Salesforce

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 ...

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Salesforce

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, ...

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Salesforce , Salesforce 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 ...

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Salesforce , Reviews

I stated earlier that I am fairly new to APEX, triggers and classes. I have finally realized that if you want to be successful using Salesforce and their cloud platform that you have to use APEX. I started with the force.com cookbook, which I picked up at Dream Force 2008 and the new APEX cheat sheets that were available in the developers lounge in the Moscone Center.

We needed a simple trigger that would update one custom object in when another one was updated by a user. Now in the ...

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Back in the summer of 2008 I was on vacation in Colorado Springs visiting my natural mother. I received a call from my senior manager. He told me that I was needed in California for a meeting with our senior executives and about 5 senior vice presidents from Salesforce.com. This meeting was more of a dog and pony show. Salesforce was trying to sell us more packages and how we, as a company, could benefit from moving more of our legacy systems into the Salesforce Cloud / Platform. At first I did ...