By Luke Skywalker in
Strategy
Jun
24
It is time to have another Developer Meetup in the Silicon Valley. PayPal was gracious enough to make t heir space available to the Force.com developer community for this meetup.
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Force.com Developer Meetup @ PayPal Headquarters in San Jose, Ca
By Luke Skywalker in
Design,
Strategy
Jun
24
In the rush to try out and evaluate cloud computing offerings, especially PaaS, have you considered a major aspect of how you will build your app? Your users.
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User Management, A Major Consideration for any Cloud App
By Luke Skywalker in
Development
Jun
23
I’ve with built or contributed to building many different toolkits here at salesforce.com. Toolkits are one of the ways that Developer Evangelism can really accelerate developer productivity on the Force.com platform.
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Force.com Toolkit for iOS – Adventures in Objective-C
By Luke Skywalker in
Design,
Strategy
Jun
22
It is a little past 6pm in San Jose, the Developer Conference has moved into my favorite part of the day: the Hackathon. The vibe is mellow, the energy is high, and the prizes are big
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Developer Day, Hackathon, and Session Presentations now available
By Luke Skywalker in
Strategy
Jun
22
The keynote has just finished in San Jose at Cloudforce 2010 and there was a great buzz in the room attended by thousands on-site and on-line. Marc Benioff and special guests covered a number of topics and announcements, but what messages should a developer take away from the keynote
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Cloudforce 2010 Keynote – A Developer Perspective
By Luke Skywalker in
Strategy
Jun
22
I’ve just ducked into the Force.com: Build and Deploy a Free Cloud App session here at Cloudforce 2010 – in a room with more than 400 developers eager to create and deploy their own applications to a production environment. It’s awesome. Right now, everyone is creating their Force.com Free Edition environments, and using them to provision a sandbox.
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Cloudforce 2010 session on Building and Deploying a Free Cloud App
By Luke Skywalker in
Development,
General,
Strategy
Jun
14
“We’ve moved beyond the question of how long cloud computing will exert its pull on the modern day enterprise,” noted Vishal Sharma, Senior Director of Business Development at NaviSite, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Chair Jeremy Geelan. Sharma then concluded that “Cloud computing represents a transformative – and permanent – change to the way IT resources are managed and delivered.” Cloud Computing Journal: A very general question first, about Cloud Computing itself: Surely we’ve heard all of this before in various forms and guises – grid computing / utility computing, etc.
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The Accelerated Time-to-Benefits of Cloud Computing
By Luke Skywalker in
Architecture,
Strategy
Jun
4
The term, “real-time,” surfaces as a theme in the enterprise but the context often varies depending on the discussion. Real-time can refer to microblogs for communicating in the enterprise. It can also refer to the real-time data that is aggregated from social networks
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Real-Time Information and Its Role in the Emerging Social Supply Chain
By Luke Skywalker in
Design
Jun
1
For a while, it seemed like Zoho was launching a new application every month — it now has a suite of 22 apps including email, word processing, and customer management. But the constant stream of new releases slowed down in the last year, as the company focused on finding ways to make those apps work together, according to evangelist Raju Vegesna. The latest addition in that vein is a tool for searching across Zoho’s applications
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Zoho lets users search across its business applications
By Luke Skywalker in
General,
Strategy
May
18
Microsoft filed a lawsuit today in the U.S.
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Microsoft Sues Salesforce for Patent Infringement