Category: Google App Engine
Need Some Spring Apps Ideas for VMforce!
November 3rd, 2010, 5 Comments
So a few months ago I promised to put together a Spring / Chatter / App Engine demo that could be possibly ported to VMforce. Since our Handbook is off to the printers, I’m back to doing fun stuff! I’m looking for some ideas for a demo project that you typically wouldn’t do natively on [...]
Install My Salesforce Chatter for Android App on Your Phone
June 24th, 2010, 3 Comments
Salesforce.com invited me to attend Cloudforce last Tuesday to demo my Salesforce Chatter for Android app. The reception was incredible and there is a big push to get a Salesforce.com app running on Android. Parker Harris (Co-founder & EVP, Technology) even made the statement in the keynote that, “I do have a team working on [...]
Salesforce Chatter for Android
June 6th, 2010, 4 Comments
My blog has been a little quiet since I left for Google IO a few weeks ago and this is primarily the reason why. In addition to my day job I’ve been working on getting up-to-speed on Android development. Google sent me a Droid about a month before the conference and I started playing around [...]
Google I/O 2010 Recap
May 24th, 2010, No Comments
I’m back from Google I/O 2010 in San Francisco and am finally able to take a breath. There were over 5,000 developers, 90+ technical sessions, over 180 companies peddling their tech in the Sandbox and a steady stream of product and technology announcements. It was two action-packed days of deep technical content featuring Android, Google [...]
Integrate Chatter & Twitter on Google App Engine using OAuth
March 17th, 2010, No Comments
Cross-posted at the Appirio Tech Blog. At Appirio we’ve been excited about Salesforce Chatter for quite a while. We firmly believe that Chatter has the potential to bridge the gap between enterprise applications and the way people work. We were luckily enough to receive special prerelease access to Chatter to develop our Social PS Enterprise [...]
Error Compiling WSC AppEngine Partner Jar for Salesforce.com Sandbox
March 11th, 2010, 3 Comments
I’m working on a demo for Google App Engine that connects to one of our Salesforce.com Sandboxes (hope to be done tomorrow or Monday). The Force.com Web Service Connector (WSC) project has a partner-library.jar that you can download and add to your project to get up and running quickly. However, if you want to connect [...]
GWT UiBinder Hello World Tutorial
January 19th, 2010, 43 Comments
I’ve been working on a new project the past couple of weeks that (fortunately) requires Google Web Toolkit (GWT) and I wanted to use the new UiBinder that was released with GWT 2.0 in early December for a number of reasons (clean separation of UI and code, easier collaboration with designers, easier testing, etc ). [...]
JDO/JPA Persistence with Google App Engine
December 24th, 2009, No Comments
I ran across Max Ross’ blog today (he’s a App Engine Engineer working on persistence) and was surprised to find a wealth of articles, code and tips on persistence using JDO and JPA on Google App Engine. Creating A Bidrectional Owned One-To-Many – Code and demo of an owned, bidirectional, one-to-many relationship showing how you [...]
AppWrench Thinks My Code Needs Help
December 14th, 2009, 2 Comments
One of my fellow Appirians sent me an email today pointing me to the AppWrench site. AppWrench is a profiling tool for App Engine that runs both locally (for free!) and for applications deployed on App Engine. In addition to profiling, you can also display Data Store and Memcache API calls as well as log files. [...]
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 [...]
