a{color:red !important;} When developing pure HTML5 mockups I usually don’t want to install a webserver or host my static pages on a remote webserver… More over I sometimes like to create my own tools even if they are already on the net or they are super duper simple. That’s why I created a simple NodeJS […]
[Salesforce / Mobile SDK] Salesforce Mobile SDK 3.1 brings unified app architecture
I left mobile development in the far 2010, when Salesforce development became my actual job. In the past 6 years I’ve gradually switched to web dev techs over native development, and this a kind of hurted my feelings, but it was a necessary path (I merged the passion for discovering new techs with learning something […]
[Salesforce] My favorite Spring ’15 features
a{color:red !important;} h3{color:red !important;} This is my top 10 list of the Spring ’15 Force.com platform update’s features. Make Long-Running Callouts from a Visualforce Page This is a really important feature. Imagine you have big VisualForce pages in which Apex methods, triggered by buttons / links / rerenders, do one or more callouts to external […]
[Salesforce / JS] Download automatically files from apex (using href link and base64)
This post is a recap of this Salesforce Developer Forum thread. We want to trigger a download from an attachment but the running user don’t have access to the object (think of Community User for instance). In the controller read the Attachment’s body in a String getter coded in Base64: public String base64Value{get;set;} public String […]
[Chrome Extension] “Pack your link” extension on the store by enree.co (yes, thet’s me…)
a{ color: red !important;} I’m not a marketing guy, I neither have requested advices from my marketing guys friends…I did it all my way and that’s why my brand new Chrome Extension will be forgotten in days! Let’s start from the beginning… Once upon a time there was a simple Chrome Extension I made at […]
[Salesforce / Lightning] Loading scripts with RequireJS
a{color:red !important;} UPDATE Due to the introduction of the ltng:require, this post is no more a valid solution. Refer to the official Lightning documentation. The following is a post that summarizes this blog post‘s solution (if you are not a TLDR; reader you will find there all my trials and errors). Dreamforce 2014 came out […]
TCO14 (My) Chronicles
Top Coder Open 2014 has passed and again has been awesome. The coolest things? Absolutely the developer talks, made by important and influent people from the tech world. The second cool thing is that I had the chance to blog the whole event and also that I got the 3rd place in the Super Awesome […]
[Salesforce / Apex] Retrieving zipped static resource files from code
Some days ago one of my awesome colleagues asked me: “Can you get a zipped file into a static resource from Apex?”. My very first thought was NO. But after having said that syllable, I understood that this could be possible, using an HTTP GET call + cookies + correct resource URL. This is the […]
[-1 to #TCO14] – TCO14 for Dummies
6 Days to Top Coder Open and 6 blog post for each day! I’m almost there, I’m writing from Rome airport waiting for the flight that will bring me (in “just” 15 hours) to San Francisco. Move out, the geek army is coming! The following is a blog post I wrote for the Top Code […]
[-2 to #TCO14] – 10 Reasons you should participate to TCO14
6 Days to Top Coder Open and 6 blog post for each day! The following is a blog post I wrote for the Top Code Open 2014 blog. Enjoy! 1) Opportunity to compete live with or to watch competing the best of the best coder in the world Tens of coders wisely selected among the […]