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Dynamic Visualforce Bindings – ooOOOoo

By Vincent on February 18, 2011

This blog post is mainly a summary of what i just read in the SFDC Dynamic VF Bindings section of the documentation for version 21.0. Pretty cool stuff. This will allow programmers to make VF pages even more Administrator friendly (as opposed to be Developer only territory). So Dynamic Visualforce Bindings allow VF pages to [...]

Performing Comparisons on Custom Labels in VF pages

By Vincent on February 2, 2011

Ran into a strange “bug” today while developing a VF page. This VF receives parameters through the URL which the VF Controller class parses out and stores in a class variable. The VF page also has an <apex:outputPanel> section which is rendered if the URL parameter equals a specified Custom Label. The code looks like [...]

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Apex Scheduled Classes and their Constructor Code

By Vincent on February 1, 2011

Just a little lesson learned as to how Scheduled Classes are treated in Salesforce.com. When a class is scheduled for execution using the “Schedule Apex” button, the class is instantiated immediately and then held in memory until the time it should run. This means that the constructor code of the scheduled class is run when [...]

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Opinion – Hierarchical vs. List Custom Settings in SFDC Apex Code

By Vincent on January 26, 2011

Salesforce.com’s inclusion of the Custom Settings feature was a much welcomed addition to the Visualforce / Apex feature set.  I’ve been using it fairly regularly in my day to day development for close to a year now and I just wanted to share some thoughts on “Best Practices” in how to use these two types. [...]

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Invalid Property Error in IE6 for style.color = “grey”

By Vincent on December 23, 2010

Just hit a small error in IE 6 with some javascript that was trying to change the color of some text to “grey”. The offending line of code was the following: if(document.getElementById(labelID)!=null) document.getElementById(labelID).style.color = "grey"; Here labelID was the id of the <code>&lt;span&gt;</code> that surrounded the text I wanted to grey out. So the fix [...]

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