Social Campaigns Salesforce has always been a great tool for managing and collaborating on marketing campaigns, but how can we ramp that up into the social enterprise? With Salesforce technologies and social media channels, it’s possible to create great campaigns that incorporate social media monitoring and actively engage customers and leads throughout the campaign lifecycle. … read the whole post
Designing the Mobile Cloud
By: | December 13, 2012 | (1) Comment
Jessica Nussbaum is the Director of Marketing at MobileIron, a fast-growing mobile enterprise management vendor well aware of the connection between design and user adoption. What was the motivating factor behind your business’s move to the cloud? In addition to an on-premise solution, we offer a cloud-based solution to customers, so naturally we believe in … read the whole post
AWS Re:Invent
By: | December 6, 2012 | Leave a comment
Re:Invent- Amazon Web Services had another first this year with the re:invent conference. The conference kicked off week following ThanksGiving with a full day of partner events, followed by two full days of Amazon Web Services. Not only was this a sweet visit to the good old Vegas strip, it was a great opportunity … read the whole post
BIG Data Force
By: | November 1, 2012 | (1) Comment
Last month I had the pleasure of attending my 9th Dreamforce in San Francisco; my 6th as part of the professional services ecosystem. Each year, there are emerging technologies or themes for the conference that create a buzz among conference-goers like new application features, a new “cloud”, a new acquisition, the emergence of the platform, … read the whole post
Big Data Made Small with Heroku, DynamoDB, and Elastic Map Reduce
By: | October 17, 2012 | Leave a comment
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
The Four Horsemen of NoSQL
By: | July 25, 2012 | Leave a comment
In the last few years, the big data space has generated a lot of great new technologies to combat the problem of exponential data growth and the need to process and learn from that data as soon as possible. Many industries including manufacturing, bio-tech and cloud computing and social media are cranking out thousands even … read the whole post
Moving the Cloud — HTML5 and CSS3 on Node.js
By: | July 18, 2012 | Leave a comment
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
The Future of Mobile Technology: Augmented Reality
By: | June 29, 2012 | (1) Comment
Recently I was asked to talk about the future of mobile technology and consumer experiences for some internal meetings. As I prepared and began to envision the future, I couldn’t help but think of the integral role mobile devices have in our lives today. The ability to use my Droid 3 to make a phone … read the whole post
Technology Leader Viewpoint – Social Enterprise Transformations
By: | June 11, 2012 | (2) Comments
By: Ed Sprigler, AVP Field Sales, Safelite AutoGlass, Being Social Means Also Means the Ability to Act on Social Information Safelite AutoGlass®, the largest provider of vehicle glass repair and replacement in the country, worked with Model Metrics to deploy Salesforce to 250 sales reps and mobilize it on the iPad 2. Safelite’s sales reps … read the whole post
Fluid Mobile HTML5 Design and Development
By: | June 4, 2012 | (2) Comments
In the world of print publication, laying out a design starts with a canvas that has a known height and width. If an agency is putting together an advertisement for a magazine, and they know that they are (hypothetically) designing for a page that is 8 inches wide and 10 inches high, assuming a standard … read the whole post
Codesign: Re-Signing an IPA between Apple accounts
By: | May 17, 2012 | (15) Comments
Since much of the iOS development work we do is for clients who are developing apps to distribute internally with an In House Mobile Provisioning Profile using their Enterprise Distribution Certificates, and not all of them want to share those files outside of their organization, we frequently need a way to send them the IPA … read the whole post
Developer’s First Look at Windows 8 Metro
By: | April 30, 2012 | Leave a comment
With all the recent buzz around Windows 8 RT for ARM and the Metro interface, I wanted to do a bit of a first-look at developing for the Windows 8 Metro interface. To get started, I thought I’d take a look at getting the Windows 8 Consumer Preview installed on an actual tablet, so I … read the whole post
Storing Data Offline with Salesforce Mobile SDK SmartStore
By: | April 19, 2012 | (8) Comments
Storing Data Offline with Salesforce Mobile SDK SmartStore Say you’re writing a “hybrid” mobile app for iOS and Android using PhoneGap (“Callback” or “Cordova”) and you want to store data locally. Your choices are kind of limited. You could, for instance, use WebSQL, which has been implemented in WebKit for a while now and is … read the whole post
Using XMLHttpRequest2 in iOS 5 or Android OS 3 to download binary files using HTML5/Phonegap
By: | November 19, 2011 | Leave a comment
One of the things added to Safari and UIWebView in iOS5 is support for XMLHttpRequest 2, which according to W3C adds new features “such as cross-origin requests, progress events, and the handling of byte streams for both sending and receiving”. As part of the last bit of that, it’s now possible to set the responseType to arraybuffer, which is … read the whole post
oAuth 2.0 for Salesforce.com
By: | August 21, 2011 | (11) Comments
At this point in time, we’ve implemented the oAuth 2.0 User-Agent flow and the Refresh Token flow for iOS, Android, and Flex/AS3. I figure that makes us as much an expert at doing this as anybody, so I thought I’d take a moment to describe some of the details. First off, the reason you want … read the whole post
Setting Up and Using DiffDog for Salesforce.com Deployment Validation
By: | July 18, 2011 | (8) Comments
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
Real Time Integration with the Informatica Cloud REST API
By: | May 10, 2011 | (9) Comments
You can follow Trey Roldan on Twitter. Informatica has added long awaited real time integration capabilities in their latest summer release. Their cloud integrations are no longer bound by scheduled jobs, they can now be called in real time as needed. The latest release incorporates a full-featured REST API that seemingly performs as a cloud … read the whole post
The day the cloud stood still. Lessons learned roundup…
By: | April 26, 2011 | (4) Comments
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
It’s Not Broken. You’re Just Doing It Wrong.
