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This past month has been one of the most amazing, let me explain. The San Francisco Giants won the World Series. They won this for the first time since 1954 and brought a championship to the city by the bay for the first time in history, ending one of the longest baseball droughts in recent memory.

When Brian Wilson threw the final pitch and struck out Nelson Cruz, I was in Las Vegas at a conference. I was eating dinner with a new friend from work and had to excuse myself to watch ...

Over the next two weeks I will be working on configuring Salesforce single sign on with our active directory servers. This initiative will allow our users of Salesforce to be able to log in to our organization using their active directory. During this development I will provide step by step instructions on how my organization was able to get this single sign on working and deployed. This blog entry will contain PHP code snippets, the Soap server code, and instructions on how we will be able to ...

The newest Salesforce.com feature is Chatter. Chatter is a brand new way to collaborate with people at work using your Salesforce.com Organization. Chatter is the Facebook application for the business world. You can follow fellow employees and receive real time updates via email from their chatter feeds. Whether it is an update to an account or opportunity, Chatter works great.

Chatter feeds can be updated using APEX, Salesforce.com's on-demand programming language. By using APEX triggers, ...

Salesforce offers continuing education to anyone whom wishes to learn about their platform. During this past week I attended a class in Atlanta, Georgia at the Microtek Center. The class was Dev-531, Introduction to Object Oriented Programming using APEX.

The class is supposed to give people the fundamental understanding of how to develop using the Salesforce.com platform development code, APEX. The instructor was outstanding and tried to do his best to answer our questions, but the ...

Two weeks ago I took the PMP (Project Management Professional) boot camp training class out in Los Colinas in Irving, Texas from Global Knowledge. This class lasted 4 days from 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM. The amount of information that was dished out to the students was amazing. PMI (Project Management Institute) requires at least 36 hours of classroom project management training and Global Knowledge pushes this into 4 days. All the boot camps are the same length, at least from the research that I did ...