Over the past week or so, I’ve found myself getting involved in the Salesforce Answers community at success.salesforce.com. I say I ‘found myself’ getting involved because I initially checked it out just to respond to a few questions but soon discovered that it can get quite addictive. ‘Hey, another best answer in the bag! I’m now Read more about Who has all the Answers?[…]
This year’s Dreamforce was my first, and it was as interesting, fun, frantic, overwhelming and worthwhile as I’d expected. But one thing I didn’t expect from the event was to learn so much about what is on Salesforce’s roadmap for their next few releases. Parker Harris’ True To The Core and a host of product-specific Read more about Hit the Roadmap[…]
Last month, while at Dreamforce in San Francisco, I walked into a room at the Hilton, sat down, clicked a mouse for about 90 minutes, and then walked out as a certified Sales Cloud Consultant. That was great, and it was definitely totally deliberate. But although taking and passing the exam wasn’t an accident, I Read more about How I Accidentally Became A Consultant[…]
New entrants into the Salesforce ecosystem can be forgiven for not knowing Bob Buzzard (aka Keir Bowden). But once you start developing on the force.com platform you naturally end up on the developer boards which is where you find Bob, sorry Keir endlessly answering posts and mentoring the community. The sheer number of posts he Read more about An arsenal of usefulness, no developer should leave home without![…]