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10,000 Developers at Dreamforce
The Salesforce Platform community has grown to 800,000+ developers and 9 billion API calls, and because of that we tripled the Developer Zone at Dreamforce this year. We had 232 sessions with code, 50 unconference sessions led by developers just like you, 156 hack challenges with great prizes, and 1,000+ hands-on workshop lessons. If you missed the DevZone, you can catch up on the keynotes and sessions online.
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The Book
At Dreamforce we gave away over 10,000 copies of our newest book, The Salesforce Touch Platform, Mobile Development Guide. The Salesforce Touch Platform is the first enterprise platform designed to address the challenges of mobile application development. Attendee's of the developer keynote also received
Dan Appleman's new book Advanced Apex Programming for Salesforce.com. If you're an Apex coder, this resource is a must-have. A full list of all the new and updated content including workbooks and cheat sheets can be found here.
Resources
Access reference documentation, core articles, and
tools in our Technical Library.
Code & Best Practices
Tweets from Followers
@Ak_Ascent?: Touch is amazing...definitely my favorite feature so far on the platform and I have been doing this for over 6 years... #devzone #df12live
@jessicabkoch: The #devzone at #df12 has set the standard for how developers should be hosted at a user conference.
@ronaldreed Sorry Apple, I'm too busy watching the Winter '13 Release #forcewebinar
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Hot Discussions
Visit the Force.com discussion boards for more information, tips, and solutions on a variety of topics.
Backing Up Data Before a Sandbox Refresh
- solved by Regular Contributor Shivanath D
Casting Aggregate Function Type
- solved by Super Contributor Starz26
Community Profile Highlight
Matt Lacey is a Development Manager at Quattro Innovation, a consultancy with a focus on the Force.com Platform. He is a certified Advanced Administrator and Developer, but his real notoriety has come from his advocacy for the Salesforce StackExchange, where you can get expert answers to your Salesforce-related questions. In his spare time, Matt also maintains his blog, and leads the Melbourne Salesforce Platform Developer User Group.
Oct 2012 Issue
Calendar of Events
Developer User Group:
     Austin, TX Meeting
Developer User Group:
     Bristol, UK Meeting
Developer User Group:
     Philadelphia, PA Meeting
Speaker: TwilioCon,
     San Francisco, CA
Speaker: App Conference,
     San Jose, CA
Cloudforce #devzone:
     New York, NY
Developer User Group:
     Bangalore, India Meeting
Webinar: Salesforce Identity
Developer User Group:
     Kerala, India Meeting
Developer User Group:
      North, UK Meeting
Success Stories
Design Within Reach (DWR) makes authentic modern design accessible to anyone.
App of the month
Sales Contest Builder by ePrize motivates salespeople and increases adoption with gamification
Job Skills
Looking for a Force.com developer contract that takes you to Australia? Check out this 6 month project in Sydney
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