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Google Maps in Salesforce Page

Manish — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:51:28 +0000

Having implemented this before, I wanted to make a blog entry of this functionality that is very popular and often asked by the Salesforce users.
This blog entry is about adding google maps to the existing page layout of any objects in Salesforce. For example, showing address of the account in map or mapping the address of campaign, etc.
Here is how we start.
1. Go to Setup -> Customize -> Develop -> Pages and create a new Visualforce Page. Add following code:

2. Add the Visualforce page on the Account page layout (in a single-column section) and set it’s height to be 250px.

extend flexigrid with pixelnix

Manish — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 14:06:49 +0000

Flexigrid is lightweight jQuery plugin for data grid that uses Ajax to load the content. It provides a lot of features that one might want in some grid view of the data.

For features and downloading Flexigrid, visit http://flexigrid.info/

However, its column sorting feature does not work unless your grid is hooked up to a server-side data source. This was very annoying as sortable table was one of the features that is needed in almost every grid view. I tried a little google search and found a guy had already created patch for this. Hopefully new version of flexigrid would solve that problem, but ones who has been using flexigrid as it is, the following link is helpful
http://pixelnix.com/flexigrid-jquery-plugin-extending-to-allow-sorting-of-static-grids/

ApexDataLoader from PocketSOAP

Manish — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 01:34:52 +0000

I recently started using Mac. I was working on Data Loader for Salesforce and apparently there is no data loader provided by Salesforce for Mac users.
So for ppl like us, there is a data loader provided by PocketSOAP. LexiLoader is an OSX build of the Apex Data Loader application which can quickly export, create or update data in your Salesforce.com organization.
We can download it for free from:
http://www.pocketsoap.com/osx/lexiloader/

SEVER: Error listenerStart

Manish — Tue, 10 May 2011 19:55:14 +0000

I came across following error after I decided to use log4j in my webapp for logging my application logs to the seperate file.

“SEVER: Error listenerStart”…
“SEVERE: Context [/xxxxxxxxxx] startup failed due to previous errors”, ….

I had multiple apps running under webapp in tomcat. So I had to add following lines in web.xml of all applications to make it working.

webAppRootKey
xxxxxxxxxx.root

It is Log4jWebConfigurer’s requirement…

http://opensource.objectsbydesign.com/spring-1.1.4/org/springframework/web/util/Log4jWebConfigurer.html

Automatically rotate the catalina.out log file

Manish — Fri, 06 May 2011 00:54:22 +0000

It has been increasingly difficult for us in the production server to mange the space due to the increasing amount of log data created in the catalina.log file by tomcat.
Do this to rotate catalina.out daily or when it becomes bigger than 200M
1. Create this file
/etc/logrotate.d/tomcat

2. Copy the following contents into the above file
/var/log/tomcat/catalina.out {
copytruncate
daily
rotate 7
compress
missingok
size 200M
}

The following link discusses about this in detail

http://www.vineetmanohar.com/2010/03/howto-rotate-tomcat-catalina-out/

Enable Remote Debuggin in Eclipse

Manish — Tue, 03 May 2011 20:31:33 +0000

This is something I had been trying to do for a while but has never attempted. It is not recommended to do in the production server. But a lot of times I want to debug my application running in the test server through my local eclipse.
Following link gives clear idea about what needs to be done.

https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/BOOT/Setting+Up+Tomcat+For+Remote+Debugging

Basically,
Open startup.sh from your CATALINA_BASE
add
export JPDA_ADDRESS=8000
export JPDA_TRANSPORT=dt_socket
bin/catalina.sh jpda start

edit, exec “$PRGDIR”/”$EXECUTABLE” jpda start “$@”

run the eclipse in the debug mode for “Remote Java Application”.

Monit

Manish — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 18:39:00 +0000

I am thinking about digging more into Monit, which is open source utility for managing and monitoring, processes, files, directories and filesystems on a UNIX system.

http://mmonit.com/monit/

Very nice article at

http://www.darkcoding.net/software/setting-up-monit-on-ubuntu/

Ajax render attribute fails inside a h:dataTable in JSF2

Manish — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 20:21:12 +0000

This is one of the typical problem faced by developers of JSF. I too spent a lot of time for this error. This link is a reference for correcting myself if I came across similiar situation.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2424757/ajax-render-attribute-dont-work-in-a-hdatatable-in-jsf2

Setting up Redmine for Email

Manish — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 15:29:59 +0000

Setting up Redmine to send email
–TODO

Setting up Redmine to send email using gmail

http://redmineblog.com/articles/setup-redmine-to-send-email-using-gmail/

Creating issues in redmine as the email are received for issue
–TODO

Tutorial on setting up firewall in ubuntu 10.04

Manish — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 16:18:33 +0000

I found a nice and easy tutorial in setting up the firewall in ubuntu 10.04 server using ufw.

http://1000umbrellas.com/2010/04/29/how-to-set-up-the-firewall-using-ufw-on-ubuntu-lucid-lynx-server