All Apex developers creating Visualforce pages with drop-downs and checkboxes use the Apex SelectOption class. On most occasions, instances of this class are created out of records in a database that we can query in a desired alphabetical order

We know about Marketo and its having a deep Salesforce integration. Recently I came across a new requirement to call Marketo SOAP API from Apex. You must be thinking this process is pretty straightforward…

This post is for guys who are planning to release their app on App Exchange and are looking forward to clearing the security review in one shot! This post aggregates all the good links and information you should have in hand.

While fixing security issues for a customer, I came across a very interesting and powerful security API from Salesforce, i.e., Force.com ESAPI. As per the Google code description, this API…

This might be a requirement, if you are developing some complex navigation…

I saw this tweet today about the apex-fast-xml-dom library. Unfortunately, it's true that FastXMLDom can’t support CDATA sections as of now. This is because FastXMLDom is a wrapper on top of Spring’10 Apex DOM classes, and DOM classes don’t support CDATA sections.

Javascript remoting is one of my favourites from Spring’11 release and I’m constantly thinking of making best use of it in Visualforce. I believe remoting is the way to make Visualforce more "viewstate less", this post shows a POC of a complete functional example of a page that searches and updates accounts using Remoting only i.e no viewstate…

Since the release of the Javascript remoting feature in the Spring’11 release, I was super excited about it and was looking for spare time to play with it. A few days back I read about jQuery templates; that’s an awesome jQuery plugin (soon going to be part of jQuery Min)..

I recently came across this useful and under-documented Apex String API, i.e. String formattedString = String.format(String template, List<String> arguments)

String.format(..) is again based on the Java MessageFormat class; its documentation says: Treat the current string as a pattern that should be used for substitution in the same manner as apex:outputText.

Apex programming WSDL can be downloaded from the “Setup” area of your Salesforce org. Just land on the “App Setup > Develop > API” page. Instructions to download are shown below:

A major release 1.1. is done for Tolerado for WSC APIs today…

Retrying web service call failures/exceptions is important because not every exception means it’s the “end of the world." There is always some hope for some exceptions, like Session timeouts or Invalid session IDs. One can always renew the session (if credentials are available) and make those failing web service calls work again.

As mentioned in my previous post, I was researching/benchmarking on how HTTP Compression with Apache Axis improves performance. The results I got post HTTP compression, are surprisingly amazing…

Force.com sites redirects to “Authorization Required” page in case something goes wrong behind the scenes, for ex…

The key to write a good apex test case is isolate test-data from actual org/user data. If your test case in anyway depends on org data, then it will fail for sure in deployments across different Salesforce orgs…

Winter’11 gave an interesting new location to popular links like “Setup” and “Logout”. They are no longer one click available, you have to click your login name in new interface header to see these links. In first appearance I thought its fine. But over the time when I was working in my winter’11 pre-release org…

Custom Labels are key to create multilingual Salesforce apps. Developers usually move their page/class to Custom Labels in two steps…