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Listed on the Force.com Sites Gallery

Posted by admin in Uncategorized on August 31, 2010

My work on the Force.com Site I built recently was listed on the “Sites Gallery” by Salesforce.com.

Check it out – http://developer.force.com/sitesgallery

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My First Force.com Site

Posted by admin in Uncategorized on August 25, 2010

Check it out – http://datacenters.digitalrealtytrust.com/

I learned a lot in making my first Force.com Site: a lot of apex, a lot of visualforce and a lot Amazon Web Services.

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Using javascript and visualforce to solve a calculation problem

Posted by admin in Uncategorized on April 14, 2010

I had the need for a formula field in Salesforce.com to do two things:

  1. Evaluate an expression that my user types in. example: ((2+2) * 6) / 3

  2. Store the actual formula the user typed in to another field, in the case the formula should be audited for accuracy.

The formula is different for every record (being used on the Contract standard object), thus the need for my user to type it in. Plus, I have to be able include the actual formula in a Report column for auditors.

I solved this using a few things:

  1. Two custom fields:”FieldX__c” for the custom expression and “FieldY__c” for the evaluation

  2. Javacript to conduct the calculation

  3. A visualforce page to put the two fields and javascript together

Here, in written format, is what the user experiences:

  1. The user types their custom expression into “FieldX__c” – ex: (2 + 2) * 6

  2. The user clicks on the “=” button

  3. The javascript evalutes the expression in “FieldX__C” and stores the value in “FieldY__c”

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Google Products

Posted by admin in Uncategorized on October 7, 2009

Just a quick note to highlight the proliferation of Google throughout my life:

  • Home – I use gmail like an addict
  • Home – All of my contacts are synced up with Google Contacts
  • Home – My wife and I use Google Docs to help keep track of the family budget
  • Home – My wife and I use Google Picasa to store all of our photos online
  • Home – My wife and I use Blogger to…blog
  • Home – I subscribe to several RSS feeds and use Google Reader multiple times a day
  • Home – I recently set up a Google Voice account for call-forwarding and voice mail
  • Work – I use the Google Data Visualization API at work to generate graphs
  • Work – Of course, I use Google Search hourly
  • Work – We will be using Google AdWords to manage our PPC campaign in 2010 
  • Work – Several of our videos are hosted on YouTube
  • Work – A large section of our corporate website uses Google Maps
  • Work – We use Google Analytics to track stats on our website

No wonder they are slowly taking over the world.

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Marketing “Systems” I use

Posted by admin in Uncategorized on July 9, 2009

I was just putting together a list of all “systems” I use here in the Marketing department and thought I would share. My job title, officially, is ‘Marketing Information Systems Manager’.

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Recent upgrade

Posted by admin in Uncategorized on February 11, 2009

I’ve recently upgraded to WordPress 2.7.1 and modified the theme.

There is a project at Digital Realty Trust that we are developing and will use WordPress as the selected platform. Now, I’ll have more working knowledge about WP while I manage this project.

So far I like 2.7. I’ve since downloaded the WordPress app to my iPhone and am writing this entry from my iPhone.

I encourage you to upgrade if you’re running WordPress.

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