An Update to the Force.com Toolkit for Adobe Flex and AIR

by Ryan Marples on May 28, 2009 at 02:24 PM

Hot on the heels of yesterday's toolkit announcement is another one, this time it's an update to our Force.com Toolkit for Adobe Flex and AIR. This toolkit enables developers building applications using Flex and AIR to be able to leverage the data and business processed held within Force.com. This combination of a rich user experience and the enterprise platform creates lots of opportuntiies for great applications. This new revision of the toolkit has been updated...
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Convert Spreadsheets to Force.com Apps in Minutes

by Sarah Franklin on May 28, 2009 at 11:00 AM

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Do you have spreadsheets that you wish you could turn into apps on the platform, but never had the time to do it? Thanks to Model Metrics, now you can do it in a matter of minutes! They have created a tool, the Cloud Converter, that will import an existing data source and generate an app for you. The Cloud Converter supports several data source types, including spreadsheets, databases and Lotus Notes. Today we are...
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New Force.com Integration Announced for Google App Engine for Java

by Ryan Marples on May 27, 2009 at 07:42 AM

Recently Google annouced availability of Java language support for Google App Engine, allowing Java developers across the globe to start building apps in the cloud. Well this morning, the first day of the Google I/O conference, salesforce.com is announcing the availability of "Force.com for Google App Engine for Java". This is a set of Java libraries that enables App Engine developers to access the Force.com web services API. Get all the details and the actual...
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Upcoming Tech Talk: Introduction to the Force.com Database

by Andrew Albert on May 26, 2009 at 03:59 PM

New to Force.com? Want to learn more about the Force.com Database and learn how easy it is to create a custom data model on Force.com? What about learning how to enable triggers, data validations, and field history, and more? If so, please join us on Wednesday, June 3rd, 10 am PDT for the next session in our tech talk series, Introduction to the Force.com Database. Topics Include: Learn how to create database objects to persist...
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Going Mobile with Visualforce

by Mike Kreaden on May 21, 2009 at 10:52 AM

My continued involvement with the Field Service Cloud provider ServiceMax has allowed me to discover new ways of leveraging the Force.com platform. The results are clear: Visualforce with Salesforce Mobile = Force.com Mobile. In my most recent article Force.com Mobile Development for the iPhone using Visualforce, I discuss the anatomy of an interactive mobile app developed for the iPhone. The example used in the article maps account data on the iPhone using Google Maps and...
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We're talkin' IDE here

by Dave Carroll on May 20, 2009 at 02:55 PM

I recently had the opportunity to speak at the 2009 EclipseCon convention in San Jose. This was a great opportunity to expose Force.com development concepts to a group of Eclipse users that span many different languages and platforms. You can watch the screen cast of my presentation at the Eclipse Live site. Cheers!
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Passing URL parameters into a Visualforce page from a custom button or link

by Quinton Wall on May 20, 2009 at 10:32 AM

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It has been a while since my last post. I have been deeply entrenched in a client project with some pretty complex lead assignment, and scoring logic that has taken all of my time. The good thing is that I learnt a LOT of platform tips and tricks that I intend to share with the developer community. One of these tips is how to call an apex class from a custom button or link. Although...
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Batch Apex - a powerful new functionality in Summer '09

by Nick Simha on May 15, 2009 at 03:09 PM

Among the many new goodies in Summer '09 release is a powerful new feature to do batch processing on your database records. Tasks that require processing of large data volumes without any active human intervention can take advantage of this feature. As an example, consider the task of validating addresses in your contacts when you can potentially have millions of contact records. A batch job would be ideal for this scenario since you can start...
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Research Report Finds Force.com App Dev Almost 5 Times Faster Than Java or .NET

by Ryan Marples on May 14, 2009 at 03:07 PM

We recently posted a research report by Nucleas Research (sorry, gotta enter your info to download) which found that Force.com application development provides 4.9 times faster development than Java and .NET development. There was some great comments that were surfaced as part of the study that I wanted to share. One developer talked about an often overlooked aspect of Salesforce's cloud platform: "Any time you develop you always have to be concerned with how it’s...
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Are You Having Problems Sharing?

by Jesse Lorenz on May 14, 2009 at 12:01 PM

The number one rule in life for author Robert Fulghum is to "Share everything." Your Force.com application is one place where it’s okay to break that rule and not share everything. That’s why Force.com allows developers and administrators to control access to data at many different levels. You can control access at the object-level, the record-level and even at the field-level. In the vast majority of cases, the appropriate Force.com sharing settings can be defined...
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