Archives: 2009 November
Force.com Demo with Twilio
November 28th, 2009, No Comments
Cross-posted at the Appirio Tech Blog.
During Dreamforce 09 Kyle Roche and I participated in the Developer Hackathon. We hacked-up an application using Force.com and Twilio for inbound and outbound calling. We were only allotted two hours so we were not able to finish off the application during the hackathon.
Here is the final demo with all [...]
Programmatically Creating Sharing Rules with Apex
November 25th, 2009, No Comments
Here’s a small Apex Trigger that demonstrates how to programmatically create sharing rules for objects with a private sharing model. It came in handy on a project about a year ago so I thought I’d post it.
So the scenario is that the object has a private sharing model (Contacts in this case) so that only [...]
Can't Get On The Apex Scheduler Pilot? Here's a Short Term Solution.
November 24th, 2009, 5 Comments
In Winter ‘10, Salesforce.com released the Apex Scheduler. This feature allows you to schedule Apex classes to run at specific times. The features appears to be widely popular (200+ votes on the IdeaExchange) but is only in limited release. I’ve heard from a number of companies that they were not able to get on the [...]
November is National Adoption Month
November 23rd, 2009, No Comments
November is National Adoption month and I would strongly encourage anyone that has ever been thinking about adoption to seriously consider it.
My wife and I have been doing foster care for over 11 years (80+ kids to date) and never intended to adopt as we 3 bio kids. It’s funny how the right kid “finds” [...]
Force.com Bumper Sticker
November 23rd, 2009, No Comments
I got bored yesterday on the flight home from Dreamforce 09 so I whipped up this bumper sticker as a way to encourage people to become Force.com developers. I have an old post titled “Start Developing With Salesforce.Com — Today!” that outlines why I think people should start developing on the Force.com platform.
You can order [...]
NOW I Get Chatter!!
November 20th, 2009, No Comments
As part of Appirio I was exposed to Chatter before the public announcement. I have to admit that when I originally first saw it I wasn’t really impressed. I understand that people, applications, documents, etc. can Chatter but to me it seemed just like another social network that I would have to check in addition [...]
Apex "Deep Clone" Controller
November 19th, 2009, No Comments
I wrote the following code at the Admin To Hero App Building Workshop and it was very popular. I think we used the code on 3 or 4 projects that day so I thought I’d post it to help everyone out.
Essentially it is a Visualforce page and Apex Controller that allows you to do a [...]
Admin to Hero App Building Workshop — Mission Accomplished!
November 18th, 2009, 2 Comments
During the first two days of Dreamforce 09, Salesforce.com tried a novel approach to customer training that turned out to be a raging success. Typically Salesforce.com training involves a room full of students building a common application by an instructor. For the “Admin to Hero App Building Workshop” Salesforce.com took a gutsy move by turning [...]
Using Gmail Notifier with Multiple Accounts
November 15th, 2009, 1 Comment
I live and die by Gmail but if you are like me, and have multiple accounts, it can be a challenge to keep track of them. Google has a nifty little Gmail Notifier that runs in your menu bar but it only works for one account. My problem is that I need to track my [...]
Salesforce.com Robot for Google Wave
November 13th, 2009, No Comments
Cross-posted at the Appirio Technology Blog
This is a small Google Wave robot that interacts with Salesforce.com to display contacts, accounts and opportunities. The robot is currently a work in progress as I’ve been busy with other work projects, getting ready for Dreamforce 09 and working on a Twilioforce demo. If you have any ideas for [...]
