windows8developmentforforce.com–part1,oauth2.0

One million tweets per day. An average of fifteen words per tweet. Four (awesome) days of Dreamforce 2012… Out of the 60 million words that scrolled across the screen on the Model Metrics Art of Code exhibit Moving the Cloud during Dreamforce 2012, which were the most frequently used? Well, “social” was #1, then “touch” … read the whole post

Moving the Cloud is an experiment in using HTML5 and CSS3 technologies and Node.js. It was also an experiment on using Node.js on the Cedar stack in Heroku, but that didn’t quite work out as expected (more on that later). It’s also an Easter egg on the Model Metrics Homepage. Click on the animated 1s … read the whole post

There are a few different ways to deploy metadata from org to org with Salesforce.com. The three main options are to use Eclipse, to use Ant (the “Force.com Migration Tool”), or to use Change Sets. The first two are completely manual to set up (although Ant, obviously, is able to be run over and over … read the whole post

The well-publisized outage of EBS on multiple availability zones in the US-EAST-1 Region of AWS last week kicked off some excellent blog posts from companies who, through robust architectural choices, managed to weather the storm quite well. It lasted five days, it’s been called the worst cloud computing disaster ever, and Amazon’s communications strategy didn’t exactly shine, but it has presented … read the whole post

I had some issues over the weekend trying to import an Flex Builder 3 AIR project into Flash Builder 4. This post gives a good description of how it is supposed to work, and I assume that it does work for Flex web projects, but it didn’t work for me with an AIR project. Every time I imported the AIR project, … read the whole post

There’s a known redraw bug in the OSX version of the Firefox Flash Player plugin that’s pretty irritating. If you do something that causes too many redraw events to get called in quick succession, Flash will fail to redraw the screen properly, and you end up with a mish-mash of phantom objects on the screen: This … read the whole post

Automated testing tools like FlexMonkey, RIATest, and QTP in Flex require you to add a few .swc files from Adobe to the compiler arguments in order to run. This is easy enough to set up in the project settings: -locale en_US -include-libraries “${flexlib}/libs/automation.swc” “${flexlib}/libs/automation_agent.swc” “${flexlib}/libs/automation_dmv.swc” But if you try to do this in version 3.3.0 … read the whole post

We’ve been working more and more with Adobe AIR and Salesforce.com recently, and as such we’ve been putting the AIRConnection class through its paces, fixing bugs and adding functionality along the way. Here are a few of the modifications we’ve made, and why: SQL Reserved Words One of the first things that we noticed was that we … read the whole post

  I’ll start by saying that Clang is a must-have tool for every iPhone developer. It’s easy to use, and it does a fantastic job of profiling the memory usage of your apps. The iPhone is a powerful hand-held device, but the memory constraints are tight enough that they can cause serious problems with application … read the whole post

  Adding a contact to the iPhone’s address book isn’t horribly complicated, but it’s not the most straightforward process in the world, either, because the documentation leaves a bit to be desired. There is an Address Book Programming Guide published by Apple, but at 28 pages, it feels a bit bloated when you’re just trying … read the whole post

Following are some lessons indented for developers who are well versed in any number of other programming languages, but who are coming to the iPhone for the first time.