Comments on: Force.com Advanced Developer Programming Assignment Complete!

By: Jeff Douglas

Jeff Douglas — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:42:41 +0000

Ahmad, I added an answer to the stackoverflow URL. Hope this helps.

By: Ahmad

Ahmad — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:44:13 +0000

Hey Jeff,

I have a beginners question I needed some guidance on. Unfortunately there aren’t may resources on VisualForce. Can you take a look at the link I included as my website and let me know what you think? Thanks

By: Luke C

Luke C — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:37:48 +0000

Mazel tov! Thanks for posting your experience with it, I’m gearing up to do it this year (Maybe at Dreamforce to save $300) and it’s encouraging to hear how you’re proceeding. Until Change Sets are stable, it’s definitely advantageous to do as much as you can in Production. If only we could get away with that in our client’s orgs more easily!

By: Todd

Todd — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 05:15:26 +0000

OK, yes that makes sense.

Because I’m the only force.com developer in my shop the benefits are not as obvious; but I can see there still are some. Thanks for the informative blog!

By: jeffdonthemic

jeffdonthemic — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 06:13:21 +0000

I think there are definitely advantages to doing the declarative stuff in Production and then refreshing it to the sandbox. I wrote an in-depth article last summer that you may find interesting.

By: Todd

Todd — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 05:51:31 +0000

Congrats on the finish, I’m sure you’ll do fine!

I spent even more time, 40-something hours and really ran out of time to do the proper amount of testing (particularly on the scalability). That surprised me because I think of myself as on the fast side. I hope it doesn’t come back to bite me but I feel reasonably confident.

My process was about the same as yours except one thing. I built everything in the sandbox and pushed up. Is there an advantage in your mind to doing some in production, then refresh, then code?