This week I had the opportunity to demo how developers can combine project-based app development with Salesforce DX, the Salesforce CLI, Scratch Orgs, and the Mobile SDK to make – at least, in my humble opinion – a pretty compelling...

A different, if not more accurate or better, name for this blog post could be “Authenticate to a Scratch Org You Didn’t Create and Whose Password You Don’t Know.” I even went out to Twitter to ask for help and,...

As you’ve likely seen on Twitter, I’ve really gotten into Trailhead these past few months. In particular, the Superbadges. I not only enjoy the challenge of working through the project, but regularly discover I don’t know nearly as much as...

If you’re a Salesforce developer, it’s likely you’ve heard us talk about Salesforce DX these past months. (If not, you’re missing out and you should checkout the official documentation.) Since TrailheaDX, everyone has been able to use the new tools...

The Salesforce Workbench is a powerful set of tools for developers and admins to use with their org. You can easily describe, query, manipulate, and migrate data and metadata through the web browser, using a combination of Partner, Bulk, REST,...

Using the capabilities of Salesforce DX you can enable some neat tricks. Such as displaying your org configuration in your Bash prompt: But, first, a little background … The Salesforce DX CLI provides some powerful capabilities for tracking your Salesforce...

The Salesforce DX (SFDX) CLI makes it easy to run commands as a developer. It also makes it really easy to create scripts that facilitate automation. A great example is the following tweet from Pat Patterson: #SalesforceDX is awesome! I...

This post is valid for the Salesforce DX (SFDX) pilot. Please note that details may change and I’ll do my best to update accordingly. Recently I highlighted a neat way to use open source software with Salesforce DX. Since then...

Like many people at Salesforce and in the community, I was really excited and impressed to see Lightning Strike by Appiphany. Not to take away from the remarkable tool they built to visually explore and configure Lightning components, I was...

We’re so excited to have recently launched the Salesforce DX pilot. Our teams have been hard at work on Salesforce DX, and it’s tremendously exciting to have so many of you using the tools and trying out an entirely new...

The fun part about blogging while learning something new is everyone gets to see how your understanding evolves over time. As I continue to learn the Go language I continuously refine and refactor the ways with which I approach problems....

The New Year is a good time to set goals for yourself. I've challenged myself this year to explore and ship some apps using the Go language, which is likely no surprise given my recent posts on setting up Go...

A few weeks ago I wrote a GoLang web app and wanted to find a good place to host it. Given I work with the team that builds Azure Websites, it seemed only fitting to host it in Azure Websites....

I've had to do this more than once recently, so I figured I'd document the simple steps for setting up the Go programming language on Windows. Most of this is simple and straightforward. The only tricky part I found is...

Microsoft Project Siena (Beta) is a tool that allows a business user (i.e. non-developer) to quickly building rich business applications for Windows 8. You can learn all about the tool on the Microsoft Project Siena web site and by watching...

iBeacon is the Apple trademark for a low-powered, low-cost transmitter that can notify nearby iOS 7 devices of its presence. It uses Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), also called Bluetooth Smart, technology to transmit an advertisement that includes a universally unique...

I had the great pleasure this week to speak at TechEd North America 2014 on how we built the Salesforce Toolkits for .NET. It was a blast, and I wouldn't be surprised if I was the first Salesforce employee to...

Earlier today a colleague asked me if I had an example of using Python to create an attachment in Salesforce. I didn't, but that didn't stop me from creating a couple. Sadly, our documentation here isn't the greatest. You can...

It's time to take a little break from .NET and enjoy the many different programming languages you can use when integrating to the Salesforce1 Platform. But first, a public service announcement from Steve Marx: This week a colleague of mine...

Yesterday I was pleased to announce the Salesforce Accelerators for Windows Phone 8 Apps. Today I'm excited to tell you about the Salesforce Accelerators for Windows Store Apps: DeveloperForce.Windows8.Login DeveloperForce.Windows8.Samples.Accounts These accelerators exist to make it easier for you to...

I am pleased to announce the Salesforce Accelerators for Windows Phone 8 Apps, a set of assets designed to make it easier to create new applications using the Salesforce Toolkits for .NET: DeveloperForce.WindowsPhone8.Login DeveloperForce.WindowsPhone8.Samples.Accounts The Salesforce Toolkits for .NET, released...

Update 2/24/14 Over the weekend I took much of what I wrote below and packaged it up in a NuGet package. You can use the NuGet to accomplish everything I wrote below with fewer lines of code. Full details are...

How do you send a text message from your phone and have it print on a thermal printer that's sitting on your kitchen counter? Hang on, we'll get to that shortly! Shortly after Dreamforce last year I was turned on...

Over the past two days I've committed and published a number of updates to the Salesforce Toolkits for .NET worth sharing. But first, a special thanks to Rocky Assad and Delmer Johnson for the contributions they have made to the...

Two days ago I published a sample app for Windows Phone 8 that demonstrates how to authenticate users and make calls against the Force.com REST API using the Salesforce Toolkits for .NET. The next obvious step was to build a...