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This page lists all the content featured on the Developer Force home page over the past few years. You can use the category picklist to filter for content in particular groups - for example, content about integration. You can also filter by type (whether it's an article or a tech talk) and year.

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  • May 2013

    • Connecting Force.com to On-Premises Resources Part 2

      Description :  Presents a solution for integrating Force.com with on-premises assets. Part 2 shows how to call SOAP- and REST-based relay endpoints, then presents an example that sends Force.com outbound messages to the Service Bus Relay service.
      Categories :  Integration

    • Connecting Force.com to On-Premises Resources Part 1

      Description :  Presents a solution for integrating Force.com with on-premises assets in both request-reply and asynchronous fashion.
      Categories :  Integration

    • Distributed Application Partitioning with Force.com Canvas and Heroku

      Description :  An important best practice for Salesforce organizations that contain a lot of data is to keep the operational data set in your org as lean as possible by archiving "historical" data elsewhere. This allows operations to execute more efficiently.
      Categories :  Database

    • Apex Design Patterns

      Description :  What are the common design patterns and best practices for Apex development, and how can you leverage them? Learn these common design patterns to optimize your code and ensure reusability, maintainability and performance.
      Categories :  Architecture, App Logic

    • Consuming Force.com SOAP and REST Web Services from .NET Applications

      Description :  Developers have many reasons to integrate their .NET applications with Force.com data and business logic. This article walks through the techniques and best practices for consuming Force.com SOAP and REST services in .NET 4.5 applications.
      Categories :  Integration

  • April 2013

    • Cross-Platform Mobile Development with Backbone

      Description :  This article explores web and hybrid mobile development where Javascript handles application logic and data binding, then shows how to build a mobile application that pulls down your Chatter feed from Salesforce.com using Backbone.js and other JavaScript libraries.
      Categories :  Mobile

    • Apex Enterprise Patterns - Domain Layer

      Description :  This third article in the series describes the Domain Layer, that portion of the application that addresses the specific field or discipline, and presents Martin Fowler's Domain Model pattern, suggesting that code be structured using OOP techniques.
      Categories :  Architecture

    • Salesforce Platform Mobile Services

      Description :  Rapidly build enterprise mobile apps connected to your customers' data with Salesforce Platform Mobile Services. Leverage the tools, frameworks and APIs you need to build apps for any device. Combine HTML5, native or hybrid apps with rich device features and your enterprise data to create engaging mobile apps.
      Categories :  Mobile

    • Developing Offline Apps with Salesforce Mobile Services

      Description :  SmartStore is a plugin that allows you to store enterprise data online and offline on mobile devices. SmartStore securely stores data in JSON format on mobile devices, based on SQLCipher an open source SQLLite extension. Perform local data operations for offline access, and instantly sync with the cloud when online.
      Categories :  Mobile

    • Extending the Force.com Warehouse App to Mobile

      Description :  This article extends the Warehouse application from the Force.com Workbook tutorial to mobile. The example leverages the Merchandise data object to support building a simple mobile app that will display a list of Merchandise records, and allow basic CRUD operations.
      Categories :  Mobile

    • Apex Enterprise Patterns - Service Layer

      Description :  This next article in the series focuses on arguably the most important layer of them all, the Service layer. This is because, it is the entry point to the most important development investment and asset of all. Your applications business logic layer, it’s very heart!
      Categories :  Architecture, Integration

  • March 2013

    • Fifteen Things to Consider Before Your Next Data Migration

      Description :  Salesforce developers typically consider data migration to be a simple and mundane task. But as Naveen learned, there is a lot at stake when doing data migration.
      Categories :  Database

    • From SQL to SOQL: Force.com for .Net Developers

      Description :  What are the differences from a software developer’s perspective of .NET/SQL as compared to Force.com/SOQL? What do you need to know to make that transition? This article explains.
      Categories :  Database

    • Generating and Loading Representative Test Data for Salesforce and Force.com Org

      Description :  This article demonstrates that with just a few mouse clicks and simple lines of code, you can quickly generate any volume of representative mock test data so that you can properly test the usability and performance of a Salesforce implementation or custom Force.com app.
      Categories :  Database

  • February 2013

    • Force.com Multitenant Architecture

      Description :  This article explains the technology that makes the Force.com platform fast, scalable, and secure for any type of application.
      Categories :  Database

    • Developing Mobile Applications with Force.com and Sencha Touch Part 3

      Description :  This third installment highlights the enterprise data capability of Sencha Touch and shows how to work with large datasets by adding paging and search capability to the PocketCRM application.
      Categories :  Mobile

    • Developer Training & Certification

      Description :  Learn about why you should pursue Salesforce Developer Certification, which credentials are available (developer, advanced, architect), and the best resources to prepare for the exam.
      Categories :  Documentation

    • What is the Developer Console?

      Description :  Learn about the Developer Console, a collection of tools you can use to create, edit, debug and test applications in your Salesforce org.
      Categories :  Tools

  • January 2013

    • Architecting Force.com Apps A Design Primer

      Description :  In this article, you’ll get a broad introduction to many of the key concepts and features you’ll need to understand before you begin designing and architecting apps that leverage the unique power of the Force.com cloud application development platform.
      Categories :  Architecture

    • AT&T Toolkit for Salesforce Platform

      Description :  With the AT&T APIs, your apps can convert speech-to-text, send an SMS to an AT&T mobile number, integrate in-app purchasing with a convenient and secure billing option, and more.
      Categories :  Integration