Design focusing on everything from the smallest detail to whole concept solutions. Innovative in several fields of style and art. Drafts and sketches to drawings and fully fabricated products. Logos and company emblems containing argumentation and commentary, explaining the sophisticated feeling that meets the eye. Development focused on web development with new things to consider, tips, tricks, references, examples, tutorials, code and new stuff.
Using Visualforce pages as content source on buttons in Salesforce
Wed, Oct 5th 2011 4:11p Niklas Waller When you want to create a button for an object you can override a standard or create a custom one. On the page for this you choose ‘Visualforce Page’ as content source. One thing you’ll discover is that there are no choices if there are also no Visualforce pages with a standard controller to the... Read more [read] Keywords:
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Make Setup the default landing page in Salesforce Winter ’12 Release
Wed, Sep 28th 2011 4:11p Niklas Waller Today I attended the webinar Winter ’12 release preview to learn about what’s coming in Salesforce winter ’12 release. It was quite a few interesting things that I’m looking forward to trying out. A very small but wished-for adjustment is to being able to make Setup the default landing page when logging into Salesforce. Go to... Read more [read] Keywords:
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Problems with Salesforce sandbox integration with BigMachines after Winter ’12 release
Wed, Sep 21st 2011 5:11p Niklas Waller We use Salesforce together with BigMachines as our CRM-system and product configurator. This means very briefly that when our business are creating agreements they enter BigMachines from a Salesforce opportunity. This procedure stopped working as it used to after this weekend’s upgrade to the Winter ’12 release of Salesforce sandboxes. We get several errors. One of... Read more [read] Keywords: integration
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The ModSecurity module on Apache web server for BigMachines version 11
Wed, Sep 14th 2011 4:13p Niklas Waller The ModSecurity module on the Apache server (BigMachines web server) is mandated for all upgrades starting with BigMachines version 11. After upgrading to version 11 we suddenly got “The webpage can not be found” on several places. This turned out to be because the ModSecurity don’t permit double pipes (||) which we were using as... Read more [read] Keywords: server
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Did you know you can change the Google search page background?
Wed, Sep 7th 2011 6:10p Niklas Waller I haven’t noticed this until know. At the bottom right of the window you can click ‘Change background image’. Select an image from a public gallery, your computer or your Picasa web photos. When pressing ‘Select’ this image will be your background image on the Google search page. Share and Enjoy: [read] Keywords: google
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Calling a web service by pressing a button
Wed, Aug 31st 2011 5:10p Niklas Waller If you want to run some code when pressing a button in Salesforce you could do it in the button itself, for example like this: {!REQUIRESCRIPT("/soap/ajax/22.0/connection.js")} {!REQUIRESCRIPT("/soap/ajax/22.0/apex.js" )} var connection = sforce.connection; var callOff = new sforce.SObject("Opportunity"); callOff.AccountId = "{!Opportunity.AccountId__c}"; callOff.Main_Opp__c = "{!Opportunity.Id}"; callOff.RecordTypeId = "01460000000JngT" callOff.Name = "Opp Name"; callOff.StageName [read] Keywords: ajax
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Setting field value on a page layout with read-only attribute
Thu, Aug 25th 2011 7:10a Niklas Waller You have a page layout with a field that has the read-only attribute on the page layout but that is available in the field level security. This means a user cannot modify the field when looking at the record through the page layout. If you need to set this value when opening a record, either... Read more [read] Keywords: security
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Backup your Google+ data
Wed, Aug 17th 2011 4:10p Niklas Waller Now you can backup your Google+ data. That is your +1′s, profile, contact and circles, buzz’s, picasa web albums and your stream. This has been made possible thanks to Google’s Data Liberation Front. Google Takeout is a data liberation platform that makes escaping from Google products easy (if you’d want to escape). Or you could just... Read more [read] Keywords: google
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Creating a Google+ pic or a I’ve moved to Google+ pic
Wed, Aug 10th 2011 4:14p Niklas Waller If you’re a Google+ fan you might want to tweek your profile photo a bit. An easy to use service for creating a Google+ pic of yourself is +me by Turhan Aydin. Either modify the one for Google+ Or add a “I’ve Moved to Google+’ pic for your Facebook profile: I am sure you have better... Read more [read] Keywords: facebook
google
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Invalid command-line parameter when running the Android emulator
Wed, Jul 27th 2011 5:10p Niklas Waller Apparently a small bug has sneaked in to the Android SDK Tools for revision 12. The emulator fails to start and the reason for this is that a path can’t be read because of a space. When I have created an Android project with an Activity and GUI that I want to launch in the emulator... Read more [read] Keywords: bug
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Java SE Development Kit not found
Wed, Jul 20th 2011 5:11p Niklas Waller I am about to create my first Android app, which is coming soon I hope. The take-off distance was a bit long though since I didn’t even get to start before the first error came up. First I need Eclipse, which I have. Then I need the Android SDK and finally I need the ADT... Read more [read] Keywords: development
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Certified Salesforce and BigMachines Developer
Wed, Jul 13th 2011 4:17p Niklas Waller Three weeks ago I got certified as a Salesforce.com Certified Force.com Developer and a few weeks before that I got certified as a BigMachines Admin Certified – Yellow belt. Next step for me would be to take the admin certifications on the Salesforce side since I think I already know them pretty well and after that, if... Read more [read] Keywords: admin
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When BigMachines forced set float attributes became no value editable input fields
Wed, Jul 6th 2011 4:13p Niklas Waller The other week I was going to deploy some changes to production in BigMachines. BigMachines is roughly speaking our product configurator used to configure products and to create agreements. Everything worked well in TEST. This time, I was forced to deploy manually which is always a risk since it then depends so much more on... Read more [read] Keywords:
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Vertical align in XSL
