Amongst all the new Spring ’12 features that were just released, there’s one that the database.com documentation team is especially proud of – our new Database.com online help system! Built entirely on Heroku using CouchDB and Websolr add-ons, this online help is the first version of a new architecture that will soon enhance the …
In case you hadn’t heard, the Salesforce Mobile SDK went GA in December. How can you leverage this SDK with Database.com? The Salesforce Mobile SDK is an open-source suite of familiar technologies—like a REST API and OAuth 2.0—that you can use to build great mobile apps. It supports three development approaches for building mobile apps: native, HTML5, [...]
Note: This entry has been cross-posted from the Force.com blog. Dan Farina, a developer at Heroku, recently clued me in to Multicorn, a PostgreSQL 9.1+ extension for writing foreign-data wrappers in Python. Foreign-data wrappers are a mechanism for exposing external data as PostgreSQL tables, allowing that data to be queried as if it were sitting [...]
The Winter ’12 release of the Force.com IDE now supports Database.com.
Profiles are the foundation of any Database.com or Force.com security policy implementation. With the Winter ’12 release, permission sets now complement profiles, letting you more efficiently implement and manage your organization’s security policy. Read on for a quick primer on perm sets. A Quick Review of Access Controls The profile that you assign to a [...]
There was an exciting Java-related announcement around the time of Dreamforce that you may have missed – the Beta release of the Database.com Java SDK. Read more.
Here’s a quick look at the new features you can expect to see in Database.com Winter ’12.
Lots of you can’t wait to get your hands on the new Schema Builder that will officially become available in the Winter ’12 release of Force.com and Database.com. This post is a quick preview of the new tool.
With the Winter Release ’11 of Database.com comes the general availability of a “Light” user license. What is a Database.com Light license? For those new to Database.com, perhaps this question is best answered in the broader context of Database.com security.
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