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Developer Preview Releases for the Google Visualization API
Dreamforce 2008 brought many exciting new features from salesforce.com, both on the CRM/front-end side and the Force.com platform/back-end side. One of the favorites was the announcement that salesforce.com had released a Google Visualization code share project. Google has invited developers to participate in Developer Preview Releases for the Visualization API.
It looks like a pretty cool way to work on RESTful integrations while making some pretty pictures for your users.
For those unfamiliar with the Salesforce/Google Visualization toolkit, developer.force.com has a great introduction.
Google Releases Data APIs Java Client Eclipse Plug-in
Google just released its Google Data APIs Java Client Eclipse Plug-in, which seems to have great possibilities for developing in Google. Combined with the Force.com Toolkit for Google Data APIs, it could go even further.
We’d like to see triggered, bidirectional updates between SFDC Calendar and GCal, and between SFDC Contacts and GContacts. Perhaps this will make it a reality, removing the need to use a third-party hybrid application to keep data synchronized.
On a related note, thank you to Salesforcewatch.com‘s Mark Mangano for his mention of my scoop when tweeting about the Force.com Toolkit for Data APIs the day before it was made official.
