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Year in Review
2012 was an epic year for Salesforce Developers. We went to meet developers in more countries than before and gave you cool, new technologies like Salesforce Touch Platform, Force.com Canvas, and Java on Heroku. In kind, you contributed back in the form of writing articles (and even a few books), starting User Groups, and establishing a Salesforce Stack Exchange site.

Without further ado, here’s our highlights from 2012.
Monetize your App on the AppExchange
Developers around the world use the Salesforce AppExchange to sell Force.com and Heroku apps. Get started by listening to the recorded webinar and learn how to turn your great ideas into cash.
Publish your First App and monetize your ideas today.
Resources
Access reference documentation, core articles, and
tools in our Technical Library.
Code & Best Practices
Tweets from Followers
@abhisheksubbu: Publishing an App on AppExchange looks much easier than launching a Satellite vehicle to the orbit :) @forcedotcom #forcewebinar
@AlwaysThinkin: I love the Query Editor in the @forcedotcom Dev Console. It's so fast to get the data I need & make on-the-fly corrections. Thx @salesforce!
@dcgoodwin2112 Will be adding transient fields to some of my Apex controllers in the very near future. Great advice. #forcewebinar @forcedotcom
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Hot Discussions
Visit the Force.com discussion boards for more information, tips, and solutions on a variety of topics.
Display a Visualforce Page Within A Flow
- solved by Trusted Contributor Rajaram
Many-to-many Relationship
- solved by Trusted Contributor Madhan Raja M
From the Blog
Technical hints, insights, news, and more.
Mobile SDK 1.4: Latest Cordova, API Versioning, and Hybrid Session Management (By Eugene Oksman)
This release focuses on providing hybrid app developers more flexibility with multiple versions of a live app in production, and greater control over session management.
How Code Coverage Works (By Josh Kaplan)
Learn how the various code coverage numbers are calculated in your org.
Real-time push notifications from Force.com to Heroku using WebSockets (By Sandeep Bhanot)
Explore the design and code for Social Web-to-Lead, a Node.js application running on Heroku that allows Facebook users to save their contact information in Salesforce via a ‘Contact Me’ link.
Community Profile Highlight
Among our new crop of Force.com MVPs, is another new face. On the heels of a rip roaring Cloudforce Tokyo, we’d like to introduce our newest Japanese MVP, Junji Imaoka! Junji is the author of Force.com のすべて (“Everything about Force.com”), the first Japanese language book dedicated to developing on the Force.com platform as well as DataSpider ガイドブック (DataSpider Guide Book), a book dedicated to the integration of cloud solutions, including Salesforce and Force.com.
Dec 2012 Issue
Calendar of Events
Developer User Group:
      Gurgaon Meeting
Sponsor/Speaker: AT&T
     Developer Hackathon &
     Summit
Developer User Group:
      Boston Meeting
Developer User Group:
      Dallas Meeting
Webinar: Spring’13 Release
      Developer Preview
App of the Month
Rollup Helper - Sum, count, find the min/max and concatenate any information in Salesforce
Job Skills
Always dreamed of working in Austin, Texas for 6 months to a year ? Check out this position to lead, manage, and deliver a Force.com / AppExchange Development Project.
Hot This Month
Cloudforce Tokyo Developer Zone. See all the photos of the event.
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