Wed, Jun 29th 2011 4:14p Niklas Waller In a former post I shortly showed you how to dedicate height easily in XSL when using the document for printing for example a PDF document. I will use the same code here to show you how to accomplish vertical align. Also an easy thing when you know about it, but it required quite some... Read more [read] Keywords:
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Dedicate height in an XSL block
Wed, Jun 22nd 2011 4:13p Niklas Waller If you have the need to dedicate height in a printout regardless of if there is a value to print or not, you can proceed this way. There are probably many other ways as well. I have an XSL:FO document here meant to be outputted as PDF. In one place there should be the same... Read more [read] Keywords:
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Error messages when running GnuWin32 msgfmt
Wed, Jun 15th 2011 4:12p Niklas Waller In my last post I described how to translate the WordPress Thesis theme to your preferred language. When you run the command msgfmt in GnuWin32 GetText you might see these error messages. "invalid multibyte sequence" or "Parse error" The quick way that I came around this was that the encoding of thesis.pot was wrong. The... Read more [read] Keywords:
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How to translate the WordPress Thesis theme to your preferred language
Wed, Jun 8th 2011 4:10p Niklas Waller It’s not difficult to get WordPress in your preferred language. Since WordPress is already translated into most languages you can decide from the start to get it right or you can convert from one language to an existing. Read more about that here. If you are using Thesis as your theme you’ll notice that the... Read more [read] Keywords:
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The Google +1 button – like the web
Wed, Jun 1st 2011 5:10p Niklas Waller Google started rolling out the +1 button in March already for use in search results and ads. Now it has been available to put on pages (websites, blogs etc.) as well. The +1 button from Google has the same function and purpose as Facebook’s like button. The idea is to press the +1 button to... Read more [read] Keywords: facebook
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An improvement to the XSL table of contents
Wed, May 25th 2011 5:10p Niklas Waller In a recent post I explained how a table of contents can be accomplished using XSL. In my case I am using it in the BigMachines proposal editor. One thing that were not that good with this solution was that I had to specify the length of the leader. This lead to undesired line breaks... Read more [read] Keywords:
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Cascader – A nice little parsing tool for the web developer
Wed, May 18th 2011 4:10p Niklas Waller Cascader is a nice tool that can save some time for you if you want to tidy up some HTML code. You can copy and paste some HTML code in the top textarea and it will be divided into nice css-classes and HTML calling these classes. This is AJAX-based meaning that if you type this... Read more [read] Keywords: ajax
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How to create a table of contents using XSL
Wed, May 11th 2011 4:10p Niklas Waller Table of contents can be done more or less complex. This solution is a rather simple one and can successfully be used with BigMachines for example. Especially if you are using the the old XSL printout functionality. This is the code that prints the actual table of contents. It uses templates to print the rows.... Read more [read] Keywords:
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Style XSL tags by defining attribute sets
Wed, May 4th 2011 4:10p Niklas Waller I am currently working on a table of contents for an agreement template using XSL:FO. Some data are hard-coded in the template and some are fetched from the underlying XML generated by the framework being used. HTML tags can be styled with CSS by specifying a class. In a similar way XSL tags can be... Read more [read] Keywords: css
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Working with mock objects in Salesforce web service providers
Wed, Apr 27th 2011 5:10p Niklas Waller When I develop web service providers in Salesforce, I often create mock objects. The reason for this is when I need to return a defined set of fields as a list for many records. The set of fields might be only a subset from an object (standard or custom) or a mix of fields for... Read more [read] Keywords:
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How to query deleted records with SOQL
Wed, Apr 20th 2011 4:16p Niklas Waller I have recently created a webservice provider in Salesforce (Apex class) which will be queried for modified data by another system. The other system wants updates of a predefined set of fields for several objects that have been modified. The requirements are also to get notified of whether the modification is an insert, an update... Read more [read] Keywords:
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Get some answers with Google Talk Guru
Wed, Apr 13th 2011 4:10p Niklas Waller I always said I am an early adopter, but sometimes I am a late follower as a colleague said once as he smiled. I just discovered the Google Talk Guru when browsing the Google Labs and I liked it instantly. GMail is something that is always open and available for me when I’m at the computer regardless... Read more [read] Keywords: google
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How to check why a user can access a record in Salesforce
Tue, Apr 5th 2011 4:11p Niklas Waller It sometimes comes in cases to admin support asking why a user can see a specific record. There might be business rules saying that this shouldn’t be the case. I believe that quite a few people get stuck here. They start looking at the OWD, the Sharing Rules, the Profiles but might still not find... Read more [read] Keywords: admin
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Using different favicons for your WordPress site and admin
Wed, Mar 30th 2011 4:10p Niklas Waller On Wohill we are using different favicons on the site and the admin. This is something that I recommend since it is easy to see just by looking at the tabs. The blue icon is for the website and the pink is for the admin site. We are using the Thesis theme (which I highly... Read more [read] Keywords: admin
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The Thesis OpenHook WordPress plugin
Wed, Mar 23rd 2011 5:10p Niklas Waller One really great WordPress plugin that I would like to push for is one that I found the other day when configuring a clients website called Thesis OpenHook. When customizing a WordPress blog or website you will spend quite some time in the css- and functions editor to add, remove and move things in the... Read more [read] Keywords: css
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Inactivate a Salesforce Trigger in production
