I'm off to the Future of Web Apps conference down in London tomorrow, and I'm really looking forward to it. Our own Adam Gross is a speaker, and we're in the expo area too. I'll be in the expo booth for about half the time I'm there, and for the rest I'll be attending cool sessions. Read more. (October 8)

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There's no question that SaaS is the future of the software industry. The majority of new software startups are launched using the SaaS model; even larger, traditional ISVs are creating new SaaS product lines to augment their on-premise businesses. The challenge is that while many SaaS entrepreneurs and execs have traditional software experience, there's definitely a shortage of operating best practices for SaaS since the model is still relatively new.   Read more. (October 8)

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Last week I offered a solution for sorting in Apex in response to some discussions taking place on the discussion boards.   As promised, I'm back to discuss one approach to addressing the business problem highlighted in a very detailed fashion in this thread. The relevant technical requirement outlined therein can be paraphrased as "How can I group, sum and order opportunity information in Apex?"  Read more. (October 5)

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Many of you are familiar with our programming language, Apex. Although has some awesome reference documentation, we wanted to see a technical article introducing the technology. Shortish, and sweetish, with lots of wholesome technical goodness - targeted at developers who may not be so familiar with Apex, but who are familiar with other languages and stacks.  Read more. (October 3)

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In my last post, I talked about Dynamic SOQL which lets you build and execute a query 'on the fly' or at runtime.  Dynamic SOQL is one feature in a family of features collectively called Dynamic Apex.  Dynamic Apex lets you build flexible applications where the database objects (or sObjects in Apex terminology) that need to be acted upon are not known at compile time.  Read more. (September 30)

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