest in conjunction with Appirio....

Virtual File System for Google App Engine

App Engine has a number of security restrictions that it imposes on applica...

App Engine SDK 1.2.6 Released

Some cool new features were released yesterday for App Engine. - Incoming ...

Google Web Toolkit 2.0 M1 Announced

The first milestone build for GWT 2.0 was released a couple of days ago wit...

Appirio Announces Cloudsourcing Focus

The Appirio CIO Blog has a great new post called, Cloudsourcing- Where Clou...

Amazon Announces Elastic Block Store (EBS) Shared Snapshots

Amazon EBS shared snapshots allow you to back up point-in-time snapshots of...

SAP's Business ByDesign .... Redesign

SAP launched their hosted-application, Business ByDesign in late 2007 with...

Google App Engine Updates

A few days ago Google release version 1.2.5 of the App Engine SDK. A few no...

SpringSource and VMware - A Match Made in the Cloud?

VMware recently announced the acquisition of SpringSource , an open-source...

Amazon Announces Virtual Private Cloud

This morning Amazon announced the support for a Virtual Private Cloud- We ...

Rich Internet Applications Using Flex, Salesforce.com and Google App Engine

Cross-posted at the Appirio Technology Blog Its fairly common these days to...

ColdFusion 9 to Support Cloud Computing

At CFUnited yesterday Adobe announced plans to support Cloud Computing in t...

Amazon SimpleDB Plugin for Eclipse

Amazon once again is again stepping up its game in the IaaS space. This mor...

Drinking the Kool-Aid

Its my first real week at Appirio and Im at the San Mateo office for my App...

AWS Toolkit for Eclipse

Yesterday Amazon launched their new AWS Toolkit for Eclipse. The toolkit is...

SAP Buys Cloud Computing Startup Coghead

I just ran across this and found it quite interesting. I was a Coghead bet...

Amazon's EC2 Console Makes Cloud Computing Fun and Easy

The new Amazon EC2 Console is a slick point-and-click, web-based user inter...

SAP Launches Host-Applications Solution

Enterprise software giant SAP on Wednesday unveiled a midmarket on-demand s...

Build an API with Node.js, Express, MongoDB and Cloud Foundry

I was finalist in the LinkedIn Hackday hackathon last November with my Mob...

The 'Real' Reasons Appirio Bought TopCoder

Yesterday, we announced that Appirio has acquired TopCoder , which, when co...

Piratize Your Salesforce Chatter Feeds for ITLAP Day

We just wrapped up a really cool challenge over at CloudSpokes just in time...

Using Node.js to Host Development Web Services

One of the cool things about Node.js , besides the fact that its fast and s...

Chow Finder - My Veterans Hackday 2011 App

This is my submission for the LinkedIn Veterans Hackday 2011 . CloudSpokes ...

Video Tutorial - Building APIs with Salesforce.com Apex REST Services

Ive had this video queued up for a few days now as I was waiting for the Ap...

CloudSpokes Hits 2000 Members in 6 Weeks!

Yesterday was a big day in the history of CloudSpokes as we hit 2000 member...

You'll Like this CloudSpokes Winner!

We just wrapped up another cool contest over at CloudSpokes and we have a w...

Beat Jeff Douglas ... not literally

Over at CloudSpokes we have a newBeat Jeff Douglas contest . The contest i...

Introducing CloudSpokes

CloudSpokes brings the crowd to the cloud. It is the industrys first commun...

CloudWorks - Industry’s First Cloud Broker Technology

Today Appirio is introducing CloudWorks , the industrys first cloud broker ...

Go Tutorial with MongoDB on Heorku

Ive spent the last couple of days digging into Go and getting the feel for...

Writing Unit Tests for v24 Apex REST Services

With the Spring 12 release, salesforce.com made some great enhancements to...

Chow Finder - My Veterans Hackday 2011 App

This is my submission for the LinkedIn Veterans Hackday 2011 . CloudSpokes ...

Getting Salesforce Field Metadata the Easy Way

Im working on some of the Apex REST services for our CloudSpokes org and n...

Build a Bulk Emailer for Salesforce with App Engine

Sometimes you just want to send a crapload of email from Salesforce.com. Ho...

Salesforce Trigger when Rollups Summaries Not Possible

Master-Details relationships in Force.com are very handy but dont fit every...

Demo App - Ruby, Rails & Force.com REST API on Heroku

So continuing with my learning Ruby series , I finally finished my sample a...

OpportunityAccessLevel Not Writable

I was working on a project the other day where I needed to dynamically add ...

Dynamically Group & Display Query Results

I was working on a Visualforce page that displays the results of a query in...

