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iRealSMS ftw!

joe — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 03:18:25 +0000

For those with jailbroken iphones: iRealSMS is a fantastic application that has single-handedly renewed my enjoyment of texting.

screenshots
app review: iRealSMS

copy your current ip address to the clipboard

joe — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:58:42 +0000

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 a new location, I used to copy my external ip from whatsmyip.com. well, if you’re using os x, you can leverage Applescript to make this a bit less painful.


set response to do shell script "/usr/bin/curl http://checkip.dyndns.org/"
set ip_address to extract_ip(response)

set the Reply to display dialog "Your IP address is: " & ip_address
set the clipboard to ip_address

-- Function to extract ip from HTML returned by dydns.com
on extract_ip(this_text)
	set clean_ip to ""
	set this_char to ""
	repeat with this_char in this_text
		set this_char to the contents of this_char
		if the this_char is in {"0", "1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9", "."} then
			set the clean_ip to the clean_ip & this_char as string
		end if
	end repeat
	return the clean_ip
end extract_ip

-- end script

if you’re using Butler, you can run this applescript with a hot key. so, whenever I need my external ip, I simply hold command + shift + i and my ip address is copied to my clipboard for handy paste into the trusted ip ranges.

hth.

system log trick

joe — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 05:01:43 +0000

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

joe — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 20:17:05 +0000

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 (please note the table of opportunity data below is a live Salesforce.com Visualforce page from my development environment embedded into this post):

Controller


public class OpportunityList_Controller {
	public class MyOpportunity {
	    Opportunity o;
	    public MyOpportunity(Opportunity opp) { o = opp; }
	    public Opportunity getOpportunity(){ return o; }

	    public String getColor()  {
		    if (o.Probability < 25) return '#2A73F0';
		    else if (o.Probability >= 25 &amp;&amp; o.Probability <= 75) return '#E0B60D';
		    else if (o.Probability > 75) return '#FF0000';
		    else return '#000000';
	    }
    }

    public List results = new List{};

	public List getOpportunities() {
		results.clear();
        for (Opportunity o : [Select Id, Name, StageName, Closedate, Probability
From Opportunity where StageName != 'Closed Won' order by Name limit 20]) {
        	results.add(new MyOpportunity(o));
        }
		return results;
    }
}

Visualforce Page



	
		
			
			
				
					Opportunity Name
					
					{!o.Opportunity.Name}

visualforce autocomplete component

joe — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:29:30 +0000

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