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).
Release Preview
Release Notes (pdf)
(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…
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.
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new look for the approval history related list
just noticed this…is this new in Summer ‘08?
visualizing workflow
When clients illustrate complex business processes with a seemingly endless cast of layers, players, deadlines, and notifications I cringe, not because of Salesforce.com’s inability to handle these types of processes (Salesforce.com’s workflow capabilities are exceptional), but being a visual person I’m well-aware of Salesforce.com’s inability to provide visual representation of workflow. As a solution, I [...]
enhance recent items…please?
As a heavy Salesforce.com user/developer/consultant, there are many times when I’m cycling through custom objects, workflow rules, apex triggers, and reports in an org and I’d like to be able to follow my progress in the sidebar via the recent items section. I’d really like the ability to customize the recent items section to toggle [...]
code coverage errors in the Force.com ide
This is a frustration of mine when using the Eclipse-based Force.com IDE. Even when effective code coverage has been reached, I’m still stuck with code coverage errors in the Problems pane. Obviously, this is merely an annoyance, but something that should be addressed. Is there an Eclipse function that will flush error [...]
get on my cloud
Hello and welcome to joe-ferraro.com. As you might expect, my name is Joe Ferraro. I’m a SaaS developer/consultant in Philadelphia. I’m especially fond of Force.com development and I’ll be using this blog to post best practices, examples of native Salesforce.com apps, and other interesting utilizations of the platform. Feel free to contact me with questions [...]