Find My Salesforce Users by Role Hierarchy

This is a cool little script that finds everyone who works beneath me in th...

Passing Values to JavaScript from Apex Controller Method

Im working on a port of an existing Java app to Salesforce.com and I ran in...

Learning Ruby for Force.com Developers – Part 2

This is part...

Fun with Salesforce Collections

The Apex language provides developers with three classes (Set, List and Map...

Salesforce REST API Demo from Cloudstock

This is the demo that I put together for the Cloudstock Hackathon and I tr...

Email a Document with Salesforce.com

After my last post, Create and Email a PDF with Salesforce.com , I receive...

Create and Email a PDF with Salesforce.com

This is a continuation of my post a couple of days ago, Attach a PDF to a R...

Attach a PDF to a Record in Salesforce

Salesforce.com makes it extremely easy to generate PDF documents on the fly...

Building a Dynamic Search Page in Visualforce

I brushed this code off and thought it might be useful to someone as a star...

Using RSA-SHA1 with Salesforce Crypto Class

This is a rather obscure post but it will definitely come in handy to someo...

Error Compiling Salesforce Metadata API with WSC

This might not be relevant right now but you may find it useful in the near...

Testing Salesforce.com Controller Extensions

One thing that salesforce.com is working on is providing developers with a ...

Java Command Line App Using the Salesforce WSC

Force.com Web Service Connector (WSC) is a high performance web services st...

Uploading an Attachment using Visualforce and a Custom Controller

This is a follow up post to Uploading a Document using Visualforce and a Cu...

Create a New Record in Force.com Sites

So someone asked me yesterday for some code to allow external users to crea...

Uploading a Document using Visualforce and a Custom Controller

The Salesforce docs for the inputFile Visualforce component has an example ...

Using AggregateResult in Salesforce.com SOQL

In Spring 10 , Salesforce.com released new Apex functionality for aggregate...

Easily Search and Edit Records with Visualforce

I tend to over think Visualforce development sometimes and make it harder t...

Visualforce Row Counter for Iteration Components

I have been working on a Visualforce page that displays a list of items fro...

Short Cut the Recordtype Selection Step

In larger orgs you may have tens or hundreds of recordtypes. For instance, ...

Integrate Chatter & Twitter on Google App Engine using OAuth

Cross-posted at the Appirio Tech Blog . At Appirio weve been excited abou...

Writing an Inbound Email Service for Salesforce.com

Creating an inbound email service for Salesforce.com is a relatively straig...

Error Compiling WSC AppEngine Partner Jar for Salesforce.com Sandbox

Im working on a demo for Google App Engine that connects to one of our Sale...

Locking sObject Records

I dont see this discussed often, but Salesforce.com has the ability to lock...

Passing Parameters with a CommandButton

This post is a slight tweak of yesterdays post, Passing Parameters with a C...

Passing Parameters with a CommandLink

Heres a small example of how you can pass a value to another method via a c...

GWT UiBinder – Passing Objects to Widgets

A couple of weeks ago I wrote a GWT 2.0 tutorial for passing simple values ...

Relationship Lookup Objects in Triggers are NULL?

I see this question once in awhile on the Salesforce.com message boards so...

SOQL – How I Query With Thee, Let Me Count the Ways

Ive been wanting to write this post since the new aggregate functions were ...

UiBinder with SuggestBox & MultiWordSuggestOracle

Ive been working on a somewhat large and complex GWT project using UiBinde...

Using Hierarchy Custom Settings in Salesforce.com

Last month I posted on the new List Custom Settings feature released in Win...

GWT UiBinder – Passing Parameters to Widgets

I received a number of emails regarding my last post, GWT UiBinder Hello Wo...

GWT UiBinder Hello World Tutorial

Ive been working on a new project the past couple of weeks that (fortunatel...

Using List Custom Settings in Salesforce.com

Salesforce.com recently introduced Custom Settings in Winter 10 which allow...

Calling a REST Web Service (JSON) with Apex

Cross-posted at the Appirio Tech Blog . Using JSON RESTful Web Services wi...

Automating Salesforce Approval Processes with Apex Triggers

This question came up on LinkedIn asking how to automatically fire off an a...

Problems Parsing JSON Responses with Apex

A couple of weeks ago I wrote an article and small demo of a REST web servi...

Using Relationships in Visualforce Pages

The topic of relationships in Visualforce pages came up on the Salesforce d...

Calling a REST Web Service (XML) with Apex

This is a cool little example of calling a REST web service with Apex. You ...

Programmatically Creating Sharing Rules with Apex

Heres a small Apex Trigger that demonstrates how to programmatically create...

