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! I have a
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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 not familiar with
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 catch my hop-infused
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 Reflux for 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 (below) really didn’
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 that unleash a
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 Spring ’15 so
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 previous year's Dreamforce
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 use one of
Hey Salesforce Devs! Heroku Ain’t that Scary!
I run the Heroku CoE at Appirio and therefore get pulled into a number of pre-sales calls that involve salesforce.com and Heroku. Typically once a week I’ll get the following reaction
The Future of Salesforce Development is… Javascript?
When I started “developing” with Salesforce back in 2006, s-controls were essentially the only way to customize the application. You’d write a bunch of JavaScript code, upload it to the server and
84 Things You Should Know about the salesforce.com Spring ’15 Release
The Spring '15 Release should be hitting boxes soon with 250+ new and improved features! With over 300 page of documentation there are plenty of goodies for everyone. Salesforce continues to give us