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Integrate Facebook And Twitter—Your Users Are Already There! |
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Facebook and Twitter have hundreds of millions of users, and there's a very good probability that the users of the application you're building right now on Force.com are already on these platforms—how are you tapping into this vast sea? These users are conversing, exchanging information, complaints, recommendations—ultimately knowledge, and you can tap into this sea using Force.com libraries such as TwitterForce and Force.com for Facebook.
The Cloudforce Tour of events demonstrated the Service Cloud, a compelling illustration of how social media can be used on Force.com. "Fish where the fish are," goes the saying, and these tool libraries give you all the raw material you need to get started. What you need next is that idea, that spark to mesh your business idea, the Force.com platform, and social media. And what better place to get that idea than at the next Cloudforce event!
So, hop on over to Cloudforce London, check out the developer track, familiarize yourself with the Twitter and Facebook integrations, and start those ideas rolling!
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New Site Gallery, Force.com AppExchange and Board Search |
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A number of exciting new features have just been added to the Developer Force site. Some of these features help in everyday developer activities (advanced discussion board search), others provide inspiration (Sites Gallery), while the updated Force.com AppExchange provides an enhanced marketplace experience. The Sites Gallery and Force.com AppExchange are all built on Force.com Sites.
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The Sites Gallery at developer.force.com/sitesgallery is a gallery of public web sites that are built on Force.com, ranging from Dell IdeaStorm to Developer Challenge winners such as GameCraze. If you're looking for inspiration, head on over. |
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A new version of the Force.com AppExchange has just launched. Built on Force.com Sites, this enhanced online marketplace boasts filters, app comparison, cross promotion functionality and more. |
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The discussion board now links to an Advanced Search, and will help you find relevant information more quickly. You can now filter results by a selected discussion board, tags, or on threads that have accepted solutions. |
Check out the new features: we hope they inspire and help you to build great apps on the platform!
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Learning With The New Tech Talk Webinar Series |
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Check out the new Force.com Tech Talk Series of webinars. They come in two flavors—the introductory webinars are great if you are new to Force.com, while the advanced webinars assume that you already have some experience. These two streams of webinars will hopefully allow you to learn about the platform at a level appropriate to your needs. Keep an eye out on the calendar for future announcements in this webinar series.
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Introduction to Apex Code (April 6)—This webinar introduces the Apex programming language used on the Force.com platform, covering its syntax, database and web service support, as well as testing and code coverage. |
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Visualforce Components Deep Dive (April 27)—This webinar demonstrates how to build custom Visualforce components, ones that incorporate presentation, data and logic, and which can be reused across multiple Visualforce pages and applications. |
You can register here. |
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New Force.com Resources |
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A Practical Overview of Building Apps on Force.com |
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This archived webinar replay provides a practical overview of building applications on Force.com. It looks at building an application's data model, business logic, and user interface, and also touches on integration, development and deployment.
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Tutorial: Modal Dialogs in Visualforce using the Yahoo! User Interface Library |
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This tutorial shows how to add modal popups to your own Visualforce pages using the YUI library. It also boasts a nice online demo of the finished product, illustrating how the popup passes information back to the host page.
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Implementation Guides |
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Two revised implementation guides have just been published. The Security Implementation Guide provides a comprehensive guide to configuring the security of your data and applications on Force.com. The Quick Reference for Developing Packages for Distribution contains tables describing the components that can be included in packages and the component attributes that can be edited in managed packages. It also shows how some component behaviors change depending on how they are packaged
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Delivering Static Resources with Visualforce |
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Some resources on a web page, such as graphics and CSS files, don't change very often - these are called static resources. Visualforce provides a number of ways to upload and reference these resources, and Force.com Sites provides a caching mechanism for them as well. This article shows you how to use these resources in your Visualforce pages.
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Sharing your Code |
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Apex-lang |
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Apex-lang, inspired by the Apache Commons Lang project, consists of a set of Apex classes that for the most part mirrors the classes and methods found in the Apache project. It also comes with test methods, and an unmanaged package installation option. Really cool - thanks Richard Vanhook!
In common with all projects on Code Share, this project is open source. If you would like to participate, either by writing code, fixing or reporting bugs, writing documentation or helping out in any other way, please join a project by logging into Code Share and sending a message to the project owner.
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Welcome Our New Force.com Innovators |
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