In November of 2009 we participated in the #npocamp – a fantastic event in the unconference or barcamp tradition. We came prepared to talk about beginning database theory and came away with priceless knowledge and wisdom from all the sessions.
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. [...]
Somewhere in the Spring or Summer 09′ Updates of SalesForce, we started seeing Javascript errors within SalesForce’s Prototype code, such as: element.className is undefined element.hasClassName is undefined element.dispatchEvent is undefined Well, it turns out that jQuery and Prototype both overload some of the same things in the environment, so all you need to do is [...]
NTC was, for me, a catharsis. It validated my decision, a bit more than a year ago, to commit myself to the risk and reward of entrepreneurship in the nonprofit sector. The feeling was akin to the first few weeks on the ‘engineering floor’ of my freshman dormatory: A discovery that those around me are [...]
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 [...]
