March, 2010 Archive

Google Introduces the Blogger Template Designer

Google introduced the Blogger Template Designer | http://blogger.com/templates The Blogger Template Designer allows you to create effectively infinite number of designs templates instead of being restricted to a limited number of rigid designs by making it easy to customize your blogs design, layout, background and much more.

Developing Web Services Using Apache Axis2 Eclipse Plugins

Apache Axis2 Eclipse Plugins allow Web service developers to easily and speedily expose the available plain old Java applications as Web services. wso2.org lists a tutorial by Lahiru Sandakith which consists of two parts, with two examples that walk you through developing and deploying a sample Web service using the Top-down (Contract First) and Bottom-up [...]

Visualforce – Align Columns To Right

Sometimes there is a need to align(float) few of the columns of datatable to right for eg., List Price in Opportunity Products page functionality is shown in right aligned style. In those cases, use following piece of snippet to render the column header and column values in right aligned manner <apex:column width=”23%”> <apex:facet name=”header” > [...]

Salesforce new user Interface warning

Today, I enabled new user Interface on one of my developer org and noticed that it’s not supported on all browsers. There’s a small warning box that appears the moment you select the New User Interface. You need to contact salesforce support in order to enable New User Interface feature. Once enabled, to set up [...]

Salesforce Apex Commons Lang Project

apex-lang is an open-source library of helper classes written purely in apex whose goal is to address shortcomings in the core apex classes. (If you’re not familiar with apex, apex is the programming language provided by salesforce.com’s development platform and is essentially a trimmed down version of java with added syntax for exploiting the force.com [...]

How to remove focus from Date Calendar input field …

Scenario I had a Visualforce page where the second field is a date field. Everytime the page loads, salesforce automatically brings the date field in focus and the calendar widget pops up. This can be very confusing to the users as the date field is required to be populated only in certain cases. Is there [...]

Google’s Cloud Computing Phone application – translate text in real time

Stumped by foreign languages when you’re traveling? Google Inc. is working on software that translates text captured by a phone camera. At a demonstration Tuesday at Mobile World Congress, a cell phone trade show in Barcelona, an engineer shot a picture of a German dinner menu with a phone running Google Inc.’s Android software. An [...]