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 ...
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 ...