May 2013 Developer Force Newsletter
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Dreamforce Developer Call for Papers
 The Salesforce event of the year is Dreamforce 2013, to be held in San Francisco November 18-21. Over 15,000 developers will be present in the DevZone, and we’d like you to be there to share your experience, best practices and code. If selected, you’ll score a complimentary full conference pass. The Developer Call for Papers is open until June 17:
Submit your session proposal now!
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Mobile Dev Challenge
 Enterprise mobile apps are hot, and we are looking for the best the apps built using Salesforce Mobile Services. Whether you are building connected apps with geolocation services or adding offline storage using SmartStore and the Salesforce Mobile SDK, the 2013 Mobile Developer Challenge is your chance to show off and win cash prizes.
Contest ends June 3, so enter now.
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Developer Zone is coming to New York, June 14th
 On June 14th, we are bringing the Developer Zone to Salesforce Customer Company Tour at Radio City Music Hall & Hilton Hotel, New York City - a one-day event to dive into Salesforce technologies and mingle with the developer community. Join our experts for technical sessions, get your questions answered in 1:1 code consults (sign up today), compete for great prizes in the mini hacks, and code along in our hands-on workshops.
Register for this free event now.
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Resources
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Access reference documentation, core articles, and tools in our Technical Library.
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Recordings
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Code & Best Practices
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From the Blog
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Technical hints, insights, news, and more.
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Tweets from Followers
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Hot Discussions
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Visit the Force.com discussion boards for more information, tips, and solutions on a variety of topics.
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Community Profile Highlight
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 Starting to program at age 10, Kevin O'Hara considers himself a lifelong developer and technology enthusiast. He is currently the CTO of LevelEleven, a Salesforce.com ISV partner focusing on building apps in the gamification space. Prior to joining LevelEleven, Kevin spent many years as a Force.com consultant through his own company, and Threshold Consulting in Florida. He is a regular speaker at Dreamforce and is very active within the Force.com community. Currently, Kevin runs the Detroit Force.com Developer User Group.
Kevin is also a node.js enthusiast and builds many node.js technologies that integrate with Force.com technologies. His most popular project, nforce, is a full-featured salesforce REST API wrapper written in node.js. Kevin also co-founded the Detroit node.js user group called Detnode.
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May 2013 Issue
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Calendar of Events
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Workshop ELEVATE Salesforce
São Paulo, Brasil, June 12
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Webinar: Building Enterprise Apps Rapidly with Salesforce Mobile Packs
May 29
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CodeTalk: Developers are the New Kingmakers, James Governor
June 13
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Customer Company Tour: #devzone New York
June 14
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Salesforce Developer User Groups:
Durham, NC, 5/29
San Francisco, CA, 5/29
Hertogenbosch, Netherlands, 5/29
Birmingham, UK, 5/29
Charlotte, NC, 6/13
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More events
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App of the month
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Job Skills
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 Do you know a Salesforce Architect near Philadelphia? Check out this exciting developer opportunity at Comcast to join their growing Systems Engineering team.
Visit the Jobs Board
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Hot Last Month
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Build it Mobile
Recently we announced Salesforce Mobile Services and with them the release of the new Mobile Packs, a collection of JavaScript frameworks integrated with the Salesforce Platform.
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