Apex Deep Clone Controller

I wrote the following code at the Admin To Hero App Building Workshop and i...

ActionSupport Example using Facets and JavaScript

You can make your UI much easier on your users by giving them clues on what...

Using Saleforce DML statements or DML database methods?

Salesforce allows you to perform database transactions (insert, update, del...

Embed a Flex Slider in a Visualforce Page

I did a simple Flex callback with JavaScript about a year ago and I always ...

Preventing Recursive Future Method Calls in Salesforce

Governor limits are runtime limits enforced by the Force.com platform to en...

Cool Code at Lunch Webinar – Flex & Salesforce

I was the guest speaker on our Cool Code at Lunch webinar yesterday where I...

Developing Flex Applications for Force.com Sites

Developing Flex applications for a Force.com Site is a little different tha...

Salesforce.com ActionSupport Component Not Calling Setters

I ran into what I thought was a bug yesterday with the actionSupport Visual...

Rich Internet Applications Using Flex, Salesforce.com and Google App Engine

Cross-posted at the Appirio Technology Blog Its fairly common these days to...

Displaying Validation Messages with Flex and Salesforce.com

I created a small Flex application that outlines how you can return message...

Roll-Up Summary Fields With Lookup Relationships – Part 2

In the first part of this post I outlined the issues involved with creating...

Roll-Up Summary Fields with Lookup Relationships – Part 1

Roll-Up summary fields are a great way to perform calculations on a set of ...

Visualforce Page with Pagination

Salesforce.com introduced the StandardSetController in Winter 09 and Im fin...

Use an Inline Visualforce Page with Standard Page Layouts

Lets face it, using standard page layouts is easy. Throw some field on the ...

Writing Bulk Triggers for Salesforce.com

Its exciting to see all of the new members on the Salesforce.com message bo...

Using PHP to call an Apex Web Service

I had the pleasure the other day of integrating Drupal with Salesforce.com ...

Salesforce.com with Flex and BlazeDS Tutorial

Its fairly common these days to see Flex applications running inside Salesf...

RESTful Web Service Callout using POST with Salesforce.com

The addition of asynchronous Web service callouts to external services is a...

Returning Contacts and Leads with Custom Wrapper Class

Unfortunately alot of companies use Leads and Contacts interchangeably. Her...

Enhancing the Lead Conversion Process in Salesforce.com

During the Salesforce.com lead conversion process, you can create an accoun...

Generate a Visualforce Page from an Existing Page Layout

We have a rather large Org with 600+ Page Layouts. When Visualforce came ou...

Apex Search with Checkbox Results

This demo is a single Apex custom controller, two Visualforce pages and a w...

Flex Callback Example with Visualforce

I was working on a somewhat complex search interface for Salesforce.com usi...

Flex Salesforce.com Tree Control

One of the things that Salesforce.com is lacking is a descent tree control ...

Dependent Multilevel Selectlists

Ive had a number of follow-up emails regarding the code I used for my Disp...

Displaying the Required Red Bar for a Control

My Visualforce page uses a number of outputLabels and selectLists to create...

Redirecting Users to Different Visualforce Pages

We have a large Salesforce.com org with 400+ recordtypes and 600+ page layo...

Developing Salesforce.com Applications with Flex and Visualforce

I receive a number of inquiries as to the best way to develop Flex apps for...

How to Unit Test Sending Mail in Apex

I ran into an issue the other day where I wanted to send out an email notif...

Attaching a Document to a Record in Salesforce.com (Java)

The follow code allows you to upload a physical file to Salesforce.com and ...

Handling asynchronous Flex calls to Salesforce.com using an MVC framework

Im working on a Flex applications using the Flex Toolkit for Apex and Model...

Calling ActionScript Function from JavaScript

I was working on a small project where I am integrating a new Flex componen...

ColdFusion 9 to Support Cloud Computing

At CFUnited yesterday Adobe announced plans to support Cloud Computing in t...

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Almost every company touts that they are innovative or that they produce in...

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Get Ready for VMForce - Here's How!

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Virtual File System for Google App Engine

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A Big, Scalable Bucked of RIA Goodness

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15 Reasons for Java Programmers to Learn Flex, BlazeDS and Salesforce.com

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Get Your Java Code Jumpin' with Roo

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Google App Engine for Java Demo Application

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Web Beans Preview Now Available

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Google App Engine Now Supports Java

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Its fairly common these days to see Flex applications running inside Salesf...

Grails 1.1 Released

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Hoagie - The Developer's Other White Meat

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Upsize to Force.com

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Open BlueDragon Up and Running in Under 30 Minutes!

