Category: Cloud Computing
Get Ready for VMForce – Here’s How!
June 29th, 2010, 6 Comments
VMForce is coming (sometime in the near future) so what can you do to get started now? If I was a betting man (with inside info), here is what I’d do to get ready. Start Building on Google App EngineMy guess is that VMForce will look a little like Google App Engine. You’ll probably have [...]
Install My Salesforce Chatter for Android App on Your Phone
June 24th, 2010, 1 Comment
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 [...]
Chatter Bot Wins!! Congratulations Mike Leach!
June 23rd, 2010, 4 Comments
So I attended the hackathon last night at Cloudforce 2010 in San Jose where they announced the results of the Chatter Developer Challenge. My buddy Mike Leach walked away with the Grand Prize! His Chatter Bot ruled the day and beat my Chatter for Android app (I came in 2nd). Mike clearly deserved to win [...]
Working with Person Accounts in Salesforce.com
June 22nd, 2010, 4 Comments
Out of the box (so to speak), Salesforce.com is a B2B product. But what if your company provides home healthcare services or lawn care services or any other type of service for individual consumers. You don’t hear alot of talk about it but Salesforce.com can be tweaked for this scenario using “Person Accounts”. By default, [...]
Sharing Controller Context with a Visualforce Popup
June 17th, 2010, No Comments
“How do I popup a dialog in Visualforce”. I’m not sure what the deal is but this week I’ve received 3 emails asking me how to open a Visualforce popop window from a Visualforce page but both running in the same session. The question is asked fairly often on the message boards but there isn’t [...]
Action Plans from Force.com Labs
June 16th, 2010, 2 Comments
So if you haven’t checked out the Action Plans app from Force.com Labs you should do so now. Reid Carlberg (THE Apps Evangelist) sent me a private link to the app last month to test it out and I was certainly glad he did. Unfortunately I #failed to follow up with Reid before they launched [...]
Stop by the Appirio Booth at Cloudforce 2010
June 15th, 2010, No Comments
If you live in the Bay Area and are not coming to Cloudforce 2010 on June 22 in San Jose…. change your plans and come. Perhaps there will be some kind of announcement made at the event? In addition to the 18 breakout sessions and 50+ live demos, I’ll be working the Appirio booth in [...]
Force.com Toolkit for Google Wave Demo at Google I/O
June 10th, 2010, No Comments
I attended this demo at Google I/O and am glad that the video is finally available. I’ve wanted to post it for awhile but Google put the video up about a week ago and then promptly took it down. Not sure why…? I think Quinton Wall and Kris Muller did an awesome job with this [...]
Salesforce Chatter for Android
June 6th, 2010, 3 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 [...]
WaveMaker’s IDE for the Cloud
June 4th, 2010, No Comments
Yesterday at Appirio we had a private demo of the WaveMaker platform from the guys at WaveMaker. I’ll try to recap most of the things that I heard as it pertains to Salesforce.com and vmforce but for more details you’ll want to check out their website. The WaveMaker platform allows you to build applications that [...]
