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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Build And Deploy A Free Cloud App: 3 Best Practices Articles Now Available!

by Quinton Wall on June 22, 2010 at 10:21 AM

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3 articles written to support the Cloudforce/Developer Conference track titled "Build And Deploy A Free Cloud App" are now live. Is you mind sharp as a Ginzu? Read the articles and get some mental flint stone!
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Instant Ecosystem

by Peter Coffee on June 22, 2010 at 05:31 AM

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When Chatter goes live today, every Force.com app has the option of becoming social. Has any development platform, ever before, done so much for so many at so little cost? Chatter is the inarguable existence proof for definitive strengths of true cloud platforms. Developers may have noticed already, over the past few years, that their Force.com apps were getting incrementally better at a surprisingly rapid and consistent pace: features like in-line editing, for example, got...
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Is the Build and Deploy a Free Cloud App track and Cloudforce right for you?

by Quinton Wall on June 18, 2010 at 10:58 AM

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Are you wondering whether the Build and Deploy A Free Cloud App track at next weeks Cloudforce and Developer Conference in San Jose is right for you? Have a look at some of the questions I have received over the past week about who should attend and what you will gain from the sessions.
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Promote Best Practices with Action Plans

by Reid Carlberg on June 4, 2010 at 09:07 AM

Action Plans from Force.com Labs encapsulate best practices into reusable task templates. Check out the full listing on AppExchange and watch the video below. It's free, it's easy and it will make a difference to your organization. Action Plans supports both independent and dependent tasks, assigns tasks to either a specific user or the running user and supports the creation of up to 20 action plans at a time. Questions? Comments? Would love to hear...
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VMforce - Every Java Developer is now a Cloud Developer!

by Quinton Wall on April 28, 2010 at 09:20 AM

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Without a doubt the VMforce announcement is big. Amazing technology like the Force.com platform, virtualization, and Spring make VMforce possible. But it is also about people.
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Design an Aloha App!

by Sati Hillyer on April 8, 2010 at 11:10 PM

Today we announced Aloha Apps on the AppExchange. Aloha Apps have been given special permissions allowing: Apps to run Apex Code in GE and PE Apps to be immune to Custom Apps, Objects, and Tabs limits Some of these apps will have the ability to leverage the Web Service API for PE and now GE Do you have an idea and want to build an Aloha App that will work for GE and PE? If...
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License Management App (LMA) 2.1 is now available!

by Sati Hillyer on July 7, 2009 at 12:54 PM

Available today is the new version of the License Management App (LMA)! LMA 2.1 offers some new enhancements to help you as an partner know more about your customers. Two new features include: The partner can now know how many users in the customer org have been granted a license to their package. LMA 2.1 includes a new read-only custom field “Used Licenses” on the “License” object for this purpose. Note: Existing licenses will not...
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Becoming the next salesforce.com

by Sati Hillyer on June 30, 2009 at 05:13 PM

If you have commercial intent and your looking to build the next killer app on Force.com, then you're going to want to attend our next Tech Talk. Come join Andrew Smith, our Application Distribution PM discuss what's new with packaging. With every release, our customers are seamlessly upgraded to the latest version without having to worry about their customizations breaking. The latest enhancements in packaging are going to let you offer this same type of...
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Partner Tech Talk: What's Next for Force.com? A Peek into the Platform's Future.

by Jon Mountjoy on June 10, 2009 at 06:29 AM

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We have an interesting webinar coming up, looking into the platform's future.
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