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After Labor Day Ill be joining the Salesforce Developer Relations team as t...

Join me at Forcelandia for Salesforce & Beer!

Forcelandia is arguably the best Salesforce and beer themed conference in t...

Building Single Page Apps with React & Reflux for Salesforce

We are taking a slight detour in our Building with React & Flux series to s...

Salesforce Lightning - The Enterprise JavaScript Component Framework

I presented to the the San Diego Salesforce Developer Group a couple of wee...

17 Sites Every Force.com Developer Should Bookmark

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5 Skills Salesforce Devs Need for 2015

The Spring releases of Salesforce are my favorite. They are always packed w...

Catching Salesforce Outbound Messages with NodeJS

When building applications that are integrated with Salesforce , one of th...

Hey Salesforce Devs! Heroku Ain’t that Scary!

I run the Heroku CoE at Appirio and therefore get pulled into a number of ...

The Future of Salesforce Development is… Javascript?

When I started developing with Salesforce back in 2006, s-controls were ess...

84 Things You Should Know about the salesforce.com Spring ’15 Release

The Spring 15 Release should be hitting boxes soon with 250+ new and impro...

Strategies for Building Customer Facing Apps with Salesforce.com

There comes a time in almost every Salesforce orgs life when you want to ge...

EnhancedList Visualforce Component

The enhancedList Visualforce component is an awesome little tag that allow...

Apex Algorithm Challenges for Force.com

Just prior to Dreamforce 2014, I launched Code Your Way In allowing develop...

Dreamforce 2014... I miss you already!

As Im flying home from Dreamforce (Im currently in Pittsburgh as part of my...

Tutorial - Build Your First Lightning Component

I was fortunate enough to be on the Lightning beta and have spent a conside...

RunTests Async with nforce-tooling

What do you get when you mix a long holiday weekend with a guy afflicted wi...

How to Customize Salesforce Attachments

The title is a little deceiving as you cant really customize standard Sales...

Real World Experience with Salesforce1 Heroku Connect

Cross-posted from the Appirio Tech Blog . Today Heroku announced the gener...

Updating a Record When Viewed using Std Page Layout

I recently had a scenario where I wanted to track the last time a Lead reco...

Sample Ruby on Rails Force.com Canvas App

Force.com Canvas apps are a great way to extend the Force.com platform with...

Example Apps for nforce-tooling Plugin

Yesterday I released the nforce-tooling plugin for nforce so today I though...

Announcing Force.com Tooling API for Node.js (nforce)

Over Christmas break I stared playing around with the Force.com Tooling API...

Roll Your Own Node CLI for Force.com

Id like to start off this post with two admissions- 1) I love the Force.com...

Fun with Force.com CLI, JSON and .jq

We are terminal junkies at CloudSpokes so we were really excited when the ...

What does Heroku1 mean for Developers?

Heroku1 was announced a couple of weeks ago at Dreamforce but was overshad...

What does Salesforce1 mean for Developers?

For the past few years, the salesforce.com mantra has been Chatter. Everyth...

DF13 Session Recap - Build your API with Force.com and Heroku

My talk at Dreamforce 13, Build your API with Force.com and Heroku went off...

I'm at the TopCoder Open this week. OMG!

Busy, busy week right before Dreamforce! With our acquisition of TopCoder ,...

How about using Docker for Force.com Development?

Docker is an open-source engine that automates the deployment of any applic...

What? Use Force.com to Build an ESB?

I spent the better part of two days early this month hanging out with Pat P...

Chatter for Apex Code Examples

At CloudSpokes.com we wrap a lot of the challenge process functionality in...

Debug Force.com REST Calls with Runscope

I love APIs. I love to build them, cURL them, read their source code and ta...

Announcing the Force.com & Heroku Weekly Newsletter

Im been a fan of the Ruby , JavaScript , Node.js and Postres weekly newslet...

Recap 2013 Salesforce MVP Summit

Im sitting in the Atlanta airport on my redeye flight home trying to catch ...

First Look - Salesforce.com Aura UI Framework

Fun stuff coming out of Salesforce as we ramp up to Dreamforce! I had the o...

Log Force.com Events & Exceptions

Logging in Force.com can be somewhat of a challenge. Since theres no log fi...

Build a Public API on Force.com

Roughly two years ago we wrote our CloudSpokes API on the Force.com platfor...

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Salesforce Junction objects are a convenient way to create a many-to-many ...

Forcifier Node.js Package for Force.com

I just published a port of my Forcifier Ruby gem to Node.js. You can find t...

Custom Setting 'Null' After Sandbox Refresh?

