Code Coverage - Salesforce Developer Podcast

Still not dead. Getting damned close to episode 50, might actually see that prior to 2025. In this episode we chat about Steven's adventures into AWS and React, Salesforce as a platform, and a few other odds and ends. I honestly don't know if anyone ever reads this but I failed to make any notes while recording and don't want to listen all the way through because I'm busying trying to make Google Cloud functions function. Stay safe, stay well, do good things. Lacey (and that other guy).

I would write some show notes, but time is tight, hence this is late. We DO talk about Salesforce a bit, with some quick comments on Bob (??) and... something else. Also F1, because Steven likes racing cars now.

We broke some world records or something and recorded again. This time we actually do talk about Salesforce for the whole show. Well, most of it. Some. Some of it. We definitely talk about Salesforce.  

A whole lot of waffle (what else would you expect) with the occasional mention of Salesforce.

It's a new highly anticipated episode of what might be the world's most irregular and/or infrequent podcast, with more waffles than ever. In this episode we talk about: Zoom, Neal Stephenson, the ATO and security scares Matt overthinking things and forgetting his Salesforce basics (i.e. query selectivity in triggers) Formula One 10x developers Working out when to upgrade your tools Accenture's SF Power Kit for DX Testing Motorbikes, cars and servicing You can find Accenture's SF Power Kit here: https://github.com/Accenture/sfpowerkit The Ad:   The snails:

In this episode we're coming to you live from last year, where we're recording at Down Under Dreaming (yes, with a 'g'): Brisbane Edition. In this episode we talk more Salesforce than usual in front of a real audience, and talk to both Emily Hey and Doug Christ who was visiting from the US.

Against all odds, it's an episode of Code Coverage. Topics discussed include: * Audio problems, not knowing we were actually having some (doh) * A brief tour or some of the features from Spring '19 * Salesforce and devops, or not * The end of a an era Aura * Lightning Web Components and their likely impact * New flow builder * The latest release of OS/2

We really do mean to publish more often. Promise. We even line up times and and everything.  It's us again, talking somewhat about Salesforce, but with a few (ok, many) inevitable tangents thrown in. Some of the topics covered:   * Forcelandia and Dreamforce * Being a male ally * IDEs and Salesforce (again!) * Cars and the software that runs them

Another year passes, another episode gets release. Well it feels like that anyway. This took a week or so to publish after recording because our tracks got out of sync somehow. It sounds like my track (Matt) has been sped up slightly, with a few glitches pulling them back in time on occasion. So, apologies for that. Topics discussed in this episode: Some actual code that Steven wrote My washing machine Dealing with release bugs Mobile Operating Systems and virtual assistants CRUD, FLS and Security Reviews Salesforce IDEs and tools Software development / programming books we like

Lo and behold, we recorded again. It's almost becoming a habit. Once again you're stuck with myself and Steven rabbiting on about all sorts, including: Using bookmarks in your browser (bleeding edge stuff here) Salesforce (some new cloud thing) Deployment antics and packages How to break production environments Trailhead, DX and Git - the new learning curve Lightning experience performance Steven's ambitions to be Eminem, certifications and badges Where our listeners (you are very much appreciated!) are located around the world

We're back, and rambling more than ever. We chat about many things including the Spring release, IDEs and The Welkin Suite, computer keyboards and phones.  I don't think we talk about JavaScript.

In this episode of Code Coverage Steven is off on a bit of a jolly so I'm joined by Jarrod Hunt, we discuss: The upcoming Down Under Dreaming Conference in Sydney Teaching code concepts to admins: what's useful for them to know The role of BAs sitting between clients and developers What developers could do better from a BA's point of view There's a few surprising (at least to me) lessons for developers in here, and it's interesting to see that some of the same things developers look for a team member are the same as those that a BA might look for. 

More rambling! A discussion of various topics, some are even related to Salesforce. In particular we cover:   Curtailing Twitter usage Rob Plays - C64 Game Reviews from Rob Caporetto (if you like these please do subscribe!) Salesforce DX - some initial thoughts Steven finally writes some Lightning Components Waiting for Platform Event handling paradigms Wishing for a larger runtime A quick discussion on Salesforce books, with the two classics: Advanced Apex Programming by Dan Appleman Force.com Enterprise Architecture by Andy Fawcett

We're back again! Plans are afoot to make this more regular once again. But for now we've gone from Summer to Fall/Autumn in Australia, so here's a bunch of Chatter about the Summer '17 release.    

