June 2013 Developer Force Newsletter
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Force.com Advanced Developer Certification
Sought after by recruiters and employers alike, the Force.com Advanced Developer Certification is one of the most marketable certifications in the industry. For developers, Advanced Developer Certification is also an important measure of key developer skills on the Force.com platform. Judge, exam reviewer and credential holder Peter Chittum shares his personal experience with developer certification, and presents the do's and don'ts of preparing for this prestigious achievement.
Read more.
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Paginating Data with Force.com
When it comes to building web applications, Force.com gives you several tools that allow you to paginate over large data sets in order to improve page response time and enhance user experience. Tools include the Visualforce StandardSetController, the Query and QueryMore SOAP API Calls, and Offset clauses within SOQL queries. Sean Regan presents the pro's and con's when using each tool and offers best practices to achieve peak performance.
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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 here 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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