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 add the appropriate object and field-level permissions for any data you will be exposing; remembering, of course, that this web service will be accessible without any authentication!

As I was setting up a WebHook the other day, I realized that the same principle applies to Apex REST Methods – add the class and any… Continue reading

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 developer-eye view of platform security.

From OAuth, through user profiles, roles and permission sets, right down to record-level controls, Adam, Bud and Chuck will explain how the platform (Database.com and Force.com) authenticates users, authorizes applications and controls access to data via a simple, flexible sharing model.

Whether you’re writing a Force.com app in Apex, a Heroku app in… Continue reading

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. Take the opportunity to meet with a  Force.com expert for 30 minutes in a private code consultation, receive best practice coding and architecting advice, and bring and have your code reviewed. Since availability is limited, we encourage you to reserve your timeslot now… Continue reading

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!

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 followed by an update adding the ability to create posts, comments, likes and more. Despite the ‘beta’ tag, those releases saw rapid uptake, with hundreds of downloads of the unmanaged package, not to mention several forks of the GitHub project. Today I’m pleased to rip the beta tag off with a third release!

This new version allows you… Continue reading

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 increasingly blurring. In order to be an effective application developer in this day and age, you need to be at least comfortable (if not proficient) at both ends of the HTTP connection. Let me explain.

Not to go all ‘grandpa sitting on the rocker’ on you, but back in the day when I first started programming, you picked your sides early. You were either a server-side… Continue reading

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, understanding the process and becoming a practitioner is an essential skill set.

Professors Armando Fox and David Patterson of UC Berkeley (go Bears!) will be leading a FREE, ONLINE five week class teaching Software Engineering As A Service. They will cover Agile methodologies and best-in-class tools, including how to deploy on Heroku, and using tools such as Pivotal… Continue reading