This is a big shout to Tim Inman for building a micro-grant solution on Force.com. As some of you may remember, Tim Inman was a runner-up in one our developer challenges and now he has at it again participating in PayPal X Dev Challenge. In a nutshell, the idea is that…
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A micro-grant solution built on Force.com
If you are a Mac user you have probably already discovered Quicksilver , and its amazing ability to reduce the time taken to perform just about any task. Noticed a tweet today that Simon Fell recently created a Quicksilver plugin that lets you search Salesforce, and upload a document in a few keystrokes. If you are a Quicksilver user, go grab the plugin now, and shave more time off your day which you can devote to creating cool Force.com apps
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Quicksilver plugin for Salesforce
Today, Saleforce takes the wraps off Chatter pilot program. After several months of testing with select customers, it is going into production for this group. We reviewed Chatter with SalesForce’s VP of Corporate Strategy, Bruce Francis and SVP Product Marketing, Kraig Swensrud to find out what all the excitement was about
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Facebook and Twitter: SalesForce.com Offers Social, Real Time Enterprise Tools
In Spring ‘10, we’ve updated the API login endpoint found in the enterprise and partner WSDL files. For the longest time, this endpoint was https://www.salesforce.com. Last year, we quietly launched a new endpoint: https://login.salesforce.com and with the Spring ‘10 release, this is now the official endpoint listed in the WSDL files
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New API login endpoint
Larry Ellison may be remembered as the one who steered clear of the “folly” that is cloud computing. Or he may be remembered for ignoring the real and considerable impacts that the cloud brings.
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Is Oracle Really Killing the Sun Open Cloud?
Some people still can’t tell the difference between running a business on the Internet, and being in the Internet business. One example comes from a story last week at newsfactor.com, entitled “Technology Stocks Soared in 2009″ : Meanwhile, some Internet companies offered the companies they serve ways to save money, Jacob says
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Because "2010" Ends With Zero
[Bernard Moon works for the Lunsford Group.] When I made my tech trend predictions for 2009 , we were in the middle of an economic meltdown. This year, I’m less focused on the recession and — thanks to my one-year old twin girls — am wading my way through a flood of information on baby products, toys and books.
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Tech trends for 2010 — a Netscape moment coming up
The Web 2.0 world may seem at times like a glamorous, hip place.
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Forget the Web 2.0 Glamour – the Money’s in the Enterprise
In the Force.com Zone during Dreamforce we hosted an event on Wednesday evening designed to get developers going, network and have a good time… the Second Annual Hackathon. I got my first inkling on how the event was going to go when I caught sight of crowds lining up outside our stanchions as we set up and briefed the staff.
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Dreamforce ‘09: Hackathon Coverage
One of the things that stuck me while watching the Chatter presentation and demo was the asynchronous and event driven nature of the collaboration taking place. As an example, any number of activities happening at your customer account – identification of a new opportunity, a project being completed, etc. can be treated as event that can be handled by the right people or system which in turn could trigger additional events and so on. Let us look at a few of the attributes of this style of interaction.
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Chatter and Event Driven Architecture (EDA)
