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Summer of APIs: Streaming, Apex & Chatter

By Jon Mountjoy | Published: June 22, 2011

This summer you can choose from a feast of Force.com APIs currently in Developer Preview:

  • The Apex REST API lets you surface Apex methods as REST-based web services (webinar signup) Check out Sandeep's blog post about Apex REST, which includes a nice code sample.
  • The Chatter REST API provides a nice, clean, REST API for Chatter (webinar signup) Quinton provides a little more detail on this API in his blog post and you can get even more, including docs, by going to the Chatter API resource page.
  • The Streaming API delivers HTTP push technology (webinar signup). Check out Pat's description of the Streaming API
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Force.com Workbooks as ePubs on Apple’s iBookstore

By Jon Mountjoy | Published: April 26, 2011
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Own an iPad or iPhone?  We’ve just published a couple of our developer resources in EPUB format, so if you just pop along to the iBookstore (open iBooks, hit Store) you’ll find ‘em there:

  • The Visualforce Workbook
  • The Chatter Workbook
  • The Force.com Workbook
  • The Force.com Fundamentals book

Let us know how easy you find these to read – or if it’s useful to have them in this format.  Reading them on the iPad is particularly gorgeous!… Continue reading

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A Billion Lines of Apex

By Jon Mountjoy | Published: March 28, 2011

The Force.com platform just passed a huge milestone—the billionth line of Apex code is now in production! Developers like yourself are responsible for this awesome momentum—not only writing code, but also writing over 8 million tests—contributing to a better platform & better products. Thank you!

This is evidence of a huge adoption and investment in Apex – the programming language used to write business logic, triggers for the database, web services, and the controllers in our MVC layer, Visualforce.The Future of ApexWhere is Apex going?  Every release of Force.com sees improvements: 

  • for example in Spring '11 the number of Apex governor limits
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Interesting Links 2011-March-16

By Jon Mountjoy | Published: March 16, 2011

REST/SOAP Java Library, jQuery, SOQL injection, Google Analytics – external Force.com blog posts about Force.com development Continue reading

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RestKit for REST web services on iOS

By Jon Mountjoy | Published: March 16, 2011

Has anyone investigated RestKit?  It looks pretty interesting – and might be of use when accessing the REST web services of Force.com on iOS devices.

It has a couple of features that make it pretty interesting (to me at least):

  1. You’ve got your HTTP verbs handled, along with a bunch of utility stuff like converting dictionaries into parameters etc.  Here’s a simple GET:
    [[RKClient sharedClient] get:@”/foo.xml” delegate:self];
  2. There’s an object mapping system – so you can map the incoming JSON to an Objective C object and play nicely.
  3. It has Core Data support – so you can add persistence to the object mapping system.
  4. It allows you
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Learning from Developers at Cloudforce New York

By Jon Mountjoy | Published: March 4, 2011
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Cloudforce New York was hot, with thousands of people soaking it up. Here's what I saw and learned after working in the Developer Zone and Code Consultancy area for several hours:

  • Throat lozenges are a requirement.  Several hours of talking really takes its toll!
  • The Force.com Workbooks and Cheatsheets are always a big hit – and folk actually use them.  I encountered many folk heads-down, creating an object or two, checking out the auto-generated CRUD screens, and browsing the rest of 'em.  Some were just reading through it, willing to follow through at home.
  • A few new devs wanted books.  You know, those
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Puppies, Kites or Bunnies

By Jon Mountjoy | Published: November 29, 2010
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It’s that time of the year again – vote on the Spring ’11 logo! Continue reading

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Using WSC to access Force.com from Java

By Jon Mountjoy | Published: November 19, 2010

Just published an article on Java integration – an alternative to using Apache Axis. Continue reading

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New Force.com Cookbook Recipes: 2010-October-29

By Jon Mountjoy | Published: October 29, 2010

Some great new recipes covering everything from HTTP headers, through jQuery manipulation, to interacting with the REST API from Ruby. Continue reading

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The Force.com Cookbook (beta) – Best Practices and Code Samples

By Jon Mountjoy | Published: October 7, 2010
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Come check out, bookmark, use and contribute to – the Force.com Cookbook! Continue reading

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