Category: Java
Error Compiling Salesforce Metadata API with WSC
July 1st, 2010, 2 Comments
This might not be relevant right now but you may find it useful in the near future. I’m tinkering with an app that spits out documentation for an org. I really hate doing documentation and am quite lazy so I thought I’d write something to allow my computer to do my work for me. I [...]
Get Ready for VMForce – Here’s How!
June 29th, 2010, 6 Comments
VMForce is coming (sometime in the near future) so what can you do to get started now? If I was a betting man (with inside info), here is what I’d do to get ready. Start Building on Google App EngineMy guess is that VMForce will look a little like Google App Engine. You’ll probably have [...]
Salesforce Chatter for Android
June 6th, 2010, 3 Comments
My blog has been a little quiet since I left for Google IO a few weeks ago and this is primarily the reason why. In addition to my day job I’ve been working on getting up-to-speed on Android development. Google sent me a Droid about a month before the conference and I started playing around [...]
WaveMaker’s IDE for the Cloud
June 4th, 2010, No Comments
Yesterday at Appirio we had a private demo of the WaveMaker platform from the guys at WaveMaker. I’ll try to recap most of the things that I heard as it pertains to Salesforce.com and vmforce but for more details you’ll want to check out their website. The WaveMaker platform allows you to build applications that [...]
Java Command Line App Using the Salesforce WSC
May 17th, 2010, 3 Comments
The Force.com Web Service Connector (WSC) is a high performance web services stack that is much easier to implement than the “tried and true” Force.com Web Services API. Here’s a quick command line app you can use as a starter application. This class simply creates a new Account and then queries for the 5 newest [...]
Integrate Chatter & Twitter on Google App Engine using OAuth
March 17th, 2010, No Comments
Cross-posted at the Appirio Tech Blog. At Appirio we’ve been excited about Salesforce Chatter for quite a while. We firmly believe that Chatter has the potential to bridge the gap between enterprise applications and the way people work. We were luckily enough to receive special prerelease access to Chatter to develop our Social PS Enterprise [...]
Error Compiling WSC AppEngine Partner Jar for Salesforce.com Sandbox
March 11th, 2010, 3 Comments
I’m working on a demo for Google App Engine that connects to one of our Salesforce.com Sandboxes (hope to be done tomorrow or Monday). The Force.com Web Service Connector (WSC) project has a partner-library.jar that you can download and add to your project to get up and running quickly. However, if you want to connect [...]
Virtual File System for Google App Engine
October 23rd, 2009, 1 Comment
App Engine has a number of security restrictions that it imposes on applications. One that is often cited as a major source of frustration is the inability to read/write to a local file system. It looks like the developer community may have developed a workaround. Kyle Roche sent me a link to a GaeVFS, a [...]
SpringSource and VMware – A Match Made in the Cloud?
August 27th, 2009, No Comments
VMware recently announced the acquisition of SpringSource, an open-source Java tools maker, for $400M. Not bad for SpringSoruce which only has $25M in revenues. I’ve been a big fan of SpringSource and user of their tools for quite a while. Hopefully this turns out to be a good deal for SpringSource and developers using their [...]
Force.com Sites vs. Google App Engine – Why We Chose Sites
July 1st, 2009, 2 Comments
Late May we released our Force.com Sites application for one of our internal companies, Taylor and Francis. The Sites app is part of a larger Salesforce.com project that involves identfifying new book sales opportunities, sending professors inspection copies of requested books and obtaining feedback on what professors intended to do with the books. Professors typically [...]