Wed, Mar 16th 2011 5:19p Niklas Waller It is not possible to activate or inactivate a trigger directly in the web interface in Production. To do this the easiest way is probably the following steps. No brain surgery here but an easy thing to get stuck on for many people I suspect. Activate or Inactivate the trigger in the Sandbox (this is... Read more [read] Keywords: interface
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Check and increase the performance of your blog/site
Wed, Mar 9th 2011 4:11p Niklas Waller One of the reasons to why we moved over to wordpress was because the old framework (which was self-developed) got out of date. I didn’t have time to maintain it so this resulted in many things going the wrong way. With WordPress and Thesis we get a lot of this for free by just maintaining... Read more [read] Keywords:
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How to update a lookup field in Salesforce
Wed, Mar 2nd 2011 4:16p Niklas Waller If you like I had the idea to update a lookup field with a workflow rule and a field update action and realized that it’s not possible, keep on reading… When you get as far as setting up the field update rule you realize that the lookup field that you want to set to a... Read more [read] Keywords:
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The Force.com Logins extension for Google Chrome
Wed, Feb 23rd 2011 4:16p Niklas Waller When working as a developer, tester or other member of the maintenance team you are most likely using different Salesforce ORGs, since this is the way to work when developing new functionality in Salesforce. You develop in one sandbox, test in another and then put it in production in a third. We actually have more... Read more [read] Keywords: google
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How Forecast Category on a Salesforce Opportunity is assigned
Wed, Feb 16th 2011 4:10p Niklas Waller If you want to set the Forecast Category to different values depending on the Opportunity stage, this is existing functionality. I.e you don’t have to create workflow rules for the different cases. It works like this. Open up the Stage field on the Opportunity object. Goto section ‘Opportunity Stages Picklist Values’. In this list a... Read more [read] Keywords:
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The Force.com Utility Belt extension for Google Chrome
Wed, Feb 9th 2011 4:13p Niklas Waller There are many both useful and funny chrome extensions to choose from. One of them that is good to have for my work is the Force.com utility belt extension by Jeff Douglas. Since I work with Salesforce in one way or the other most of the day; I need access to Salesforce help, Salesforce reference... Read more [read] Keywords: google
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Edit multiple profiles in Salesforce
Wed, Feb 2nd 2011 4:14p Niklas Waller If you need to save a setting for multiple profiles, there is a way to do that without having to enter every single profile one by one. Goto Setup -> Customize -> User Interface Check setting ‘Enable Enhanced Profile List Views’ Goto Setup -> Manage Users -> Profiles Create a new view Fill in the... Read more [read] Keywords: interface
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The Wohill Chrome Extension
Wed, Jan 26th 2011 4:20p Niklas Waller As a fun and smaller project I decided to create a Google Chrome extension for Wohill. The Wohill blog is, roughly speaking, divided up into Design, Development and Photography. All our photographies can also be browsed on our Flickr account. One way to create an extension is to make API calls to other sites, like... Read more [read] Keywords: development
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The Google URL Shortener
Wed, Jan 19th 2011 4:13p Niklas Waller There are tons of URL shortener services out there for free. The purpose of them are to shorten long and complicated urls with something more simple. Not necessarily because that should be easier to remember but rather because it takes less space. Something that is important when it comes to Twitter or other social networks when... Read more [read] Keywords: google
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An Unexpected HTTP Error occurred during the API request
Wed, Jan 12th 2011 5:14p Niklas Waller Suddenly today when I was opening my WordPress plugins page I couldn’t browse or search plugins. Instead the error message ‘An Unexpected HTTP Error occurred during the API request’ was displayed. This came very sudden without any changes from my side. I browsed the web a bit and found a solution. Prior to Wordpress 3.0 Edit... Read more [read] Keywords:
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Get inspiration with Spotify playlists from Playalistic
Wed, Jan 5th 2011 5:17p Niklas Waller A new website has started called Playalistic. The idea is to provide playlists in Spotify in an easy way and to manage these I hope. Playalistic is a brand under EMI Music so they say most music will come from there but they will also include music from other music companies. Anyway, the good thing about... Read more [read] Keywords:
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Create and use a global MySQL variable
Wed, Dec 29th 2010 7:18p Niklas Waller I have been working with pretty large pieces of SQL code and now as the code would grow bigger I realize the need of being able to use a global variable for the cases when I need to modify a string that is being used in many different pieces of code.brbrSo for example if I need to do this comparison in several SQL code blocks:brtable class="codeTable"tbodytrtdleft(a.createddate,10) gt; #8220;2010-06-25#8221;/td/tr/tbody/tablebrand I use the same date in many code blocks, then it would be bette [read] Keywords: mysql
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A little symbol of Christmas
Sun, Dec 26th 2010 7:21p Randolph Guy A lot of X-mas spirit is in the air at this time of year. Christmas in shopping-windows, offices, streets and at home #8211; all over there is Christmas in the air. And here in Stockholm I must say it is a lot of snow all over the place#8230; really makes the Christmas feeling grow.brbrI have been at a few nice friends and have eaten lots of nice food. Everything from traditional ham to super-nice turkey and Christmas cake#8230; a favourite of mine.brbrEnjoy the little pictogram of a tree that a [read] Keywords:
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Christmas tree balls
Sat, Dec 25th 2010 7:21p Niklas Waller So now we have just had christmas 2010. It was a great christmas, especially for the kids, and it's still not over. Today we were out in the snow and had a great time and also doing only-fun things indoors and eating lots of candy.brTomorrow we are off to see grandmother, it will be great. Just hope the weather will not stop us.brbrThe photo today shows a closeup of our christmas tree with some beautiful christmas tree balls that my wife has a thing for. She can buy millions of them and these a [read] Keywords:
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Finding the reason for the manual sharing rule
