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).
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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).
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system log trick

If you’ve ever used the system log in Salesforce, surely you’ve run into some code formatting issues. Fortunately, there’s a Firefox extension out there that will allow you to insert tabs in text areas. Now, I can actually tell what I’m doing in the system log.

hth

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…

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).
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