Archives: 2008 December
'OpportunityContactRoles' is not a Valid Relationship?
December 30th, 2008, 1 Comment
This is an interesting feature in Salesforce.com. I deployed a fairly standard Visualforce page from one of our sandboxes to production and it began throwing the following error: ‘OpportunityContactRoles’ is not a valid child relationship name for entity Opportunity I thought this was strange as it was working in sandbox and OpportunityContactRoles is a standard [...]
Visualforce Export to Excel / IE Bug
December 29th, 2008, No Comments
There is a very nice article on how to export data to Excel using Visualforce. The only problem is that there is a known issue when using Internet Explorer that prevents it from working correctly. Here is the workaround and I have asked our support rep to check on the status of the bug. 1 [...]
2008 – the year man-made global warming was disproved
December 28th, 2008, No Comments
The UK Telegraph has an interesting article stating that a number of factors in 2008 has brought about the “turning point in the great worldwide panic over man-made global warming.” “…temperatures have been dropping in a way wholly unpredicted by all those computer models which have been used as the main drivers of the scare.” [...]
Wow!
December 18th, 2008, No Comments
A picture tells a thousand words. Wages, healthcare and legacy costs are killing the Big Three.
Saleforce.com & Google App Engine… these are a few of my favorite things…
December 10th, 2008, 2 Comments
Salesforce.com just announced the release of the Force.com for Google App Engine which is a Python library and test harness that lets you access the Force.com Web services API from within Google App Engine applications. It’s interesting to watch how Salesforce.com and Google are integrating their offerings. There’s been a number of rumors in the [...]
Flex Callback Example with Visualforce
December 9th, 2008, 1 Comment
I was working on a somewhat complex search interface for Salesforce.com using Flex. I needed to do some communication with Apex so I threw together a little demo to outline the basic functionality of a Flex app communicating with a Visualforce page via a Javascript callback. You can run this example on my Developer Site. [...]
Flex Salesforce.com Tree Control
December 8th, 2008, 4 Comments
One of the things that Salesforce.com is lacking is a descent tree control to display hierarchical data. I did notice a screenshot on the Winter ’09 Developer Screencast of a tree control but according to our Salesforce.com technical reps there are no plans to release this. There is a really good Flex tutorial on developer.force.com [...]
Scabality Issues?
December 7th, 2008, No Comments
Ouch!! This is a really nasty error to get when you respond to a nationally televised ad.
BlazeDS – ReferenceError: Error #1056
December 5th, 2008, 1 Comment
I have been doing Flash Remoting with Flex and ColdFusion for a number of years but wanted to do something with a pure Java solution. I decided to setup BlazeDS (Adobe’s open source server-based Java remoting and web messaging technology) on my EC2 instance for fun. I found a great tutorial (“Getting started with BlazeDS”) [...]
My Son Joined the Army
December 3rd, 2008, 3 Comments
37F – Psychological Operations Specialist (Psyop) My son Tyler joined the Army yesterday so everyone can relax now as the world will soon be a safer place. He decided he was done with school for right now and wanted something different. Luckily I talked him out of the Marines but couldn’t get him interested in [...]