Wed, Dec 22nd 2010 7:25p Niklas Waller In your Salesforce org you have a sharing model. Generally speaking it#8217;s first the OWD (Organization Wide Defaults) which specifies the default acccess to the org objects. Sharing rules can be added on top of this to widen the access rights to specified groups and roles. And then we have the settings on the profiles that can be used as a complement or sometimes override the sharing model.brbrOur org already contains many profiles and sharing rules for several objects. A few days ago I was p [read] Keywords:
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The bulb as a pictogram
Sun, Dec 19th 2010 7:19p Randolph Guy I took a picture that I posted yesterday of a bulb. The typical symbol for an idea. Maybe even a great idea. So this time I made a light-bulb pictogram to symbolize the idea I´m working on now. Or it is actually a concept more or less. A new design and concept for a new product. All this is nice to put together under the uniting symbol #8211; The bulb.brbrIt is nice to think of things that have to do with work and design when you for example are out shoveling snow#8230; and as you might know th [read] Keywords:
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The bulb – the symbol for ideas
Sat, Dec 18th 2010 7:14p Randolph Guy Today I have been down by the boat with my father. Now one can wonder if it isn´t a bit late and a bit to much ice. Well #8211; the truth of the matter a was that it was a bit thick I must say. We almost got stuck up on the ice. So we had to surrender to winter and keep the boat at the jetty. brbrThe thing is that I was thinking while driving through the ice#8230; And I got lots of new ideas and thoughts that rushed through my head. Maybe not all of them solutions to world peace #8211; but solu [read] Keywords:
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Id value not valid for the users profile
Wed, Dec 15th 2010 7:15p Niklas Waller I was migrating data from a legacy system to our Salesforce ORG using the Apex Data Loader. Data was migrated to different objects like Account and Opportunity and for each of these a recordtypeid was specified. It worked out just fine! Then suddenly for the Caseobject I bumped into an error message for all records that I tried to upsert.brbrtable class="codeTable"tbodytrtdRecord Type Id: id value not valid for the users profile/td/tr/tbody/tablebrI have seen this error message before and also [read] Keywords: profile
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The pictogram bear or cocktail
Mon, Dec 13th 2010 9:18a Randolph Guy When one designs logotypes or pictograms it is often so that the symbol can have several meanings or hidden messages. Either intentionally or by chans. If the message is easy to be misstaken with a similar brand or something that looks funny or bad it could be a good idea to rethink the design a bit.brbrThis time the design could be a chair with to round lamps hanging beside it. Or a cocktail-glass#8230; Or even a bear-nose and eyes. What do you see?brbr /br /img src='http://www.wohill.com/imag [read] Keywords:
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Fire in the balloon
Sat, Dec 11th 2010 7:15p Niklas Waller This is a photo from the beginning of our ballon trip a couple of months ago. Me and the Mrs took a ride. We together with lots of other beginners got the chance to help preparing the balloon. Then we sat up in the balloon basket which had several areas. And after that we took off. The fire kept on from time to time to get the balloon on the right altitude. Apparently this has impact on the direction. brbrGreat fun! I recommend it!br /br /img src='http://www.wohill.com/images/balloon_fire.jpg' [read] Keywords:
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Exceeded maximum number of active workflows
Wed, Dec 8th 2010 7:14p Niklas Waller I was deploying new Salesforce workflows via Eclipse from one sandbox to another and then I got this error for several of them. The number is a variable here of course.brbribsalesforce Exceeded maximum number (10) of active workflows/b/ibrbrThe strange thing is that this is no limit. I have seen cases on the Internet with the number 70 here. I myself got other cases with 3. So I don#8217;t know why this error message pops up but I know how to get around it - a workaround.brbrModify the active ta [read] Keywords: eclipse
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The Hill-Billy horse
Mon, Dec 6th 2010 5:18a Randolph Guy I was sitting sketching the look for a new folder yesterday#8230; then I looked out into the snowy landscape #8211; one can see how all the trees and rocks have changed their personality and look. Something almost looked like a horse#8230; So I sketched it down on a piece of paper. It didn´t have the hair standing up like in this posted picture#8230; But you have to ad a bit extra to give the character a little bit of an edge.brbrNow out to build some snow-men before it gets to cold again.brbr [read] Keywords:
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A spark from Vansbro
Sat, Dec 4th 2010 7:18p Randolph Guy I have over the years and my upbringing used a form of transportation called #8221;Spark#8221;. Meaning #8221;Kick#8221; because you use you leg to push #8221;kick#8221; yourself forward. It is an exceptional way to transport yourself and a few small things. Or even a friend#8230; Their is a little seat in front were you can sit and rest or be driven. Sometimes you can sit out on the ice and fish #8211; instead of sitting directly on the ice the #8221;Spark#8221; is a great for just that.brbrIt [read] Keywords:
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Button code for referencing Salesforce objects when pressing a button or link
Wed, Dec 1st 2010 7:14p Niklas Waller When you need to create a button or link that opens up a new object that references other objects there is a special syntax you should follow. First you should be aware of the following from the Salesforce help:brtable class="codeTable"tbodytrtdiLookup field relationships contain 2 components:brbr* field name - value that is displayedbrbr* field name id - unique id which identifies the specific record. This value is crucial especially if there are duplicate field namesbrbrIn order to have the [read] Keywords: firefox
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Got this zebra pictogram on my mind
Sun, Nov 28th 2010 7:16p Randolph Guy Ok #8211; I have been thinking of zebras lately. I think it is because of all the different patterns I have been seeing on clothing the last few days - leopard, tiger and zebra patterns. That#8217;s why I made another pictogram for Logo Grande #8211; my design-company. I made some ground rules #8211; for instance yellow and black #8211; which I use in my logotype and also tried to get in the spiked hair style like the Bull I posted a few weeks ago. I think this might be a super print for a t-shi [read] Keywords:
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A view from an air balloon
