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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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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HTML 5 Geolocation in Visualforce

by Jon Mountjoy on July 1, 2010 at 03:02 AM

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Several of my colleagues were discussing HTML 5, and one of them pointed me to this great online book: Dive into HTML 5. After some reading, I thought I'd try my hand at using the HTML 5 geolocation API in Visualforce. Turns out it was rather simple - check out my page here (assuming I haven't hit any limits). The image to the right shows it running on my iPhone. Implementing So one problem with...
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If you build it, will they come?

by Sati Hillyer on June 30, 2010 at 07:57 AM

Great user experience takes time, but the rewards are worth it. Examples like TiVo, Google Maps, Mint.com and iPhone show the impact a great user experience can have on user adoption and how influential it can be to the industry. Killer apps change the game, and they start with a great user experience. At Cloudforce 2010, Ian Swinson from our UE team and I spoke about the User Experience Best Practices at salesforce.com. For those...
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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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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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Using Facebook Social Widgets on Force.com Sites pages

by Quinton Wall on June 14, 2010 at 09:57 AM

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Looking to add Facebook Social Components such as Like and Recommendations to your Force.com Sites Page? Take a lot at my initial iteration of updating the Facebook Toolkit for Force.com
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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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Making the Platform do the work

by Umit Yalcinalp on May 19, 2010 at 03:21 PM

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This blog is long overdue. It includes a trick that I discovered while we were developing Chatter apps that I promised to write about it, but never got to it. It falls into the category of capabilities that you want to enable in your app without writing a single line of code by utilizing the power of the platform. Quinton Wall talked about this during one of our meetups as he was very happy to...
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