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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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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Want to Speak at Dreamforce 2010?

by Dave Carroll on April 30, 2010 at 10:36 AM

Tired of hearing me and Ron Hess tell you about the Force.com platform? Well do something about it! Submit your paper for consideration to the Dreamforce 2010 Call for Papers. We are looking for developers and other Force.com experts who will inspire and educate the rest of the Developer Community. If you have best practices to share, a cool app that you've built, an amazing and useful integration to another cloud or a unique way...
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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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Inside the salesforce.com Development Processes

by Dave Carroll on April 19, 2010 at 09:02 AM

On Tuesday, April 20th there is a great webinar taking place by Steve Greene. Steve is the VP of Program Management and Agile Development here at salesforce.com. He is going to be talking about how the salesforce.com engineering team has been transformed using Agile Development Methodology. If you were curious how we manage four releases a year while increasing productivity, creativity and predictabliliy, then you should definitely attend this webinar. In addition to taking a...
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Adding Payment and Account Management to Force.com

by Dave Carroll on April 2, 2010 at 02:07 PM

I had the great pleasure yesterday of attending a great presentation by Praveen Alavilli (@ppalavilli) on the new Force.com for PayPal X Adaptive Payments Platform toolkit. PayPal has taken on the work of making a set of Apex Classes and Custom objects available for developers to use to add commerce activities to any application built on Force.com. I had a chance to take the toolkit for a test drive last week. Once you have setup...
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After the Crowds

by Umit Yalcinalp on November 24, 2009 at 04:24 PM

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A lot has been said about the latest Dreamforce'09 Event. A lot will be said, too. Speculations will be made about announcements, product demos, etc. This is not to add to the fire. This blog is about a personal experience through glasses painted with humor. At least, I would like to think of it as such. Personal observations abound from a first time attendee and a new employee. Dreamforce'09 conference should perhaps be called Amazingforce'09....
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How do I enable Additional Salesforce Features?

by Randy Kidd on November 2, 2009 at 07:02 AM

I am sure many of you have seen or heard about the ability for Salesforce to support Multi-Currency, Territory Management and even Person Accounts. But have you asked yourself what other features are available and how do I get these features enabled? If you have asked yourself this question then you are not alone. And to answer the question we have created a new article on How to enable Additional Salesforce Features. The article is...
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Bringing the Cloud to the Channel

by Mark Trang on August 27, 2009 at 02:55 PM

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There's been a lot of talk about over the past year on how cloud computing may make the channel irrelevant. This is simply not the case. The channel represents a vital piece of the IT value chain, represented by everyone from the 1-man local IT guru to the world's largest systems integrators. These channel partners have built up the technical skills and domain expertise to advise companies large and small which results in trusted customer...
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Flex and Force.com: Attend Thursday's Webinar!

by Ryan Marples on August 26, 2009 at 05:06 PM

The combination of rich user experiences and cloud-based apps brings a lot of value to both end users and developers. What better technologies to build these types of applications on than Adobe Flex and Force.com? If you weren't aware, there is a Force.com Toolkit for Adobe Flex and AIR that enables developers to connect the back-end data and logic held within Force.com with the front-end presentation of a Flex application. If you've always wanted to...
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