Salesforce DevOps?! Part 2

In Part 1 we covered the basic concepts of what DevOps is. Now, these articles were inspired after finishing the book Accelerate, The Science of Lean Software and DevOps by Gene Kim, Jez Humble, and Nicole Forsgren. From the research of the State Of DevOps, they have learnt there are capabilities, as enablers, to build Read more about Salesforce DevOps?! Part 2[…]

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10 VS Code Extensions that will supercharge your Salesforce development

Some of you may have been wondering what has happened to Mike and even Chris, why such a long hiatus? There is no single reason or easy explanation other than life. Let’s just say various life challenges converged. As part of tackling life’s challenges, I’ve been looking at ways to be more productive with my Read more about 10 VS Code Extensions that will supercharge your Salesforce development[…]

Dreamforce ’19 Digest: My Highlights

And back to the UK, it’s cold here! In brief, I admit I had a blast at Dreamforce this year! It was great to: 1) Showcase HIVE and the teams that I’m doing quite a bit of work with, at the developer keynote. Which had a whole chapter as part of the technology announcements for Read more about Dreamforce ’19 Digest: My Highlights[…]

Dreamforce 18: Remote Debrief

Well the excitement and the fever of another Dreamforce is now behind us, it’s time to reflect and digest some of the highlights from a remote perspective. Chris mentioned thst all of us would be absent from this years Dreamforce, and provided us with some tips – here it is again.. How To Do Dreamforce Remotely Read more about Dreamforce 18: Remote Debrief[…]

Carving up an Org this Winter!

What is carving up an Org near you, well it looks a lot like Astro is hitting the pre-release slops on his board unless you’ve banished him! Each release seems to come around quicker and quicker these days, here the UK is still officially on its Summer holidays, but I could not resist the temptation Read more about Carving up an Org this Winter![…]

Mike’s Prediction Builder: Will Salesforce be Slacking Off at Dreamforce?

Ok, hands up – who thought I was slacking off on the blog front? Well I’m back! It looks like we accidentally created a Dreamforce mini-series here at Salesforce Weekly, when Chris kicked us off with “How to do Dreamforce Remotely”, followed up by Ines with “Get Involved and Speak” to coincide with the Dreamforce Read more about Mike’s Prediction Builder: Will Salesforce be Slacking Off at Dreamforce?[…]

Salesforce Instant Gratification

Apple unveiled a new killer developer tool at this year’s WWDC in the shape of Playground. Playground is a tool designed to accompany their new sparkly program language SWIFT to help developers get to grips with new concepts quickly without the overhead of C. Stop, that’s enough about Apple, I thought this was a Salesforce blog! Enter Read more about Salesforce Instant Gratification[…]

May Meetup (now June) – AngularJS, Ionic, Heroku Connect and RemoteObjects

Salesforce meetups seem to be coming thick and fast these days. It seems I’m requesting a pass from the wife every week to attend yet another geeky meetup, although this one was unavoidable as my good friend is the EMEA Marketing Manager for Appirio. Hello, Mr Abl. Plus, his extremely welcoming Marketing Assistant Hind Adamou!. Read more about May Meetup (now June) – AngularJS, Ionic, Heroku Connect and RemoteObjects[…]

An arsenal of usefulness, no developer should leave home without!

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![…]