Sat, Nov 27th 2010 7:15p Niklas Waller A couple of months ago me and my wife took a ride in an air balloon that we had been give as a present. This was to be my first time.brbrThere was more to the preparation stuff that I could imagine. Apparently many of these planned trips are cancelled due to bad whether or wind. But this time after going half-an hour by truck we were lucky enough to go. brbrI really enjoyed it. We flew just above the treetops and actually touched one or two of them too. The reason for the altitude has to do with [read] Keywords:
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You must specify a non-empty label for CustomObject
Wed, Nov 24th 2010 7:14p Niklas Waller The other day I was doing a deployment from one bSalesforce/b Sandbox to another one. The deployment was to a great deal manual. And the reason for this is because there has been concurrent development on different things in the sandboxes since a couple of months back.brbrThe approach hence was to move new and modified fields manually using the meta data tag of each object in scope. Meaning that I copied the XML-tags of new fields from the meta data representation of an object in one Sandbox ove [read] Keywords: development
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Face sketch
Sun, Nov 21st 2010 7:15p Randolph Guy I have been showing and designing a lot of pictograms and similar things the last couple of posts - mainly because I have done a lot of pictograms for different presentations for some clients. brbrThis time #8211; after having rain several days in a row #8211; I felt I would like to design a rain-face. Or a face inspired by this weather - not too sunny in his approach! I gave the face more expression by sewing up the eye-lid on one eye and the other I sewed closed. Mostly giving you some symboli [read] Keywords:
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Took up the boat today
Sat, Nov 20th 2010 7:14p Randolph Guy It is getting colder and the ice will probably come in afew weeks. I thought it might be time to get the boat up. The weather was a bit moist and round about zero degrees. The old engine started fine #8211; just as always I must say. Knock on wood#8230;brbrI drove round to the boat-ramp and pulled it up on to the trailer. It will be some fixing to do until next year. Well when spring come salong I guess.brbrFeels good to have the boat up safe this year. It has happened that I have had to hack my [read] Keywords:
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Count number of possible combinations of a word
Wed, Nov 17th 2010 7:15p Niklas Waller I was bored so I decided to create a simple Javascript function that given a word in an input field calculcates the number of possible combinations of the characters in that word. At least if you strictly treats every character as unique. If you provide the same character more than once, in reality this will give fewer combinations.brbrFor example the word '"ab" gives 2 possible combinations - "ab" and "ba".brbrThe word "abc" gives 6 - "abc", "acb", "bac", "bca", "cab", "cba [read] Keywords: javascript
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The number five
Sun, Nov 14th 2010 7:15p Randolph Guy I have made a few fonts and similar pictogram like symbols for letters and so forth. I made a symbol or pictogram for the number five. Could also look like the letter #8221;s#8221;.brbrIt has a clean cut to it. Simple, strikt and I have kept it inside a box to ad to it´s hard look.brbrIt could be used as a logotype for a team of five or something like that#8230;brbr /br /img src='http://www.wohill.com/images/number_5_pictogram.jpg' /
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Palmtree at Isla Coche
Sat, Nov 13th 2010 7:14p Niklas Waller I like this picture. A lonely palm on a windy beach next to the hotel restaurant.brThis picture was taken during our stay at Isla Coche in Venezuela in 2008. The hotel and its surroundings and the nearby beach was very nice (except for the food and water problem of course) but the rest of the island was not exactly looking like a paradise. Anyway I liked our staying.brbrSearch for Venezuela or Isla Coche on this blog to read more about it!brbr /br /img src='http://www.wohill.com/images/Wohill_p [read] Keywords:
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How to get rid of the IE security warning when opening BigMachines from Salesforce
Wed, Nov 10th 2010 7:15p Niklas Waller If you are a Salesforce user and you use BigMachines as the product configurator, then you might see this security warning every time you enter BigMachines from Salesforce to create or edit a new configuration (to create quotes etc.) That is if you are using Internet Explorer of course.brbrimg src="http://www.wohill.com/images/ie_security_warning.jpg" border="0" alt=""brbrFor most people the easiest way is to simply press #8216;No#8217; here and continue seeing this alert box forever. Howe [read] Keywords: security
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Lifting up the box
Sun, Nov 7th 2010 7:14p Randolph Guy I drew a little pictogram last week or so #8211; with a little character pushing a big box. This time he has come a bit further and become even stronger. He is lifting up the box over his head. Just a little illustration of getting better and better.brbrIt is lots to do this week #8211; but it is Monday and it feels great to get going after the weekend.brbrHave a super week.brbr /br /img src='http://www.wohill.com/images/Lift_box_pictogram.jpg' /
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Gumballs and beautiful colours
Sat, Nov 6th 2010 8:14p Randolph Guy Remember when you were a young kid and passed by the gumball-machine. Lovely colours and super nice tasting gumballs. You wished for that coin that they cost. The taste didn´t last very long once you got them in your mouth#8230; Still the massive amount and super colours really made you long to get just one gumball.brbrI passed one of these machines again today. And I just remembered that feeling, that longing feeling to get the opportunity to get some gum.brbrToday I just enjoyed the thought # [read] Keywords:
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Salesforce goes Wordpress
Wed, Nov 3rd 2010 8:27p Niklas Waller Wow, two of my major areas of interest right now is Salesforce and Wordpress and last week I heard that Salesforce has developed templates for Wordpress. brbrThat#8217;s just amazing - but I wonder why? Salesforce - known to charge a lot for their licenses and consulting hours, suddenly goes free? brbrWell my guess is that since they target towards small-business customers, they hope to get these companies on the Salesforce track by offering free Wordpress templates and then when the companies g [read] Keywords: consulting
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Lots of pumpkins and ghosts
Sun, Oct 31st 2010 8:31p Randolph Guy Halloween night is the night the pumpkins are roaming the streets, houses and in your neighbourhood. All over they are ready to visit you and #8230; #8221;Trick or treat#8221;.brbrLots of cool looking outfits and only imagination can set the limit. I have had a few ghosts, pirates and pumpkins pass my door-step. Then I sat down and felt that I would like to treat Wohill to a pumpkin.brbrHappy Halloween!brbrbr /br /img src='http://www.wohill.com/images/Halloween_pumpkin_001.jpg' /
