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Force.com From Around the Web: May 5, 2012

By Steve Bobrowski | Published: May 3, 2012
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Force.com From Around the Web May 5, 2012

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Be sure to check out these recent interesting reads from our community related to Force.com and Database.com. Lots of great things for both beginners and experienced Force.com developers.

  • Apex and Object References and Deleting Salesforce Contacts You Don’t Own — courtesy of @dhoechst.
  • Executing Anonymous Apex Inside Eclipse — courtesy of @sfgeneral.
  • Admin-Friendly Coding With Salesforce.com — courtesy of @kevinswiggum.
  • Node.js Demo with Force.com REST API
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Every Vote Counts — Help Choose the Summer ’12 Logo

By Steve Bobrowski | Published: March 19, 2012

Let us know which one of four logos that you prefer for the upcoming Summer ’12 Release.

> Vote at Idea Search

Then, stay tuned this blog for more information about the latest and greatest developer features that will be appearing in our newest release… Continue reading

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Developer Content Contest Winners

By Steve Bobrowski | Published: March 1, 2012

Thanks to all that submitted entries for the recent Developer Content Challenges. There was a lot of great activity around these contests and we sincerely appreciate all of the submissions that we received. And without further delay, here are the results.

Metadata API App/Content Challenge

We received two winning entries for this challenge. Congratulations to co-winners Eric Holmes and Cory Cowgill, you’ll both receive first prize awards of US$1000.

Apex JSON App/Content Challenge

Congratulations to Shamil Arsunukayev, who’ll receive a first prize award of US$1000.

Other Challenges

Although we received entries for the other three challenges as well, we did… Continue reading

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From Around the Web: Feb 9, 2012

By Steve Bobrowski | Published: February 9, 2012

Be sure to check out these recent interesting reads related to Force.com and Database.com.

Force.com Developer Console Navigation Trick

The Developer Console is just out and there’s a trick already!

Show and Hide Buttons on Page Layouts

Video included.

What happened to test classes?

Get ready to change your test classes before Spring ‘12, otherwise …

I’m a Salesforce MVP!

Congrats!

Want me to highlight your work in future issues? Let me know how to follow you.

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Developer Content Contest #5 — Apex REST

By Steve Bobrowski | Published: February 7, 2012

Apex REST, recently enhanced in Spring ’12, makes it easy for you to create custom RESTful Web services using Apex. In this challenge, we’d like you to show off some of the cool custom APIs that you’ve developed with Apex REST and teach the community how to harness the full power of Apex REST. Head on over to the Apex REST Content Challenge page for full details… Continue reading

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Developer Content Contest #4 — Change Sets

By Steve Bobrowski | Published: February 3, 2012

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 change sets. This challenge aims to “change” this (pun intended). Check out the Change Sets Content Challenge page for all the details… Continue reading

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From Around the Web: Feb 1, 2012

By Steve Bobrowski | Published: February 1, 2012

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.

Crowd sourced getting started guide for Force.com developers and the accompanying Github repo

Newbie’s guide to Force.com development.

Salesforce Email Services – Where is “Delete” button?

How to get that Delete button to show up for removing an email service.

Multiselect picklist jquery plugin for iPad and Desktop browsers

A solution for a multi-row/multiselect picklist that looks similar in… Continue reading

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Developer Contest #3 — Apex JSON

By Steve Bobrowski | Published: January 31, 2012

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 support provides many benefits for Apex development, including efficient processing of JSON for HTML5 apps.

For this third developer challenge, build a demo app that leverages Apex JSON and then write an article that explains its source code. The winning entry receives a US$1000 gift card and gets their work published on Developer Force… Continue reading

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Developer Content Contest #2 — Metadata API

By Steve Bobrowski | Published: January 27, 2012

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 up very little community-developed content that demonstrates the power of the Metadata API. What a shame, because we’re sure that some of the awesome developers in our community have leveraged the API to build some very interesting tools. And that’s what we’re seeking in this challenge.

For this second developer challenge, show us a cool app or tool that uses the Metadata API… Continue reading

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Developer Content Contests!

By Steve Bobrowski | Published: January 25, 2012

We know you want it. And we want you to have it. What’s it? Timely, educational, and helpful technical content that teaches you how to develop apps with the Force.com platform and related technologies.

This time around, we want contributions from you, the expert in our community, the you that lives and breathes Force.com every day and knows how to make things work. So we’re running five, count them, five developer content contests based on community suggested topics. And to make it worth your while to participate, we’re offering cold, hard cash to the winners. Please jump over to the… Continue reading

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