Finding the Right Salesforce Pagination Tool for Your Force.com Applications

By Alex Dimitropoulos | Published: June 19, 2013

If you’re a developer building applications on the Force.com platform, you might be considering using pagination to improve your page response time and your users’ overall experience.

And just as those users might prefer to have data sets in straightforward, well-defined chunks so that they can find particular results, you might prefer reading through straightforward, well-defined criteria so that you can choose the best pagination tool. The “Paginating Data for Force.com Applications” article outlines that criteria.

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Dreamforce 2013 Developer Call for Papers Closed

By April Nassi | Published: June 18, 2013

WOW! We had an amazing response to our Call for Papers this year, with over 250 submissions from our developer community! Thank you to all who submitted; it’s wonderful seeing the excitement for sharing knowledge and code. We’ll be reviewing submissi

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Passing Objects to Future Annotated Methods

By Quinton Wall | Published: June 17, 2013

The future annotation is a great feature in the Salesforce Platform. However, it only supports primitives for argument methods. Using the JSON serialize|deserialize methods, you can easily pass sObjects and custom objects. Here’s how.

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Site.com Timesavers: Reusable Custom Widgets

By Caragh Smyth | Published: June 17, 2013
Time equals money

The new widgets feature in Site.com, available in Summer ’13, uses a build-once-then-reuse approach to save you time when building your website. By combining existing Site.com page elements, such as panels, content blocks, custom code, and data repeaters, you can build widgets—in essence, your own custom page elements—to suit your unique requirements. And just like any other page element, you can reuse custom widgets on any site page or page template in your site.

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5 Ways to Make Your Mobile Apps Faster with the Connect API

By alouie | Published: June 13, 2013

The Salesforce.com mobile apps are powered by the same public APIs that developers use. Find out about some of the innovative features we’ve added to the Connect API to help us—and you—develop faster mobile apps.

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Congratulations, Apple!

By Adam Seligman | Published: June 12, 2013

At WWDC this week, Apple announced that they have paid out over $10B to developers. Congratulations, Apple! We love developers, and the app revolution. We are seeing the same incredible momentum and need for mobile apps in the enterprise.

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Extracting Large Data Volumes (LDV) in Force.com

By Daisuke Kawamoto | Published: June 12, 2013

You’ve been tasked with extracting data from a Salesforce object. If you’re dealing with small volumes of data, this operation might be simple, involving only a few button clicks using some of the great tools available on the AppExchange.

But when it comes to dealing with millions of records in a limited time frame, you might need to take extra steps to optimize the data throughput. Read this post to learn just what those steps are.

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Refreshing Visualforce Charts with Updated Data

By Michael Alderete | Published: June 11, 2013
Visualforce Pie Chart

Visualforce charting is one of the most popular features added to Visualforce while I’ve been writing documentation for the product, and JavaScript Remoting is one of the most powerful. Perhaps you’ve wondered how to combine the two. This article shows you how, with a complete source code sample that compares “traditional” Visualforce charting with the same chart implemented using JavaScript Remoting.

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New Article: The Road to Force.com Advanced Developer Certification

By Peter Chittum | Published: June 10, 2013
If you pass, you know you

In many ways the Advanced Developer Certification process is a bit mysterious. In this article, I attempt to answer some of the questions you might have and shed some light on: What is the structure? What is

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Automated Testing: Using Selenium at Salesforce

By Jim Evans | Published: June 7, 2013

Automated software testing can execute routine, monotonous test cases for you, freeing up your testing resources to concentrate on more interesting cases in your application. At Salesforce, we use the Selenium open-source project for the UI-based testing of our applications.

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