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Force.com Advanced Developer Certification

Force.com Advanced Developer CertificationSought 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.

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Paginating Data with Force.com

Pagenating Data with Force.comWhen 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 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.

Join Us in the #devzone, Munich July 2

Join us in the #devzone, Munich on July 2The 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!

Coming to Chicago: Salesforce Platform ELEVATE Hands-on Workshop

Coming to Chicago: Salesforce Platform ELEVATE Hands-on WorkshopThe 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.

Resources

Access reference documentation, core articles, and tools in our Technical Library.

Calling the Force.com REST API from BizTalk Server

The Road to Advanced Force.com Developer Certification

Leveraging Heroku From Force.com

Force.com CI Using AWS, Github and Jenkins

Dynamic Visualforce Components

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Recordings

Webinar: Building Enterprise Apps Rapidly with Salesforce Mobile Packs

CodeTalk: Developers are the New Kingmakers

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Code & Best Practices

Logger is a cross-platform (iOS/Android) mobile app to log sales activities and notes. Logger is a Cordova hyrbrid app build on top of the Salesforce Mobile SDK for iOS and Android.

Force.com-Toolkit-for-Facebook allows your Force.com apps to manipulate the Facebook Graph API. The toolkit provides a set of Apex classes, such as FacebookUser and FacebookPost, that model Facebook Graph API Objects such as User and Post

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From the Blog

Technical hints, insights, news, and more.

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.

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.

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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Community Profile Highlight

Kevin PoormanKevin 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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Calendar of Events

Customer Company Tour: #devzone Munich
July 2

Salesforce Developer User Groups:
Rio, Brazil, 7/1
Hertogenbosch, Netherlands, 7/3
San Francisco, California 7/10
Portland, Oregon 7/17
Melbourne, Australia 7/23
Lincoln, Nebraska 7/31

CodeTalk: AppExchange
July 10

Webinar: Intro to Salesforce Mobile SDK
July 11

Speaker: SenchaCon
Orlando
July 16-19

Webinar: From Sandbox to Production
July 24

Webinar: Salesforce API Series: Integrating Applications with Force.com
August 7

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App of the month

Cloudingo StudioCloudingo Studio is a developers’ tool to analyze database schema, examine standard and custom fields and objects, and create SOQL queries.

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