By: | April 21, 2011 | (2) Comments
Okay, so the title is a bit harsh. I was intrigued by the rather excellent post over at the blog Il y a du thé renversé au bord de la table, [Rant] Web development is just broken. Yoric makes the argument that web developers are forced to deal with too many “nightmares” that have very … read the whole post
Shift of Power
By: | March 3, 2011 | Leave a comment
Not only is The Big Switch by Nicholas Carr an enjoyable read but it is also extremely pertinent in today’s IT world. The book reviews a paradigm shift which occurred through the industrial revolution where manufacturing facilities built and maintained their own power generation engines. This started with water-driven power wheels on the riverbank … read the whole post
Cloud to Cloud: Using AWS Simple Email Service from Force.com
By: | February 25, 2011 | (3) Comments
Amazon released a really interesting service not too long ago called Simple Email Service (SES). It allows you to send individual or bulk emails without having to rely on your own mail servers. This is important because sending (legitimate) mass emails while staying off spam blacklists like Spamhaus is no simple task, and you don’t want … read the whole post
Website on S3
By: | February 18, 2011 | Leave a comment
S3 Lab- For this lab we will demonstrate the ease of hosting static content in S3. This should not take very long and is very easy, just follow the steps below or watch the video located here. 1. Open a web browser and go to http://www.freewebsitetemplates.com/ here we will select a free website to … read the whole post
How to Make WordPress on EC2!
By: | February 16, 2011 | Leave a comment
In this exercise we will show the steps to setting up a AWS EC2 server, connect over ssh and install all the tools and config WordPress. I have attached a video to each step and it might make more sense to read the steps, watch the video and then try them yourself. If you are … read the whole post
What Can the Public Cloud Do For Your Enterprise Today?
By: | January 25, 2011 | Leave a comment
So this is an interesting question: Many small businesses are finding the cloud extremely useful, but how will the enterprises incorporate it? I am sure you have all seen the Microsoft commercials aimed at the consumer “to the cloud!”, and I am sure most of you have used a cloud app before like drop … read the whole post
How to Migrate From Hosted SVN Using Amazon’s EC2
By: | January 25, 2011 | Leave a comment
In this post I will show how to launch a EC2 server, install the tools needed to sync svn repos with a paid svn repository then create a dump file that can be imported to a new SVN server. We were migrating from Codesion, now a CollabNet company to a server that we had built in … read the whole post
John and the Beanstalk
By: | January 20, 2011 | Leave a comment
It is a good time to be a developer. The PaaS space is heating up and now developers have a great new option to use to deploy, run and manage their applications, Beanstalk. The name is a departure from the normal Amazon alphabet soup, and is certainly unique and memorable. I’m especially excited about this service … read the whole post
TeamCity install on EC2 -Distributed Build Management and Continuous Integration Server
By: | January 12, 2011 | Leave a comment
TeamCity Distributed Build Management and Continuous Integration Server So a few months ago we installed Teamcity on an ec2 server to mess around with. It was really just for us to see how well it works and we loved it so much we have not stopped using it! So I thought I would put up … read the whole post
Getting the Nod.
By: | January 10, 2011 | Leave a comment
Dreamforce/Cloudstock I was extremely lucky to attend Dreamforce and Cloudstock in December and was excited to see all the multi-cloud love. In the keynote given at Dreamforce, Salesforce announced a few new multi cloud offerings; database.com, VMforce, Heroku, and they gave the nod to Amazon Web Services with a live demo. In the demo they … read the whole post
Jboss on CentOS whitepaper
By: | January 3, 2011 | Leave a comment
So I decided i would start putting up some white papers or at least screen captures of basic installs that I do often. So with out adding too much hype here is the first one, Jboss, MySQL and httpd on Centos. This is a pretty straight forward install and does not touch on the AWS … read the whole post
Route 53
By: | January 3, 2011 | (1) Comment
Route 53- So this week I spent some time setting up route53 on a domain we have for testing and I must say it was pretty simple but was harder than it should be. I started out reading the documentation and downloading the tools to get it started and was surprised how difficult AWS … read the whole post