February 2009 Archives

February 27, 2009
SOQL with Dataloader How do you execute SOQL? Compared to SQL, where we have our beloved interfaces depending on the RDBMS, SOQL is a lot more tricky to even find an environment to execute it. A good refrence for SOQL is here, but... MORE...
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February 13, 2009
Cloud computing is for real I had an interesting talk with Kevin from ReadyTech yesterday. His business of hosting training platforms for EMC, Genesys, Documentum, and many other enterprise software vendors is going extremely well. In general ReadyTech hosts training systems on their own servers... MORE...
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February 10, 2009
Rimini Street is doing great Wow, some impressive numbers comming out of Rimini street, with revenue going from $7 million to $89 Million in one year. It makes sense - down economy, cut your support costs in 1/2, why not?... MORE...
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February 07, 2009
Import wizard dates in Salesforce.com Something interesting about importing dates via the Import Wizards in Salesforce. There is nice documentation about how to import dates into salesforce here, and clearly document the required format of dates. Well, forget about that, it doesn't work for the... MORE...
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February 04, 2009
Importing dates to Salesforce? Wow it's harder than it should be. Instructions are pretty clear, but just doesn't seem to work for a custom field. - I have tried: 2000-10-11 2000-10-11T22:10:00-08:00 2000-10-11T22:10:00Z But the great thing about Salesforce, support, even for developers. I just... MORE...
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