Check out Arrowpointe Maps

Last Updated on Friday, 29 June 2007 03:13 Written by Steve Friday, 29 June 2007 03:13

Scott over at Arrowpointe just launched a cool new mapping service for Salesforce.com called Arrowpointe Maps. I was in on a beta test of Scott’s app and I have to say it was pretty cool. It lets an admin create dynamic maps based on the Mapquest service that users can then modify. It’s highly customizeable–something I haven’t seen in other sf.com mapping add-ons.

The interface is really well done, and I was very impressed during the beta period. Check it out!

Access, I thought I was done with you

Last Updated on Thursday, 21 June 2007 08:36 Written by Steve Thursday, 21 June 2007 08:36

I’m in the middle of a data migration from ebase 2.0, and I haven’t spent this much time using Access since 1997. I cut my teeth on Access 2.0 and am pretty comfortable in the app–it has proven invaluable in the data migration process. In this case I’ve built a system that steps through a process for transforming data out of the ebase 2.0 schema and into the Salesforce.com schema.

There are a couple steps in the process…

Safari on Windows – krazy fast Salesforce configuration

Last Updated on Wednesday, 20 June 2007 12:08 Written by Steve Wednesday, 20 June 2007 10:56

We’ve made the switch here at ONE/Northwest to using Safari on Windows when we’re doing Salesforce.com Setup tasks. It’s just way to fast not to use. The Admin side of the app is great, but pretty slow. Turns out that slowness is almost entirely in the rendering engine of the browser, as Safari is insanely fast! You have to see it to believe it. Safari proves Salesforce.com is serving up pages as quickly as they say they are on trust.salesforce.com. Who knew!

If you’re ever doing multiple tasks on the Admin side of Salesforce.com, it’s totally worth using Safari. I still use Firefox as my primary browser–can’t live without the extensions, and not all my s-controls are Safari compliant.

Update: Turns out the page layout editor doesn’t work well in Safari. Vote for my idea to fix that incompatibility.