The e-book hype reached its apex just before the holiday season. Now seems like a good time to take a closer look at the e-book market, especially given that this business is heading for another disruption once Apple’s iPad launches.
See original here:
E-Books: After the Hype and Before the iPad
Acumen Solutions will build a Salesforce.com app for the Department of Health and Human Services to manage health IT relationships and projects.
Salesforce’s enterprise friendly social collaboration platform Chatter was announced at last year’s November with much fanfare. To many, there was no doubt that Chatter will have a lasting impact on the enterprise and cloud computing. And customers seemed to agree
See the rest here:
Salesforce Chatter Starts As A Private Conversation
The short answer is “as much as you need”. The more tactical answer is “as much as you can raise cheaply”. The latter is a pragmatic view
Continued here:
How Much Venture Capital Should You Raise For Your SaaS Venture?
I posted this over in the Announcements board on the Discussion board, but it occurred to me to try to sweep in others who may not be regular board visitors also. I am the new Technical Program Manager here at salesforce.com, managing many of our programs, including the Discussion boards.
Continued here:
Code Share participation giveaway!
I came across an interesting article by Paul Krill of Infoworld the other day which the author made a important point in regards to developers moving into the cloud. Krill refers to a recent survey that indicates ” 61 percent of developers report that at least some of their IT resources will move to a public cloud within the next year” . This is further re-enforced by analysts like Forrester, who are also referenced in the article
See the original post:
Developing in the Cloud grows in importance
A look at outages for cloud computing services over the past two years shows that most are minimal, a subset of the entire network. Very few cloud outages have caused massive data losses.
Read more:
Top 5 Cloud Outages of the Past Two Years: Lessons Learned
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.
Read more:
Is Oracle Really Killing the Sun Open Cloud?
The Force.com cloud computing platform will also be upgraded.
Read the rest here:
Saleforce.com Preps For February Refresh
A couple of days ago a colleague of mine forwarded a rant post by a developer new to the Force.com platform. Seems this developer is an ace at Cold Fusion but is now trying his hand at Apex and Visualforce. The problem that he described in his post was around generating a dynamic, data driven menu-type navigation system for his page. In this post I will present one method of doing this. This is likely not the only method, nor may it be the best method for your use case. My hope is that the techniques that I demonstrate can be modified for other use cases. Before going any farther, I want to recognize Soh Tanaka and thank him for a very nicely done Sexy Drop Down Menu w/jQuery and CSS tutorial . I will be using his code for this demonstration
See original here:
Implementing a Data Driven Menu Using jQuery