We're back! Maybe for more than a few weeks too. In this episode we drivel on about old computers, Lightning Experience, Locker Service and Spring '17.    

In this episode of Code Coverage we talk to Scott Wells, the author of the Illumined Cloud IDE for Salesforce. Illuminated cloud is an alternative IDE built on ItelliJ, and sports many features that make life far easier for developers on the platform. Topics we discuss include:   How Scott got started building Illuminated Cloud The feature set of Illuminated Cloud How he implemented the debugger Weirdness with APIs on the platform Dreamforce!   Illuminated Cloud sessions at Dreamforce: Tuesday Morning Chris Fellows - Illuminated Cloud & Lightning Components   Tuesday Afternoon - 5:00pm Scott Wells - Live Demo of Illuminated Cloud

In this episode we're joined by Simon Goodyear, for a chat covering many aspects of developing on the platform. We got a bit carried away and it got a little long, but Simon has very interesting insights on all manner of topics, including: Supporting customers when you develop a product Drinking beer and starting businesses Dynamics! External Objects and OData Lightning development on a large scale Platform limits and innovation Fun and games with managed packages The choice of IDEs available for the platform Damaging hardware and email management  

So we accidentally had another hiatus. This was entirely unintentional and we've talked plenty about recording, it's just that sometimes life (and work) happens.  We're back... again... and planning to keep up some momentum this time. Steven wrote some code and a tester found some bugs A novel use of reports to do calculations akin to a roll-up summary Matt found a quirk with SOQL's DAY_IN_WEEK() function Swatch Internet Time Various tools we use:  Illuminated Cloud! The IDE Salesforce developers deserve TestPilot - automated test runs and org backups Gearset - a solid Salesforce delpoyment tool Pains with using other people's computers (a.k.a. the cloud) Matt bought a computer that he likes to use a lot Stephen bought a more powerful computer that is happy to play multiple games at once

Note: some of my audio and pronounciation goes funky towards the end of this episode. I suffered some technical difficulties that meant I was hearing myself echo at full volume with approximately half a second of delay, I think I know exactly what this feels like now - Lacey In this episode we chat with the amazingly productive Dan Appleman (@DanAppleman); if you don't recognise that name then you can't have been around the Salesforce development community for very long! Dan makes some excellent points on a variety of topics, including: Developing on the platform over the years and how the gotchas have changed How the CPU time governor limit is affected by process and workflows The joys of working with Salesforce support His PluralSight courses: Apex for Programmers Salesforce for .NET Developers (short course) Data Visualisation for Developers His book: Advanced Apex Programming (now in the 3rd Edition) Industry challenges that have arisen from greater levels of abstraction JavaScript, it's use in Lightning, and what it means for developers The problems with Salesforce's ISV program, and how it might impact new developers looking to build and sell Lightning components How the Developer Relations Team are awesome

In this episode we chat with Cal Smith (@CloudMech on Twitter). Cal has done many things over the years and has very interesting stories to tell, but he also goes above and beyond to teach others, and the evidence is clear to see on the StackExchange where he's known as crmprogdev. Some of the topics discussed include: How he got involved with the platform How he uses the Salesforce StackExchange and what benefits he thinks it offers Mechanical engineering relates to software development Air conditioning patents in the auto industry The contrast between computing in the past and computing today

The two of us catching up on the gap, talking about the new year and Steven fills us in on Salesforce Shield.

Kevin Boyle https://twitter.com/kevfromireland from Gearset https://gearset.com/ joins us at .... (gulp) Dreamforce '15 to talk about Salesforce Deployments and his product as well as other things. Yes, this episode is a bit late.     You just won't believe the story about how this happened.  Would you believe Lions and Tigers and bears! Oh My! How about... the dog ate it? Or... would you believe I'm just really slack?        

Continuation of our conversation from Part 2, including 'Bring your Parents to work' day and Google's free food :)

One of our Dreamforce episodes.  A wide ranging conversation with David Liu about sfdc99, architecture, software development and working at Google.

The upcoming Apex Debugger, Flow & Process Builder.

