List of all the Salesforce and Force.com posts from the previous week!

#DF11 Recap: Blazing Fast Visualforce
@joshbirk
Josh Birk suggests checking out the DF11 youtube video, Blazing Fast Visualforce Pages to help with your Visualforce understanding/development.

Dynamic Visualforce and Visual Workflow with Rerender
@metadaddy
Patterson walks us through how a Flow embedded in a Visualforce page can interact with other elements on the page in Cloud Flow Designer.

Winter ’12 Release Notes- What’s New for the Week of October 24th
@forcedotcom
Information about new Winter ’12 features such as encrypted fields enabled, changes to granting login access, Chatter REST API enhancements, and more.

Please Don’t Screen Scrape Visualforce
@metadaddy
How to retrieve a Visualforce page from server side code for the purpose of screen scraping it to extract data.

Publishing Real-time Updates from Apex with Pusher
@metadaddy
Trying out Pusher and code for Visualforce page.

Salesforce Oracle Integration: Beyond Closed Won
@dlog
A reliable integration process with Salesforce and Oracle Financials.

Easy Upgrade Eclipse (Helios) Force.com IDE to Winter ’12 Release
@abhinavguptas
Gupta’s preferred way to update in Eclipse Helios.

Merging Salesforce orgs- 5 Tips to Ensure Success
@MikeGerholdt
How to create custom links in Salesforce.

Merging Salesforce Orgs- 5 Tips to Ensure Success
@MikeGerholdt
Tips include know what you’re getting into, consider the data, users, and tools, and visualize the change process for leaders.

Overview of the past week’s Force.com and Salesforce related articles. Enjoy!

Winter ’12 Social Approving of Records Using ‘Chatter Approvals’
@abhinavguptas
Enabling Chatter Approvals and fun ways to use them.

Formatting Salesforce OutputText
@wesnolte
Advanced capabilities of params and outputTexts.

Salesforce APIs- What They Are and When to Use Them
@forcedotcom
Dianne Siebold sits down with Pat Patterson to talk about the different APIs that are available, such as SOAP, Metadata, Apex, REST, and so on, and how to use them.

Winter ’12 is Here and It’s Social
@Salesforce
Winter ’12 is social with the release of the Sales Cloud, Chatter, Data.com, Database.com, and more.

Getting Salesforce Field Metadata the Easy Way
@jeffdonthemic
Apex Describe isn’t the easiest thing to work with, so Jeff Douglas offers some code to return the metadata so you can “perform ‘stuff’ accordingly.’”

If You Build it (and a Whole Lot of People Work Really, Really Hard for Six Years) They Will Come
@Salesforce
AppExchange was launched six years ago, and recently hit its one millionth install milestone.

Configuring Chatter Activities. Custom Fields and Hashtags!
@kevinswiggum
A video outlining how to use custom settings in Chatter Activities to customize your Chatter features.

Ruby Sessions at Dreamforce
@Fractastical
Video summaries of all of the Ruby and Heroku sessions at Dreamforce.

Video- Debugging Apex Tools and Techniques (DF11)
@jeffdonthemic
A video from DF11 showing you how to use the new System Log (Apex CSI).

Recent Updates to the Winter ’12 Release Notes
@forcedotcom
Chapman-Thurber explains some of the changes in Winter ’12.

As Marc Benioff pointed out this week at Dreamforce, the social enterprise is here, right now. It can be used to find out who your customers are and what they like, or even to create an employee social network within your business. Find out what’s new with Chatter and the Sales Cloud through the link below.

• Welcome to the Social Enterprise

Missed Benioff’s kickoff keynote? This article runs through the gist of it. Benioff’s goal is to get companies involved in the Social Enterprise. To do this, companies must develop a social media profile to monitor their customer’s needs and wants, create an employee social network so employee’s can exchange information and collaborate internally, and lastly, companies need to develop a Customer Social Network and a Product Social Network, which would be specific to that company or product, such as Toyota Friend. If companies do not start taking advantage of what social media has to offer, they are going to fall behind.

• Salesforce’s Benioff: “We Were Born Cloud, Now We’ve Been Reborn Social”

When the internet came into our lives 15 years ago, people were saying it would change everything, and it has. Now, cloud computing is going to change everything in the next 10 years. We will reach a point where all applications are delivered over the cloud, and CD software installation will be obsolete. Consumer needs are changing, we are all adapting to rely on the internet and the cloud to store our information, to run our business, to keep in touch with our friends and family. These changes over the next decade will be subtle and hardly noticeable, but like the article states, “we will wake up one day, look around and realize that the old ways have faded away.”

