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Salesforce Developer Garage Hosts First Nonprofit Hackathon

As part of Developer Garage, we recently held the Salesforce Nonprofit hackathon in San Francisco to support three non-profit organizations.

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Sandboxes Add Templates and New Look

Sandboxes are easier to use and more flexible with the introduction of sandbox templates and an improved user interface. Use sandbox templates for precise control while coordinating, testing and deploying customizations to your production organization.

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Extreme Force.com Data Loading, Part 3: Suspending Events that Fire on Insert

When you need to load a very large amount of data into Force.com quickly, you want to ensure that each insert is as efficient as possible. With appropriate preparation and post-processing, you can disable data validation and enrichment operations while loading–without compromising your data integrity or business rules.

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What’s Hot in Summer 13

It’s always hot in the summertime, and Ryan and I tried to heat it up a notch by spreading the word on all the new things coming out in the Summer ’13 release. If you missed it but you want to see the full show, you can find the recording on youtube. We covered a lot out of the release notes in a little less than an hour, but I’ll give you the cliff’s notes version here.

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Summer ’13 Platform Training Released

The release training for Summer ’13 is now available. Now’s your chance to find out about all the new platform features in this release.

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Improving your Case Management Response time with SMS

Case Management brings together ad hoc teams to assess, diagnose and resolve customer issues. And, SLAs (Service Level Agreements) drive resolution urgency. But, what happens if issues aren’t communicated in a timely manner? What about the liabilities associated with missing your SLAs?

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Extending Visualforce for External Code Editors

Extending Visualforce for external editors to allow developers generate a bunch of code with a few keystrokes to automate repetitive and mundane tasks and increase productivity.

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HTML5, AngularJS, Backbone Mobile Service Packs

With the announcement of Salesforce Platform Mobile Services comes a new set of developer tools called Mobile Packs. Mobile Packs built on popular Javascript libraries like AngularJS, Backbone,js and jQuery Mobile to make developing robust business apps for mobile devices using HTML5 while providing idiomatic access to the Salesforce Platform.

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Force.com Fridays now with Apex!

Beginning in April 2013 we’re adding new time zone options to Force.com Fridays, along with an Intro to Apex session.

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Opportunity Open Market Helps You Find Your Dream Scrum Team

Scrum Team members at Opportunity Open Market Bazaar

Learn how salesforce.com makes it easy for engineers to work on what challenges and excites them. Opportunity Open Market makes it easy for anyone in the salesforce.com Technology organization move to a new team. This post explains how the program came about and how it works.

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