Category: Salesforce
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 [...]
Loading Salesforce Products into Custom Price Books
February 22nd, 2011, 10 Comments
This topic has come up frequently on the salesforce.com message boards recently and with good reason. Products, price books and price book entries are somewhat confusing. Products are the actual items that you sell on your opportunities and quotes. Products are associated to one or more price books to create price book entries. Products can [...]
Beat Jeff Douglas … not literally
February 21st, 2011, 2 Comments
Over at CloudSpokes we have a new “Beat Jeff Douglas” contest. The contest is not to see if you can physically beat me up, although that was suggested by a couple of people that I work with, but to see if you can write a better browser plugin that me. The title doesn’t fit the project [...]
Find My Salesforce Users by Role Hierarchy
February 15th, 2011, 7 Comments
This is a cool little script that finds “everyone who works beneath me in the role hierarchy”. So you pass the utility class a User ID and it chugs through all of the level beneath that User in the role hierarchy and returns the IDs of all of the users in those roles. Comes in [...]
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, 17 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 [...]
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 [...]
