Android app: Salesforce.com “Voice Notes” (part 1)

Recently, we’ve been working on some mobile apps internally at Mavens, mostly on iOS, but the subject of Android development was intriguing to me, especially given my background in Java. So, last week I started doing some research on the subject and found that there were a few different approaches to writing Android apps [...]

StaticResourcer Force.com/Adobe Air app

UPDATE: .zip uploads do not seem to be working properly on Windows 7. The Static Resource is being saved, but the file format is invalid. I’ll do some additional testing and attempt to patch.

I’d like to introduce a Force.com/Adobe Air app that I cooked up that allows developers to easily create and update [...]

Live Twitter Gadget For Accounts

Wow, it’s been quite a while, but I’m finally back to let you know about a new app from Mavens on the Salesforce.com AppExchange. “Live Twitter Gadget For Accounts” is a nifty Salesforce/Twitter mashup that does not require a Twitter account. In a nutshell, it allows you to set keywords on your Salesforce [...]

lookup –> picklist

I’ve had several clients “voice concerns” about Salesforce.com’s lookup functionality relative to user acceptance. Well, if you’re dealing with a relatively simple lookup table, you can override an object’s new/edit page with a Visualforce page and display the lookup field to the user as a picklist.

extjs & visualforce (part 2), JSON this time

Let me preface this post by stating that the following is merely a proof of concept and should not necessarily be implemented into a production org. The pagination demonstrated below is not fit for large datasets and may result in unexpected behavior!
Rich Waters’ comment on my first post re: Ext JS & [...]