Archives: 2009 July
Roll-Up Summary Fields With Lookup Relationships – Part 2
July 31st, 2009, 2 Comments
In the first part of this post I outlined the issues involved with creating a trigger to do roll-up summaries with a lookup relationship. To solve the problem I did what you should always try to do first: let the Force.com platform do the heavy lifting for you. Don’t try to code around the platform [...]
Roll-Up Summary Fields with Lookup Relationships – Part 1
July 30th, 2009, 10 Comments
Roll-Up summary fields are a great way to perform calculations on a set of detail records in a master-detail relationship. For instance, if you have a sales order you can create a roll-up summary field to display the sum total of all sales order items (related detail records) for the sales order. The one drawback [...]
Need Input for Demo App using GWT and GAE/J
July 27th, 2009, 2 Comments
A couple of the guys and myself at Appirio are writing a beginning Google App Engine with Java book to be released this fall. We’ve locked down the functionality of the app we are going to be discussing in the book but I would like to put the app out to everyone and get any [...]
Amazon SimpleDB Plugin for Eclipse
July 23rd, 2009, No Comments
Amazon once again is again stepping up its game in the IaaS space. This morning they announced support for SimpleDB in their Eclipse plugin. You can now administer your SimpleDB data without writing a single line of code.
With each release, Amazon is pushing into the space of companies like Rightscale and forcing these types of [...]
Hacking a Salesforce.com Autonumber Field for Importing
July 23rd, 2009, 2 Comments
Joe Krutulis here at Appirio revealed this little gem to me today and I thought it an extremely creative work around for Salesforce.com.
The use case is that you have a custom object that contains an autonumber field. Towards the end of your project, the customer informs you that they want to load legacy data and [...]
Drinking the Kool-Aid
July 22nd, 2009, No Comments
It’s my first real week at Appirio and I’m at the San Mateo office for my “Appirio 101″ immersion. Almost half of the company happens to be here and it’s great to be around like-minded, cloud, kool-aid drinkers. There’s alot of stuff going on this week with on-boarding, learning the “Appirio Way”, new product development [...]
Chromium – Chrome for Mac
July 16th, 2009, No Comments
I started running Chromium (the Chrome browser for Mac) yesterday and it’s pretty nifty. It’s fast and functions alot like the Windows version. The only issue I’ve run into so far is its lack of support for Flash.
For more info you can checkout the Chromium blog or download the latest build. TechCrunch also has a [...]
Visualforce Page with Pagination
July 14th, 2009, 12 Comments
Salesforce.com introduced the StandardSetController in Winter ‘09 and I’m finally getting a chance to put it into use. The new pagination feature is pretty powerful and easy to use with standard as well as custom objects. Even though Jon Mountjoy has a good blog post here, there appears to be very little documentation or examples for [...]
I Passed the Salesforce.com Certified Advanced Developer Exam – So Can You!
July 13th, 2009, 9 Comments
I passed the Salesforce.com Certified Advanced Developer exam yesterday but it was not easy test. The questions were very tricky and some of the answers I knew only because of experience. You can read all of the suggested course material and take the DEV-501 class, but I think people that don’t develop in Apex every [...]
Colabolo – Collaborative Task Management
July 3rd, 2009, No Comments
In my never-ending quest for the perfect PPM tool, I downloaded beta 5 of Colabolo a week or so ago. I’ve been running it on a small project and have to say it’s not bad.
Colabolo is an Adobe Air app built for team collaboration. You can use it to assign, track and resolve task assignments, [...]
