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Setting up your Ruby on Rails environment for Force.com

Nick Simha — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 00:28:36 +0000

Like many of you, I was excited about the announcement regarding Heroku at Dreamforce. I wanted to learn more about Ruby and Heroku and what better way to learn a new programming language than to write and deploy an application. Though I found the getting started article useful, it assumes you have a working environment. This article shows you [...]

If you build it, will they come?

Sati Hillyer — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 07:57:37 +0000

Great user experience takes time, but the rewards are worth it. Examples like TiVo, Google Maps, Mint.com and iPhone show the impact a great user experience can have on user adoption and how influential it can be to the industry. Killer apps chang

Designing a Killer User Experience

Sati Hillyer — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 08:39:43 +0000

User experience is more than the app, it's everything before, during and after. You want to be sure your app is compelling from the moment a prospect is introduced, to when your customer is using it everyday as part of their business.

De-mystifying & optimizing view state

Nick Simha — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 11:46:37 +0000

HTTP is a stateless protocol. Your Visualforce pages though may need to maintain state across multiple HTTP requests / postbacks. Visualforce automatically does this for you with view state making your job as a developer easier. Fin

Developer Force discounts for eBay’s Dev Con

Sati Hillyer — Fri, 21 May 2010 08:34:41 +0000

Jon Jessup, a partner and active member in our community, is teaming up with our very own Dave Carroll to present, "Leveraging the Power of the Force" at eBay's Developer Conference. eBay has shared a promo code to the Developer For

Design an Aloha App!

Sati Hillyer — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 23:10:13 +0000

Today we announced Aloha Apps on the AppExchange. Aloha Apps have been given special permissions allowing: Apps to run Apex Code in GE and PE Apps to be immune to Custom Apps, Objects, and Tabs limits Some of these apps will have the ability

My “Top 10 Favorites” of 2009

Sati Hillyer — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:43:51 +0000

As 2009 comes to a close, I find myself reminiscing of all the great things that occurred over the past year. So for your reading enjoyment, I present my "Top 10 Favorites" of 2009.10.&

Chatter and Event Driven Architecture (EDA)

Nick Simha — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 08:42:50 +0000

One of the things that stuck me while watching the Chatter presentation and demo was the asynchronous and event driven nature of the collaboration taking place. As an example, any number of activities happening at&#

Chatter – this changes everything!

Nick Simha — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:44:37 +0000

As you may have heard salesforce.com announced a new platform for enterprise collaboration called Chatter. Most people have access to cooler, newer technologies in their homes compared to what they are forced to use at work - slowe

Adobe Flex and some great coffee

Nick Simha — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:29:53 +0000

Flex enables you to make your applications visually compelling by incorporating animation and rich media into your user interface. If you are here at Dreamforce, I would strongly encourage you to stop by the Stratus Cafe where you will get a