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March 29, 2013 | Craig Isakson: Getting Logged-in userId in Salesforce Hybrid Mobile App

If you are building a Salesforce Hybrid Mobile Application and like me are having issues trying to find documentation on how to perform certain actions, this blog might help you out.  The issue I was having was the lack of documentation around getting the current logged in userId after you were logged into the application.

March 29, 2013 | Craig Isakson: Using Reflection with Salesforce Custom Apex Classes—Sort of

If you have ever been coding away on a problem and come to a place where you might need a value of a property on a class or even a specific class without knowing the class name, then you are probably familiar with using reflection.

March 28, 2013 | John Schneider: 10 Ways Google Is Taking Over Your Digital Life

It seems that every time I turn around, Google is introducing something new. How many of these Google products are you using to manage your digital life?

March 28, 2013 | John Schneider: The Danger Of Going “Full Google”

I don’t see Google ever deciding to get rid of Gmail or its cloud-based office programs; they provide a wealth of user search and demographic information that aids in Google catering ads specific to the user. Still, it would be wise to weigh Google’s trigger-happy tendencies when deciding whether or not to go “Full Google”.

March 18, 2013 | Terry Luschen: Five Pieces of Advice to Kickstart Your Career as a Software Developer

So, you want to be a software developer?  Listed in this post are five pieces of advice on how to jump start your career.

March 10, 2013 | Terry Luschen: Recursion on the Force.com Platform

Recursion is a technique that needs to be implemented on each platform and Force.com is no different.  Here are some pointers to help you get started.

March 04, 2013 | Terry Luschen: Three Reasons to use Javascript and the Salesforce API behind custom buttons.

Normally when you create a custom button in Salesforce it will be pointed to a Visualforce page which will required an Apex class and unit tests.  But by using some Javascript and the Salesforce API we can do some pretty powerful mass updates without all of those dependencies.

February 28, 2013 | Craig Isakson: Firefox OS

In lines with the Ubuntu Touch announcement at Mobile World Congress, Mozilla announced that they will be releasing devices with their new Firefox OS aboard to a number of different countries including…

February 28, 2013 | Craig Isakson: Ubuntu Touch: Developers Preview

Last month we learned that Canonical has been working on a touch version of their Linux distribution to work on phones.  This month Canonical came out with the news that not only were they working on a phone version but a tablet version as well.

February 26, 2013 | Terry Luschen: Traverse A Tree Strucuture Using Salesforce APEX Batch Jobs

Implementing the traversal of a tree structure with a Salesforce APEX batch job is one way to use the feature of being able to spawn a batch job from the finish method from a currently running batch job.

February 18, 2013 | Terry Luschen: Stephen Ministry, Tony Dungy and Salesforce Integrations - Really?  Yes!

I had a lot of great information presented to me recently. It has all been an eye-opener that will hopefully help me serve others better.

February 12, 2013 | Terry Luschen: Saving the contents of an image or file URL as an attachment or Salesforce content

There are times when we can only get a link to an image or file.  What if we want to bring that file into Salesforce?  We can get that done using the APEX HTTPRequest object.