My Open Source SFDC Endeavor "Fast Apex XML DOM" was featured by SFDC March 2010 Developer Newsletter…

Force.com(Apex/Visualforce) developers spend lot of coding time waiting for file SAVE operation to finish. This is specially panic for developers working on huge force.com projects having many classes, pages, objects and components…

Today I was done with coding the 3 important missing API’s in Fast Apex XML DOM’s TODO list. The latest code is checked into Google Code SVN. Following are the newly added API’s to TG_XmlNode.cls..

YUI Dependency Configurator is a great tool for getting a single unified JS or CSS instead of several css/js files. Only problem with that is it doesn't works over "HTTPS". Browser's like Internet Explorer fail to load a web page delivered over HTTPS containing JS/CSS delivered over un-secure(HTTP) URLs…

Custom settings in Salesforce are a valuable tool for development, but they can trigger unexpected Null Pointer Exceptions when deployed to new orgs without predefined records. This common issue arises from calling CustomSetting__c.getInstance() without any available data, resulting in runtime errors.

Apex wrapper classes aka “Fast Apex XML Dom” has reached a point that I can share with all on force.com Codeshare. Now Apex test classes have more than 95% code coverage(All Legal, no fake lines added :)))…

This post explains how to quickly start using the new wrapper Apex API. Developers coding previously on either Ron Hess’s XmlDOM or standard w3c xmldom will feel almost no difference and no learning curve in using this API…

On many occasions we might need to access some HTML DOM element inside a component from page using JavaScript. Example scenarios can be page fetching value of text field inside a component using JavaScript…

I was going through the code sample and apex docs for new Spring 10 Apex DOM Classes. I feel these new classes are really a great missing piece for apex developers that work on integrations via web services(XML) for ex gdata api’s…

This post is for those who want to make AJAX calls in visualforce using 3rd party JavaScript frameworks like jquery, yui , dojo etc. Though most the times the built in visual force Ajax works pretty well and you don’t need to make your hands dirty by doing this…

force.com standard and custom objects allow you to define fields with default values. However, there is a major confusion regarding the usage and availability of default values in Apex code.

This post covers the free or paid tools and software available for XSS or Cross Side Scripting testing. These tools are not specific to any programming language and can used with any of .NET, Java, J2EE, PHP, Ruby or Python web applications…