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Introducing Force.com Secure Cloud Development

Introducing Force.com Secure Cloud Development: "

I'm very excited to report that we've published a new section of developer.force.com, Force.com Secure Cloud Development. This brings together the complete set of developer resources covering secure development practices on Force.com, and represents our continuing investment in tools and content designed to maintain the security of the entire Force.com ecosystem.

In my previous post, I mentioned that we had a number of new and free tools, training and resources for our developer community. I'm happy to be able to discuss them in more detail. Below you'll find the resources outlined in a typical software development lifecycle.

(Secure) Education

• Intro to Force.com Security – Great intro on our platform security features
  
• Writing Secure Apps on Force.com – How to build secure apps on Force.com (online training)
  
• Developer Security Quiz – Test your security knowledge!

(Secure) Design

• Security Design Resources – Where to get started with general design queries
  
• Security Self Assessment – Get customized guidance based on your platform and functionality supported
  
• Office Hours – Book some time with the internal salesforce.com security team to get questions answered

(Secure) Development

• Secure Coding Library – Nail down the basics of secure coding using this library
  
• Secure Coding Guidelines – Detailed documentation on how to build secure apps on Force.com, Java, .NET, PHP and RoR

(Secure) Testing

• Force.com Security Source Scanner – Automated on demand analysis of your Force.com code for security issues
  
• Web Application Security Scanner – Free web application security scanner for eligible partners

(Secure) Release

• AppExchange Security Review – What to expect when undertaking the AppExchange security process
  
• Incident Response (Coming Soon) – Guidance on how to respond to potential incidents

We are actively looking for community feedback and want the resources we're making available to continuously improve and can only do that with your help. Together we can all build a trusted ecosystem. Any queries can be sent to securecloud {at} salesforce {dot} com or post questions to our community discussion board.

If you know anyone developing on the Force.com platform, help spread the word!

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Development with the Force.com Platform

Development with the Force.com Platform: "

I remember when I first started programming in Java many years ago. I used to walk the isles of my local bookstore (remember those brick and mortar things we all used to visit?). The shelves were filled with books on C, a few smatterings of web design, and of course, the trusty O'Reilly In a Nutshell books; but alas, there were no Java books.

Then all of a sudden----wham! Shelf after shelf of books covering every aspect of Java. I was in techie heaven. When I look back however, the initial books actually trickled in and became the catalyst for much of the future explosion of titles. With my experience writing fiction novels, I know these initial books also serve another very important purpose: to serve as a litmus test for publishers to identify hot markets and trending topics.

I see Force.com at a similar juncture in its evolution. We often forget Apex and Visualforce is only about two years old, and has already achieved remarkable things. Heck, I still remember writing socket connectivity in Java to connect to databases before JDBC was available! Oh how things have changed. Now, we not only take database connectivity as a given, with Force.com we don't even have to write anything to handle scalability, deployment, etc.

Just like Java, we are starting to see some early books on Force.com hitting the shelves. Jason Ouellette recently wrote a great book called Development with the Force.com Platform available from Addison-Wesley, which should be on all Force.com developers bookshelves. Aside from the sample chapters available from the link above, Jason has also provided a great article on Dr. Dobbs with additional information that really gives you a sense of the what Jason's book offers.

Great job Jason. I suspect this book will be the catalyst to many more to come.

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Google Officially Ditching Gears for HTML5, Drops Safari Support Entirely [HTML5]

Google Officially Ditching Gears for HTML5, Drops Safari Support Entirely [HTML5]: "

We've known for a while that Google wasn't actively improving Gears, their tool that offers offline support for many popular web applications. Now the Official Gears blog explains their transition to the game-changing HTML5:

If you've wondered why there haven't been many Gears releases or posts on the Gears blog lately, it's because we've shifted our effort towards bringing all of the Gears capabilities into web standards like HTML5. We're not there yet, but we are getting closer. In January we shipped a new version of Google Chrome that natively supports a Database API similar to the Gears database API, workers (both local and shared, equivalent to workers and cross-origin [workers] in Gears), and also new APIs like Local Storage and Web Sockets. Other facets of Gears, such as the LocalServer API and Geolocation, are also represented by similar APIs in new standards and will be included in Google Chrome shortly.

The HTML5 transition should mean great things for users in the long-run, but it's a bummer to see good solutions fall by the wayside while we wait for the major browsers to catch up to, agree on, and support the latest standards. The cost of progress, I suppose. [Gears API Blog]

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MITRE - List of 2010's Most Dangerous Programming Errors

MITRE - List of 2010's Most Dangerous Programming Errors: "The MITRE Corporation has published its 2010 Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors list, a tool for education and awareness to help programmers to prevent the kinds of vulnerabilities that plague the software industry, by identifying and avoiding all-too-common mistakes that occur before software is even shipped.

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News: Google: Apple is a ‘very close and valuable partner’

News: Google: Apple is a ‘very close and valuable partner’: "In spite of increasing competition between the two companies, a Google executive has made positive public comments about its relationship with Apple. Reuters reports that Vic Gundotra, head of mobile engineering for Google, said, “Apple is a very close and valuable partner and we’re very excited about the relationship we have with them today. We have no reason to believe that’s going to change.” Speaking at an industry roundtable…

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Yeah Apple Google Microsoft and Oracle are like Frenemies.

They all compete in some level directly.

Apex Code Enhancements and Collections best practices

Apex Code Enhancements and Collections best practices: "

Spring '10 is just around the corner, with many great new features. One of the Apex Code enhancements which caught my attention was the limits on the number of items a collection can hold has been removed. The previous limit was set at 200. Add this to the new ability to use generic sObjects to create a collection and Collections within the platform just got a whole lot more powerful.

As Ben Parker, the o-so-wise uncle of Peter Parker (aka Spiderman) once said: "with great power comes great responsibility." Changes to Collections is no different, and require some new thinking in regards to best practices.

The release notes, for example, mention that there is still a limit on heap size so care must be taken to not load up a collection and hit this limit. Good news is that a few other other Spring '10 changes can certainly be used to ensure you design your applications as efficiently as possible.

Here are just a few new SOQL clauses and functions which can be used with collections to help make the most fo the changes.

• HAVING


• GROUP BY


• WITH


• Semi-Joins and Outer Joins

This is certainly not a complete list, but should certainly be something every developer is familiar with.

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