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A Few Force.com Best Practices
By: | October 7, 2010 | Leave a comment
The one thing I have noticed in my time as a Force.com Developer is there is a fundamental difference between someone developing in the Force.com language or someone developing on the Force.com platform. Both have to figure out ways to work within the constraints of Force.com limits. People working with the language see the … read the whole post
A Two-Hour Chatter Application
By: | October 1, 2010 | (1) Comment
I get bored. When I get bored I code. Here’s an example: Two hours later I had this: Which is all about this: This is my two hour Salesforce Chatter Air Application. Its simple enough functionality wise, all it does is: Login into Salesforce using Username, Password, and Token Allows a user with the Chatter … read the whole post
Declarative vs. Custom Force.com
By: | September 23, 2010 | (1) Comment
Whats wrong with this picture? There are a few things, but one thing that is obvious which is the basic part of this story: This code and any and all Trigger code must be in classes. Triggers run with System Admin privileges and don’t take advantage of any sharing rules or any security restrictions. That … read the whole post
10 Golden Rules for Developing in the Clouds
By: | September 14, 2010 | Leave a comment
Theres a few rules that I've learned while working with Salesforce/Azure/Amazon Web Service/Google App Engine that everyone should follow: Manage your DB read/writes - It may seem beneficial to do a write then a read for the latest data, but manage the data in cache so you don't waste precious resources. Many Cloud providers lock … read the whole post
Reid’s Cake Analogy
By: | September 14, 2009 | Leave a comment
Model Metrics is fortunate enough to work with three really interesting – and really different – companies in the Cloud Computing space: Salesforce.com, Amazon Web Services and Google App Engine. The question I get most often is “What’s the difference?” It’s a fair question, so let me answer it using a food analogy.* Amazon Web … read the whole post
Salesforce data loading when all else fails.
By: | August 21, 2009 | Leave a comment
Had an interesting challenge the other day: all the best last data migration plans were failing. Why? The tool of choice — which one is not important — failed. What to do? I used Cloud Converter. Quelle surprise, right? I could have used something else, but it’s some decent code that I’m familiar with — … read the whole post
How To: Install Cloud Converter as a Web Tab
By: | May 29, 2009 | Leave a comment
Here’s a follow up to yesterday’s webinar. I’ve recorded step by step how to add Cloud Converter as a web tab in your org.
Cloud Converter Update: External ID, Picklists, Lookups & Multitab
By: | May 28, 2009 | (2) Comments
An updated version of Cloud Converter is available this morning. It includes several new and useful features. Upload from XLS now allows multiple tabs in your source document. Includes both Simple and Advanced options for import. Simple is the same as it ever was. Advanced is all new. Edit Object labels and plurals in Advanced … read the whole post
A Person’s Passion Makes the Difference
By: | May 11, 2009 | Leave a comment
Contact the author at rcarlberg@modelmetrics.com or @ReidCarlberg I’m on a quest to eliminate the term “resource” as a synonym for another human being. Why? Simple: everything I do is about people. Everything succeeds or fails based on the people involved. The term “resource” feels like an attempt to whitewash this fact, to neutralize it. And … read the whole post
New Cloud Converter Feature: Import Your App from Excel (Beta)
By: | April 6, 2009 | Leave a comment
Contact Reid by email (rcarlberg@modelmetrics.com) or Twitter (@ReidCarlberg). I’ve been working on a new feature for Cloud Converter, the ability to import an app from an Excel spreadsheet. Here’s a walk through. You can use this for free, link code at the bottom. You can add this to your org — DE, EE, UE — … read the whole post
Friday Thought: Less Talking, More Doing
By: | March 20, 2009 | Leave a comment
One of the things I like about Salesforce.com and the Force.com platform is that they enable people to do more while talking less. Let me clarify: people still get to talk, but they get to talk less about what they’re trying to do on the platform. They’ll probably talk more about other, unrelated stuff, once … read the whole post
Salesforce-to-Salesforce Mashup: 100% Native Force.com Apex Solution
By: | March 16, 2009 | (4) Comments
Follow Reid: Twitter.com/ReidCarlberg. A few people on my team contributed to this at different points. Props to Shoby Abdi for getting it all together. Twitter.com/ShobyAbdi. I recently ran into a challenge regarding a Salesforce-to-Salesforce mashup. We didn’t want to move the data (traditional integration, S2S/org to org sharing), but we also wanted to keep the … read the whole post
Dear IT Leadership: Please Lead
By: | February 25, 2009 | (1) Comment
Follow Reid Carlberg on Twitter or contact him at rcarlberg@modelmetrics.com. Dear IT Leadership, Today, your business needs you more than ever. The economy is weakening. Competition is intense.. You’ve helped it navigate technologies for years. But the business has immensely complex new challenges today. It needs your help to operate more efficiently. It needs your … read the whole post
Four Reasons I Don’t Care That Gmail Went Down
By: | February 24, 2009 | (6) Comments
Follow ReidCarlberg on Twitter or contact him at rcarlberg@modelmetrics.com. Hey Stumbleupon — welcome! You might also enjoy "Import Your App from Excel". Gmail experienced an outage in Europe overnight. There’s some handwringing and frustration about it. But you know what? I don’t care. Here’s why. 1. The last significant Gmail outage looks to have been … read the whole post
Top Five and One Half Amazon Web Services Factoids I Learned in Seattle
By: | February 21, 2009 | (1) Comment
You can follow Reid Carlberg on Twitter or email him at rcarlberg@modelmetrics.com We’ve used Amazon Web Services in my department, but I wasn’t very close to the project. So when I had a chance to take a deeper dive, I jumped at it. Here are some of the things I learned. 1. AWS Dropped prices on their SimpleDB … read the whole post
How To: Force.com API Upsert and Lookup Field Foreign Key Resolution with Sample XML and Sample Code
By: | February 20, 2009 | Leave a comment
You can follow Reid Carlberg on Twitter or email him at rcarlberg@modelmetrics.com. One of the absolute best features of the Salesforce.com/Force.com API is the ability to handle lookup relationships gracefully using external IDs. You can easily have one object with an external ID and then add another object with a lookup relationship to the first … read the whole post
The “First 500 Certified” tombstone arrived….
By: | January 13, 2009 | Leave a comment
You can follow Reid Carlberg on Twitter. …along with a pretty decent fleece. This Force.com First 500 Certified thing — it’s like the gift that keeps on giving. (First the pin & hat, the certificate and now this. A bonanza!)
Hooray – “Dirt Bound” now insanely popular.
By: | January 9, 2009 | (1) Comment
You can follow Reid Carlberg on Twitter. My prior ground-breaking* work on "dirt computing" has proven it’s worth! "Dirt bound" is now insanely popular. Or, if not insanely popular, it has appeared in at least one blog post outside of mine. Although I should probably admit that even that blog post is about my … read the whole post