Archives: 2009 April
Google App Engine for Java Demo Application
April 30th, 2009, 5 Comments
Google App Engine for Java was released a couple of weeks ago and I finally found some time to finish up my first demo application. My original idea was to do a Java version of the Salesforce.com demo that I did in Python on Google App Engine, but I quickly found out that Google App [...]
Modifying Salesforce.com System Fields during Data Migration
April 27th, 2009, 1 Comment
Typically CreatedBy, CreatedDate, LastModifiedByID, LastModifiedDate, and a number of other fields on most objects are read-only for valid business and data-integrity reasons. However, during data migrations is it sometimes desirable to insert records with legacy dates and ids to match the source system.
You can contact Salesforce Support and they will enable this functionality for you [...]
Web Beans Preview Now Available
April 24th, 2009, No Comments
Jboss just announced the first preview release of Web beans, their dependency injection and contextual lifecycle management framework.
Web beans is an implementation of JSR-299 which defines a set of services for the Java EE environment that makes applications much easier to develop. JSR-299 layers an enhanced lifecycle and interaction model over existing Java component types [...]
Constructing the Correct Salesforce.com URL?
April 23rd, 2009, 1 Comment
I’ve seen this question on the Salesforce.com message boards but have never seen an answer so I thought I would post it here. Here’s my dilema… we are writing some customization that requires us to construct the URL to a Salesforce.com record (e.g. https://na5.salesforce.com/02u300000000ACi) and send it via email. I’ve seen a solution to this [...]
Writing Bulk Triggers for Salesforce.com
April 20th, 2009, 5 Comments
It’s exciting to see all of the new members on the Salesforce.com message board that are just getting into cloud computing. Some of the most common questions revolve around how to write, test and debug bulk triggers. Programming for a multi-tenant environment is different than developing for a dedicated server and it’s understandable that developers [...]
How to deploy Apex without test coverage (part 2)
April 16th, 2009, No Comments
I’ve spent the better part of the last two days deploying a custom lead assignment application to Production. Deployment is always an adventure due to circular code dependencies, code coverage requirements and the actual amount of time involved in the process. One of the things that I always find interesting is that if you Run [...]
Force.com Demo App on Google App Engine (Python)
April 14th, 2009, 2 Comments
When Google announced the other day that they were supporting Java I started to dream about all of the cool Java / Salesforce.com apps that I could write. Then I read through the Will it play in App Engine page and my heart skipped a beat. There in black and white it stated, “We do [...]
An Introduction to Cloud Computing for Developers
April 13th, 2009, No Comments
Just received a tweet from Ryan Marples about a new video he posted last week. The video is targeted for .NET developers but it is applicable to anyone that wants to better understand the advantages of cloud computing from a technical perspective.
Very informative and very well done.
Is Apex More "Business-like"?
April 12th, 2009, 1 Comment
ComputerWeekly had a really interesting article last week titled, “Should IT directors consider building their next business app on Force.com?” I personally say that the answer is “yes” but the article also gives some persuasive arguments.
The major reasons are fairly obious to anyone that has built an application using Salesforce.com. Applications are faster and cheaper [...]
Google App Engine Now Supports Java
April 10th, 2009, No Comments
It only took a year (not bad) but now in addition to Python, Google App Engine now supports Java. This will be a huge boost to App Engine as it opens the service to a wider range of developer. I’ve played around with a few apps but I lacked the Python language knowledge to really [...]
