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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Chatter REST API & the Apigee Console

By Quinton Wall | Published: May 2, 2012
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I’m presenting on the Chatter API at Cloudstock London in a few weeks. During the session I am going to rely on my go to tool for working with the Chatter API response payload – Apigee Console. If you are coming to Clockstock London, I’ve got a few more tricks and tips lined up. If you can’t make, definitely check out the Apigee Console for supercharging your Chatter API development Continue reading

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Free Cloudstock London event on May 22: Reserve your complimentary 1-on-1 Code Consultation

By Kavindra Patel | Published: May 1, 2012

Cloudstock London (free developer events) will be on May 22 at the ExCel London. If you are not registered, please do so.

We are also bringing the free Code Consultation program to the Cloudstock DevZone. You will have an opportunity to meet with a Force.com expert for 30 minutes in a private code consultation and receive best practice coding & architecting advice. Do not forget to bring your code for a code walk through!

If you are already registered for Cloudstock London, sign-up for a free one-on-one code consultation. If not, register for the event first (the event confirmation page and… Continue reading

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Force.com CodeTalk: Apex

By Sandeep Bhanot | Published: April 26, 2012

CodeTalk: Episode 001 - Apex

In this inaugural episode of CodeTalk, Sandeep, Quinton and special Guest Josh Kaplan (Senior Product Manager responsible for Apex) took audience questions on all things Apex. To learn more about the CodeTalk program, please go to the program website.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m64cGXeuXfc&feature=youtu.be

 

CodeTalk Chat Transcript

Here are some of the (edited) highlights from this episode’s chat transcript.

Q: Is there a way in Apex to send an email and replace the default from email address (no-reply@salesforce.com)?
A: Yes, using either the setSenderDisplayName or setOrgWideEmailAddressID methods on the SingleEmailMessage or MassEmailMessage classes.

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Bar Code and QR Code scanning using the Mobile SDK

By Sandeep Bhanot | Published: April 25, 2012

I recently blogged about a sample mobile application built using a combination of Visualforce and other standard web technologies like HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript (specifically JQuery Mobile). The application mobilizes the ‘Merchandise’ Custom Object by presenting a mobile optimized List and Detail View of data stored in that Object. I also demoed and dissected this application in some detail in the Mobile SDK webinar that Eugene and I recorded recently. In addition to discussing web mobile apps, i.e. applications delivered entirely via the browser on the mobile device, we also covered hybrid mobile applications developed using the Salesforce Mobile SDK. Hybrid apps fall… Continue reading

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Share Your Eco-Friendly Apps with the World

By Lauren Grau | Published: April 25, 2012
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Earth Day was this past weekend and we don’t want the eco-love to stop!   In honor of #EarthMonth, we’d like to showcase the good work our developer community is doing to celebrate our planet. Your applications are already having a significant positive impact on carbon consumption because they are running in the cloud rather than on-premises. To be specific, your apps are using an average of 95% less carbon–and consequently fewer emissions–than on-premises software. And, an average of 64% less carbon than private clouds. The carbon we’ve kept out of the air is the equivalent of taking 98,000 cars… Continue reading

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SMS Lead Generation with the Twilio Library for Salesforce

By Pat Patterson | Published: April 24, 2012

I spend a lot of time on identity and integration, but I recently got back to salesforce.com’s roots in sales force automation and customer relationship management with some work on SMS-to-Lead.

“SMS-to-Lead?”, you ask? Well, as you probably know, Web-to-Lead is a core feature of the Force.com platform, allowing you to create Lead records directly from a form on your website, a cornerstone of CRM functionality. In a recent blog post, Sandeep combined Facebook, Heroku and Force.com to create Social Web-to-Lead. That, together with Twilio’s release of their library for Salesforce, got me thinking about SMS-to-Lead.

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Tweets of the Week

By @ktopenn | Published: April 23, 2012

Sometimes the power of Twitter just shines through. Follow @forcedotcom to keep up with these characters!
shout out to salesforce / @forcedotcom joining the call in 5 mins !!! Tech/MMA

— MC HAMMER (@MCHammer) April 20, 2012
 
who wants to meet the best dev boys in #london“@kavindrapatel: #Cloudstock London, 22nd May 2012 in London lanyrd.com/2012/cloudstoc… via @lanyrd”

— Karin Flores (@kfloSF) April 21, 2012
 
ok ok! Enough with the calls and the planning and the budgets and things of that nature. Let’s code! #forcedotcom

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CodeTalk – live Q&A for Force.com developers

By Sandeep Bhanot | Published: April 17, 2012

CodeTalk is a new pilot program for Force.com developers to have their technical queries answered via a live screencast and chat. Each CodeTalk episode will be a live, unscripted 30 minute Q&A session dedicated to a specific Force.com topic and hosted by yours truly and Quinton. You can submit your questions either via chat or Twitter (using the #codetalklive hashtag) and we’ll try and answer as many of them as possible. Along the way, we will also highlight and discuss some of the more interesting and thought-provoking questions via the live screencast.

Think of CodeTalk as the bizzaro version of… Continue reading

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Salesforce User & Developer Meetup in Salt Lake City – April 26th

By Quinton Wall | Published: April 16, 2012
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Next week, April 26th, I will be in Salt Lake City for the Salt Lake City Salesforce User & Developer Meetup with a bunch of friends from the Salesforce community. The agenda, provided in the post, should set us up for a great event! Continue reading

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