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Joe from Monkey Island in Thailand
Sat, Oct 30th 2010 8:27p Randolph Guy This was several years ago now but the picture don't tell. This monkey was one of many others on an island called Monkey Island outside Dolphing Bay in Thailand. We came to visit them as many others did every day so they weren't that wild really. We fed them with Bananas and some water. brThey are kind of humanlike is some of their poses. brbrI think this one makes a good wallpaper! Let's call him Joe!br /br /img src='http://www.wohill.com/images/Wohill_monkey.jpg' /
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Data Loader CLIq
Wed, Oct 27th 2010 8:27p Niklas Waller The a href="http://wiki.developerforce.com/index.php/Apex_Data_Loader" target="_blank" class="comments"Apex Data Loader/a is a great tool from Saleforce allowing you to extract, insert, upsert, update or delete data in Salesforce without using the web GUI and by doing so for many records at once.brbrHowever, If you are new to the Apex Data Loader and need it to extract some data or perhaps for a migration project you need to insert data, there can be a frustrating startup time when trying [read] Keywords: google
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Push the load in the right direction
Sun, Oct 24th 2010 8:34p Randolph Guy I have been very fortunate to have gotten in lots of fun jobs and this of course gives me lots to do. This is great fun and challenging. I´ll tell you more about the different designs in later posts.brbrThe only thing is to get you focus right in getting things done. I made this little pictogram to illustrate just that. Even though you got all this stuff to push forward, meet dead-lines and create awesome designs #8211; just push it in the right direction you will see that it gets done in the b [read] Keywords:
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Picking apples in the snow
Sat, Oct 23rd 2010 10:31p Randolph Guy On Friday I took the boat out to Möja to stow away the garden-furniture and pick some fruit too. We came out and had been snowing a lot as you might have noticed. Most of the Apples had fallen off al ready. Or We picked about six bags of apples #8211; so a few is all on how you look at it.brbrIt was a super day for going out. Really nice weather and pretty calm winds.brbrHere is part of our jetty with a bit of snow on it.brbrEnjoy winter-apples.brbrbr /br /img src='http://www.wohill.com/images [read] Keywords:
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Get and modify most recent dates of a SQL resultset
Wed, Oct 20th 2010 8:33p Niklas Waller Let#8217;s say we have a resultset of an SQL query which consists of a bunch of rows and a couple of columns where we need to group rows on one column and get the most recent date of the grouped rows. We also need to get the value of the most recent date when adding 12 months. How is this accomplished with one SELECT statement?brbrtable class="codeTable"tbodytrtdSELECT id, color, date FROM table;/td/tr/tbody/tablebrThe above select-statement produces this resultset:table cellpadding="3" cell [read] Keywords: sql
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A dark image, but a superb day
Sun, Oct 17th 2010 8:33p Randolph Guy Today has been fantastic #8211; super nice weather and really blue skys. Lots of autumn colours#8230; colours and more colours. It has been great and inspiring #8211; so I thought I would paint one more dark man #8211; just like last weeks painting. But get more colours into the painting as you can see.brbrJust playing around and making something oposite to what this day has been like #8211; colourwize.brbrHope you all have a super and colourful day.brbr /br /img src='http://www.wohill.com/imag [read] Keywords:
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RIP Zazu - We miss you
Sat, Oct 16th 2010 8:30p Niklas Waller 10 years ago we got ourselves another cat. We already had Yazza and decided to have another newly born cat from friends of ours. It was almost like having a baby and a very important step for us since we did this before moving in together and before getting children. She was named Zazu from the bird in the movie 'The Lion King'. She had one sister and one brother too who were also named by names from the Lion King. Her mother was a norwegian forest cat and her father a simple domestic short ha [read] Keywords:
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Chrome Experiments
Wed, Oct 13th 2010 8:31p Niklas Waller Now that HTML5 is here and at least partly available in some browsers - for example Google Chrome, Firefox and Safari - we can also start seeing more advanced, complex and funny websites.brbra href="http://www.chromeexperiments.com" target="_blank" class="comments"Chrome Experiments/a is a site that contains experiments for the Google Chrome web browser (for some experiments it also works for other browsers). It is done in either cool JavaScripting and/or HTML5 and leads the way to what wi [read] Keywords: firefox
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The Dark Man
Sun, Oct 10th 2010 8:29p Randolph Guy Her is a character I have painted when I was looking out the window for a little while ago. It is dark outside#8230; rainy and a bit of a cold breeze. One can see the trees moving slightly in the wind. Or was there someone there? I opened the window and looked out. No one there. Or do I see someone or something crouching behind the old bushes. No couldn´t be, or could it?brbrJust some inspiration from the dark.brbr /br /img src='http://www.wohill.com/images/Dark_man.jpg' /
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Morning mist and cobwebs
Sat, Oct 9th 2010 8:27p Randolph Guy I was off to work early the other morning. Or of course I always try to not be to late. One wants to get the morning going in your on time. But I must say I like mornings#8230; Anyway #8211; I was of to an early start and I was walking about to get some extra morning inspiration and stumbled upon this nice cobweb. It was a misty morning indeed and water-drops had come upon the spider-web. brbrPretty nice and to look at#8230; See you in the morning.brbr /br /img src='http://www.wohill.com/images [read] Keywords:
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Filter criteria for Salesforce views and reports
Wed, Oct 6th 2010 8:28p Niklas Waller When creating a view or a report in Salesforce there is a stage where you need to specify the filter criteria, i.e. which records should be visible in the view or the report. brbrThere are always 5 rows visible and you can choose to fill in none or several filter criteria's. There can be at the most 10 rows. brbrClicking #8216;Advanced Options#8217; gives you the possibility to add more rows and to choose if you want to use AND or OR between the rows. The default behaviour is AND. You can use p [read] Keywords:
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North Carolina scientists reveal how water based "artificial leaf" generates electricity
Tue, Oct 5th 2010 8:28p Niklas Waller Did you know that a North Carolina State University team has shown that water gel-based solar devices (called: "artificial leaves") can act like solar cells to produce electricity? br brThe analysis has been released on-line inside the Journal of Materials Chemistry by Dr. Orlin Velev, an Invista Professor associated with Chemical and Bio-molecular Engineering. br brThe conclusions prove the idea for making solar cells that more closely mimic nature. They also have the potential to be more aff [read] Keywords:
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1000 days of Wohill
Sun, Oct 3rd 2010 8:29p Randolph Guy We are proud to announce that we have had Wohill running for 1000 days!brbrWe had this idea for a couple of years ago #8211; standing out on the balcony thinking about if we should or could start a blog about design and development#8230; And all of a sudden we said #8211; lets do just that!brbrThis has been great fun and a super experience #8211; so I thought a nice little pictogram would be cool to have for this special event. We will make some stickers and similar things to celebrate. brbrHapp [read] Keywords: development
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Maidens Blush
Sat, Oct 2nd 2010 8:28p Niklas Waller I am not a person who knows things about flowers but I can tell if I like them or not.brI took this photo at my mothers and uncles place where they grow vegetables and flowers in the summer. It's like an oasis in the city and its beautiful.brbrThis is a Maidens Blush rose according to my uncle and it has grown quite big. To be honest, I don't know if there are many different kinds of this rose but I would estimate it to be arouand 6 feet tall and 5 feet wide. brbrAnyway, she is very beautful a [read] Keywords:
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An easy and efficient way of working with files
Wed, Sep 29th 2010 8:31p Niklas Waller A while ago I was in the process of working with a couple of really big CSV-files which varied in size. BRBRMy options were to either use Excel or Notepad as I saw it: BR UL style="PADDING-LEFT: 30px"br/LIExcel has a limit of how many rows of data you can work with; the old version can take 65536 rows and the newer version can take 1048576 rows. If your files have more rows than this, Excel is not an option./LIbr/LINotepad is a fantastic tool when it comes to many things. However it has limita [read] Keywords: application
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Stripe your boat to make it look even better
Sun, Sep 26th 2010 8:32p Randolph Guy I have talked about the company Seacab before #8211; I have designed their logotype and graphic look. They have several boats in their fleet. And they all are striped to easaly get noticed by potential and existing clients. The boats take people out in the Stockholm archipelago. From for example Sollenkroka to almost any island they desire.brbrTo make recognition easy one has to have an appealing look and feel to the boats. Here you can see one of the boats passing by in at least 25 knots. The b [read] Keywords:
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A super day for trying out the Autogyro
Sat, Sep 25th 2010 8:31p Randolph Guy Me and my father had a super day trying out the autogyro #8211; there were a few things before we got it started. We couldn´t get it started #8211; something electrical we thought. Thankfully it was very simple after checking more carefully. The battery was completely flat. We checked out the web to see if we could find someone that sold these small batteries that is used for the Autogyro. brbrWe were lucky and found something close by. It only took a few minutes to get the battery and change i [read] Keywords:
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HACKED BY KANNIBAL615
Fri, Sep 24th 2010 5:27a Randolph Guy br /br /img src='http://www.wohill.com/images/wo_section_dev1a.jpg' /
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No Java virtual machine was found
Wed, Sep 22nd 2010 8:27p Niklas Waller I installed Eclipse 3.4 Classic on a new computer a while ago and it worked fine as usual. However, suddenly after a few weeks, it started behaving strange. Whenever after I restarted the computer and tried to open Eclipse I got the following error message: br/br/ div style="font-style:italic;padding:10px;background-color:#F0F0F0;" A Java Runtime Environment (JRE) or Java Development Kit (JDK) must be available in order to run Eclipse. No Java virtual machine was found after searching the foll [read] Keywords: development
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KTH flight-club got new badges
Sun, Sep 19th 2010 8:30p Randolph Guy For many months ago I designed two badges for KTH flight-club. The wanted some cool badges to have for the new pupils joining their club. I made two birds. One more of an eagle that was flapping it´s wings. The other one is more of a cool duck #8211; like the old war-planes had painted on the side of the planes. Just to hype things up a bit from their older badge. brbrThey are trying to get in more members that haven´t got certificates yet #8211; and want to learn all there is to learn about f [read] Keywords:
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A super day in Arboga with the Bumble-bee
Sat, Sep 18th 2010 8:28p Randolph Guy I had a nice day with my father this summer. We took off to Arboga to try out my fathers autogyro #8211; also known as #8221;Humlan#8221;(The Bumble-bee). He built it for many years ago #8211; I got to help a bit too. It is a fantastic little machine that has a auto-rotating rotor. brbrIt was a super day and great weather. I helped out with loading and un-loading the autogyro from the trailer. We were all alone on the air-strip or field in Arboga.brbrThis shot is taken from the end of the rotor [read] Keywords:
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Get back the Open In Designer option on right click
Wed, Sep 15th 2010 8:30p Niklas Waller If you have bookmarked databases on your Lotus Notes workspace you might as I do open them in Domino Designer from there. I have noticed that the option 'Open in Designer' doesn't get updated instantly if changing access. In fact, I don't know if it does at all.brbrLet's say I bookmarked a database and didn't have designer access to it. Then later, if I would get access, the option 'Open in Designer' will not be available on right mouse click on the bookmark icon although I actually have [read] Keywords: domino
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Lots to do
Sun, Sep 12th 2010 8:31p Randolph Guy I have been blessed with lots of cool, fun and inspiring projects lately. Design of all kinds. Logos, motion-graphics , ads and lots more. I have been enjoying it to the fullest. This of course involves lots of work and time#8230; Even actually felt a bit sleepy here on Sunday. That´s why I made this sleepy face. And a bubble with the letter #8221;Z#8221;. That letter stands for sleepy in many different countries. It does in Sweden too. brbrTonight I have had a great sleep that I really needed. [read] Keywords:
