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Get 30% discount for Renaissance – The iOS app maker’s conference

By Kavindra Patel | Published: January 19, 2013

If you are going to be in the San Francisco bay area between Jan 21-23, mark your calendar for Renaissance, the iOS app

maker’s conference. Since Salesforce is sponsoring @renaissanceio, I was able to get a special 30% discount code. Take advantage of this offer and register by this Sunday (registration closes).

On Monday, Jan 21, Marcus Torres, our Director of Product Management for Force.com and Mobile will deliver a great talk under the API for Developers topic. I strongly recommed you attend his talk.

Event Details: http://renaissance.io/
Date/Location: Jan 21-23 at UCSF Mission Bay Conference
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Editing Streaming Topics with Visualforce (and controlling Visualforce state)

By Josh Birk | Published: January 17, 2013

I created a quick Visualforce page to help manage the Streaming API I had been testing out in my dev org. Having spent a lot of time lately tinkering with jQuery and JavaScript Remoting based interfaces, I also wanted to use this as an excuse to go back to developing with a normal viewstate-based form, especially since I knew it would probably easier to bind the PushTopic object against the apex form tags than to roll my own solution for it. Continue reading

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Responsive Visualforce using Streaming API and Asynchronous Apex

By Sandeep Bhanot | Published: January 2, 2013

This blog post describes how developers can combine Batch Apex and the Streaming API to implement an asynchronous UI design pattern that makes Visualforce pages more responsive and user friendly. Continue reading

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Node.js and the Streaming API – a Perfect Match?

By Pat Patterson | Published: August 16, 2011

When the time came round to submit sessions for Dreamforce 2011, our cousins at Heroku were just rolling out the public beta of their new Celadon Cedar stack, including Node.js support, while, here at Force.com, the Streaming API was moving towards its limited developer preview. Node.js’ event-driven behavior seemed well suited for the Streaming API and, investigating a little, I discovered the Faye project, which implements the Bayeux protocol (used by the Force.com Streaming API) in both Node.js and Ruby.

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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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