Tag Archives: Forceful Thinking

Move over Red Sox, the Force.com crew is heading to Boston for a double-header

By Quinton Wall | Published: July 6, 2011

Next week, the Force.com crew is heading to my old home town, Boston for a double-header bigger than the big green monster at Fenway.

First up, we have a Developer Meetup the evening of July 13th, in Waltham. As usual, we break these evenings up in to two tracks: one focused on new Force.com developers, and another track targetted at more advanced developers, where we discuss a topic of current interest to the community. Kuntal Vahalia, one of my favorite Salesforce collegues, a wicked, smart guy (see how I used the local Boston, lingo? Yep, I’m down with it)… Continue reading

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Chatter API webinar recording & FAQ now available

By Quinton Wall | Published: July 5, 2011

Last week Logan Henriquez, Chatter API PM and I presented the Chatter REST API developer webinar. IF you attended the webinar, you would have seen that how much easier this API is when developing social apps for any platform.

As promised, we have posted the webinar recording and the FAQ which was composed of all questions which were asked during both sessions. Make sure you check out the Chatter API home page for links to the webinar recording, FAQ, getting started article and all sample code from the demos… Continue reading

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What’s more important, re-use, or time to market?

By Quinton Wall | Published: June 30, 2011
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If you ask me, re-use in software engineering is over-rated. Before I get flamed for loosing my mind, let me explain by posing a question: What is more important, re-use or time to market? Continue reading

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Nike+. Tough Mudder. Force.com – The Summer of APIs is here.

By Quinton Wall | Published: June 24, 2011
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The Summer of APIs is here. It’s time to soak up those creative rays and look at some creative examples of how APIs can create some truly game changing solutions. Continue reading

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Message Segments in the Chatter API

By Quinton Wall | Published: June 20, 2011
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Next weeks Chatter API Developer Webinar is going to contain a LOT of code and some cool sample apps. One of the features we will be discussing is a feature called Message Segments which allow you to write come code to dynamically create UI on any device. Continue reading

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Chatter REST API Webinar June 28th

By Quinton Wall | Published: June 6, 2011
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Come join Logan Henriquez and I for the Chatter REST API developer webinar on June 28th. Aside from lots of code and cool demos, we are going to cover a few different use cases on where the Chatter REST API really changes how the social enterprise works Continue reading

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The secret to Mobile development success in the Cloud

By Quinton Wall | Published: June 2, 2011
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What are some of the secrets to mobile development success in the Cloud? Some are obivious. They are explicit and easily identified. But what about the implicit requirements? Can you identify them? Continue reading

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Mobile Cloud Apps. Next generation mashups?

By Quinton Wall | Published: May 25, 2011
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Next Tuesday, May 31st, salesforce.com is hosting the Mobile Meetup group in our San Mateo office. Help us redefine mashups in the Cloud2 era. (and maybe play a little Farmville at the same time) Continue reading

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Generating valid self signed certificates for localhost development

By Quinton Wall | Published: May 17, 2011
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Recently upgraded your Ruby version and had troubles with your self-signed certs, or looking for some simple instructions on creating valid self signed certificates for localhost development? Here are a few tips to get you up and running again. Continue reading

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Using the Chatter REST API to build a Rails3 jQuery Mobile app

By Quinton Wall | Published: May 10, 2011
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I decided to take the Chatter REST API—available in pilot during Summer ’11 pre-release, and developer preview at GA—for a spin and built a Rails3 + jQuery mobile app deployed on Heroku. Continue reading

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