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February 21, 2011: Criteria Based Sharing Comes to Salesforce with Spring ‘11

The Spring ‘11 release of Salesforce.com brought some pretty cool developer features. One of the most useful for me will be criteria based sharing.

January 17, 2011: Salesforce’s Spring ‘11 Release Is Bringing Further Developer Enhancements

The Salesforce.com Spring ‘11 release is coming soon, and with it some much needed improvements to governor limits and unit testing.

December 14, 2010: Database.com is a Promising New Technology From Salesforce.com

There were a lot of cool new technologies and developer tools announced at Dreamforce this year, but the one I found most interesting was the new database in the cloud called Database.com.

November 15, 2010: Get Into The Cloud - For Free!

If you’ve been on the fence about moving your applications to the cloud, Amazon has a deal you may want to check out. As of November 1, 2010 all new Amazon Web Service (AWS) accounts are eligible for a free EC2 Micro Instance for a year.

October 18, 2010: Google Search Appliance Receives Cloud Support With Latest Update

Companies using the Google Search Appliance and Google Apps rejoice!  An update to the Google Search Appliance is bringing support for Google Apps and cloud based searching.

September 09, 2010: Salesforce.com Winter 11 Release Is Coming Soon

On October 11th, Salesforce.com will begin rolling out its Winter 11 release. Included in the release are many new developer features that will no doubt assist in creating rich applications and websites on the Force.com platform.

August 13, 2010: A New 100% Native Link Shortener For Force.com

There is an interesting new tool in the Salesforce.com Appexchange called LinkForce. They call it a Force.com native URL shortener, but its potential goes well beyond that.

July 09, 2010: A Handy Method For Converting 15 Character ID Strings In Salesforce to 18 Characters

The way Salesforce.com generates its IDs with 15 and 18 character versions may work well for certain things, but it can cause developers headaches when trying to use them in Apex. When trying to compare ID’s as strings in Apex, we often end up comparing the 15 character ID to the 18 character ID and don’t receive a match.

June 16, 2010: Sorting Lists in Apex

Salesforce.com’s Apex programming language has a lot of nice features, especially for being relatively new to the scene. It has a good amount of functionality and the Force.com platform makes it easy to quickly develop applications. However, there are some features that I would like to see implemented. One of those features is being able to easily sort a list of complex data types like SObjects or ListOptions.

May 26, 2010: Governor Limit Gotchas Part 1 - The Future Call

When doing development in a multi-tenant environment, there have to be certain limits in place that keep applications from running out of control and causing performance problems for other users of the environment. These limits are often referred to as governor limits, and while I agree with putting them in place to control applications, I often find they can be hard to work with. This is part one in what will no doubt be a multi-part series of blogs around some of the gotchas I run across when developing in the cloud.

May 19, 2010: Google Announces App Engine For Business

It’s Google I/O time again, and that means plenty of cool new cloud technology announcements.  One such announcement came today in the form of a new product called App Engine for Business.  It’s Google’s same cloud based application hosting platform with some new tools and features that should make it much more appealing to enterprises.

May 11, 2010: New System Log Console Is A Step In The Right Direction

Debugging is one of the areas that I feel the Force.com platform needs the most work. Needless to say, I was very excited to see a blog post on the Developerforce website containing a sneak peek at a new System Log Console.