How to Update Picture Uploader for Use with Your Custom Object

by Reid Carlberg on July 27, 2010 at 09:38 AM

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We recently released an updated version of Picture Uploader. The basic app is designed to attach a picture to a Contact and then display it on the detail page. When I posted the news to Twitter, @ForceIUS asked about adapting it to a custom object. Like many Force.com Labs apps, adapting it to your needs is pretty straightforward. This blog post will show you how. As you can see from the screen shot above, Picture...
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Got HTML5, touch, geo-aware Force.com apps? I say so!

by Quinton Wall on July 26, 2010 at 06:51 PM

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Trying my hand at some touch, mobile, geo-aware HTML5 apps using Force.com and the Sencha Framework.
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The Report Builder Webinar video is available

by Umit Yalcinalp on July 23, 2010 at 09:20 AM

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I got lots of tweets, internal Chatter questions asking me when the video of the Report Builder webinar would be available. Here we are. As you know, we had two separate webinars yesterday on the same topic. Below is the link to the recording from the 6:00am webinar on 7/22. This timeslot had a lot of questions and was very interactive. I am glad that the video from this timeslot is the one we are...
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15 Recent Force.com Labs App Updates

by Reid Carlberg on July 22, 2010 at 01:28 PM

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Yes, it has been a busy few months here. You might recall I mentioned I'd be posting some app updates during our webinar the other day. Well batch one is up, and here's a list of the apps that have been updated. Note, in most cases, the updates are around test methods, s-control remediation and security compliance. In some cases we've made an additional tweak or two in order to make the app easier to...
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Supercharge your Java apps for better use of Force.com Web Service APIs with Tolerado

by Quinton Wall on July 22, 2010 at 08:42 AM

If you are Java developer looking for a way to improve your application integration with the Force.com web service clients, check out this new Codeshare project Tolerado.
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Adobe Flash Builder for Force.com now available!

by Quinton Wall on July 20, 2010 at 08:09 AM

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The Adobe Flash Builder for Force.com is now available. Start developing rich internet applications now.
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Off the see the Wizard, ahhh, the new Report Builder

by Umit Yalcinalp on July 19, 2010 at 06:00 PM

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Couple of weeks ago you may have attended Sati Hilyer and Ian Swinson's talk on User Experience at the 6/22 CloudForce event or heard about it from the blog post. Today's topic is not about User Experience, but how the principles of user experience has led to completely revising an old kid on the block in our product itself, namely the Report Builder. Yes, it is about another concrete example on how the development organization...
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Updates to the Facebook Toolkit for Force.com - More Examples!

by Quinton Wall on July 19, 2010 at 11:09 AM

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I have almost completed the updates to the Facebook Toolkit for Force.com and wanted to share what the new JSON-based objects and interaction look like as well as a simple test page/controller. Let me know if anyone wants to help out finishing the wrapper objects!
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Has It Been Three Years Already?

by Peter Coffee on July 12, 2010 at 04:56 PM

So, once again we hear about an on-line marketplace for CRM apps -- in a story that sounds oddly, even eccentrically familiar. Pardon me if I get a little bit astronomical, in my latest post to our Cloud Blog, concerning the implications of the latest three-year-cyclic imitation of the salesforce.com AppExchange.
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Developer Meetup tonight @ Paypal in San Jose, CA

by Quinton Wall on July 12, 2010 at 10:31 AM

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Here is one of my favorite stories from the Tao of Programming to start the week: There once was a man who went to a computer trade show. Each day as he entered, the man told the guard at the door:"I am a great thief, renowned for my feats of shoplifting. Be forewarned, for this trade show shall not escape unplundered."This speech disturbed the guard greatly, because there were millions of dollars of computer equipment...
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