Salesforce MVP Daniel Ballinger talking about winning at StackExchange, the crazy bugs he's found in Salesforce, FuseIT's excellent WSDL2Apex replacement, converting from Salesforce to C# and a guide to installing a new stereo in a 2003 Mitsubishi Lancer. Follow on twitter: https://twitter.com/FishOfPrey Read his blog: http://www.fishofprey.com/ See him on StackExchange: http://salesforce.stackexchange.com/users/102/daniel-ballinger Download the FuseIT SFDC Explorer: http://www.fuseit.com/Solutions/SFDC-Explorer/Help-WSDL-Parser.aspx How to install a new stereo in a 2003 Mitsubishi Lancer:  http://www.fishofprey.com/2009/12/installing-new-stereo-in-2003.html

A guest cancelation due to injury results in a free ranging conversation at the pub between Steven and Matt on the following topics.   Continuous Integration Enterprise Patterns Mobile Development Useful Tools Chicken Parmigiana

In this episode of Code Coverage we talk to Eliot Harper (@eliotharper), CTO at Digital Logic, a Marketing Services company based in Melbourne, Australia. Eliot describes himself as a customer journey practitioner and is author of Journey Builder Developer's Guide http://amzn.to/1a9gWNo; an in-depth book on customer journey integration with Salesforce Marketing Cloud.   Eliot orientates us to Journey Builder development, covering:   * A brief orientation to Salesforce Marketing Cloud * The Customer Journey Revolution * Journey Builder * Customer Journey Applications * Interaction Components * Workflow Document Format (WDF) * Custom Activities

In this episode we talk to Chris Duarte about all things Trailhead, including a sneak peek at some of the upcoming content! There was a slight technical issue on Steven's end, but we left it in since it made us laugh.

Force.com MVP Peter Knolle (@PeterKnolle) talks in detail about Lightning Components, where they're used and how they're built.   This episode clocks in at 50 minutes, but it's all great content from Peter and we just couldn't cut any of it out.

Abhinav Keswani from Trineo takes us on a tour of Heroku, explaining what it is, using it with Saelsforce, structuring your apps, and how to move legacy systems to it.

Kevin (@codefriar) gives us a blow down of the 10, 11,  12 Commandments of Apex Development (We added a few).   This is a redux of his (And James Loghry's @dancinllama) presentation at Dreamforce '14:  http://youtu.be/T01lemqlJRU    

This week its a special episode, a recorded conversation between three Certified Technical Architects from Cloud Sherpas,  its Steven and two of his team members Andrew Manetakis and Ehsan Mahmoudi. They discuss their reflections on the Technical Architect Review Board The emotional impact of undertaking the certification. Case study tips. Assessing your readiness and how to prepare yourself. Required experience you should have. Handling the hypothetical. The difference between being an TA and being a Developer. Impressions of the judging process.

In this episode of Code Coverage we hear from Kevin O'Hara on why he loves open source development. In particular we discuss what's coming up in nForce, what working on open source is like, and an exciting new developer tool that he's working on.

Returning to regular programming (pun intended) after the live episodes of Dreamforce, this week we talk to the unstoppable force that is Force.com MVP Kevin Poorman. We got to the end of this episode and still had plenty that we wanted to talk about, so we're planning to get him back on the show in the near future. After listening to this, we think you'll be wanting to hear more from Kevin too!

It's Senior Developer Evangelist Samantha Ready the day after the her stint on the Developer Keynote stage giving us a deep dive into Lightning Components, what they are, how they are built and how its going to power the next generation of Salesforce's User Interface. We also touch on Lightning Connect and Heroku's Keynote announcements!

Adam Seligman, Vice President of Developer Relations gives a quick recap of this years Developer Keynote. With special guest Matt Lacey :)

Red Argyle Managing Partner Tom Patros gives us the run down on AngularJS one of the hottest JavasScript frameworks for rich desktop and mobile applications.   Tom discusses the best ways to get  AngularJS and Salesforce working together and gives a background for those new to Angular to help them get started.

Angela Mahoney (Portland Developer Group co-lead) and Adam Daw (Ottawa Developer Group co-lead) discuss what makes a successful Developer Group and some of the things they do to have successful meetings.

Its a mellow conversation between Steven and Matt about who they are, how they got into Salesforce and what they have planned for Dreamforce 2014!

A deep dive into mobile development with Mobile Expert an Appcelerator Titan (MVP) Gaurav Kheterpal. https://www.linkedin.com/in/gauravkheterpal  @gauravkheterpal   Guarav reflects on his history in telecommunication development and mobile application development.   He discusses: Appcelerator Titanium http://www.appcelerator.com/ and Sencha Touch http://www.sencha.com/products/touch The best use cases for Native and Hybrid application development and cross platform frameworks. The functions and capabilities of the Salesforce Mobile SDK including the new 2.3 Mobile SDK https://developer.salesforce.com/page/Mobile_SDK_Release_Notes Resources for starting mobile development on Salesforce. Overviews and the pros and cons of the following mobile frameworks: jQuery Mobile  http://jquerymobile.com/ Sencha Touch http://www.sencha.com/products/touch AngularJS  https://angularjs.org/ Ionic http://ionicframework.com/ This is an information packed episode and a great intro for someone looking to get an rapid overview of the landscape.

