Get Ready for Summer ’12

  It’s sunny and warm even here in windy Chicago – which can only mean one thing: our Summer ’12 release is ramping up and you’ll want to make sure you’re prepared for all the changes coming down the pipe.  We’ve got features from Spring going generally available, updates to our API’s, changes to JavaScript [...]

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Force.com MVP Nominations Are Open!

It’s that time of year where we recognize the super stars in our community who advance knowledge and build communities. These are the heros who go the extra mile to share their expertise, stump for features and access, build killer apps, and guide th

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

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

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Chatter REST API & the Apigee Console

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

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

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 ha

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Avoid Account Data Skew for Peak Performance

When you have a very large number of child records associated to the same account in Salesforce, we call that “data skew”. It can seem like the obviously right thing to do – for example, when you have a whole bunch of unassigned contacts and need som

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Force.com CodeTalk: Apex

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,

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Bar Code and QR Code scanning using the Mobile SDK

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

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Share Your Eco-Friendly Apps with the World

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 pos

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SMS Lead Generation with the Twilio Library for Salesforce

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

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