Archives: 2009 November
AWS SDK for .NET
November 12th, 2009, 2 Comments
It looks like Amazon is marching towards IaaS-domination with the release of an SDK for .NET. It’s interesting that they only support C# and not VB.NET. You would think that since there are more VB developers they could more bang for their buck by offering both languages. Perhaps VB.NET is on the roadmap. “The AWS [...]
Anatomy of a Wave
November 10th, 2009, No Comments
There’s alot of buzz at Appirio around Google Wave. Apparently we know people at Google as we have our entire domain on Google Wave. We have teams using it for presales as well as project delivery. Kyle Roche gave a company-wide demo a couple of days ago and it raised a number of questions and [...]
DF09 Session – "Architecting in the Cloud"
November 9th, 2009, No Comments
If you are participating in the Advanced Developer track at DF09, don’t miss my session, “Architecting in the Cloud: Choosing the Right Technologies for Your Solution”. We’ve had a couple of dry-runs with Dave Carroll and Rick Cummings and the info very compelling. Rick talks about some of his recents projects and I outline two [...]
I Ordered My DF09 T-Shirts
November 7th, 2009, No Comments
Here are my Dreamforce 09 t-shirts that I ordered from zazzle.com. Please say “Hi” if you run into me!
ActionSupport Example using Facets and JavaScript
November 6th, 2009, 1 Comment
You can make your UI much easier on your users by giving them clues on what is taking place when they click buttons, enter text or choose items in a picklist. This example shows how you can notify a user that something is taking place in the background when you are performing actions asynchronously. For [...]
New Contest: Twilio for Salesforce with Appirio
November 3rd, 2009, No Comments
Twilio just announced a new developer contest in conjunction with Appirio. Thanks to the (sleepless) efforts of Kyle Roche and Aslam Bari (both from Appirio), Twilio is now available for development on the Force.com platform. You can download the Force.com for Twilio classes, components and Visualforce pages at the Force.com Code Share site. If you haven’t heard of Twilio [...]
Tweetup: Dreamforce 2009 – "A Dramatization"
November 3rd, 2009, No Comments
A dramatization of the Tweetup at Dreamforce 2009. You can watch this at full size at YouTube.
Using Saleforce DML statements or DML database methods?
November 2nd, 2009, 6 Comments
Salesforce allows you to perform database transactions (insert, update, delete, etc.) using either DML statments or DML database methods. While they perfrom roughly the same functionality (with a few exceptions), DML database methods provide a little more granular control when bulk processing exceptions occur. The Salesforce documentation is good and extremely detailed but these two [...]
