Category Archives: General

Introduction to Database.com

Introduction to Database.com

Database.com is the worlds first enterprise cloud database. It’s proven technology that reliably powers billions of transactions per quarter and securely manages data for thousands of organizations business-critical apps and users. Watch and learn how you can leverage Database.com to support your apps.

Cloud Integration with Database.com and Heroku

Cloudspokes

Discover how Appirio architected the CloudSpokes crowdsourced development community and marketplace using Database.com, Heroku, and other cloud-based services such as Redis and MailChimp.

Creating HTML5 Applications with jQuery Mobile, Ruby and Database.com

Ruby and Database.com

Learn how easy it is to create an HTML5 application that runs on browsers, mobile devices, and tablets. We’ll walk through the entire process of setting up a jQuery Mobile application hosted on Heroku that uses Database.com as it’s backend with the Databasedotcom Ruby gem.

Building a Java Play! App on Heroku using Database.com

Play and Force.com/Database.com

Building a Java Play! App on Heroku using Database.com. Join us as we walk through the Apex code used to create REST services, the Play! development process in Java, and touch lightly on the use of Scala.

Drinking Our Own Champagne: Database.com Docs Run on Heroku!

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 …

Go Mobile with Database.com

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, [...]

A Database.com/Force.com Foreign-Data Wrapper for PostgreSQL

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 [...]

Force.com IDE Update for Winter ’12

Force.com IDE

The Winter ’12 release of the Force.com IDE now supports Database.com.

Winter ’12: Efficient, Manageable Security Policies with Permission Sets

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 [...]

Using the Database.com Java SDK

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.

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