Archive for December, 2008

Back Dat Cache Up

Life, Nerding on December 16th, 2008 No Comments

Instead of doing the work I’m supposed to be doing, which is to finally turn the tide against MEGA PROJECT that has been consuming my life for weeks, I spent 3 hours (and counting) backing up all the important data on my computer.
I’ve learned some interesting (ahem… interesting to me) things.

I have pretty much every [...]

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Display a Multi-picklist as Checkboxes

Nerding, SalesForce on December 15th, 2008 No Comments

Normally I wouldn’t post a code sample regarding something (seemingly) so straightforward, but this took myself and a contractor too much time to figure out.  Multi-picklist fields in SalesForce.com are many-to-many relationships between a record and a set of strings.  You can define what options are available in the object definition, and then select which [...]

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The Nonprofit Marketplace

Nonprofiteering on December 1st, 2008 1 Comment

While on my way home from Thanksgiving and my 10 year high school reunion, I had plenty of time to read through this report by the Hewlett Foundation and McKinsey & Company.  Why?  We sat on the tarmac for 2 hours due to a snowstorm, but I was planning on reading it anyway, I promise.  [...]

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