Category: Salesforce
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.
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 [...]
Dynamically Group & Display Query Results
March 2nd, 2011, 10 Comments
I was working on a Visualforce page that displays the results of a query in separate PageBlock sections based upon a value in the query results. I ran into a small issue which took about an hour or so to solve, so I thought it might make descent blog fodder. The requirement for the page [...]
Sneak Peak – BrainEngine Cloud IDE
February 25th, 2011, 2 Comments
The Twitter-sphere has been on fire since BrainEngine announced that they would be launching their cloud-based development environment soon. BrainEngine is the first cloud based IDE for building Force.com applications enabling developers to create, debug and deploy their applications from anywhere using only a standard browser. In case you haven’t gotten on the invite list yet, [...]
Installing Ruby 1.8 and & 2.3.8 for ActiveSalesforce
February 23rd, 2011, 7 Comments
I’ve been working for the past week or two on my Ruby for Force.com Developers series but have run into a few snags. First of all the ActiveSalesforce adapter doesn’t work with Rails 3.0.3. There’s a post on the message boards where Quinton Wall mentions that he is working with Heroku and is looking to [...]
