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Go Tutorial with MongoDB on Heorku

I've spent the last couple of days digging into Go and getting the feel for it and so far I really like it. It built a small web app using

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Writing Unit Tests for v24 Apex REST Services

With the Spring '12 release, salesforce.com made some great enhancements to Apex REST services (v24): Apex REST automatically provides the REST request and response in your Apex REST methods via a static RestContext object. You no longer need to declare a RestRequest or

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"Chow Finder" - My Veterans Hackday 2011 App

This is my submission for the LinkedIn Veterans Hackday 2011. CloudSpokes threw in an extra $100 for any member that submitted as an extra incentive. Our members created some pretty

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I'm Addicted to Play! on Heroku

I've been using Play! since Dreamforce 11 when Heroku announced support for it and I have to say that I'm addicted to it. If you love Java (and who doesn't) but hate developing Java applications with all of the crap that goes along with

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Getting Salesforce Field Metadata the Easy Way

I'm working on some of the Apex REST services for our CloudSpokes org and needed some code to fetch field level metadata using Apex Describe. I poked around and realized that there isn't really much out there. So I decided to write something up

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Build a Bulk Emailer for Salesforce with App Engine

Sometimes you just want to send a crapload of email from Salesforce.com. However, like every PaaS platform there are limits baked into the multi-tenant environment so you don't stomp

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Salesforce Trigger when Rollups Summaries Not Possible

Master-Details relationships in Force.com are very handy but don't fit every scenario. For instance, it's not possible to implement a rollup summary on formula field or text fields. Here's a small trigger that you can use for a starter for these types of

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Demo App - Ruby, Rails & Force.com REST API on Heroku

So continuing with my learning Ruby series, I finally finished my sample app using the Force.com REST API. I ran into a few issues and fortunately Quinton Wall and Heroku support came to my rescue. Apparently require 'Accounts' and require 'accounts' aren't the

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OpportunityAccessLevel Not Writable

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

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Dynamically Group & Display Query Results

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

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Find My Salesforce Users by Role Hierarchy

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

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Learning Ruby for Force.com Developers – Part 3

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:

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Passing Values to JavaScript from Apex Controller Method

I'm working on a port of an existing Java app to Salesforce.com and I ran into a Visualforce page that gave me some problems. The current JSP page allows the user to fill out a form, submit a new record to the database

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Learning Ruby for Force.com Developers – Part 2

This is part #2 from my adventures of learning Ruby. If you missed part #1 you might want to take a look at it just to get up to speed. Again, these are my goals for this series: Learn Ruby Develop an app locally

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Fun with Salesforce Collections

The Apex language provides developers with three classes (Set, List and Map) that make it easier to handle collections of objects. In a sense these collections work somewhat like arrays, except their size can change dynamically, and they have more advanced behaviors and easier

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Salesforce REST API Demo from Cloudstock

This is the demo that I put together for the Cloudstock Hackathon and I tried to throw in as many partner services as possible. I finally ended up with five so it was dubbed the "Kitchen Sink" demo. I thought some people may find

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Email a Document with Salesforce.com

After my last post, Create and Email a PDF with Salesforce.com, I received a few comments whether it was possible to do the same with Document stored in Salesforce.com. Could you choose a Document and then send it via email as an

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Create and Email a PDF with Salesforce.com

This is a continuation of my post a couple of days ago, Attach a PDF to a Record in Salesforce, and shows how to dynamically generate a PDF and attach it to an email. The code is fairly similar and has the same issue

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Attach a PDF to a Record in Salesforce

Salesforce.com makes it extremely easy to generate PDF documents on the fly by simply using the renderAs="pdf" attribute for the <apex:page> component. It's also a snap to attach these PDFs to records as Attachments. Below is a small Visualforce

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Building a Dynamic Search Page in Visualforce

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

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Using RSA-SHA1 with Salesforce Crypto Class

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

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Error Compiling Salesforce Metadata API with WSC

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

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Testing Salesforce.com Controller Extensions

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

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Java Command Line App Using the Salesforce WSC

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.

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Uploading an Attachment using Visualforce and a Custom Controller

This is a follow up post to Uploading a Document using Visualforce and a Custom Controller showing an example for uploading an attachment for a Contact. The Visualforce page and Controller is very similar with a few exceptions. Attachments are different than documents and