Category: Technology
Building a Dynamic Search Page in Visualforce
July 13th, 2010, 50 Comments
I brushed this code off and thought it might be useful to someone as a starting point for a dynamic search page. It has some cool functionality including passing search criteria via Javascript to the controller, search as you type, sorting of results by clicking on the column header plus much more. Hope you find [...]
Using RSA-SHA1 with Salesforce Crypto Class
July 6th, 2010, 6 Comments
This is a rather obscure post but it will definitely come in handy to someone trying to use the RSA-SHA1 algorithm with the Salesforce Crypto class. I’m spent the past two days trying to hook up OAuth using Apex and various Google Services. The standard HMAC-SHA1 algorithm is fairly straight forward with OAuth and Google [...]
Error Compiling Salesforce Metadata API with WSC
July 1st, 2010, 3 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 [...]
Any Interest in a Chatter / Spring / App Engine Tutorial?
June 30th, 2010, 2 Comments
Following up on yesterday’s post, Get Ready for VMForce – Here’s How!, I was thinking about putting together a series of tutorials on building a Chatter app on App Engine using Spring MVC with JDO. This will take considerable effort and I’m just wondering if it would be valuable to the Salesforce.com community. Tell me [...]
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 [...]
Sharing Controller Context with a Visualforce Popup
June 17th, 2010, No Comments
“How do I popup a dialog in Visualforce”. I’m not sure what the deal is but this week I’ve received 3 emails asking me how to open a Visualforce popop window from a Visualforce page but both running in the same session. The question is asked fairly often on the message boards but there isn’t [...]
Salesforce Chatter for Android
June 6th, 2010, 4 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 [...]
Testing Salesforce.com Controller Extensions
June 2nd, 2010, 2 Comments
One thing that salesforce.com is working on is providing developers with a better testing environment. Salesforce.com requires you to write test cases to deploy your code to production but sometimes the process can be painful. Given the lack of something like jUnit you have to implement your own setup and test procedures. You’ll need to [...]
Java Command Line App Using the Salesforce WSC
May 17th, 2010, 8 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 [...]
