Friday, April 24, 2009

Phoenix User Group Meeting 4/23

Big thanks to David Gildar for leading the Phoenix Salesforce.com User Group meeting last night. It was great to meet a bunch of local users.

I enjoyed iLinc's demonstration of how their web conferencing software integrates with salesforce. And Dan England gave a great demo of Informatica On Demand. If you're using the dataloader to get data in to or out of salesforce.com, you should definitely check out Informatica On Demand. It was the #1 Data Integration Service for salesforce.com last year and it's free!

I'm already looking forward to the next User Group meeting. If you're local to Phoenix, I hope to see you there!

Force.com IDE 15.0.2 Now Available

From the blog:

"You'll want to install the latest version of the Force.com IDE. This maintenance release for Spring '09 includes several fixes and is highly recommended. For more information, check out the release notes."
http://blog.sforce.com/sforce/2009/04/forcecom-ide-1502-now-available.html


The Deploy Applications to Production Faster wiki article was updated in the process as well.

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

How to Build an App on Force.com

If you're curious about what it's like to build an app on Force.com, I recommend watching the video from the Force.com in Action - Fast Application Development in the Cloud session that was presented at Cloudforce London. It's an outstanding introduction to many of the services that Force.com provides to business analysts and developers for free.


If you're inspired by the session and want to get your hands dirty, the exercises in the Force.com developer workbook are a great way to get started building apps on Force.com.

The other session videos from Cloudforce London can be found here: http://www.salesforce.com/eu/cloudforce/09-london/recorded-sessions.jsp