A Social Enterprise takes a different perspective on how to engage with your customers, partners and employees. But what about the developer? How can we leverage the Salesforce Platform to develop applications that are inherently social and engaging? Case in point. How can you take one of the most basic (yet powerful) functions of CRM [...]
Monthly Archives: February 2012
Facebook + Heroku + Force.com = Social Web-to-Lead
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A Quick Look at Twilio’s New Helper Library for Salesforce
I’ve long been a Twilio fan – their API does a fine job abstracting away the details of telephony, so I, as a developer, can focus on writing great SMS and voice-oriented apps. Now, with the new Twilio Helper Library for Salesforce, it’s easier tha
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The Streaming API is GA!
The Streaming API has transitioned from Developer preview to Generally Available! What this means is that any org with API access also has Streaming Access enabled now. To get started, take a look at the following documentation and examples: Forc
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Force.com Community Open Source Projects
I’m always on the lookout for interesting open source projects coming from the Force.com community – there’s some cool code out there, and it’s good to share it. Here’s a trio of projects I’ve recently encountered; they’re all ‘under construction’,
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Winners of Cloud Trivia
We had a good time playing Cloud Trivia on our Developer Force Facebook Page last Friday. Thanks to all of those to participated. If you liked playing, come to Cloudstock on 3/15 in SF. We will be taking our Cloud Trivia Challenge to the next le
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And the Cloudie goes to…
On March 15th we’re hosting one of our biggest developer events of the year at Moscone Center in San Francisco. Cloudstock is a FREE developer conference with over 40 technical sessions, 1-on-1 code consultations, new Quick Start guides for Siteforce
Visualforce: Displaying help text on input areas
Let’s say you’ve got a Visualforce page with some input areas and you want to give your users a bit more help than field labels can provide. First of all, good for you. Your users and your support staff will all be grateful. Pat yourself on the b
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Meet Up in Milwaukee, March 1st
As much as I enjoy sneaking off to sunny San Francisco to do the occasional webinar or developer convention – I also love hanging out with the local Midwestern community. I’ll be up in Milwaukee on March 1st to show some use cases of integrating jQu
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Mobile Development Learning Path at Cloudstock, San Francisco
Cloudforce+Cloudstock is on March 15th in San Francisco. This is the first of a series of posts detailing developer learning paths for sessions. If are interested in mobile development, here is your guide for the best developer sessions to attend.
Cloud Trivia is on!
If you have been to our Developer Meetups, you know we love a good trivia challenge. It’s been awhile since we have had a one online and couldn’t think of a better way to end the week. We are shaking it up a bit this time and will be posting the qu
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