Category: CloudSpokes
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 [...]
CloudSpokes Hits 2000 Members in 6 Weeks!
March 30th, 2011, 2 Comments
Yesterday was a big day in the history of CloudSpokes as we hit 2000 members! We officially launched the site six weeks ago on Valentine’s Day and honestly didn’t know what type of reception we’d receive. At a pre-launch meeting we tried to set a goal for the number of members before the end of [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Build a Twilio App in 5 Minutes on Heroku
January 1st, 2011, 5 Comments
I just saw this 5 minute video and thought that people might find it interesting in the context of the learning Ruby series. It’s pretty slick demo of using Twilio’s HTTP based call-handling model, and Heroku’s provisionless hosting platform, to build and deploy an app in minutes. Get Started! Sign up for free accounts at Twilio [...]