The Summer 13 release for Salesforce.com included an awesome feature that m...

AngularJS and Salesforce.com Tutorial

A couple of weeks ago I attend the Building Enterprise Apps Rapidly with Sa...

Why the Force.com @future Annotation Should Die!

First of all I love asynchronously processing in Salesfoce. We use it all ...

Learn Google DevTools for Free at CodeSchool

Its an understatement to say that Im a fan of Code School . I love the way ...

Setting Up Continuous Integration for Saleforce Development

Continuous Integration (CI) for Force.com projects has been a popular topic...

Schedule Apex Exception - No Apex Classes Found?

So I ran across this issue a couple of months ago and forgot to blog about ...

Force.com Streaming API with Ruby

I must publicly confess my love with the Force.com Streaming API . (Dont te...

Restforce Ruby Gem for Salesforce.com

As one of the committers for the Databasedotcom gem , I follow most of the ...

OAuth Dance -- client identifier invalid with Salesforce.com

So over at CloudSpokes we use OAuth for everyone that logs into our Databas...

Piratize Your Salesforce Chatter Feeds for ITLAP Day

We just wrapped up a really cool challenge over at CloudSpokes just in time...

My 6 Dreamforce 12 Sessions - Come Say 'Hi!'

Im speaking in 6 sessions this year at Dreamforce 12 so if any of the below...

Node.js Demo with Force.com Streaming API & Socket.io

Apex Callouts and Outbound Messaging are great ways to get your data outsid...

Video - MavensMate Sublime Text 2 Plugin

Like all of the cool kids nowadays, Ive switched to Sublime Text 2 for cod...

Node Boilerplate Project for Force.com with Express, Nforce & Async

I have to say that Im addicted to Node. There are a ton of reasons why Node...

Video - Salesforce.com Primer for New Developers

I actually shot this video about a month ago to help out new CloudSpokes m...

Video - Electronically DocuSign Salesforce.com Documents with Node.js

Let me start off by saying that filling out physical forms on the interwebs...

Build a Command Line App for Force.com with Ruby & Thor

Over at CloudSpokes we write a lot of ruby code (CloudSpokes.com runs on H...

Node.js Demo with Force.com REST API, OAuth & Express

Weve been working with Node.js quite a bit at CloudSpokes but I hadnt done...

Convert a Related List to a Comma Separated List

Sure, picklists and (sometimes) multi-select picklists are a great way to s...

Writing Unit Tests for v24 Apex REST Services

With the Spring 12 release, salesforce.com made some great enhancements to...

Synchronizing Asynchronous Events in Salesforce.com

So the title is slightly dubious as you really cant synchronize asynchronou...

Apex REST Service Not Found?

I just deployed an Apex REST service to production and noticed something st...

Welcome to CloudSpokes Rob Cheng!

We just announced on the CloudSpokes blog that Rob Cheng has joined the te...

Video - Getting Started with Rails & Databasedotcom Gem

It the new year again and time for resolutions. I made a resolution about a...

Amazon DynamoDB Demo

Yesterday Amazon announced Amazon DynamoDB , their Internet-scale NoSQL da...

Apex Test Coverage Does Not Match?

Writing unit test in Salesforce is, in my opinion, a black art. There are s...

Chow Finder - My Veterans Hackday 2011 App

This is my submission for the LinkedIn Veterans Hackday 2011 . CloudSpokes ...

Dependency Management with Play!

Play! has dependency management baked into it . This allows you to express ...

Getting Salesforce Field Metadata the Easy Way

Im working on some of the Apex REST services for our CloudSpokes org and n...

Demo App - Salesforce on Heroku (Java) with Play! Framework

At Dreamforce a couple of weeks ago, Heroku announced the public beta for t...

Video - Connect Your Clouds with Force.com from Dreamforce 11

Heres the video from my Dreamforce 11 session! Abstract- As more and more ...

Twilio Client for Force.com BETA

Twilio just released a new beta version of their Apex toolkit. You can fork...

Session Recap - Connect Your Clouds with Force.com

Dreamforce 11 is over and I can finally catch my breath. Despite the un-god...

It's Official! Heroku Loves Java

Its official! The Heroku blog proudly announced a couple of hours ago that...

Build a Bulk Emailer for Salesforce with App Engine

Sometimes you just want to send a crapload of email from Salesforce.com. Ho...

How I'm Getting Ready for Dreamforce

Salesforce Trigger when Rollups Summaries Not Possible

Master-Details relationships in Force.com are very handy but dont fit every...

Win $1000 for your Artwork!

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Roll Your Own Salesforce Lookup Popup Window

Lets talk about the standard salesforce.com lookup popup window for a few m...

