Archives for 2009

Dashboards are Improved AND New in Summer 09

May 7, 2009 by David Schach 2 Comments

The Summer09 prerelease orgs are here, so get yours now! Upon first look, something cool stood out and merits immediate posting:

Dashboards are improved. The colors are more vivid, there’s detail in the bars and pie chart wedges, and… pie charts can now display the actual and percentage values!

Salesforce Blackberry Wallpaper

April 9, 2009 by David Schach 1 Comment

In honor of this week’s release of a Salesforce Mobile Development guide on DeveloperForce, we’re posting a Blackberry wallpaper for your enjoyment.

Hacking a Case Comment Trigger

April 1, 2009 by David Schach 8 Comments

There has been some chatter about asking the salesforce.com team to include the CaseComment object in the “triggerable” list. After conferring with JP Seabury (ForceMonkey), we designed a Rube Goldberg-esque solution to the problem.

Flexible Field Labels

March 23, 2009 by David Schach Leave a Comment

While making a Visualforce page to display a Zip/Country -> City, State, County application, it became obvious that labeling fields manually will not satisfy all users, especially international ones. There are a few ways to include a field and its label on a Visualforce page. The simplest, using OutputField: VF Page (simple): The most common […]

Summer ’09 Logo Unveiled

March 20, 2009 by David Schach Leave a Comment

The voting is over and we have a winner. Salesforce has released the official logo for the Summer ’09 (release 160) logo: The sailboat.

X-Squared featured in Inc.com article on drop.io

March 19, 2009 by David Schach Leave a Comment

Howard Greenstein of Inc.com published a story today(”Stop, Collaborate, and Listen“) on drop.io and asked us to comment on how drop.io can help SMBs in service delivery.

Zip to City & State Integration – Proof of Concept

March 11, 2009 by David Schach 2 Comments

Developer Preview Releases for the Google Visualization API

February 21, 2009 by David Schach Leave a Comment

Google has invited developers to participate in Developer Preview Releases for the Visualization API

Ubiquity Plugin for developer.force.com

February 5, 2009 by David Schach 4 Comments

Inspired by Gina Tripani’s release of a Ubiquity plug-in to search Lifehacker via Google, I used her code as a base (thanks, Gina) and created a Ubiquity plug-in to search developer.force.com.

The Ultimate Visualforce Events Tab – Almost

January 5, 2009 by David Schach 5 Comments

Check old blog posts, and you’ll see that I’ve been working on custom Events and Task tabs for a while now. A Task Visualforce tab (that mimics the Task box on the Home Page) is almost ready to come out, but the Events Enhanced List tab is (pretty much) here! This bears emphasizing: Enhanced Lists […]