Following on from my previous post. Below is what you'll need to get started developing with Apex. A salesforce.com Developer Edition Account: Sign up from the developer site developer.force.com Apex Documents: (language reference) Available from the Developer Wiki, Apex and Visualforce Section. The Force.com IDE Just follow the steps on the site to set it up. A basic understanding of Object Oriented Programming. Personally I've done some C and Visual Basic programming in college but not ...
5 May 2008 1
Tabbed Account page using Visualforce
Ok, so, I've been poking around at Visualforce a little in my spare time and I came across this tutorial on how to create a tabbed Account page on the Salesforce Developer site. Check it out! Tabbed browsing within records in salesforce, this should help tidy up some of those annoyingly long Page Layouts. I've implemented this in my Developer Org and it Looks great, I can't wait until Visualforce ...
25 Apr 2008 3
The World Of Apex
Hi Everyone! Sorry for the long absence from posting. Where have I been I hear you ask, as the title of the post suggests, I've been lost in the "The World of Apex", as I like to call it. What is Apex? Apex is salesforce.com's on demand programming language, it's similar to Java in its syntax but differs in some important ways; you can get all the info on the ...
23 Apr 2008 5
Inline Google Maps
Many have asked me how to integrate Google Maps in a Salesforce.com page to pinpoint a specific address on the map. The example we're going to see today is how to add an inline map to pinpoint an Account billing address. The finished product Here's a screenshot of what we are going to get: Let's get started Right so, let's see what we need: First off you need a Google Map API Key ...
22 Feb 2008 7
Using Email2Case with Google’s Gmail
I like Google, infact, I really love many of Google's apps. There are many reasons to use Gmail - Google's 'new kind of webmail' - and one of those is that it offers IMAP access. This is great for those of you who've been waiting to use the Salesforce's Email2Case tool, and today I'm going to explain how to configure it to be used with Gmail. Email2Case? What is ...
16 Feb 2008 2
New look, new life
Decoding Salesforce is back with a brand new look! We've been busy during the last few months, but we'll find some time to write something new in this space. Let us know what you think about the new skin; stay tuned for more :)
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