Faster VisualForce Translation
I’m generally not a Microsoft fan but the one tool I can’t live without is Excel. Sure Google has a spreadsheet app but it’s nowhere near as powerful as Excel, like not even in the same ballpark. As...
View ArticleCustom look-and-feel with Force.com Sites and Blueprint CSS
At the core of Force.com Sites is an extremely simple, yet powerful concept: the ability to address a set of related Visualforce pages with a publicly accessible URL. Anyone with a web browser can...
View ArticleError Notifications in Apex
When an error occurs in any language or platform, it’s important to know (1) an issue even occurred and then (2) as much context regarding the error as possible. Curiously though, I’ve observed that...
View ArticleVisualForce HTML5 Template
Below is the simplest VisualForce page I’ve been able to construct that renders valid html5 markup (per http://html5.validator.nu). Controlling the exact output rendered by a VF page is tricky...
View ArticleTemplate for Global Configuration Variables in Apex
Summary: This article discusses a pattern or template for enabling and customizing features in an application developed upon the Force.com platform. Force.com and “configurability”: new...
View ArticleEasy Tool for Generic HTTP Interface Testing
Working on my first CloudCraze project, I’ve come across the unfortunate fact that SF does not allow callouts in the unit tests, so interface testing is kind of cludgy (see...
View ArticleDependent picklists in Salesforce
Virtually every site I’ve worked with in recent years has had need for dependent drop downs of some nature. Usually implementing a dependent drop down consists one of two options: Outputting every...
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