How we Built the 'Build a Battle Station' Trailhead Project 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
Salesforce Salesforce Lightning Design System Node Demo 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!
Personal I'm the new Salesforce Trailhead Developer Advocate 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
My App Mavericks Video Interview with HeyWire 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 integration for Salesforce for years but HeyWire has some great features
Alexa for Salesforce with Amazon Echo 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
Node-RED Node-RED for Salesforce 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
Node-RED Node-RED for Topcoder Challenges with IBM Bluemix & Watson 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
Raise a pint to Forcelandia! 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
Salesforce Join me at Forcelandia for Salesforce & Beer! "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
Building the TopBlogger API with LoopBack 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
Roll Your Own API vs. LoopBack 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
Personal PTO in Alaska! 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
New Salesforce Lightning Component Framework Learning Resources We ran our Salesforce1 Lightning series of challenges at topcoder last fall after the announcement at Dreamforce with much success! Since the framework was beta we knew that we were writing code on the bleeding edge. There was a lot of trial and error
Deploying Apps to Heroku with Docker Yesterday Heroku released beta support to build and deploy Heroku apps with Docker. It would be an understatement to say that this created quite a bit of buzz inside Appirio.
JavaScript Start Writing ES6 JavaScript in your Node.js Apps Today! ECMAScript 6 (the next version of JavaScript) should be rolling out in browsers sometime this year. If you want to start using the awesome features of ES6 now you have
React "Hello Banners" API for React & Flux Welcome to part three of our Building with React & Flux series. Check out the Getting Started and Hello React Banners posts to get up to speed on React and
Salesforce Building Single Page Apps with React & Reflux for Salesforce We are taking a slight detour in our Building with React & Flux series to show how straight forward it is to write Single Page Applications (SPA) with React and
Salesforce Salesforce Lightning - The "Enterprise" JavaScript Component Framework I presented to the the San Diego Salesforce Developer Group a couple of weeks ago during Lightning Developer Week using a deck supplied by Salesforce. The slide on Lightning Components
React Building "Hello Banners" with React & Flux Welcome to part two of my Building with React & Flux series. Check out the Building with React & Flux: Getting Started to get up to speed on React and
Salesforce 17 Sites Every Force.com Developer Should Bookmark The Salesforce developer ecosystem is expanding nearly as fast as my waistline and it's hard to keep up with all of the new developments. There are three releases per year
Salesforce Tutorial - Building Lightning Components with Spring 15 This post is an update of Tutorial - Build Your First Lightning Component released last October during DF15 for the Winter ’15 release. A number of things have changed in
React Getting Started with React & Flux In the last couple of months you've probably heard talk around the watercooler about React as a simpler and more maintainable way to build applications. It has received a lot
repost If Programming Languages were Beer... We were surprised the other day when we realized that If Programming Languages were <T> didn't have a category for beer. It seemed like such a tragic mistake,
Heroku 5 Skills Salesforce Devs Need for 2015 The Spring releases of Salesforce are my favorite. They are always packed with awesome new features and people actually have the time to explore them. Everyone is refreshed from the
Salesforce Catching Salesforce Outbound Messages with NodeJS When building applications that are integrated with Salesforce, one of the choices you have to make is how you get data out of Salesforce and into your app. You can
