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joe

joe has written 16 posts for joe-ferraro.com

wrapper class and force.com sites

Force.com Sites was announced last week at Dreamforce ‘08 and what a game changing announcement it was. Here’s my foray into Sites development, with nifty sample code…

crippled google date search…a workaround

The other day while browsing in Safari, I realized Google had limited my advanced date searches (which I use incessantly). Then it occurred to me I had not suffered the same fate in Firefox. It turns out I was using a Greasemonkey script I had written (quite poorly, I may add) and uploaded [...]

winter ‘09 is (almost) here

I got the good old scheduled maintenance window message on na1 this week, but I didn’t expect it to be for the Winter ‘09 release. Kudos to SFDC for the early release (a month before Dreamforce).
Release Preview
Release Notes (pdf)

visualforce autocomplete component

I saw this on the boards and I wanted to make sure everyone knew it was out there.
http://www.jonathanrm.com/blog/?p=12
 
 

(unofficial) adobe air tasks

i’m gauging interest from other consultants that track time in Salesforce.com. Would you use an AIR app? See a screencast after the jump…

populating a flex combobox with picklist values

i’ve had some requests concerning filling flex combobox’s with picklist values returned from a describe call…

force.com migration tool

All you consultants out there better pick this thing up: force.com migration tool

r.i.p. bernie

A bit late, but I just wanted to pay my respects to one of the greatest comedians of our generation, Bernie Mac. Bernie became a Hollywood staple in part due to his outstanding support roles in movies like the Ocean’s 11 series and Charlie’s Angles, but his real genius is evident in his standup [...]

running a trigger via workflow

Those of you who follow Steve Andersen’s blog may have seen his post re: cron jobs using Apex in April 2007. Kudos to you, Steve for a fantastic post (better late than never!) not only because of its universal application, but also because it got me thinking of other roundabout ways of utilizing Apex.
*Let [...]

First post from my iphone

I’ve finally joined the wonderful world of the iphone…I’ll be checking back in a day or so when I’ve had the chance to play with the salesforce app…anything I should know from the iPhone vets out there? The wordpress app is great!