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My 6 Dreamforce 12 Sessions – Come Say ‘Hi!’
I’m speaking in 6 sessions this year at Dreamforce 12 so if any of the below sessions interest you, please attend and say “hello!” when you are done. Would love to meet you! Rapid Development: Using...
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“Piratize” Your Salesforce Chatter Feeds for ITLAP Day
We just wrapped up a really cool challenge over at CloudSpokes just in time for not only Dreamforce 12 but for International Talk Like a Pirate Day… which just happens to fall right in the middle of...
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OAuth Dance —“client identifier invalid” with Salesforce.com
So over at CloudSpokes we use OAuth for everyone that logs into our Database.com (Salesforce) org. It’s been working fine for over a year but the last couple of days the OAuth dance have been failing...
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Restforce Ruby Gem for Salesforce.com
As one of the committers for the Databasedotcom gem, I follow most of the other committers to see what they are working on. I was pleasantly surprised a few months back when Eric Holmes started...
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Force.com Streaming API with Ruby
I must publicly confess my love with the Force.com Streaming API. (Don’t tell my wife.) Last September I wrote a blog post entitled, Node.js Demo with Force.com Streaming API & Socket.io that...
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Schedule Apex Exception –“No Apex Classes Found”?
So I ran across this issue a couple of months ago and forgot to blog about it for my reference and anyone else that runs across this problem. So here’s the issue, I have an Apex class scheduled in...
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CloudSpokes #DifferentSpokes with Josh Birk from Salesforce.com
Earlier this week we broadcast our third episode of #DifferentSpokes with a special guest, Josh Birk from Salesforce.com. If you missed it, it was a really entertaining episode with some interesting...
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Setting Up Continuous Integration for Saleforce Development
Continuous Integration (CI) for Force.com projects has been a popular topic lately. There are a number of blog post that describe the benefits and how you should go about doing it. However, after we...
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Learn Google DevTools for Free at CodeSchool
It’s an understatement to say that I’m a fan of Code School. I love the way they’ve blended professional video screen casts, live coding in the browser, and gamification to make learning fun again....
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Why the Force.com @future Annotation Should Die!
First of all I love asynchronously processing in Salesfoce. We use it all the time at CloudSpokes. I don’t actually mean that the @future annotation should die, per se, but I think there is a better...
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Custom Setting ‘Null’ After Sandbox Refresh?
The Summer ’13 release for Salesforce.com included an awesome feature that many developers were clamoring for. When refreshing a sandbox, the platform (pre-Summer 13) simply copied the metadata for...
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Forcifier Node.js Package for Force.com
I just published a port of my Forcifier Ruby gem to Node.js. You can find the package on npm and the source on github. So why should you use forcifier for your Node.js application? Well, if you are...
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Salesforce Junction Records to a String of Values
Salesforce Junction objects are a convenient way to create a many-to-many relationship in your data model. Accourding to the docs, a many-to-many relationship allows each record of one object to be...
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Build a Public API on Force.com
Roughly two years ago we wrote our CloudSpokes API on the Force.com platform. It’s evolved of course and the current version is a Ruby application that proxies calls to Force.com via Apex REST...
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Log Force.com Events & Exceptions
Logging in Force.com can be somewhat of a challenge. Since there’s no log file you can write to, we need to develop another mechanism to record events and exceptions that we can inspect later. Sending...
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First Look – Salesforce.com Aura UI Framework
Fun stuff coming out of Salesforce as we ramp up to Dreamforce! I had the opportunity to sit in on the “Intro to Aura” webinar a few hours ago and I thought I would blog on some key points that I came...
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Recap 2013 Salesforce MVP Summit
I’m sitting in the Atlanta airport on my redeye flight home trying to catch my breath from the excitement of the last 48 hours. I’m returning from the 2013 Salesforce MVP Summit and struggling to...
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Announcing the Force.com & Heroku Weekly Newsletter
I’m been a fan of the Ruby, JavaScript, Node.js and Postres weekly newsletters and just realized that there is not one for Force.com and Heroku. So I decided to blatantly rip off the idea and start...
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Debug Force.com REST Calls with Runscope
I love APIs. I love to build them, cURL them, read their source code and talk about them. One of the aspects that I haven’t loved so much is debugging them. That is until I found Runscope. We’ve been...
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Chatter for Apex Code Examples
At CloudSpokes.com we wrap a lot of the challenge process functionality into Chatter. So when we started to add more functionality to our site and org we naturally wanted to leverage the new Chatter...
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