Category: Cloud Computing
Introducing CloudSpokes
February 14th, 2011, No Comments
CloudSpokes brings the crowd to the cloud. It is the industry’s first community for crowdsourcing enterprise cloud development that brings together enterprise cloud challenges and cloud developers to earn recognition and (real) cash. CloudSpokes offers a competitive and collaborative environment for challenges, networking, discussions and jobs involving today’s hottest cloud technologies. First and foremost, CloudSpokes [...]
Force.com Toolkit for Facebook Updates
February 9th, 2011, 4 Comments
In case you haven’t noticed I’m a huge proponent (and fanboy) of the Force.com Toolkit for Facebook and of Facebook in general. Quinton Wall asked me to present the toolkit at Dreamforce 10 and I jumped at the opportunity. I got a chance to really dig into the toolkit and Quinton did a fabulous job [...]
My Favorite Salesforce.com Spring ’11 Features
February 8th, 2011, 12 Comments
The salesforce.com Spring ’11 release is set to start rolling onto orgs in the next few days. Are you ready? This release is packed with all kinds of platform #superfrickinawesome-ness!! Once again, I’ve scoured through all 88 pages of the release notes and pulled out my favorite features. I didn’t hit all of the items in [...]
Learning Ruby for Force.com Developers – Part 3
February 3rd, 2011, 8 Comments
This is part #3 of my adventures of learning Ruby for Force.com developers. If you missed parts #1 and #2 you might want to take a look at those just to get up to speed. Again, these are my goals for this series: Learn Ruby Develop an app locally using Ruby on Rails and the default SQLite [...]
Document Apex Code with ApexDoc
January 27th, 2011, 1 Comment
My fellow Appirian and resident super-smart guy, Aslam Bari has created a super slick tool to document Apex code. ApexDoc is essentially JavaDocs for Apex. You add comments to your source code in the JavaDoc fashion (@author, @date, @param, etc) and ApexDoc reads these and generates a nice set of HTML files that allows you [...]
How to Pass the Service Cloud Consultant Exam
January 26th, 2011, 19 Comments
I took the Service Cloud Consultant exam last week and thought I’d post some general pointers on how to pass it. We had a team call with Amy Mattes from Salesforce.com Certification and got some really great insight. There are 60 questions on the exam and you need a 73% to pass. You are allotted 1:45 [...]
Scale Java Applications with AWS Elastic Beanstalk
January 19th, 2011, No Comments
Amazon just announced AWS Elastic Beanstalk, an even easier way for you to quickly deploy and manage applications in the AWS cloud. AWS Elastic Beanstalk will make it even easier for you to create, deploy, and operate web applications at any scale. The first release of Elastic Beanstalk is built for Java developers using the Apache Tomcat [...]
Salesforce Spring ’11 Preview Webinar Slides
January 18th, 2011, No Comments
If you missed the Spring ’11 Release Preview Webinar today, first… shame on you and second… you are lucky that I took notes. Here are a few slides that I captured for your viewing pleasure. The recording of the webinar should be up in the next couple of days so make sure you visit http://developer.force.com/releases often for [...]
Passing Values to JavaScript from Apex Controller Method
January 17th, 2011, 6 Comments
I’m working on a port of an existing Java app to Salesforce.com and I ran into a Visualforce page that gave me some problems. The current JSP page allows the user to fill out a form, submit a new record to the database and then pop-up a new window to show some results while keeping [...]
Ruby and Salesforce Integration with SOAP
January 16th, 2011, No Comments
Continuing on the Ruby theme, one of my favorite fellow Appirians, Aslam Bari, has a great article on integrating with salesforce.com with SOAP. He starts off with his installation struggles and ends up with a small demo that queries and displays account records. BTW… if you don’t follow Aslam’s blog you definitely should start today.
