  Open heavy flavour and J/psi production are powerful tools to test pQCD
calculations in proton-proton collisions in the new LHC energy regime. In
addition, they provide the necessary reference for the ALICE heavy-ion program.
The ALICE experiment at the LHC collected proton-proton collisions at sqrt{s} =
7 and 2.76 TeV in 2010 and 2011. We report here the latest results of open
heavy flavour and J/psi production at both mid- and forward-rapidity via their
various hadronic and leptonic decay channels. These include, among other
topics, the first LHC result on J/psi polarization, multiplicity dependence of
the J/psi production, D-meson measurement down to low transverse momentum and
J/psi production from B-hadron decays. Comparisons with different theoretical
models will be discussed as well.
