March 2012 Developer Force Newsletter
force.com DEVELOPER NEWS
 
Community Content Blast!
This month, Developer Force has loads of fresh technical content from community experts that live and breathe Force.com every day. If you want to develop Force.com
apps and utilities using Ruby, migrate a MySQL database schema to Force.com, or leverage Apex's native JSON support, then check out this great new content. Let's kick start the community knowledge sharing so that we can all learn from each other.
For a complete list of new articles, see the Featured Content page on Developer Force.
Grab the Gold and Win $10,000
Grab the Gold is a great opportunity for you to build a new app, sell it to Salesforce users around the world via the new AppExchange Checkout, and make a ton of cash ... not
to mention grab some great prizes all at the same time. Hurry: Registration deadline is April 2, 2012.
Tweets from Followers
@mjgallag24: Little Things Matter Most, I can select multiple lines of code and do both Tab and Shift Tab with @forcedotcom Developer Console, nice work!
@charlieisaacs: You can add a #Chatter feed to any iOS app by simply calling the fetchChatterFeed API function, wow. #cloudstock #cloudforce
@NortonMD: @forcedotcom: Rypple - making HR hip and social. #cloudstock #cloudforce @GeorgeHuSF What a great transformation of HR software.
Hot Discussions
Visit the Force.com discussion boards for more information,
tips, and solutions on a variety of topics.
Link a Custom Field to a Custom Object
- solved by Trusted Contributor billyclint
Get the Instance URL for a Visualforce Page
- solved by Trusted Contributor Edwin1
Pushing Select Changes in a Package
- solved by Trusted Contributor DevendraSFDC
Community Profile Highlight
Ankit Arora is a Force.com certified professional working on the platform for over three years; he has been involved in architecting, building and implementing Force.com solutions for on-premise and AppExchange applications. He is passionate about Force.com and actively blogs and microblogs. Additionally, he moderates the Developer Discussion Boards as well as sharing his knowledge and experience with effective solutions. He rounds out his contribution to the community with many Cookbook and Code Recipe submissions. His many contributions have been recognized by the community, leading to his nomination and selection as a Force.com MVP in 2012. Great job, Ankit!
March 2012 Issue
Calendar of Events  
Live Webinar: Making
    Applications Social with the
    Chatter API
NYC Force.com
    Developers User Group
Cloudforce Paris
Cloudforce London
Success Stories
Inspiring stories about applications
built on Force.com.
builds faster phone order processing system with Force.com
leverages Salesforce.com Cloud Computing; builds new recruiting Web site on Force.com.
App of the Month
FinancialForce Accounting for Salesforce aligns sales and finance in the cloud
Job Skills
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