Archive for March, 2009

Poll: Favorite Salesforce.com Browser

mgsmith | Friday, March 20th, 2009 | 1 Comment »

In honor of the release of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8 today, here’s a quick poll: What is your favorite SalesForce.com Browser? ( surveys)

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Volunteer Computing and The Cloud

mgsmith | Friday, March 20th, 2009 | 2 Comments »

I just listened to a recent Floss Weekly Podcast about BOINC, an open source middleware system from Berkeley for Volunteer Computing. You’ve probably heard of Seti@Home or Folding@Home as well as some of the many other collaborative projects out there. This got me thinking about how Volunteer Computing and Cloud Computing relate to one another. Certainly, these are not technically the same.

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Logging Deleted Records in Salesforce.com

mgsmith | Tuesday, March 10th, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Note: The code for all triggers, classes, and pages can be downloaded as an archived Eclipse IDE Project from here, or you can install this as a package into your Development or Sandbox environment from here. The Business Issues: As an administrator, there are times when I wanted to monitor records deleted, especially for certain users who had a habit of inadvertently or

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Dealing With Out of Control Report Growth

mgsmith | Sunday, March 1st, 2009 | No Comments »

For most medium to large SalesForce.com implementations, the following two statements are probably true: One of the favorites of most SalesForce.com users is the ease of creating new custom reports. One of the headaches of most administrators is dealing with the hundreds or thousands of reports that get created, saved, and then are never used again. Before the Force.com IDE,

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