Archives: 2009 May
Salesforce.com Sites and Google App Engine for Java
May 29th, 2009, No Comments
What a hectic week! We rolled out our Inspection Copy Feedback application with Salesforce.com Sites. The site should appear on the Sites gallery soon but here is the link to the Site. I’ll provide a more detailed review of our Sites experience at a later time. I also worked on a number of demo apps [...]
Force.com Integration Announced for GAE/J
May 27th, 2009, No Comments
The cat is finally out of the bag regarding the new Force.com integration with Google App Engine for Java. I’ve been working with Ron Hess and Ryan Marples for roughly a month or so on the project and it’s been very hard to keep the secret. Ron and Ryan did all of the heavy lifting [...]
Stylesheet Bug with Visualforce
May 21st, 2009, No Comments
I was finishing up our Sites pilot project the other day and was having an issue with the color for the apex:page component not displaying correctly. The following code worked correctly and my page displayed with the correct colors and tab. 1 <apex:page controller="MyController" showHeader="true" tabStyle="Account"> However, our Sites project uses its own custom template [...]
Developer Goodies for Summer '09 Release
May 18th, 2009, 1 Comment
I was going through the release notes for Summer ’09 and pulling out my favorite developer highlights for a new blog post. Halfway through the post I found an existing wiki page with roughly the exact same information I was writing. Since I am essentially lazy, I’m just going to link to this page instead: [...]
Using Related Lists in Visualforce Pages
May 13th, 2009, 6 Comments
Let’s face it, coding Visualforce pages is sometimes too easy. The tag-based syntax allows you to design effective UIs with very little effort. One of the more powerful components is the relatedList which lets you display a list of related records based upon a lookup or master-detail relationship. One of the major benefits of this [...]
Use an Inline Visualforce Page with Standard Page Layouts
May 8th, 2009, 13 Comments
Let’s face it, using standard page layouts is easy. Throw some field on the page, arrange some related lists and then essentially forget about the page. However, if you really need to customize the user experience you are almost always forced to write a custom Visualforce page that may require maintenance in the future. But [...]
15 Reasons for Java Programmers to Learn Flex, BlazeDS and Salesforce.com
May 6th, 2009, No Comments
InfoQ has a really good article entitled, 13 Reasons for Java Programmers to Learn Flex and BlazeDS. I’ve been a big fan of Flex front ends for Java for a long time and have a couple of application running in production with Adobe BlazeDS. I have a tutorial to help you get up and running [...]
Get Your Java Code Jumpin' with Roo
May 4th, 2009, No Comments
If you develop Java applications with Spring, you’ll be excited to learn that SpringSouce announced at last week’s SpringOne Eupope conference a new round-trip, open source code generation tool for it’s framework called “Roo”. Ben Alex has an enlightening blog post about Roo and will be discussing the tool in the next coming posts. You [...]
