Category: Appirio
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 [...]
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!
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 [...]
Win $5,000 from Appirio for 2 Minute "Cloud Computing" Video
October 2nd, 2009, 1 Comment
I caught this off of Narinder’s twitter feed early this morning: Appirio is giving away $5,000 (cash!) for videos explaining in layman’s terms what “cloud computing” means. “We’re seeking the best viral video that explains cloud computing to the masses – in a way that’s more about fun and entertainment, than a true tutorial. There’s already [...]
Cool Code at Lunch Webinar – Flex & Salesforce
September 25th, 2009, 10 Comments
I was the guest speaker on our “Cool Code at Lunch” webinar yesterday where I showed the basics of developing, upload and running a Flex application on Salesforce with the Force.com Toolkit for Adobe AIR and Flex. The example app was a simple DataGrid populated with Contacts. The application turned out to be a really [...]
Appirio Announces Cloudsourcing Focus
September 24th, 2009, No Comments
The Appirio CIO Blog has a great new post called, “Cloudsourcing: Where Cloud Computing Meets Outsourcing”. Some organizational changes have been to focus on this emerging segment of the cloud market. How do CIO move their IT assets to clouds like Salesforce, Amazon, and Google? What’s the roadmap look like? What are the risks? What [...]
Appirio Is Hiring – Like Crazy
September 8th, 2009, No Comments
At Appirio we are always looking for bright, hardworking people. If you are interested in working on some of the coolest products for Salesforce.com and Google with companies like VMware, Salesforce.com, Dolby, Google, Dolby, Honeywell and DeVry University, then drop me a line. We are always looking for developers, project managers and sales people. We [...]
PS Enterprise Hackathon
September 2nd, 2009, No Comments
We had our second PS Enterprise hackathon tonight with multiple Salesforce.com project teams coming together to really dig into the guts of PSE and talk about challenges and success stories for their implementations. Most of the project teams have spent the week in San Mateo working on their project together and meeting with the other people [...]
First Force.com Book NOT Published by Salesforce.com
August 28th, 2009, 1 Comment
Appirio’s very own Jason Ouellette is the first author to write a book about Force.com development outside of Salesforce.com. Jason is one of the architects of our newly released Professional Services Enterprise (PS Enterprise) so he definitely knows what he’s talking about. You can order your copy of the book here.
