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Today, Developer Force (http://developer.force.com) released its new library. Here are a few of them. All can be found at http://wiki.developerforce.com/index.php/Documentation...

The keynote hasn’t even started and already there is a lot of chatter on twitter and the web about salesforce.com’s new offering: Salesforce Chatter. In the Blog Pound, we were given books of Service Cloud success stories and chattering-teeth. T...

Good morning, all! As Dreamforce is this week, I’ll be sharing more frequently, updating after every major session and sharing code and config tips picked up during the conference. ...

This morning I was greeted by this email from SugarCRM (actually two emails): Dear David Marc Benioff has a few zingers for SugarCRM in his new book Behind the Cloud: “We knew that we had truly emerged as the market leader in the eyes of the industry when we arrived at Dreamforce 2006 to find t...

This year, I’ve been given a Blogger pass to Dreamforce, so I’ll be reporting on happenings fairly regularly. Stay tuned for news, stories, and tips. I’m also planning to post any interesting code from the various developer sessions, so stay tuned! And ...

Reading the cheatsheet for Filtered Lookup (beta), I noticed an interesting line: Lookup filters function similarly to validation rules when you save a record...

Salesforce for Twitter is one of the best AppExchange packages I've seen. It fulfills the promise salesforce.com made to bring the Service Cloud to all orgs of all sizes. And it works well...

The salesforce.com Developer Force Challenge has concluded, and the team of Force Squared and The Enforcer won a mention! Our Daily Shinro site was listed “for sheer exuberance!” I’m really proud of the site, though the lion’s share of the kudos go to John for the concept and site design. I jus...

About two weeks ago, I posted a list of the many setup steps I took to make my Winter ‘10 prerelease org useable. Those are the same steps I have to take whenever setting up any Developer Edition org for the first time as well. ...

With the impending arrival of the Winter 2010 (aka 162 or Winter'10) edition of Salesforce CRM, as with every other release, comes a prerelease org...

While perusing some websites, looking at html code, I saw something interesting: A company had used Javascript to update the copyright date of its website using Javascript. This is the code...

Wow - today brought an interesting discovery. Here's the situation: Coding the new premium version of Mass Update Contacts (details to come), I replaced the two parts of the page with Apex Components. This will allow the app to support custom address fields and international address formats...

Well, it took about ten minutes from the release of Email Inbox Version 1 for people to request additional features, screenshots, etc. Version 2 includes some neat icons, and this post has the multiple-times-requested screenshots we promised. First, a teaser screenshot...

Sonny Cloward, SysAd at Rainforest Alliance, approached us about writing a Visualforce page to display all incoming emails for a given Case Queue. This led a few interesting discoveries...