In the spring of 2009 we helped create a unique tool for connecting people with volunteer and donation opportunities, as part of the Change the Web challenge. It’s a great contest, and a cool technology, but it needs some explanation….
I found this open source library, and quickly realized that I needed some examples of how to use it. Finding none, anywhere on the internet, I struggled for about two hours before learning that you can chain together class names to reach internal classes. It wouldn’t be a SalesForce blog post without me bitching about [...]
Last fall I had an business idea for the nonprofit and cause advocacy – allow people to look up their representatives through all levels of government with their address. I did some sleuthing, found that the service was possible, and that already existed in several forms. Most prominently, the CapWiz product from Capitol Advantage. I [...]
After about a half hour of debugging, I figured out that if you’re calling a method from an inputText VisualForce element, a la <apex:inputText value=”{!BiteMe}” /> And if that method’s setter is private, exempli gratia public String BiteMe { get { return ‘gnash snarl’; } private set; } Then SalesForce will give you an Internal [...]
This is my second post in a very short series about technical volunteers. This topic has been capably covered before, so really, these are just my thoughts on the matter. Jayne Cravens has some thoughtful content on the subject, among others. So, how do you make the best use of your technical volunteers and keep [...]