This week its Mary Scotton  (@rockchick322004), Developer Evangelist at Salesforce.com Mary joins us to discuss her Women in Tech  blogging series as well as the broader 'Diversity in Tech' landscape. We  also cover the new Admin Zone (Sharing space with the Dev Zone), how Admins and Developers can work together and what's in store for Dreamforce!

Gary Breavington is a Senior Technical Consultant at Extentor and joins us to discuss OWASP, and how some of their top ten vulnerabilities can and should be addressed by Salesforce1 developers.

Boris Bachovski is a Senior Salesforce.com Developer with Deloitte Australia, he joins us this week to discuss his impressions of the Advanced Developer Certification.  

Josh Birk (@joshbirk)  is a Developer Evangelist at Salesforce.com and so if you're listening to this podcast there's a great chance that you've already come across him in your internet adventures. He's recently started blogging at http://joshbirk.herokuapp.com on a variety of topics and also posts on the Salesfore Developers Blog. In this episode Josh talks to us about: His Background How he arrived at Salesforce via ModelMetrics Using Flex and developing the Flex REST toolkits Summer '14 release highlights Increased API request limits for developers Flex queue for batch job management Approval buttons for Salesforce1 Improvements to Remote Objects: Upsert functionality and Apex overrides for CRUD operations The power of Flow The Query Planner tool Salesforce.com Platform Specifics What GA, Developer Preview, Pilot and Beta mean An introduction to Canvas    

Danidel is a 3 times Salesforce MVP, avid Salesforce user, administrator, and developer. He  also helps lead the Salt Lake City area Salesforce User Group.  He blogs at http://www.verticalcoder.com/ tweets at https://twitter.com/dhoechst and codes at https://github.com/dhoechst     Topics covered How he learned Force.com and the importance of Twitter in the process.   Team Development  Continuous Integration with Drone.io and BitBucket. Tools for working with git - SourceTree Books for learning git:  Pro Git IDE tools - MavensMate/Sublime   Remote Objects    What you can do with them Changes to Remote Objects coming in Summer '14 Integrating Salesforce with your Fax Server.  Yes, really.   Apex Testing Tips and his Salesforce Test-Factory framework   Importance of Assertions SeeAllData and avoiding it. Daniel's Salesforce Test-Factory framework https://github.com/dhoechst/Salesforce-Test-Factory    

Force.com MVP Carolina Ruiz (@CarolEnLaNube) http://codeandvogue.com/ talks about taking the Salesforce1 platform to University Students, starting a DUG and blogging in Spanish!

How Andrew got involved in Salesforces Enterprise Patterns (Gang of Four) and their applicability to Salesforce To Tooling API and what you can do with it.

Drones and how he integrated it them with Salesforce1 Dreamforce and why he won't be flying drones at inside  How Reid got into Developer Evangelism. Node.js and why he likes it. Why Steven should buy Sublime Text and other favorite text editors The Internet of Things and how Salesforce can fit in. How you can get started with IoT programming at home. How to get started in Salesforce Development as a novice or experienced developer. Polyglot programming on the platform. What makes an effective developer.

Keir Bowden, Certified Technical Architect, Advanced Developer and CTO of BrightGen and author of Visualforce Cookbook   Keir discusses his background and how he got into force.com 6502 Assembly language Salesforce1 development  with Visualforce including:  Using Twitter Bootstrap  Apache Cordova vs In App browser on iOS.  Force.com SDK, Salesforce1 and Apache Cordova  Debugging your app with Salesforce1  Online vs 'Mobile mobile' apps.  Offline functionality Keir's book 'Visualforce Cookbook'   What's involved in writing a technical book.   What he was aiming for in writing the book. Learning to program and teaching people to program Keir's tools of choice  What he likes about node.js and developing Javascript Creative approaches to dashboard refreshing :)     Follow Keir at @bobbuzzard  https://twitter.com/bob_buzzard  Find his blog at http://bobbuzzard.blogspot.com.au Buy his book at http://www.packtpub.com/visualforce-development-cookbook/book