A few weeks ago I started messing around with different Javascript libraries and put them up on Github as the LAB Javascript Playground. Well, lo and behold, it turns out I wasn’t the only one curious about some of these. Lot’s of people are working in the area. In fact, one person has gone so far as to share their very excellent code with the project. Continue reading
The new set of Mobile Packs for the Salesforce Platform provides sample apps for a range of frameworks. In this blog entry, I’ll explain some of the motivation for using a client-side JavaScript framework, focusing on the Mobile Pack for Backbone.js in particular. Continue reading
Salesforce Platform Mobile services make it easier and faster for you to create mobile apps on the Salesforce platform. I had the distinct pleasure of helping with the Angular JS Mobile Pack, and today I’m going to walk you through how that sample app works. If you haven’t touched Javascript in a while, you will be pleasantly surprised at how easy it is to use this framework once you get the hang of it. And, it’s a great introduction to Twitter’s Bootstrap at the same time. Continue reading
Too often mobile business apps are created in silos – disconnected from customer data. The new Salesforce Platform Mobile Services solves this problem with the Mobile SDK 2.0, and new open source Developer Mobile packs for leading JavaScript frameworks like Backbone.js, and jQuery Mobile that developers know and love, and make it easy to connect to backend mobile services on the Salesforce Platform. Here’s what you need to know. Continue reading
A summary of the different options available for developers who want to interact with Salesforce data and/or logic via JavaScript. Continue reading
Congratulations to the developers of the Backbone.js model/view/presenter framework on their version 1.0 release today. See what we’ve been doing with Backbone.js recently… Continue reading
Looking to use the new Visualforce Charting types now that its generally available? This article contains code walkthroughs, pictures, and links to other full examples on developerforce and GitHub. Check out these examples of all of the new chart types as well as a JavaScript remoting example for advanced rendering capabilities! Continue reading
The RemoteTK Visualforce Custom Component (comprising RemoteTK.component and RemoteTKController.cls) provides an abstraction very similar to the Force.com REST API, implemented via @RemoteAction methods in the component’s controller. RemoteTK offers similar functionality to forcetk.js, without consuming API calls. Continue reading
Check out this new article, Developing Apps with jQuery. It’s effectively a primer on both jQuery (and related projects like jQuery UI) and using it with Visualforce specifically. It also links out to several popular plugins for performing tasks like creating a datagrid (which you can expect more material on later as it is apparently a top search request). Continue reading
It’s time for some Fricandy – Eye candy for your Friday with HTML5, CSS3, and Force.com. Grab the package, and enjoy the gooey goodness Continue reading