My Open Source Projects at GitHub

Yesterday at CloudSpokes we pushed 30+ projects to GitHub (check out this O...

Video Tutorial - Building APIs with Salesforce.com Apex REST Services

Ive had this video queued up for a few days now as I was waiting for the Ap...

Df11 Preso Connect Your Clouds With Force Com

Im hard at work on my presentation and code for Dreamforce 11 . Heres a lit...

My Phantom Google Search Results Removed

Ive received a number of emails over the past months regarding phantom sear...

UK Force.com Developer & Admin Meetup

While on my European vacation, Wes Nolte was so kind as to arrange the UK ...

On Vacation!!

I didnt post it earlier but Im on vacation with the lovely Mrs. Douglas. We...

SQLForce - Command Line ANSI SQL for Salesforce

There are tons of great community contributed projects on Force.com Code Sh...

Demo App - Ruby, Rails & Force.com REST API on Heroku

So continuing with my learning Ruby series , I finally finished my sample a...

Phantom Search Results

Ive received a number of emails over the past months regarding phantom sear...

Deploying Salesforce.com Metadata with ANT (Video)

First of all, if you are not using the Force.com Migration Tool (ANT) to d...

My Favorite Salesforce.com Summer ’11 Features

The salesforce.com Summer 11 release is due to hit an org near you in the n...

Overriding Standard Links & Buttons in Salesforce.com

Salesforce.com allows you to override standard button and links (add, edit,...

Publishing with the Force.com Toolkit for Facebook

When Sandeep and I demoed the Force.com Toolkit for Facebook at Dreamforce ...

You'll Like this CloudSpokes Winner!

We just wrapped up another cool contest over at CloudSpokes and we have a w...

I'm Starting a New Job!!

No... Im not leaving Appirio ...but I will have a new role starting next we...

OpportunityAccessLevel Not Writable

I was working on a project the other day where I needed to dynamically add ...

Mad Money- Why a Cloudy Forecast is Good

This is an awesome segment with Jim Cramer refruting some negative-nay-saye...

Dynamically Group & Display Query Results

I was working on a Visualforce page that displays the results of a query in...

Sneak Peak - BrainEngine Cloud IDE

The Twitter-sphere has been on fire since BrainEngine announced that they ...

Installing Ruby 1.8 and & 2.3.8 for ActiveSalesforce

Ive been working for the past week or two on my Ruby for Force.com Develope...

Loading Salesforce Products into Custom Price Books

This topic has come up frequently on the salesforce.com message boards rece...

Beat Jeff Douglas ... not literally

Over at CloudSpokes we have a newBeat Jeff Douglas contest . The contest i...

Find My Salesforce Users by Role Hierarchy

This is a cool little script that finds everyone who works beneath me in th...

Force.com Toolkit for Facebook Updates

In case you havent noticed Im a huge proponent (and fanboy) of the Force.co...

My Favorite Salesforce.com Spring ’11 Features

The salesforce.com Spring 11 release is set to start rolling onto orgs in t...

How to Pass the Service Cloud Consultant Exam

I took theService Cloud Consultant exam last week and thought Id post some ...

Salesforce Spring '11 Preview Webinar Slides

If you missed theSpring 11 Release Preview Webinar today, first... shame on...

Passing Values to JavaScript from Apex Controller Method

Im working on a port of an existing Java app to Salesforce.com and I ran in...

Ruby and Salesforce Integration with SOAP

A copy of the new Force.com Developer News arrived in my inbox this morning...

Salesforce.com Spring 11 Release Preview

TheSpring 11 Force.com Platform Pre-Release page is now up and ready for di...

Learning Ruby for Force.com Developers – Part 2

This is part...

Fun with Salesforce Collections

The Apex language provides developers with three classes (Set, List and Map...

Learning Ruby for Force.com Developers - Part 1

With salesforce.coms recent purchase of Heroku , Ruby just got more intere...

Thanks for the Salesforce Developer Hero Award!

Many thanks to salesfore.com for the Developer Hero Award at this years Dre...

Neat Salesforce URLFOR Trick

I was working on an app the other day and had written a custom screen allow...

Salesforce Handbook -- Published!!

After what seems like months of epic battles with the publishers, we have b...

Salesforce REST API Demo from Cloudstock

This is the demo that I put together for the Cloudstock Hackathon and I tr...

Video - My VMforce Demo from Dreamforce

A number of people were not able to make the VMforce demo so I threw togeth...

Google Chrome Extension - Force.com Logins

One of our brilliant guys in our Appirio Japan office,Toshihiro Takasu, wro...

