Category: Cloud Computing
Phantom Search Results
May 27th, 2011, 3 Comments
I’ve received a number of emails over the past months regarding “phantom” searches showing up in Google for content that doesn’t exist on my blog. Unfortunately I installed a WordPress plugin that automatically submitted all search results for my blog to Google. I uninstalled the plugin about a month ago but it appears that the [...]
Deploying Salesforce.com Metadata with ANT (Video)
May 19th, 2011, 5 Comments
First of all, if you are not using the Force.com Migration Tool (ANT) to deploy metadata changes… you should. You use the Metadata API to retrieve, deploy, create, update or delete customization information, such as custom object definitions and page layouts, for your salesforce.com org. This API is intended for managing customizations and for building [...]
My Favorite Salesforce.com Summer ’11 Features
May 13th, 2011, 7 Comments
The salesforce.com Summer ’11 release is due to hit an org near you in the next 30 days. Are you ready? As usual, I’ve scoured through all 71 pages of the release notes and pulled out my favorite features. I didn’t hit all of the items in the release notes so make sure you pull [...]
Overriding Standard Links & Buttons in Salesforce.com
May 2nd, 2011, 4 Comments
Salesforce.com allows you to override standard button and links (add, edit, delete, etc.) throughout the platform with your own customized functionality. This is a video which details some of the functionality I outlined here along with the new feature to by-pass the recordtype selection page.
Google Announces Beta for “Gmail on Your Box”
April 1st, 2011, 2 Comments
Google is set to announce a major strategy switch with respect to cloud computing later today. As a “trusted tester” Appirio is privy to certain information but we were placed on embargo until 8am EST this morning. According to our CMO, Narinder Singh, Google will shortly announce that they are launching a new beta called, [...]
Publishing with the Force.com Toolkit for Facebook
March 25th, 2011, No Comments
When Sandeep and I demoed the Force.com Toolkit for Facebook at Dreamforce 2010 last December the Toolkit only contained the functionality to fetch data from Facebook using the Graph API. Fortunately a number of the Force.com toolkits are available on github so if you want to fork a project and add functionality or fix a [...]
You’ll “Like” this CloudSpokes Winner!
March 23rd, 2011, No Comments
We just wrapped up another cool contest over at CloudSpokes and we have a winner for our Facebook “Like Box” Visualforce Component challenge. Congratulations to Shanmuk1729 who made a cool $600 for building a nifty little Visualforce Component that displays a Like Box social plugin on a Visualforce page. The Like Box is a social plugin [...]
I’m Starting a New Job!!
March 18th, 2011, 22 Comments
No… I’m not leaving Appirio … but I will have a new role starting next week! One of the great things about Appirio is that, like the cloud computing industry in general, the only constant is change and new opportunities are always being incubated within our company. Since I started with Appirio I’ve been on the [...]
OpportunityAccessLevel Not Writable
March 17th, 2011, 9 Comments
I was working on a project the other day where I needed to dynamically add users to an opportunity’s Sales Team (OpportunityTeamMember object) so that users who do not normally have access to an opportunity based upon Org-wide security settings can work on the opportunity with other team members. One of the advantages of Sales [...]
Mad Money: Why a Cloudy Forecast is Good
March 4th, 2011, No Comments
This is an awesome segment with Jim Cramer refruting some negative-nay-sayers with some great facts and figures about salesforce’s recent earnings announcement. There’s also a great interview with Markc Benioff focusing on enterprise software and Marc’s favorite device, the iPad. If you haven’t had a chance, check out the iPad in Business profile (video) of [...]
