Navigation made easy with Lead Notifier

It’s that time of the year when the air is full of performance reviews. Appraisal cycles are in full bloom and the managers are on a prowl! Every employee is seen making his best attempts to impress his manager, hopeful of getting a bigger chunk of the delicious pie called performance bonus and I was no saint either! But impressing my manager was no easy job! What is it that I could do? I probably needed something as path breaking as a time machine! Introspection…Innovation…Impression… I...

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Topic-based Publisher Subscriber Design Pattern

When it comes to design, I have a pretty simple philosophy: set up something that is generic and reusable. But design patterns sound way easier than they actually are. It is like setting up the electricity wiring for your newly built house. You know that you need approximately 200 Amps of electricity, but actually setting up the wiring is altogether a different ball game. Like I said, deep diving in the sea of design patterns was not an easy task. Thankfully, I came across the Publisher...

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Bing Map for Microsoft Dynamics CRM using an HTML Web Resource

Thanks to its readymade SDK, Silverlight was considered as the best option to display maps on Microsoft Dynamics CRM for a very long time. However, owing to plug-ins requirement and limitations with device compatibility, developers round the globe like me were forced to look for an alternative, more suitable option. And we struck gold...with HTML5! In this post, I am going to demonstrate how to build a simple map component in MS Dynamics CRM with nothing more than HTML5 and JavaScript!...

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Salesforce to Amazon Integration Using Signature Version 4: Part 2

In my previous post on Salesforce to Amazon integration using Signature Version 4, I had taken you through the process of creating a canonical request, which formed the first step for calculating a signature required for the integration. As promised, I am back with the remaining steps you will need to complete for integrating Salesforce with Amazon. Step 2: Create a String to Sign The string to sign will include meta information like algorithm, date, credential scope and the digest...

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Multilingual Data Import into Salesforce Made Easy

If you have been working on Salesforce for a while, you will agree with me that no matter what application you build, importing large amount of data in Salesforce comes with its own set of challenges. This problem is compounded when you need to import multilingual data, and you can only imagine the magnitude of the problem when you are importing large amount of multilingual data! My David vs. Goliath moment I had this feeling last week, when I needed to important approximately 60,000...

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