http://pipelime.com Have your sales gone sour? Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:51:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Due to the number of Salesforce companies we've dealt with using Group Edition and missing out on apps like MintFly, Vertical Response, and Jigsaw, we've created an "idea" on the Salesforce IdeaExchange: Why limit AppExchange applications to Professional and above? Some applications like MintFly, Vertical Response, and Jigsaw would be a ... http://pipelime.com/archives/34 It's amazing that so many people in this day and age (of rising mac popularity, iPhones, Firefox usage) would choose to limit their web site and require only Internet Explorer.  For instance, with the virtually unlimited number of online print shops, Staples requires a Windows computer running Internet Explorer.Here is ... http://pipelime.com/archives/31 Too many times we have tried to look up a contact or account in Salesforce.com on our iPhone and give up after waiting 10 minutes for each page to load.  The reason is that the iPhone is just not capable of loading the 50+ images, 10+ javascript files, 5+ CSS ... http://pipelime.com/archives/30 This stunning visualization of of code contribution to an open source project (Python) is not only a stunning display of colors and motion.  The video starts with one contributor for the longest time.  The code is completely circling him and there is no other input.  There is so much effort ... http://pipelime.com/archives/28 Creating beauty in advertising makes people appreciate your brand.  Jet Blue's new advertising campaign thanking you for not flying, as they do the flying for you, and numerous silly images make it a pleasant experience to see run into their brand.  It is a risk, as not all of these ... http://pipelime.com/archives/26 AJAX web applications typically use a processing or loading indicator when pulling data back from the server. We use them in S-Controls for Salesforce.com integrations and for our other web projects. Recently when performing a web search for a generic animated loading indicator (this search) I was amazed ... http://pipelime.com/archives/25 Problem: We're using a "Closed Won" Opportunity as a financial booking and we need a way to lock the record from people editing it once it reaches this state. This also means we can't allow people to modify the Opportunity LineItems (aka Opportunity Products). Solution: Validation Rules to ... http://pipelime.com/archives/24 At one company we have adopted an Opportunity close process using Approval Processes. It is a smallish (70 person) company which uses a desktop finance package and relies on Salesforce.com for the majority of the bookings reporting. To make the data more reliable there is now a process ... http://pipelime.com/archives/22 The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization based in Boston, MA, USA. It relies on individuals like us to support FSF's mission to preserve, protect and promote the freedom to use, study, copy, modify and redistribute computer software, and to defend the rights of Free Software users. ... http://pipelime.com/archives/21 If you have a collection of just a few really common emails that are sent repeatedly to numerous customers and prospects, you are likely using the email templates functionality. If you get complaints about how long it takes to pick the template from the pop-up window, I have a ... http://pipelime.com/archives/16