My 3 Year Journey at MTX So Far – My Favourite Moments & Reflections!

Time flies, especially when you are busy! A few weeks back, I completed three years at MTX — and to say that it’s been a busy and fun journey would be an understatement. I am a compulsive reader, and a passionate writer — definitely in the club of The pen is mightier than the sword. If someone would ask me to speak about my journey at MTX, I would probably not be able to do justice to that. On the contrary, writing about this journey is something that I’ve been looking forward to for the last few months. 

I’ll try and capture my favourite moments from this journey (in chronological order), my reflections, and what’s coming next — so without any further ado, here we go!

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Salesforce Mobile SDK v5.1 Live – Here’s What You Need To Know!

The Salesforce Mobile SDK team has been working in overdrive mode for the last few months. While I was still catching up on the changes made in 5.0 release (released in December 2016), there has been substantial work done over the last quarter and v5.1 has been released earlier this week.

For someone who’s followed the Mobile SDK since it’s early days, I believe this release is a major milestone and a massive turning point for developers as it brings several features that turn this open-source Github project into an enterprise-grade development kit.  Read on to know more about what’s changed, why and how it impacts you.

Salesforce App Cloud Mobile Demystified For Developers!

Things happen thick and fast in the Salesforce ecosystem. With 3 releases every year (Winter, Spring, Summer) and several new frameworks being launched on a regular basis, you need to be on your toes and forever learning to keep up with these changes.

Force.com Friday Webinar – Video Recording Now Available

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I was scheduled to present a webinar on ‘Introduction to Force.com’ last Friday (June 24).

The webinar went well (that’s what I was told by Salesforce 🙂 and the video for the webinar is now posted on YouTube. Check it out here.

Making Your Salesforce iOS SDK Apps Work on XCode 8/ iOS 10

It’s the most exciting time of the year for any Apple developers (iOS/ watchOS/ macOS/ tvOS) – it’s WWDC 2016. Apple just released the Developer Preview for XCode 8 which lets you build and test your apps for iOS 10 – the next major version that will be released this fall.

The first thing I tried after downloading XCode 8 was to see how nicely (or how badly) the Salesforce iOS SDK will play with it.

Force.com Friday Webinar – June 24, 2016

Force.com is a powerful and diverse platform and understandably, it can be a bit challenging to get started with it. Thankfully, Salesforce has several on-going programs and initiatives to onboard newbies on the Force.com platform.

Dreamforce Session Video -Building Salesforce1 Mobile Extensions with Swift

Although I presented 3 sessions at Dreamforce 2015, only one – Building Salesforce1 Mobile Extensions with Swift was video recorded. The talk was presented at the Innovation Theatre in the Dev Zone and it was good to see a large turnaround for this rather unconventional topic.

Bootstrapping the Force.com PHP Toolkit – Part 2

In the last tutorial, I described how I used jQuery DataTable and Bootstrap to revamp the Contact list. In this part, I will describe on how to build simple Contact Detail pages and how to create, update and delete Contact records to enhance the toolkit further.

Bootstrapping the Force.com PHP Toolkit – Part 1

One of the best things about being a Salesforce developer is that there’re lots of open-source projects and tools available. The bad thing though is that since there are so many of these, most of these aren’t updated regularly enough. The Force.com PHP Toolkit is one such framework which although is very powerful, but the user interface is completely dated as it’s not been updated since year 2010.

I decided to pick it up, enhance it and jazz it up a little bit to adopt to the modern times. Read on to find out more.

Salesforce1 Meets Avengers: Join Me For the MarvelForce Open Source Project!

I’m a person with a lot of crazy ideas and I usually try and give most of those ideas a shot to see if craziness apart, I can make them happen. And no surprise, that I love super heroes as they do crazy things all the time 🙂 One of those ideas last year – was to do a mashup of Salesforce with Marvel API to build a ‘Salesforce1 Meets Avengers’ integration.

Crazily enough, Salesforce actually accepted this as one of my proposals for Dreamforce 2015 and it ranks among my favourite sessions till date. It’s been fun building this project which I call ‘Marvelforce’ and bring it to a stage where it can graduate from just an experiment to something more concrete.

And I’m looking for volunteers (Salesforce developers, Marvel fans, superhero fanboys) to take this to the next level. Read on if the details interest you so far!