A few months ago Salesforce announced VMforce as a way to bring Java developers to the cloud. Since the announcement, product management, engineering, marketing and all the other members of the VMforce team have been working hard to make this product as ground-breaking as the announcement

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Get Ready for VMforce with Upcoming Webinars

Richard MacManus’ story on how the Internet is running out of addresses was our top post this week. (Isn’t Al Gore responsible for making more?) We also continued our exploration of the significant Internet trends of 2010: There are at least 100 things you can do with RFID on the Internet of Things ; augmented reality gets silky smooth; and Facebook introduces a real-time Tornado.

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Weekly Wrap-up: No More IP Addresses, 70,000 Blogs Shut Down, Bye-Bye Nexus One, And More…

I was looking at a fantastic new Code Share project called Tolerado this morning, and wanted to share it.

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Supercharge your Java apps for better use of Force.com Web Service APIs with Tolerado

Last Friday I finished off the first few Graph API wrapper objects for the updated Facebook for Force.com Toolkit . The original toolkit had been written to use XML, but as times change the Facebook API had changed to support JSON and OAuth2 . (good move in my opinion, btw) With the popularity of Facebook and the Force.com platform still growing at an amazing pace, the toolkit was certainly high on my priority list for updating

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Updates to the Facebook Toolkit for Force.com – More Examples!

As anyone who needs to creat e a commercial website knows, it is painful to deal with all the aspects of infrastructure, platform settings, setting the website, figuring out the page setup, linking the user  management and authentication, setting up the payment system all on your own. Of course, this is where Sites development with Force.com comes in to h elp i n focusing on the app, and the needs of setting a professional website for e-commerce along with PayPal X Toolkit

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Building E-Commerce sites with Force.com

The latest batch of Chatter Labs apps include two packages that target developers. Both include extendable classes that let you build your own functionality on the platform quickly and easily using the work the app developers have already done. In this first video, Herman Kwong shows you how to implement “Like” functionality using his Chatter Shelf, Stars and Actions Framework.

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Two Extendable Chatter Labs Apps You Should Check Out

With the Summer ’10 release, we have added the ability to retrieve the original data that you send in a Bulk API batch. We keep this data around for 7 days just as we keep the job info, batch info and batch result files

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Retrieving all records with errors from a Bulk API job

I have been busily working through my todo list of coding goodies with the next one on my list to start is revisiting the Facebook toolkit . This weekend I started looking at the changes in the Facebook API since the last revision of the toolkit and wanted to focus my effort on a few different dimensions including support for the core API calls, and also the social widgets now available for functions such as Like and Recommendations .

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Using Facebook Social Widgets on Force.com Sites pages

For the Enterprise 2.0 conference next week we will take a look specifically how the enterprise is adopting enterprise technologies. What services are companies using and why? Dachis Group is one of the fastest growing consulting organizations in the Enterprise 2.0 space

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Enterprise 2.0 Conference: What Services are Companies Using and Why?

Structure 2010 , GigaOM’s two-day event, will provide you with a content-rich look at the next three years of cloud computing. Here’s what’s on the agenda: *10 keynote speakers and fireside chats, including VMware, IBM, Salesforce.com, Facebook, Amazon, CA, Akamai and more *Over 100 speakers in 25 sessions *18 workshops on topics such as marketing cloud to SMBs, social enterprise, cloud architecture, storage and more *8 company announcements from companies including Spiceworks and AMD *11 LaunchPad companies *4+ hours of networking time *50 top-tier press, including GigaOM editors *1 research report from GigaOM Pro on industry solutions for private clouds FREE with your registration.

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The future of cloud computing at Structure 2010 (VB discount included)