Unit Test Scoping in Spring ’12

There are several pitfalls that developers can fall into when writing unit tests, and traditionally speaking one of the easiest to fall into can be coding with a reliance on existing data.  So for instance, you want to to prove that your SOQL is correctly getting data from your custom object – this unit test [...]

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Quick Tip – Public RESTful Web Services on Force.com Sites

A little while ago, Paul McGurn blogged how to create a public (SOAP-based) web service via a Force.com Site. As Paul explains, you add your web service class to the Enabled Apex Classes in the Site’s Public Access Settings. You’ll also need to a

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The ABC of Cloud Security

At 7am and 10am Pacific Time this Thursday, Feb 23, Adam Torman, Bud Vieira and Chuck Mortimore (otherwise known as the ABC of security at salesforce.com) will be presenting Security in the Cloud: Identity & Access Management for Database.com, a

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Sign-up for the free 1-on-1 Code Consultations at the 3/15 Cloudstock Developer Event

Are you registered for the Cloudstock Developer Conference on March 15 in San Francisco? If so, then you’re invited to sign-up for a free one-on-one code consultation. If not, register for the free event first. T

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Social Enterprise Blueprints

Cloudforce + Cloudstock is in San Francisco, on March 15th. I am presenting a session titled Social Enterprise Blueprints. This session is going to provide a lightweight methodology designed for individuals looking at how to begin implementing the Social Enterprise.

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Tweets of the Week

Here our some of our favorite tweets of the past week from the world of Force.com. Follow @forcedotcom to keep up with these characters!   @michaelforce @forcedotcom FunFact: you can use merge fields in CSS on #visual

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Build Social Applications with the Force.com Toolkit for Facebook

Just over a year ago, Quinton announced the first beta release of the Force.com Toolkit for Facebook, an Apex Code library allowing Force.com applications to read social data from Facebook via the Facebook Graph API. That first version was quickly

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New and Updated Developer Documentation for Spring ’12

For your reading pleasure, we’ve updated the developer documentation on developer.salesforce.com and database.com. It reflects the new Spring ’12 Salesforce release (API version 24.0). In addition, there are some new docs you might want to check ou

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Are you a server-side or client-side developer?

So – are you a server-side or client-side developer? What if I said that was an archaic way to classify application development. I believe that the clear red lines that used to separate client-side and server-side application development are incr

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Learn How to Deploy to Heroku and Other Engineering Best Practices

Ready to take your software development to the next level? All of us are well aware that knowing how to write code is not the same as engineering software. With Agile methodologies dominant in the start-up and emergent technology world today, underst

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