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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 & [...]

extjs & visualforce

I’m interested to hear how people are utilizing extjs in their visualforce pages. I’ve found it very helpful to use Apex to generate the store on the server side, then pass it along to the Visualforce page via a hidden input to be handled on the client side (rather than use the apex:repeat tags).
Note: [...]

copy your current ip address to the clipboard

if you’ve worked in several different instances of Salesforce.com from several different locations, surely you’ve run into roadblocks on Salesforce.com Security Boulevard (and yes, I know you can use a security token, but many times I’m using a client’s license and he/she will “inadvertently” reset the token and lock me out of the org).
when in [...]