Category: Salesforce
My Open Source Projects at GitHub
July 22nd, 2011, No Comments
Yesterday at CloudSpokes we pushed 30+ projects to GitHub (check out this Open Source Sweetness)! While I was at it I thought I might as well push a bunch of my code to GitHub account to make my life easier. So if you are looking for some code that I referenced in a blog post, [...]
Video Tutorial – Building APIs with Salesforce.com Apex REST Services
July 21st, 2011, 1 Comment
I’ve had this video queued up for a few days now as I was waiting for the Apex REST API webinar. I didn’t want to steal Sandeep Bhanot’s and Alex Toussaint’s thunder. Their webinar was very informative and packed full of code! It should be available here any day now for your viewing pleasure. Over at [...]
#DF11 Preso – “Connect Your Clouds with Force.com”
July 8th, 2011, 4 Comments
I’m hard at work on my presentation and code for Dreamforce 11. Here’s a little overview of the app(s) and use cases. If you are not attending Dreamforce 11, you should be. If you are attending Dreamforce 11, I hope you’ll attend my session. It should be #superfreakinawesome!
My Phantom Google Search Results Removed
July 5th, 2011, 1 Comment
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 [...]
UK Force.com Developer & Admin Meetup
June 29th, 2011, No Comments
While on my European vacation, Wes Nolte was so kind as to arrange the UK Force.com Developer & Admin Meetup during my time in London. He has a great recap on the Tquila blog. For such a short notice, there was a really good turnout and we had some very interesting presos on Talend and [...]
On Vacation!!
June 16th, 2011, 1 Comment
I didn’t post it earlier but I’m on vacation with the lovely Mrs. Douglas. We are hitting Ireland, Paris and London for almost three weeks. Wes Nolte was so nice as to schedule the Force.com Meetup in London during my visit. Brillant! My blog will be pretty quiet until I return on the 28th. Cheers!
SQLForce – Command Line ANSI SQL for Salesforce
June 7th, 2011, 1 Comment
There are tons of great community contributed projects on Force.com Code Share! I was browsing last week and ran across SQLForce, a command line scriptable tool that provides ANSI like SOQL DELETE, INSERT, UPDATE, SELECT/DISTINCT, and SELECT/UNION commands. The project has been out for a year but I’ve never heard anyone talk about it so [...]
Demo App – Ruby, Rails & Force.com REST API on Heroku
May 31st, 2011, 2 Comments
So continuing with my learning Ruby series, I finally finished my sample app using the Force.com REST API. I ran into a few issues and fortunately Quinton Wall and Heroku support came to my rescue. Apparently require ‘Accounts’ and require ‘accounts’ aren’t the same when running on Heroku. Go figure. This is a demo Rails [...]
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 [...]
