A Day of Coding in the Cloud at Cloudstock London – Do Not Miss Out!

The excitement for the CloudStock London Developer event is building. It is an amazing experience, you do not want to miss. Here’s a quick guide to what developers can expect on May 22.

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New Apex Type Methods in Summer ’12

The Summer ’12 release of Salesforce.com has already started rolling out to sandbox orgs, and is scheduled to roll out to production orgs in June. In this post, learn about the new ‘getName’ and ‘newInstance’ methods to the Apex Type system class.

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Cloud Trivia Summer Lovin’

Summer ‘12 is around the corner and we know you’ve been busy reading up on the latest and greatest for developers in the release. We hope you’ve done your homework since we’ll be hosting the Summer ‘12 edition of our popular Cloud Trivia on

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Tweets of the Week (5/11/12)

Here our some of our favorite tweets of the past few weeks from the world of Force.com. Follow @forcedotcom to keep up with these characters!   Blogged : Location Sharing/glimpse in Salesforce–Again ! tgerm.com/2012/05/locati… #forcedotc

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Generally Available Features for Force.com Developers in Summer ’12

One of the great things about Salesforce.com’s annual three release schedule is that it allows for piloting and previewing new features before they get rolled out to the general audience.  This allows us to test things out more thoroughly while deve

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Mini Hacks Are Back at Cloudstock London!

Going to be anywhere near London on May 22? Come to Cloudstock and hack for recognition and great prizes in the Mini Hack challenge! We tried out this new format at Cloudstock San Francisco, and it was a hit. We’re defining concise challenges that

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Three Force.com Streaming API Techniques

Streaming API is a great tool for data integration that requires notifications triggered by data changes in your organization. But sometimes, no matter how great a technology is, there may be scenarios that it doesn’t directly address. In this blog p

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Announcing the Dreamforce 2012 Developer Track Call for Papers!

Dreamforce 2012 is only a little over four months away now, and preparations are in full swing here at Developer Force. Today we announce the Dreamforce 2012 Developer Track Call for Papers – your chance to get onstage at San Francisco’s Moscone

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Developing Cross-Device HTML5 Apps Using Visualforce

Quick poll before we begin. What device are you reading this blog post on? Desktop? Smartphone? Perhaps an iPad? A Blackberry Playbook? (just kidding!) I happen to be lucky in that I don’t have to do anything different in my writing to support all t

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Preview the Summer ’12 Developer Docs

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Developer docs for the upcoming Summer ’12 release are now available for preview. You can find them on the newly reorganized platform documentation page under “Reference Documentation, PREVIEW Summer ’12 (Version 25.0)”. To see the preview rel

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