Archives: 2009 October
IBM's Cloud Computing "Stragery"
October 31st, 2009, 3 Comments
Kyle Roche posted this video for the Appirio Cloud Computing video challenge. It has an amazingly funny and incoherent interview with an IBM employee from their vendor booth at last year’s Dreamforce. I think Kyle’s strategy to win the contest is to overwhelm the judges with the sheer number of his videos. Appirio is giving away [...]
First Cloud Computing RAP Ever!!!
October 30th, 2009, No Comments
This is a newly posted video in the Appirio Cloud Computing video challenge. It’s a riot! It totally blows my “bulldog riding a skateboard in the cloud” idea out of the water. Appirio is giving away $5000 for the best cloud computing videos!
Embed a Flex Slider in a Visualforce Page
October 29th, 2009, 6 Comments
I did a simple Flex callback with JavaScript about a year ago and I always wanted to follow up with this topic. Somehow I never quite found the time. This is an example of how you can create a Flex component (a horizontal slider in this case), wrap it up as a Visualforce component and [...]
Developer Preview of the Adobe® Flash® Builder™ for Force.com
October 27th, 2009, No Comments
Cross-posted at the Appirio Technology Blog Yesterday Salesforce.com released a developer preview of the Adobe® Flash® Builder™ for Force.com allowing developers to create powerful, engaging offline applications running on the Force.com platform. I had a chance to download the software, build a sample application and really go through all of the documentation. The product, codename Stratus, [...]
Book Review – Development with the Force.com Platform
October 26th, 2009, 1 Comment
I spent a good part of the weekend going over the newly released book, Development with the Force.com Platform by Jason Ouellette from Appirio. The book covers a surprisingly large number of topics in under 400 pages and is a great reference for both Salesforce.com administrators and developers. In the effort of full disclosure, I must [...]
Virtual File System for Google App Engine
October 23rd, 2009, 1 Comment
App Engine has a number of security restrictions that it imposes on applications. One that is often cited as a major source of frustration is the inability to read/write to a local file system. It looks like the developer community may have developed a workaround. Kyle Roche sent me a link to a GaeVFS, a [...]
Box.net Integration for Salesforce
October 22nd, 2009, No Comments
Box.net just announced the launch of their integration service with Salesforce but only for enterprise customers. So now in addition to sharing content in Salesforce via Google Docs, you can now use Box.net to quickly access documents, media, and other files from directly within the Salesforce UI. The functionality in the video below looks pretty [...]
Busy as a Salesforce Beaver
October 22nd, 2009, 2 Comments
A couple of people have asked me if I’m dead since my blog has been rather light for the last week or so. I actually have a full-time job and unfortunately that is getting in the way of my blogging. Work at Appirio is quite busy as I just wrapped up one of the first [...]
Attend Dreamforce 09 Hands-On Training
October 21st, 2009, No Comments
I’m working the hands-on training sessions on Monday, November 16, and Tuesday, November 17 before Dreamforce 09. There are sessions for both admins and developers that range from beginning basics to advanced topics. I’m not sure exactly which sessions I will be participating in right now but there are some great topics: Getting Started with [...]
App Engine SDK 1.2.6 Released
October 14th, 2009, No Comments
Some cool new features were released yesterday for App Engine. : Incoming Email – You can now enable mail as an inbound service (just like XMPP) so users can email your application at whatever@yourappid.appspotmail.com. Inbound messages are converted to HTTP requests (just like XMPP) which you can receive via webhook handler. Delete an App – [...]
