Salesforce makes it easier to code to Google Apps

Last Updated on Monday, 23 June 2008 08:09 Written by Steve Sunday, 22 June 2008 09:59

Check out this new beefy section on the Salesforce site using the Force.com Toolkit for Google Apps.

On brief look, it appears to be a bunch of Apex to make it easier to write Apex code that does things like create calendar items, contacts, blogger posts. Pretty cool concept–they’re making it tons easier for developers to add office functionality to Salesforce.com.

It’s pretty exciting. I wonder what apps they will release tomorrow? Maybe mail merge to Google Doc? Export reports to Google Spreadsheets?

Update: Adam’s announcement is here.

Scoble asks Benioff my question

Last Updated on Friday, 20 June 2008 12:18 Written by Steve Friday, 20 June 2008 12:18

A few days ago Scoble asked for interview questions submissions via Friendfeed.com for his conversation with Marc Benioff. The video is out and Mark let me know that Scoble asks Marc Benioff my question at the 21:59 mark. Check it out!

Summer ’08 on all servers

Last Updated on Monday, 16 June 2008 10:59 Written by Steve Monday, 16 June 2008 10:59

As you probably know, Summer ’08 has been deployed to all Salesforce.com servers.

In looking at the Metadata API WSDL, it has sections for Page Layouts and Workflow. Unfortunately, the new IDE that makes those items accessible isn’t released yet so we’ll have to wait to try it out.

Anyone know the release date for the next version of the IDE? Page Layouts in Eclipse will save us hours for each project we do, so we’re a bit antsy…