Archive for March, 2008
Salesforce.com on iPhone
Salesforce.com recently demonstrated the iPhone application it will release on iTunes sometime in June. It looks great, but I really could not wait for it. Furthermore, I expect it to support only a subset of the objects I need, and certainly not the custom ones I have created to get things done. Therefore, my friend Ihab and I have been working on a proof of concept application built using an S-Control and running on the iPhone’s Safari web browser (no hacks required). [Continue…]
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Extreme Productivity Seminar Slides
The first Extreme Productivity Seminar took place yesterday, and based on the feedback we received so far, the concept worked. We managed to cover the entire agenda on time, and everybody was able to build some pretty cool custom objects in Salesforce.com, and some basic integration scenarios with Gmail and LinkedIn. As promised, here are the slides we used for the event. [Continue…]
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Extreme Productivity Seminar Logistics
The first Extreme Productivity Seminar has been confirmed, and will take place at the Four Seasons Hotel Silicon Valley in Palo Alto, CA (walking distance from home), on Friday, March 28th, from 9AM to 5PM (lunch included). We already got some nice coverage from Mike Gunderloy at Web Worker Daily, and my friend Oliver Starr, who now contributes to GTD Times, will join as an attendee. Here are some more details about what to expect from this day-long working session. [Continue…]
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Process Discovery
While I’m putting together the liquid cooling system for my new computer, I’d like to share with you some details about the digital asset management process I am planning to manage with it, using Intalio|BPMS as development platform. Doing what most business analysts do when documenting business processes for the first time, I fired my spreadsheet editor of choice (Google Docs in this particular instance), and started filling cells up with lots of information that only human beings can understand. We’re at the process discovery stage here, and it really does not matter which tool you use for it. Nevertheless, using an online tool such as Google Docs will make it easier to share your ideas and requirements with others, and to track changes over time. So let’s take a look at what we’ve got. [Continue…]
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Email Tips
Like everybody else, I have a love and hate relationship with email, and I have felt more hate than love for SMTP recently. Too many emails to keep track off, and too much spam not being filtered by my email client are contributing to spoil our already strained relationship. Nevertheless, a couple of things can be done to salvage it, especially when using Gmail. Here they are. [Continue…]
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Pushing the Envelope
If you’re a test pilot, pushing the envelope is what you do to discover an aircraft’s performance limits. I’m just a private pilot, therefore I try to stay away from the boundaries of my aircraft’s envelope as much as possible. But there are other envelopes I can play with, and Office 2.0 is one of them. Over the past two years, I have conducted many experiments, attempting to do everything online. I followed the Rules for Office 2.0 religiously, and eventually made it work. Today, using an iPhone and a MacBook Air equipped with a Franklin CDU-680 3G modem, I can get online pretty much anytime and anywhere. I built an Office 2.0 Setup around Gmail and Salesforce.com, and I must say that it’s working pretty well. So, what’s next? Well, all this works when you’re managing megabytes of structured data and gigabytes of documents. But what about hundreds of gigabytes of structured data and tens of terabytes of documents? Can you make the overall workflow scale by three or four orders of magnitude? This is one of the questions I will try to answer over the coming months, and I will make sure to share my progress on this blog. [Continue…]