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Fungus in the soil next to a crown of thorns houseplant
Sat, Sep 11th 2010 8:30p Niklas Waller I have had the crown of thorns houseplant myself earlier from time to time and so have my mom and grandmom too. It's a beautiful houseplant that you want to keep some distance to. brbrI have never seen this before though - fungus in the soil next to the plant. There are several smaller white fungus as you can in the picture. Almost like mushrooms that you pick in the forest. brKind of cool and at the same time it's not very nice.br /br /img src='http://www.wohill.com/images/crown_of_thorns_ho [read] Keywords:
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An easy way to create mind maps
Wed, Sep 8th 2010 8:27p Niklas Waller During a meeting at work this week one of the attendees took notes of errors to correct and what to improve when demonstrating the work that they had done. I noticed that the person were using a tool that seemed simple but very effective. A mind mapping tool called a href="http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page" target="_blank" class="comments"FreeMind/a that after more research turned out to be free as well - it is a sourceforge project. brbrHere is an example where I tr [read] Keywords: notes
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An other face, an other expression
Sun, Sep 5th 2010 8:29p Randolph Guy I heard some nice feedback on the pictogram I designed the other day. It is a company looking for a new symbol or logotype. Maybe that could be the pictogram representing them and what they stand for. Of course we will look into that a bit more and create a profile that would suite them just right. Normally we design things when the client has given us some guidelines, ideas or feelings that they are looking for. Even though that might be the case #8211; it is a nice way to approach the company [read] Keywords: profile
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Taking pictures at Vitkobb
Sat, Sep 4th 2010 8:27p Randolph Guy I have been out in the Archipelago today. At Möja more exactly#8230; It has been a super nice day. We went out to take some nice pictures of Hasses and Annikas boats #8211; SeaCab. Off to Finnhamn, Sollenkroka and Möja. After some great shots and a good day of riding round in the archipelago we decided to get a few more photos from the island Vitkobb just outside of Ramsmora. So I hopped ashore to climb up to the top of the island to get a nice view of the boats.brbrI will post some pictures o [read] Keywords:
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Add blog updates to Twitter and Facebook easily
Wed, Sep 1st 2010 8:28p Niklas Waller I have earlier tried to do this myself and just got tired of it. Now I found an easy way that has probably been around for a while. Maybe it could be useful for you too. This assumes you have an RSS-feed, which you probably do. brbrbFirst get the blog updates to Twitter:/bbr1. Get an account at a href="http://twitterfeed.com" target="_blank" class="comments"Twitterfeed/abr2. Create new feedbr3. Under 'Advanced Settings', add '#fb' as Post Suffixbr3. Goto step 2 and authenticate with yo [read] Keywords: application
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A cartoon dog
Sun, Aug 29th 2010 8:30p Randolph Guy I told you about our summer-guest #8211; Max - The American Cocker-Spaniel. He was a great wee friend and lots of fun. brbrI sat down here today after going to Toy Story 3 and sketched away on some work I have to get done. I then, as usual, got going on some drafts and some extra sketches. This time I was thinking of Max #8211; the dog - and thought it would be nice to draw a few lines that looked like a little dog-head.brbrNow I really have to get back to the stuff for tomorrow!brbrbr /br /img [read] Keywords:
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More wild strawberries
Sat, Aug 28th 2010 8:29p Niklas Waller In the summertime when you are a kid in Sweden it is common to pick wild strawberries and put them on a straw. This is what all kids did when we visited my mother and uncle this summer.brbrI like the variation of sharpness in this photo. It goes from blurred to sharp and then back to blurred again in a nice way I think.brbrAnd wild strawberries really is summer to me!br /br /img src='http://www.wohill.com/images/wild_strawberries.jpg' /
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Search all your Salesforce code
Wed, Aug 25th 2010 8:30p Niklas Waller If you would like to search all code in an Eclipse Salesforce project or perhaps several projects this is how it is quickly done.brbr1. Click on 'Search' in the Menubrbr2. Click on 'File...'brbr3. By default all classes are chosen in the search scope. If you want to add Triggers, click on 'Choose' and scroll down to '*.trigger' and tick that checkbox. Click 'Ok'.brbr4. You can choose to search all projects in the workspace. Selected by default in the Scope section. Or you can narrow do [read] Keywords: eclipse
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A facial expression
Sun, Aug 22nd 2010 8:31p Randolph Guy An expression in a face shows a lot#8230; Or sometimes nothing#8230; brThe best is when you need to show as little as possible and yet it is totally clear what you are feeling.brbrThis design is a bit more of a thinking dude or expressive expression. It gives a feeling that you as the person meeting this face for the first time have to interpret what it is saying. With just a few lines and bends #8211; here is an expressive feeling for you.brbr /br /img src='http://www.wohill.com/images/Facial_ [read] Keywords:
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The American Cocker Spaniel Max
Sun, Aug 22nd 2010 10:30a Randolph Guy This summer we had a little friend staying for the summer. His name is Max and he is a little black dog (American Cocker Spaniel). He is a happy little fellow that hanged out with us everywhere. We have been lots out in the archipelago and he has been with us every day #8211; all over the place. He seemed to love going out in the boat and hopping ashore to visit our home #8211; and we showed him where we live and what we do.brbrHis own family had a vacation in Turkey this summer and could not br [read] Keywords:
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Replacing characters with Notepad++
Wed, Aug 18th 2010 8:28p Niklas Waller Notepad++ is an excellent tool for text processing of different kinds.brbrLet's assume you have a CSV-file on this form:brtable class="codeTable"tbodytrtdcode"FIELD 1 HEADER","FIELD 2 HEADER","FIELD 3 HEADER"br"row 1 field 1","row 1 field 2","row 1 field 3"br"row 2 field 1","row 2 field 2","row 2 field 3"br"row 3 field 1","row 3 field 2","row 3 field 3"/code/td/tr/tbody/tablebrAnd you want it on this form:brtable class="codeTable"tbodytrtdcodeFIELD 1 HEADER;FIELD 2 H [read] Keywords: mysql
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