Code Coverage - Salesforce Developer Podcast

We're back, and rambling more than ever. We chat about many things including the Spring release, IDEs and The Welkin Suite, computer keyboards and phones. 

I don't think we talk about JavaScript.

In this episode of Code Coverage Steven is off on a bit of a jolly so I'm joined by Jarrod Hunt, we discuss:

• The upcoming Down Under Dreaming Conference in Sydney
• Teaching code concepts to admins: what's useful for them to know
• The role of BAs sitting between clients and developers
• What developers could do better from a BA's point of view

There's a few surprising (at least to me) lessons for developers in here, and it's interesting to see that some of the same things developers look for a team member are the same as those that a BA might look for. 

More rambling! A discussion of various topics, some are even related to Salesforce. In particular we cover:

• Curtailing Twitter usage
• Rob Plays - C64 Game Reviews from Rob Caporetto (if you like these please do subscribe!)
• Salesforce DX - some initial thoughts
• Steven finally writes some Lightning Components
• Waiting for Platform Event handling paradigms
• Wishing for a larger runtime
• A quick discussion on Salesforce books, with the two classics:
  • Advanced Apex Programming by Dan Appleman
  • Force.com Enterprise Architecture by Andy Fawcett

We're back again! Plans are afoot to make this more regular once again. But for now we've gone from Summer to Fall/Autumn in Australia, so here's a bunch of Chatter about the Summer '17 release.

We're back! Maybe for more than a few weeks too. In this episode we drivel on about old computers, Lightning Experience, Locker Service and Spring '17.

In this episode of Code Coverage we talk to Scott Wells, the author of the Illumined Cloud IDE for Salesforce. Illuminated cloud is an alternative IDE built on ItelliJ, and sports many features that make life far easier for developers on the platform. Topics we discuss include:

• How Scott got started building Illuminated Cloud
• The feature set of Illuminated Cloud
• How he implemented the debugger
• Weirdness with APIs on the platform
• Dreamforce!

Illuminated Cloud sessions at Dreamforce:

Tuesday Morning

Chris Fellows - Illuminated Cloud & Lightning Components

Tuesday Afternoon - 5:00pm

Scott Wells - Live Demo of Illuminated Cloud

In this episode we're joined by Simon Goodyear, for a chat covering many aspects of developing on the platform. We got a bit carried away and it got a little long, but Simon has very interesting insights on all manner of topics, including:

• Supporting customers when you develop a product
• Drinking beer and starting businesses
• Dynamics!
• External Objects and OData
• Lightning development on a large scale
• Platform limits and innovation
• Fun and games with managed packages
• The choice of IDEs available for the platform
• Damaging hardware and email management

So we accidentally had another hiatus. This was entirely unintentional and we've talked plenty about recording, it's just that sometimes life (and work) happens.  We're back... again... and planning to keep up some momentum this time.

• Steven wrote some code and a tester found some bugs
• A novel use of reports to do calculations akin to a roll-up summary
• Matt found a quirk with SOQL's DAY_IN_WEEK() function
• Swatch Internet Time
• Various tools we use:
  •  Illuminated Cloud! The IDE Salesforce developers deserve
  • TestPilot - automated test runs and org backups
  • Gearset - a solid Salesforce delpoyment tool
• Pains with using other people's computers (a.k.a. the cloud)
• Matt bought a computer that he likes to use a lot
• Stephen bought a more powerful computer that is happy to play multiple games at once

Note: some of my audio and pronounciation goes funky towards the end of this episode. I suffered some technical difficulties that meant I was hearing myself echo at full volume with approximately half a second of delay, I think I know exactly what this feels like now - Lacey

In this episode we chat with the amazingly productive Dan Appleman (@DanAppleman); if you don't recognise that name then you can't have been around the Salesforce development community for very long! Dan makes some excellent points on a variety of topics, including: