In this episode, we follow up on the topic of inlining functions, a rant on trigger development, new licensing terms for GitHub teams, IntelliJ updates, and Zoom.

Links:

• GitHub is now free for teams - The GitHub Blog
• Giri on Twitter: "I'm sure many of my fellow @SalesforceDevs would agree, Triggers are an antipattern and is the main reason "code" gets such a bad rap in the #Salesforce ecosystem. Here’s why:" / Twitter
• Kelsey Hightower on Twitter: "Describe software engineering in three words or less." / Twitter
• Zoom isn’t Malware. - Amit Serper - Medium
• Salesforce Tower construction starts in Chicago - Chicago Tribune

In this episode, we discuss wireless routers, approaches to onboarding developers, inline coding vs. functions, a perspective on Benioff's recent bonus, extended membership for the Salesforce CMO club, using docker to host a torrent client, and a networking quiz that one host fails miserably.

Links:

• War Stories | Ars Technica - YouTube
• Salesforce founder Marc Benioff tossed $2.3m in return for bumper company growth • The Register
• Salesforce's The CMO Club Extends Memberships by Six Months
• Google - Site Reliability Engineering
• markusmcnugen/qbittorrentvpn - Docker Hub

In this episode, we discuss the possible effects and outcomes from the virus to the industry, first-time fatherhood and work, and held a quick round of trivia.

Links:

• Salesforce’s Benioff pledges no ‘significant’ layoffs for 90 days | TechCrunch
• Salesforce founder Marc Benioff tossed $2.3m in return for bumper company growth • The Register
• Salesforce stock gets booted off Wedbush's 'best ideas' list - MarketWatch
• Update #2 on Microsoft cloud services continuity | Azure Blog and Updates | Microsoft Azure

In this episode, we discuss working from home, long-winded namespaces, recent news, and looking for different ways to engage with the community.

Links:

• Defense Department to 'reconsider' $10 billion cloud-computing award to Microsoft - MarketWatch
• Salesforce hires former banker Arundhati Bhattacharya as chairperson and CEO of India business | TechCrunch
• Addapptation snares $1.3M seed to build a better UX for Salesforce | TechCrunch
• A Letter to our Customers During the COVID-19 Pandemic - Salesforce Blog
• COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Data Resource Hub | Tableau Software

In this episode, we discuss working remote, event cancellations, billing time for research, neumorphism, and social media.

Links:

• NAB and Gartner cancel events due to coronavirus pandemic: 2020 tech conference cancellations and travel bans list | ZDNet
• Salesforce News on Twitter: "Along with our employees in Washington State and California, we are strongly encouraging employees in New York State to work remotely for the month of March. This is out of an abundance of caution to protect our employees, their families & our communities: https://t.co/FOA9gkM0F6 https://t.co/Ofk2DfPmPL" / Twitter
• 7 social media findings: What are the kids (and parents) up to these days? | SurveyMonkey
• Neumorphism in user interfaces - UX Collective
• Celebrate Your 2020 Salesforce MVPs - Salesforce Blog
• ARM-ed Mac: Not Again Or For Real This Time? - Monday Note

In this episode, we discuss Trailhead chat, ServiceMax, Coronavirus travel concerns and conference cancellations, The CMO Club acquisition, and ODQA.

Links:

• Salesforce expands Trailhead Live to mobile, adds chat | ZDNet
• ServiceMax: $80 Million Funding Round Led By Salesforce And Silver Lake
• Welcome The CMO Club to the Salesforce Family
• Salesforce Open Sources a Framework for Open Domain Question Answering Using Wikipedia
• Salesforce founder Marc Benioff swears off politics after buying Time magazine - Vox
• Amazon, Intel, Cisco, Salesforce back out of HIMSS due to coronavirus

In this episode, we discuss Keith Block's departure from Salesforce, Coronavirus concerns, ClearView's facial recognition data leak, Einstein NER, Salesforce's acquisition of Vlocity, and attempting to set up communities for authenticated access only.

Links:

• Salesforce's CEO talks Q4 earnings, Keith Block's departure - YouTube
• Salesforce's Keith Block could join these three companies: RBC
• Clearview AI’s Facial Recognition App Has Been Used By Four Australian Police Forces
• Ryan Mac 🙃 on Twitter: "Reporting this story was surreal. Numerous organizations initially denied that they had ever used Clearview. We then followed up, and those same orgs later found that employees had signed up and used the software without approval from higher ups. This happened multiple times." / Twitter
• Salesforce makes conference in Sydney online-only due to coronavirus - Business Insider
• Q&A: Inside Salesforce’s Name Entity Recognition - Salesforce.com
• Salesforce grabs Vlocity for $1.33B, a startup with $1B valuation | TechCrunch

In this episode, we discuss some bad ways to write interfaces, Salesforce CLI release notes, keyboard shortcuts for lightning, Amazon blocking Microsoft's Pentagon contract, Google Cloud's enterprise strategy, and whether an analytics platform is a data warehouse.

Links:

• Salesforce CLI Release Notes
• Jest · 🃏 Delightful JavaScript Testing
• Keyboard Shortcuts for App Launcher in Lightning Experience - Ideas - Salesforce Trailblazer Community
• Amazon gets restraining order to block Microsoft work on Pentagon JEDI
• Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian targeting five industries, C-suite

In this episode, we discuss multitenant architectures, Spring '20 issues, Flow performance, Adobe's market cap, and IBM's choice to use Slack over MS Teams.

Links:

• Bob Buzzard Blog: Spring 20 Before Save Flows and Apex Triggers
• Validation error seen during Managed package install in Spring '20 orgs
• IBM picks Slack over Microsoft Teams for its 350,000 employees - The Verge
• Adobe, Salesforce upset software order in cloud revolution - Los Angeles Times
• Enable ICU Locale Formats
• Escape the spreadsheet vortex. - YouTube
• How Salesforce Essentials helps Mission.org - YouTube

In this episode, we discuss Salesforces' acquisition of Evergage, rumored CSG layoffs, employees expensing Benioff's latest book, Microsoft cloud security, and the retirement of the Data Recovery Service.

Links:

• Salesforce.com Inc. Layoffs - TheLayoff.com
• Microsoft – not Google – would acquire Salesforce, analyst says - Business Insider
• Salesforce Acquires Evergage
• Severe ‘Perfect 10.0’ Microsoft Flaw Confirmed: ‘This Is A Cloud Security Nightmare’
• KillingMyCareer on Twitter: "Hilarious. And if employees don't buy & expense Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff's new book, it'll factor in to promotions & layoffs for employees. Kinda like when Elon Musk wanted employees to beta Autopilot AFTER they bought Model 3s. #TheSociopathicBusinessModel #FraudFormula https://t.co/QvyvcnhbIB https://t.co/WN3EBtwAAy" / Twitter
• Salesforce Data Breach Suit Cites California Privacy Law
• FAQs Data Recovery service and costs