• Cloud: The Last Great Shift in the Software Industry

Earlier this month, Salesforce.com quietly acquired Navajo Systems, an Israeli cloud security encryption vendor. This acquisition will ease future cloud security concerns, which is a popular discussion and fear when it comes to moving to the cloud. “Customers are increasingly wary of storing corporate data in the cloud and expect certain guarantees that the data will be safe and protected when it is accessed,” and encrypting data will be the standard for easing those fears.

• Salesforce.com Acquires SaaS Encryption Provider Navajo Systems

Different companies have different needs for cloud computing. However, these three are universally important aspects to any business. The cloud is cost efficient, provides on demand utility, and is the way of the future. The cloud is estimated to increase 200% by 2015, therefore “it is time to embrace the future.”

• The Three Greatest Reasons to Move to the Cloud

Quick recap of all the Salesforce and Dreamforce related posts from the previous week.

Salesforce Trigger When Rollups Summaries Not Possible
@jeffdonthemic
Illustrative reference on the Sales Order to see which country is primary on any of the multiple Sales Order Items.

More Dreamforce 2011 Developer Sessions You May Have Missed
@quintonwall
Make sure to check out these Developerforce sessions at Dreamforce this week.

Salesforce’s Radian6 Takes Social Media Monitoring Platform Moible With New iOS App
@TechCrunch
Radian6 launched their new iOS app last week.

Scobleizer, Queener, Ritter, Gerholdt. 4 Killer Apps. Live from Dreamforce, it’s AppQuest ’11!
@indysen
AppQuest is on Tuesday starting at 5pm; find out who will be the next cloud idol.

Partner Experience at Dreamforce ’11
@forcedotcom
Partners, make sure to check out the partner portal for Dreamforce advice.

Build a Bulk Emailer for Salesforce with App Engine
@jeffdonthemic
Suggestions on how to send bulk emails through salesforce.com

The Doc Team at Dreamforce
@forcedotcom
The Doc Team will be hanging around Dreamforce to answer your questions or listen to your suggestions about user assistance. Stop by and see them, even if it’s just to say hello.

Long Awaited: Our Next Round of Force.com MVPs!
@forcedotcom
Congrats to this year’s Salesforce MVPs!

Announcing Java Spring Development Kit for Force.com and Database.com
@jesperfj
Database.com SDK for Java and Spring is now available for salesforce.com.

Sorting Apex SelectOption Array/List
@abhinavguptas
A simple way to custom sort through SelectOptions.

A quick snapshot of all the Force.com, Salesforce, and Dreamforce related articles from the previous week.

AppExchange Dreamforce “Can’t-Miss” Sessions List
@Salesforce
Check out these six useful AppExchange sessions at Dreamforce.

Dreamforce: It’s All About the People
@imperialstout
Dreamforce is not just about the sessions, but the people too. Take advantage of those around you and strike up conversations with random folks, you’ll get a lot more out of Dreamforce if you do.

Cloud Talk: CA Technologies Develops in 1/2 the Time and with 1/3 Fewer Resources with Force.com
@Indrajit_Sen
A great case study on how Force.com changed their business for the better.

Quick Tip-Pretty Print JSON in the Browser
@metadaddy
A way to “pretty print” JSON without pulling in a bunch of code.

Dreamforce: Top 5 Tips for Developers
@ReidCarlberg
Some tips include prepare an elevator pitch, make plans to meet people, plan some downtime, and plan out your sessions.

Logging Into Salesforce Through the Web Interface
@wesnolte
Various ways to authenticate with the Force.com platform.

A quick roundup of all the Force.com and Salesforce related articles from the previous week. Enjoy!

Is Force.com Your Key to the Cloud Kingdom?
@cloudbook
Force.com’s applicability and credibility could prove useful for helping to grow your ISV.

Best Practice: Multiple Chatter Posts of the Same File
@dschach
Duplicated records are annoying and a waste of time. Instead, upload it once and reference it in subsequent feed posts.

General Query Utility- Using Dynamic SOQL
@sfunearthed
“General query utility which can be used to query any object.”

Setting a Social Strategy: We’ve Got the Experts at Dreamforce
@Salesforce
Dreamforce is just around the corner, and don’t miss your chance to hear from the experts, including Loic Le Meur (founder of Seesmic), Gary Vaynerchuk (New York Times and WSJ best-selling author), and Dan Zarella (award-winning social, search and viral marketing scientist at Hubspot) are just a few experts who are speaking.

The Secrets to a Great Dreamforce Presentation
@quintonwall
The secrets are tell a great story, give them something to remember, and teach them something new.

What Makes Force.com Developers Different from Ruby Developers?
@fractastical
Dress code, meetups, and integration are just a few reasons that set Force.com developers from Ruby developers.