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Last month, the Force.com Developer Relations team held a Holiday Cookbook Contest to spur user-generated content. There were a good number of high-quality submissions that were reviewed, tested, and edited before being posted to the Force.com Cookbook site. I want to point out one cookbook recipe that is of particular interest, which is Luke Freeland’s recipe for automating the execution of unit tests in a Salesforce org.

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I came across an academic paper published by Microsoft Research that analyzes distributed version control systems, particularly Git and Mercurial, and their effects on project health by comparing issues experienced while under central version control with those under distributed version control. While much of the paper is difficult to digest due to attempts at analyzing a repository’s branching/merging statistics and quantifying their related conflicts, I still found some interesting facts and nuggets of wisdom backed by their empirical research and interviews.

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In my previous post, I gave a high-level overview of a Visualforce page lifecycle. In this post, I’d like to discuss how I like to apply the MVC pattern to my Visualforce pages to keep them logically structured and make them easier to maintain.

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I have written about Augmented Reality (AR) coding in general, how it works with Layar, and Windows Mango.  The last part I’d like to discuss is the 3D modeling.

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Recently, I’ve been researching the MVC pattern, which is a method of code organization used by GUI applications. I’d like to take some time to discuss how this software architecture pattern is used by Visualforce, in the hopes of educating the reader and inspiring them to write more organized code.

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