My VMforce and Facebook Demos Today at Dreamforce

If you are at Dreamforce today here are the sessions that I am speaking in....

My VMforce Demo at DF10

My blog has been rather quiet over the past couple of months and for good r...

Salesforce Handbook Review - Quinton Wall

Cross posted on the Salesforce Handbook When Wes and I were wrapping up the...

Dude! Cloudstock... totally be there!!

If youre attending Dreamforce 10 next month then you totally need to regist...

Force.com Programming Best Practices

Wes and I are adding a few more topics to our Salesforce Handbook before we...

Using Boomi Atomsphere for Salesforce Integration

Ive done a number of videos on integration tools over the past year includi...

Want a Free Copy of The Salesforce Handbook?

Wes Nolte and I have been hard at work on our new book, The Salesforce Hand...

My Favorite Salesforce.com Winter '11 Features

The Winter 11 release is just around the corner and Ive scoured through the...

CloudWorks - Industry’s First Cloud Broker Technology

Today Appirio is introducing CloudWorks , the industrys first cloud broker ...

Appirio Customer, RehabCare, Featured in Apple Commercial

Our customer RehabCare is currently being featured in a really nice video o...

Cloud Computing for Java Developers Webinar (VMforce)

I attended the Cloud Computing for Java Developers webinar yesterday, whic...

Error - Portal account owner must have a role??

I wrote the following test class for a PRM deployment and received this cra...

Released - Force.com Utility Belt for Salesforce.com

The Force.com Utility Belt is a Google Chrome Extension that I wrote to mak...

Webinar - Spring for Force.com Developers

Quinton Wall and Josh Long (SpringSource) conducted this early-morning webi...

Chrome Extension - Force.com Utility Belt for Saleforce.com

I built the Chrome Extension Salesforce.com ID Converter last month and fou...

Live Streaming - Facebook Developer Garage Denver

Im presenting the new Force.com for Facebook toolkit at the Facebook Devel...

Managing the Heap in Salesforce.com

With the Spring 10 release, Salesforce.com removed the limit on the number ...

Force.com Developer Webcast with Appirio Chief Architect

Jason Ouellette, Appirio Chief Architect and author of Development with the...

Uploading Data with the Force.com Bulk API

My article How to Load Large Data Sets with the Force.com Bulk API went up...

Why is this so DOM Hard?

Let me start out right away by saying I am not a DOM or CSS master. Ive typ...

Blogging is cool but...

There has been a lot of buzz lately surrounding JP Seaburys blog post, The ...

Appirio Marketing has too much Free Time

At Appirio we routinely hold customer-exclusive webinars to talk about feat...

Google Chrome Extension- Salesforce.com ID Converter

The Saleforce UI displays 15 digit, case-sensitive IDs for records. However...

Force.com Explorer (beta) for Adobe Air Available

A copy of the new Force.com Developer News arrived in my inbox this morning...

Using the Salesforce.com OAuth Playground

My article on developer.force.com, Using OAuth to Authorize External Applic...

Using OAuth to Authorize External Applications

My article on OAuth went up yesterday on developer.force.com (thanks Jon!)...

Email a Document with Salesforce.com

After my last post, Create and Email a PDF with Salesforce.com , I receive...

Create and Email a PDF with Salesforce.com

This is a continuation of my post a couple of days ago, Attach a PDF to a R...

Attach a PDF to a Record in Salesforce

Salesforce.com makes it extremely easy to generate PDF documents on the fly...

Building a Dynamic Search Page in Visualforce

I brushed this code off and thought it might be useful to someone as a star...

My Favorite Salesforce.com Summer '10 Features

The Summer 10 release was rolled out last month and Im finally getting a ch...

Using RSA-SHA1 with Salesforce Crypto Class

This is a rather obscure post but it will definitely come in handy to someo...

Understanding the Force.com Multitenant Architecture

I was doing some research for our new book, The Salesforce Handbook , and c...

Error Compiling Salesforce Metadata API with WSC

This might not be relevant right now but you may find it useful in the near...

Any Interest in a Chatter / Spring / App Engine Tutorial?

Following up on yesterdays post, Get Ready for VMForce - Heres How! , I was...

Install My Salesforce Chatter for Android App on Your Phone

Salesforce.com invited me to attend Cloudforce last Tuesday to demo my Sal...

Chatter Bot Wins!! Congratulations Mike Leach!

So I attended the hackathon last night at Cloudforce 2010 in San Jose where...

Working with Person Accounts in Salesforce.com

Out of the box (so to speak), Salesforce.com is a B2B product. But what if ...

