Archives: 2009 March
New Flex Libraries for SAP's NetWeaver
March 31st, 2009, No Comments
Dust off your SAP logins! SAP’s NetWeaver Product Manager Thomas Jung introduces a new section for eLearning, blogs, and other learning materials from both Adobe and SAP regarding development of interfaces with Flex/Flash and SAP.
This post discusses the Web Dynpro for ABAP framework in SAP NetWeaver 7.0 EhP1 and how it provides new libraries that [...]
Salesforce.com Data Synchronization Tool?
March 30th, 2009, 7 Comments
We’ve been using Relational Junction for a couple of years for data replications from Salesforce.com to SQL Server. Even though it works well we’ve been exploring other offerings namely Informatica, Reflection and Apatar. While all of these do a good job at replicating data, we can’t seem to find a service that will provide synchronization [...]
Tutorial: Salesforce.com with Flex and BlazeDS
March 26th, 2009, 4 Comments
It’s fairly common these days to see Flex applications running inside Salesforce.com. We use Apex and Visualforce for a large majority of our custom UIs but there are some instances that just work better with Flex (drag and drop, trees, tabbed interfaces, etc.).
But what if you have a shiny, new Flex application running on your [...]
AWS Toolkit for Eclipse
March 26th, 2009, No Comments
Yesterday Amazon launched their new AWS Toolkit for Eclipse. The toolkit is targeted at Amazon EC2 developers and provides basic management features along with tools for deploying and debugging Java web applications.
They have a really nice video hitting the main features.
You can find out more about the AWT Toolkit for Eclipse at http://aws.amazon.com/eclipse.
I got a [...]
Force.com Sites Pilot Program
March 25th, 2009, No Comments
Today it’s official. I just received my login access to the Force.com Sites Pilot and Discussion Boards. We are kicking off a Sites Pilot for one of our companies sponsored by our CIO so I am really getting into the nuts and bolts of Sites. I’ll try to share some of my experiences with the [...]
Skimmer – Streamline your social networks
March 24th, 2009, No Comments
Skimmer was just released today and I’m impressed. It’s a really slick and visually appealing Air application that makes updating multiple social networks a breeze.
“Skimmer℠ is an Adobe AIR desktop application designed to streamline, beautify, and enhance the experience of participating in your most frequently used social networking activities. It improves upon day-to-day interaction with [...]
ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Released — Finally!
March 21st, 2009, No Comments
Be still my beating heart… it’s finally arrived! No more view states and post backs. It will finally be fun to do .NET web development again. I love C# but hate postbacks and view states!
ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Released!
Grand Central Relaunches as Google Voice
March 19th, 2009, No Comments
Google is at it again. They are giving me more services for free. I hate those guys! <g> I’ve been a Grand Central subscriber for the last couple of years and love the services. All of my voice communications on the web, great call screening and group management features.
Google just announced that they are relaunching [...]
RESTful Web Service Callout using POST with Salesforce.com
March 16th, 2009, 4 Comments
The addition of asynchronous Web service callouts to external services is a feature that developers have been requesting for quite awhile in Salesforce.com. Using the new @future annotation, your methods execute the callout when Salesforce.com has resources available. One of the great benefits is that it allows you to perform callouts during trigger executions.
One method [...]
Salesforce.com: What is Cloud Computing?
March 11th, 2009, 1 Comment
