I'm a Software Engineering PMTS on Team Trailhead at Salesforce and part of the team making Trailhead the best way to learn Salesforce.
It's official. Based upon the tweets, everyone seems to love our Trailhead project, Build a Battle Station App! We are thrilled it has been received so well. The Trailhead way is to do
Last weekend I started playing around with the new Lightning Design System and before I knew it, I had an entire app written!! It was as simple as using Bootstrap! I have a
After Labor Day I'll be joining the Salesforce Developer Relations team as the new Trailhead Developer Advocate! Is this a dream job? Yes! Am I super-excited? Yes! If you are not familiar with
I recently recorded an App Maverick interview for Salesforce with Meredith Flynn-Ripley, CEO and Founder of HeyWire, for a walkthrough of Heywire’s apps, LiveText Agent and Business Messenger. I've been doing SMS
Amazon Echo is a voice command device with functions including question answering, playing music and controlling smart devices. Echo connects to Alexa, a cloud-based voice service, to provide information, answer questions, play music,
I happened across Node-RED last week while prepping for a topcoder challenge and became obsessed with it. If you are not familiar with it, Node-RED is an open source IBM technology for “wiring
For the past week I’ve been obsessed with Node-RED. If you are not familiar with it, Node-RED is an open source IBM technology for “wiring together hardware devices, APIs and online services
Yesterday I spoke at the first annual Forcelandia conference in Portland, OR sponsored by the Portland Salesforce Developer User Group. Angela Mahoney and Larry Latimer put on a great event that will sure
"Forcelandia is arguably the best Salesforce and beer themed conference in the Universe!" - Jeff Douglas If you are in the Portland, OR area this week try to catch my hop-infused
Last week I published an article outling how I rewrote an existing Express API using Loopback, resulting in 75% less code. I described how we initially utilized the topcoder community to design and
Earlier this year I ran a series of topcoder challenges to build a Node.js API for a potential topcoder blogging platform called "TopBlogger". I wanted to see how fast and
I left a couple of weeks ago on a month long family vacation in Alaska. Unfortunately I'm too busy riding moose, visiting glaciers, ziplining through forests, hiking mountains and generally doing Alaska stuff