June 2013 Developer Force Newsletter
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Getting Started with Salesforce Platform
 Are you new to the Salesforce Platform and wondering where to start? Depending on your style of learning, there are many great paths you can take. Here are some key resources you don't want to miss:
- Go through the self guided Workbooks. (Start with Force.com then explore Database, Apex, Visualforce - and other workbooks.)
- Join us for a Force.com Friday overview session and get your questions answered!
Stay connected along the way and let us know if you have any questions!
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Salesforce Developer User Group
 It's now easier than ever to connect with your local developer community. We've launched a new page for all Salesforce Developer User Group activities. Use the page map to locate the group nearest you and with a glance find upcoming events across the globe.
Get information on starting a Developer User Group in your area too! Bookmark the page now.
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The Innovation Challenge—Win €5 Million!
 The €5 million Innovation Challenge is an investment competition for European start-ups building cloud apps on the Salesforce Platform. European entrepreneurs are eligible to take part in this contest, which is designed to inspire the next generation of start-ups in Europe to develop and deliver innovative new enterprise apps on the Salesforce Platform. For more information, contest rules and to apply, please visit: www.salesforce.com/uk/challenge.
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Join Us in the #devzone, Munich July 2
 The Developer Zone (#devzone) is coming to the Munich Customer Company Tour on July 2. We plan to have developer talks and mini hacks, as well our Salesforce Platform developer library where we will give away books and workbooks.
Click in to register for free!
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Coming to Chicago: Salesforce Platform ELEVATE Hands-on Workshop
 The Salesforce Platform is the leading cloud platform, uniquely optimized for building enterprise apps. Join us on July 12 for a FREE one-day hands-on developer workshop designed to teach you how to build cloud applications.
Register now since seating is limited.
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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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Cross-Object Owner Fields: A Powerful New Formula Option
(by Peter Chittum)
There is a little, new feature that is set to arrive in the Summer ‘13 release that garners only half a page of the release notes, but creates an extremely important opportunity for projects wanting to maximize their time and resources by leveraging clicks before code.
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Consolidating Apex Limits
(by Josh Kaplan)
The Apex team is always looking for ways to reduce the number of limits that you have to think about when building applications on the Force.com platform. To that end, we are replacing the old asynchronous limits with a single limit for all of the different asynchronous processes.
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Automated Testing: Using Selenium at Salesforce
(by Jim Evans)
Automated software testing can execute routine, monotonous test cases for you, freeing up your testing resources to concentrate on more interesting cases in your application. At Salesforce, we use the Selenium open-source project for the UI-based testing of our applications.
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More posts
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Community Profile Highlight
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 Kevin Poorman, Force.com MVP & RTP Developer User Group Co-Leader
Kevin has been working with the Salesforce ecosystem since late 2008. He co-leads the Raleigh-Durham Salesforce Developer User Group and has presented a number of times on API Integrations with the Force.com platform and Ruby. Kevin is a Sr. Consultant at Madrona Solutions Group, a Salesforce partner company, where he architects and develops elegant solutions to complex problems throughout the Salesforce ecosystem. A spirited problem solver, Kevin has recently been focusing research and development time on extending the possibilities of Visualforce through Angular.js and RemoteTk. Kevin recently spoke in the DevZone at Customer Company Tour New York City, presenting on Advanced Angular.js App Development with Force.com. Follow him on Twitter @codefriar.
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June 2013 Issue
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Calendar of Events
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App of the month
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 Cloudingo Studio is a developers’ tool to analyze database schema, examine standard and custom fields and objects, and create SOQL queries.
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Job Skills
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1 million+ Developers | 100,000+ Customers | 1 billion+ lines of Force.com code
3 million apps built on the Salesforce Platform
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