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What does Salesforce1 mean for Developers?
For the past few years, the salesforce.com mantra has been “Chatter”. Everything was Chatter and everything connected to Chatter. Chatter was the way, the truth and the life. If you’ve been watching...
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What does Heroku1 mean for Developers?
Heroku1 was announced a couple of weeks ago at Dreamforce but was overshadowed by the Salesforce1 fanfare. Salesforce1 is awesome but, I think Heroku1 is just as important, if not more, as it will...
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Fun with Force.com CLI, JSON and .jq
We are terminal junkies at CloudSpokes so we were really excited when the Force.com CLI was announced. One of our favorite command line tools is .jq, a lightweight and flexible command-line JSON...
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Roll Your Own Node CLI for Force.com
I’d like to start off this post with two admissions: 1) I love the Force.com CLI 2) I don’t know Go. Fact #2 makes it hard for me to extend the CLI for my own (selfish) purposes. However, I am fairly...
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Announcing Force.com Tooling API for Node.js (nforce)
Over Christmas break I stared playing around with the Force.com Tooling API in node.js. We have some ideas over at topcoder for the Tooling API and I wanted to build a POC to see how crazy I was. After...
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Yesterday I released the nforce-tooling plugin for nforce so today I thought I would follow up with some sample demos and a video walking through the process of using the plugin. The video walks...
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Announcing “Learn Force.com in 30 Days” Series
Since today is Valentine's Day I thought it would be an appropriate time to "spread the salesforce.com community love" with this announcement. Last summer I started working on a new series called...
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Sample Ruby on Rails Force.com Canvas App
Force.com Canvas apps are a great way to extend the Force.com platform with existing legacy apps or to take advantage of existing packages and libraries on other platforms. Lately I’ve been writing a...
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Updating a Record When Viewed using Std Page Layout
I recently had a scenario where I wanted to track the last time a Lead record was viewed in Salesforce for auditing purposes. I added a simple Last_Viewed__c date field to the Lead object and then set...
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Real World Experience with Salesforce1 Heroku Connect
Cross-posted from the Appirio Tech Blog. Today Heroku announced the general availability of Salesforce1 Heroku Connect. Heroku Connect makes it easy to build customer-facing applications that leverage...
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