Sometimes we slip a week .. so here our some of our favorite tweets of the past 2 weeks from the world of Force.com. Follow @forcedotcom to keep up with these characters! @nialljpmurphy @oksman @cloudysan great #forcewebinar today guys – found the offline support in HTML5 very interesting – thanks @bpemble Wrote a [...]
Schema Builder first appeared as beta in the Winter ’12 release, a visualization tool for Force.com and Database.com, giving you a graphical view of your view objects, their fields and their relationships. Although Schema Builder is still in beta, Sp
Deployment connections and change sets, originally released in Spring ’11, are features that facilitate the movement of metadata from one org to another. Unfortunately, there’s not a lot of community-shared knowledge that has popped up related to cha
Last week, Eugene Oksman and I presented a webinar on the new Salesforce Mobile SDK. The SDK lets you develop mobile applications for Force.com and Database.com and the webinar included a high-level overview of the current mobile landscape, our mobi
If you learn better by watching than by reading, check out some of our great new videos for Spring ’12! There are so many, we had to break them up into two posts, so stay tuned for more videos coming soon. Sending Mass Email This demo for end u
The problem If you’re like me, you’ve got a whole bunch of external data in the form of Grandparent -> Parent -> Child. Those are all one-to-many relationships. You’d like to import this data into Salesforce — into three corresponding
Be sure to check out these recent interesting reads related to Force.com and Database.com. Record Type Specific Picklist Values How to get at the picklist values for a particular record type progammatically. Cr
While viewers of the Spring ’12 Preview Webinar saw the new single view state in action, I thought it best to give a overview here on the blogs for people to read as well. If you are a Visualforce developer and you aren’t familiar with the co
Starting with the Winter ’12 release, Apex includes native support for JavaScript Object Notation (JSON). Using Apex JSON classes, your Apex code can now parse JSON content and serialize Apex objects into the JSON format. The addition of native JSON
Force.com provides a powerful Metadata API that you can use to manage the metadata behind various types of application components (objects and fields, Apex classes and triggers, Visualforce pages, etc.). Other than a few hits, search engines turn u
