Archives: 2009 January
Release Management with Salesforce.com?
January 30th, 2009, 6 Comments
This week was all about release management with Salesforce.com. We had people in town from all over the globe and conferences with our Salesforce.com reps to determine the most manageable and efficient way to release code into Production.
After four days of meetings our main conclusion is that release management with Salesforce.com is neither a science [...]
ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Release Candidate Now Available
January 28th, 2009, No Comments
The ASP.NET MVC RC is now available and I am so excited that I can hardly stand it! At work we do alot of .NET development but I cannot stand the ViewState and Postback paradigm. I’m been tinkering around with with ASP.NET MVC for quite awhile and have a couple of prototypes under my belt. [...]
Spring '09 Features Released
January 16th, 2009, 3 Comments
Salesforce.com released the features for the upcomng Spring ‘09 release. Some of my favorites are:
Apex Code Auto-Complete in Force.com IDE – Finally Eclipse will have the same features that Visual Studio had 8 years ago!
Broader Compatibility With External Web Services
Cross-Object Workflow – Update Parent Fields from Child Records without Code
API Data Replication Enhancements – Not [...]
Apex Search with Checkbox Results
January 13th, 2009, 1 Comment
This demo is a single Apex custom controller, two Visualforce pages and a wrapper class allowing the user to search an object by keyword (via Dynamic SOQL) and return the results in a page block table with corresponding checkboxes. Selecting one or more checkboxes and clicking the ‘See Results’ button displays the list of the [...]
Upsize to Force.com
January 10th, 2009, No Comments
I remember back in the day there use to be a utility that would allow you to upsize your Access database to SQL Server. It was such a great tool that saved hours and hours of time.
Reid Carlberg has just released a new application on Code Share that allows you to migrate your local databases [...]
Amazon's EC2 Console Makes Cloud Computing Fun and Easy
January 9th, 2009, No Comments
The new Amazon EC2 Console is a slick point-and-click, web-based user interface providing access to Amazon’s suite of infrastructure web services. AWS has typically been a geek service due to it’s command line interface, but this new console should attract new (Windows) customers that are more confortable with a point-and-click interface.
Use Visualforce and Apex to Populate PDF Forms
January 4th, 2009, No Comments
Somehow I missed this post on generating PDFs, but in addition creating PDFs from scratch using Apex, you can also populate third-party forms (IRS forms for instance) using Adobe’s XFDF format.
We are currently using Telerik’s .NET Reporting services (C#/ASP.NET) but this may be another route to investigate depending upon how much control this provides the [...]
