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
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
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
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
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
Heroku 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
Salesforce 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 voila… customizations!! Then in 2008 Salesforce released Apex and Visualforce and
Salesforce 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
Heroku Strategies for Building Customer Facing Apps with Salesforce.com There comes a time in almost every Salesforce org's life when you want to get some data from your org on to the web for customers to interact with. Let's
Salesforce EnhancedList Visualforce Component The enhancedList Visualforce component is an awesome little tag that allows you to display a list view on a Visualforce page. One of the cool features is that you create a custom list view, e.g., "Super Special Contacts", and just show
Salesforce Apex Algorithm Challenges for Force.com Just prior to Dreamforce 2014, I launched Code Your Way In allowing developers to complete an Apex algorithm challenge for free entrance to our Topcoder Open developer conference. Feel free to try it out. In a nutshell, the node app uses the nforce-tooling plugin
Salesforce Dreamforce 2014... I miss you already! As I'm flying home from Dreamforce (I'm currently in Pittsburgh as part of my ginormous RV palooza) I wanted to jot down some of my highlights of Dreamforce 2014 in no particular order. My favorite part of Dreamforce is always catching up with old
Salesforce Tutorial - Build Your First Lightning Component This post is outdated with the release of Spring 15. Please see this post for an updated version. I was fortunate enough to be on the Lightning beta and have
Salesforce RunTests Async with nforce-tooling What do you get when you mix a long holiday weekend with a guy afflicted with ADSO (attention deficit...oh! shiny object)? You get new code for the Salesforce Tooling API! That's right, I added the following functionality over the weekend to the nforce-tooling
Salesforce How to Customize Salesforce Attachments The title is a little deceiving as you can't really customize standard Salesforce Attachements but I'll show you how you can pull off some declarative and coding magic to make it look like you can. How do we do this? Well, the video walks
Appirio Real World Experience with Salesforce1 Heroku Connect Cross-posted from the Appirio Tech Blog. Today Heroku announced the general availability of Salesforce1 Heroku Connect. Heroku Connect makes it easy to build customer-facing applications that leverage your existing Salesforce data. Behind the scenes, the Heroku Connect database sync service and new API tools
Salesforce Updating a Record When Viewed using Std Page Layout I recently had a scenario where I wanted to track the last time a Lead record was viewed in Salesforce for auditing purposes. I added a simple Last_Viewed__c date field to the Lead object and then set about updating it every time
Ruby Sample Ruby on Rails Force.com Canvas App Force.com Canvas apps are a great way to extend the Force.com platform with existing legacy apps or to take advantage of existing packages and libraries on other platforms. Lately I've been writing a lot of node.js apps but needed to whip
Salesforce Example Apps for nforce-tooling Plugin Yesterday I released the nforce-tooling plugin for nforce so today I thought I would follow up with some sample demos and a video walking through the process of using the plugin. The video walks through two demos. The first is for standard functions like
Salesforce Announcing Force.com Tooling API for Node.js (nforce) Over Christmas break I stared playing around with the Force.com Tooling API in node.js. We have some ideas over at topcoder for the Tooling API and I wanted to build a POC to see how crazy I was. After a couple of
Salesforce Roll Your Own Node CLI for Force.com I'd like to start off this post with two admissions: 1) I love the Force.com CLI 2) I don't know Go. Fact #2 makes it hard for me to extend the CLI for my own (selfish) purposes. However, I am fairly handy with
