Decoding Salesforce

Force Monkey: The Most Influential Salesforce.com Tech Bloggers

Alessandro — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 10:48:36 +0000

JP Seabury over at Force Monkey compiled a list of the Top 10 most influential Salesforce.com Tech Bloggers: I’m glad to have made it there at #10. Goes without saying that my contributions on this blog haven’t been numerous in the past year or so, but I’ll take this as an incentive to post more [...]

Inline Google Maps using Visualforce

Alessandro — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:17:03 +0000

Sometime ago we’ve seen how to integrate Google Maps in a Salesforce.com page to pinpoint a specific address on the map, more precisely, how to add an inline map to pinpoint an Account Billing Address. I revisited the script I wrote more than a year ago and produced it as a Visualforce page, here’s the [...]

Improve the New Salesforce UI with Greasemonkey (via TehNrd)

Alessandro — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 09:57:18 +0000

Jason over at TehNrd blogged before about how the new Salesforce.com UI should look like. Now he shows us how to use Greasemonkey to change the appearance of the Salesforce.com UI based on his feedback; Greasemonkey is a great tool to quickly prototype changes to web applications (see also Setup Enhancer for Salesforce.com), I hope to [...]

Salesforce.com, Twitter and @anywhere

Alessandro — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:59:12 +0000

“Soon, sites many of us visit every day will be able to recreate these open, engaging interactions providing a new layer of value for visitors without sending them to Twitter.com. Our open technology platform is well known and Twitter APIs are already widely implemented but this is a different approach because we’ve created something incredibly [...]

Salesforce.com Chatter Ideas

Alessandro — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:11:03 +0000

“New realtime cloud applications, platforms, and infrastructure offer the path to redefine the future of collaboration. Now in beta, Salesforce Chatter takes the best of Facebook, Twitter, and other social leaders, for instance, and applies it to enterprise collaboration—making people more productive and businesses more competitive”. via The Facebook Imperative. We’ve been using Salesforce.com Chatter [...]

Setup Enhancer for Salesforce for Greasemonkey

Alessandro — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 09:49:49 +0000

Since Jeff blogged about the Setup Enhancer for Salesforce I’ve been using it on a daily basis. It’s definitely a Salesforce administrator’s new best friend. “[It] Adds controls to the top of the Salesforce setup sidebar to filter, collapse and expand the setup tree, and adds a handle to show/hide the sidebar”. via Setup Enhancer [...]

Chatter & Google Wave. So many possibilities. – Force.com Blog

Alessandro — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 16:04:52 +0000

The current incarnation of the Wave robot facilitated a ‘public’ conversation with a user and a support agent. What if we extended this scenario to let the agent start a ‘private’ conversation using Chatter? Then write some code to have Chatter reach out to Wave, and start more ‘public’ conversations with vendors who may be [...]

sfdc-web2anything

Alessandro — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:12:27 +0000

Long time no update. I know, I know.. We’ve launched an opensource project to help you generate web forms for the live collection/insertion of data in any standard or custom Salesforce.com object. Although Salesforce.com Sites will soon be in Developer Preview, we thought that some Salesforce.com customers could find it useful. Check the project website [...]

Apex Code: What you need to get started…

Eoin — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 11:31:14 +0000

Following on from my previous post. Below is what you’ll need to get started developing with Apex. A salesforce.com Developer Edition Account: sign up from the developer site developer.force.com Apex Documents: available from the Developer Wiki, Apex and Visualforce Section. The Force.com IDE: just follow the steps on the site to set it up. A [...]

Tabbed Account page using Visualforce

Eoin — Mon, 05 May 2008 13:40:15 +0000

Ok, so, I’ve been poking around at Visualforce a little in my spare time and I came across this tutorial on how to create a tabbed Account page on the Salesforce Developer site. Check it out! Tabbed browsing within records in salesforce, this should help tidy up some of those annoyingly long Page Layouts. I’ve [...]