I’m going to skip over most of the hoopla in the last month regarding Google Wave. I tried it, and I thought it was very neat. The reason I thought it was neat gets back to my roots as a relational database developer. Much of the power and possibility of these tools can be boiled [...]
I’ve been working with Social Actions data for a while, and I think I may finally have something small and perhaps useful. Social Actions data is comprised of volunteer and donation opportunities (actions) that people around the web are searching for, and, occasionally, clicking on. I ran an analysis of the hits vs. the length [...]
Note to anyone subscribed for nonprofit or SalesForce content – nothing to see here, move along, move along. I went up to see the Mansion of Terror last night – my second haunted house since a high school friend’s oddball dad creeped out their basement a few years running. The first, ‘Scare for a Cure’, [...]
I heard about SamaSource at South by South West from @whiteafrican, @tmsruge, and some others at the Appfrica panel. Or, perhaps one of them mentioned it to me at Convio’s #nptech after party….? Either way, SamaSource is an organization which aims to connect marginalized people with outsourced technical work. I’ve been working with developers and [...]
In my grousing about the lack of easy CSV parsing in Apex, I began to feel like Paul Rudd’s character in Web Hot American Summer. Usually it’s not something you would need to do in SalesForce – the Import Wizard or Data Loader are built to do this easily for one table at a time. [...]
