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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Coverage of Advanced Force.com Session at Cloudforce 2010

by Umit Yalcinalp on June 22, 2010 at 03:25 PM

Taggart Matthiesen just gave a very interesting talk on Advanced Force.com Development at CloudForce 2010. Taggart illustrated how the platform evolved over the years supporting many new features most came to life thanks to user and developer feedback. It was amazing to see the exponential growth on Visualforce and Apex adoption by the developers. We are talking about a year to year growth here, folks! The platform supports 500 million lines of Apex code and...
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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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De-mystifying & optimizing view state

by Nick Simha on June 11, 2010 at 11:46 AM

HTTP is a stateless protocol. Your Visualforce pages though may need to maintain state across multiple HTTP requests / postbacks. Visualforce automatically does this for you with view state making your job as a developer easier. Find out more about what is in view state, the new view state inspector in Summer '10 and best practices for optimizing view state for page performance in this article .
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Code Promotion Practices on Force.com

by Quinton Wall on June 1, 2010 at 10:15 AM

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Many developers use a Developer Edition (DE) org to do all their custom cloud development. DE is great, but it has a important restriction---you can not promote your code to production. Force.com Free Edition supports code promotion paths via Deployment Connections and Change Sets. Have you tried them out?
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Google Wave Robot, or Salesforce User? Got Lookup Filters --- no problem!

by Quinton Wall on May 17, 2010 at 12:30 PM

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I have been heads down working on a Google Wave and Force.com mashup , and came up for air just long enough to fall back in love with Lookup Filters.
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Apex code enhancements in Summer 10

by Quinton Wall on May 11, 2010 at 10:24 AM

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Summer '10 is already in pre-release. I spent some time this morning looking at some of the Apex code enhancements and what they might mean to developers.
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Tricky Transactions on Force.com

by Jon Mountjoy on May 11, 2010 at 09:00 AM

A little exercise in knowing when transactions commit on Force.com! See if you correctly understand when data is, and is not, written to the database, and learn a little about save points while you're at it.
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Sneak Peek Review: The New System Log Console Playing in a Pilot near you

by Umit Yalcinalp on May 7, 2010 at 04:28 PM

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For those of you developers, there is a new feature that will dramatically improve your debugging experience in developing Force.com application on the horizon: The new System Log Console! This blog provides a sneak preview of this new feature and lets you peak under the kimono. Remember, this feature is currently in pilot and may change in the future.If you want to participate in the pilot program, please contact Salesforce.com. Yes, I would like the...
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Working with Cookies on Sites pages in Summer '10

by Quinton Wall on May 6, 2010 at 10:06 AM

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Summer 10 introduces the ability to work with cookies on Force.com sites. This post provides a simple example to demonstrate how to use this new feature
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