Sharing Controller Context with a Visualforce Popup

How do I popup a dialog in Visualforce. Im not sure what the deal is but t...

Action Plans from Force.com Labs

So if you havent checked out the Action Plans app from Force.com Labs you s...

Stop by the Appirio Booth at Cloudforce 2010

If you live in the Bay Area and are not coming to Cloudforce 2010 on June 2...

Force.com Toolkit for Google Wave Demo at Google I/O

I attended this demo at Google I/O and am glad that the video is finally av...

Salesforce Chatter for Android

My blog has been a little quiet since I left for Google IO a few weeks ago...

Testing Salesforce.com Controller Extensions

One thing that salesforce.com is working on is providing developers with a ...

Java Command Line App Using the Salesforce WSC

Force.com Web Service Connector (WSC) is a high performance web services st...

Installing & Running the Force Metadata JDBC Driver for SchemaSpy

The Force Metadata JDBC Driver for SchemaSpy is a really cool tool availabl...

Announcing the Salesforce Handbook

Wes Nolte and I have just announced that we will be writing a new book aime...

Using Exernal ID Fields in Salesforce

Salesforce has baked in some magical features into its platform. Two of my ...

Uploading an Attachment using Visualforce and a Custom Controller

This is a follow up post to Uploading a Document using Visualforce and a Cu...

Create a New Record in Force.com Sites

So someone asked me yesterday for some code to allow external users to crea...

Uploading a Document using Visualforce and a Custom Controller

The Salesforce docs for the inputFile Visualforce component has an example ...

Enforcing Apex Security With Sharing Keywords

Security is a major foundation of the Force.com platform. Not only is secur...

Appirian Chat Bot for Salesforce.com and Google Apps

At Appirio not only do we develop cloud-based applications for our customer...

Using AggregateResult in Salesforce.com SOQL

In Spring 10 , Salesforce.com released new Apex functionality for aggregate...

Easily Search and Edit Records with Visualforce

I tend to over think Visualforce development sometimes and make it harder t...

Visualforce Row Counter for Iteration Components

I have been working on a Visualforce page that displays a list of items fro...

Governor Limits to be Removed from Force.com!

Salesforce.com is set to accounce that they will be removing all limits to ...

New Salesforce.com Help Portal

At Appirio one of our best customers and partners is Salesforce.com. We jus...

Short Cut the Recordtype Selection Step

In larger orgs you may have tens or hundreds of recordtypes. For instance, ...

Why I Wrote the Salesforce Chatter for Twitter Demo

Yesterday I posted a video and demo of a Chatter app running on Google App ...

Integrate Chatter & Twitter on Google App Engine using OAuth

Cross-posted at the Appirio Tech Blog . At Appirio weve been excited abou...

Writing an Inbound Email Service for Salesforce.com

Creating an inbound email service for Salesforce.com is a relatively straig...

Error Compiling WSC AppEngine Partner Jar for Salesforce.com Sandbox

Im working on a demo for Google App Engine that connects to one of our Sale...

Appirio Announces PS Connect at Google Campfire One

Last night at Google Campfire One we demonstrated PS Connect , a new exten...

Locking sObject Records

I dont see this discussed often, but Salesforce.com has the ability to lock...

Passing Parameters with a CommandButton

This post is a slight tweak of yesterdays post, Passing Parameters with a C...

Passing Parameters with a CommandLink

Heres a small example of how you can pass a value to another method via a c...

Overview - SAP BusinessObjects BI OnDemand for Salesforce.com

SAP just released their BusinessObjects BI OnDemand solution for Salesforce...

Relationship Lookup Objects in Triggers are NULL?

I see this question once in awhile on the Salesforce.com message boards so...

SOQL – How I Query With Thee, Let Me Count the Ways

Ive been wanting to write this post since the new aggregate functions were ...

Salesforce.com Nonprofit Starter Pack Kicks Butt!

With Salesforce.coms recent announcement that they will donate free license...

Using Hierarchy Custom Settings in Salesforce.com

Last month I posted on the new List Custom Settings feature released in Win...

Force.com Advanced Developer Programming Assignment Complete!

I just finished the Programming Assignment and wanted to provide some input...

Force.com Advanced Developer Programming Assignment

I recently received the Force.com Advanced Developer programming assignment...

My Favorite Salesforce.com Spring '10 Features

For those that dont have time to weed through all 171 pages of the Spring 1...

Developing Apps with the Adobe Flash Builder for Force.com

Ive been doing a lot of work the past couple of weeks with the new Adobe Fl...

Using List Custom Settings in Salesforce.com

Salesforce.com recently introduced Custom Settings in Winter 10 which allow...