Archive for May, 2009
By Luke Skywalker in
Development
May
29
Wrapping up our series on choosing storage projects, part of the conversation has to be what is more important, CAPEX or OPEX? Almost every storage project you decide to embark on will have to be brought to management as something that is going to either reduce your capital expenditures or lower your operational expenditures.
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Storage CAPEX VS. OPEX
By Luke Skywalker in
Architecture
May
28
Hot on the heels of yesterday’s toolkit announcement is another one, this time it’s an update to our Force.com Toolkit for Adobe Flex and AIR .
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An Update to the Force.com Toolkit for Adobe Flex and AIR
By Luke Skywalker in
Strategy
May
28
Do you have spreadsheets that you wish you could turn into apps on the platform, but never had the time to do it?
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Convert Spreadsheets to Force.com Apps in Minutes
By Luke Skywalker in
Development,
Strategy
May
27
Recently Google annouced availability of Java language support for Google App Engine, allowing Java developers across the globe to start building apps in the cloud. Well this morning, the first day of the Google I/O conference, salesforce.com is announcing the availability of “Force.com for Google App Engine for Java”. This is a set of Java libraries that enables App Engine developers to access the Force.com web services API.
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New Force.com Integration Announced for Google App Engine for Java
By Luke Skywalker in
Design
May
26
New to Force.com? Want to learn more about the Force.com Database and learn how easy it is to create a custom data model on Force.com? What about learning how to enable triggers, data validations, and field history, and more?
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Upcoming Tech Talk: Introduction to the Force.com Database
By Luke Skywalker in
Strategy
May
22
So you buy a new smartphone, and the touch pad stinks. You post on your Twitter or Facebook account, Shouldve known better than to buy a phone from XYZ Corp. Their stuff is junk. You expect a few sympathetic replies from friends
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RightNow, Salesforce Offer Services To Track Customer Complaints On Twitter, YouTube
By Luke Skywalker in
Design,
Development,
Strategy
May
21
My continued involvement with the Field Service Cloud provider ServiceMax has allowed me to discover new ways of leveraging the Force.com platform. The results are clear: Visualforce with Salesforce Mobile = Force.com Mobile
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Going Mobile with Visualforce
By Luke Skywalker in
Development
May
20
I recently had the opportunity to speak at the 2009 EclipseCon convention in San Jose. This was a great opportunity to expose Force.com development concepts to a group of Eclipse users that span many different languages and platforms. You can watch the screen cast of my presentation at the Eclipse Live site.
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We’re talkin’ IDE here
By Luke Skywalker in
Design
May
20
It has been a while since my last post. I have been deeply entrenched in a client project with some pretty complex lead assignment, and scoring logic that has taken all of my time
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Passing URL parameters into a Visualforce page from a custom button or link
By Luke Skywalker in
Strategy
May
19
Intalio , a private company that until now has been focused on providing open source systems for business process management (BPM), is launching a more ambitious product called IntalioCloud. With a combination of BPM and customer relationship management (CRM) tools for salespeople, Intalio is challenging Salesforce.com , the company that built its reputation on selling CRM services via online subscription (and which has more than 50,000 customers). Palo Alto, Calif.-based Intalio isn’t ducking from the comparison, either.

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IntalioCloud takes on Salesforce.com