Salesforce Developer Podcast

Narender Singh is a Salesforce developer over in Berlin. He is also the author of the ForcePanda blog, which acts as a source where those with commonly asked coding questions can get answers in one place. Narender is also an animal-lover and football fan.

In this episode, we talk about his experiences with the community and learning the platform, as well as his experiences with External Services. Tune in to hear this self-confessed coding addict’s expertise.

Show Highlights:

• How ForcePanda came to be.
• What External Services are and Narender’s experience with them.
• The difference between REST and SOAP APIs.
• How to generate a good schema.
• Authentication protocols and named credentials.
• How Flow plays into the use of External Services.

Links

1. Twitter: https://twitter.com/Nads_P07
2. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/narendersingh07/
3. ForcePanda: https://forcepanda.wordpress.com/
4. GitHub: https://github.com/forcePanda
5. Session at London DUG: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mX4sI9KBY20
6. Session at Noida, India DUG: https://trailblazercommunitygroups.com/events/details/salesforce-noida-in-developers-group-presents-virtualgupshup-iii/

Shoutouts:

1. Deepak Anand: https://twitter.com/deepak_kanand
2. Steve Molis: https://twitter.com/SteveMoForce
3. Jessica Murphy: https://twitter.com/jessicarmurphy
4. Amnon Kruvi: https://twitter.com/KruvMan
5. Sunil Sarilla: https://twitter.com/sunilsarilla

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If you like this podcast and are thinking of creating your own, consider talking to my producer, Danny Ozment.

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Corey Snow is the Senior Director for Higher Education over at Salesforce.org. He has been with Salesforce since its pioneer days. He has seen first hand how it has grown up and become a professional business unit.

In his time at Salesforce, Corey has also overcome his fear of public speaking. He now gives presentations for a variety of events, webinars, and summits. In this episode, he shares with us his story and stagecraft strategies.

Show Highlights:

• The custom products for higher education Salesforce is producing.
• Higher Ed Summit and how it plays into the production of Salesforce products.
• Corey’s empowerment journey towards public speaking.
• The challenges and lessons Corey has learned through the submission process.
• His process for practicing for his speaking sessions.
• How he views and overcomes imposter syndrome.

Links

1. Corey on Twitter: http://twitter.com/corey_snow
2. Corey on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/snowcorey/

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If you like this podcast and are thinking of creating your own, consider talking to my producer, Danny Ozment.

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In today’s episode, I talk with Claire Bianchi about a new product that was just announced: Code Builder. Claire is a Director of Product Management for Developer Tools and Experience here at Salesforce. She has experienced the frustration of configuring new code and knows the benefits of this new product. 

During our conversation, Claire explains what Code Builder is and how it can help less technical people work on the platform. If you know the basics of Salesforce but don’t feel comfortable with the more complex functions, listen in. You will learn how Code Builder can help you take that next step into development.

Show Highlights:

• What Code Builder is and how it saves you time and energy.
• The targeted audiences for Code Builder. 
• The ease and access that Code Builder provides.
• The integration that Code Builder has for the org you’re signed into.
• What the experience coding directly within the org is like.
• How DevOps interplays with Code Builder.
• What the future of Developer Console is and how will it impact Code Builder.
• Why Code Builder isn’t daunting but gives you power instead.
• The features Claire’s hoping to get into by DreamForce.

Links

1. Claire on LikedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/clairebianchi/
2. Developer blog articles by Claire: https://developer.salesforce.com/blogs/author/claire-bianchi
3. Claire on Twitter: https://twitter.com/clairesfdx
4. Claire on Gitlab: https://gitlab.com/clairebianchi

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If you like this podcast and are thinking of creating your own, consider talking to my producer, Danny Ozment.

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In today’s episode, I sit down with Skip Sauls, the Senior Director of Product Management for Einstein Analytics. We talked about a wide variety of topics, including the recent acquisition of Tableau and what it has been like integrating Einstein Analytics with them.  Skip also shares some of the unique challenges of working with large datasets and how a new license may help ISV’s get on board with Analytics.

Whether you are a long term data dev or have only focused on Apex, this chat with Skip will help you understand developing with Einstein Analytics.

Show Highlights:

• The different kinds of analytics for non-technical users of Salesforce.
• The touchpoints that allow for easy integration.
• What an analytics template is and how it works.
• The challenges analytics and metadata present to the Salesforce cycle.
• The typical persona of an analytics data developer.
• What skills are useful in using Einstein Analytics.
• The new embedded license they are releasing.

Links

1. Twitter account: https://twitter.com/SkipSauls
2. Linkedin account: https://www.linkedin.com/in/skipsauls/
3. Github account: https://github.com/skipsauls

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If you like this podcast and are thinking of creating your own, consider talking to my producer, Danny Ozment.

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In today’s episode, I talk with Christian Menzinger about his experience with SalesforceDX. He addresses the specific pain points he has been able to address using SalesforceDX, especially the Salesforce CLI. Christian describes a lot of the flexibility and functionality that comes with the tools that can help both admins and developers..

Christian is a freelance Salesforce trainer, developer, and consultant in Germany. He is also a co-leader of the Munich Developer Group and the father of two boys. He has extensive experience with and knowledge of SalesforceDX. I’m confident his tips will be very useful for all of us.

Show Highlights:

• How to make developing easier with multiple developers all working on different branches.
• How to maintain a large code base.
• The benefits of unlocked packages.
• Why dependencies are so crucial and how to untangle them.
• The pain points Christian has resolved using SalesforceDX.
• Time-saving plug-ins and where to get them.
• Christian’s experience co-leading the Munich Group in this interesting time.

Links

Christian on Twitter

Christian on Linkedin

Christian on Github

Shaun's Awesome Plugin Repo

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EPISODE CREDITS:

If you like this podcast and are thinking of creating your own, consider talking to my producer, Danny Ozment.

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Joe Castro is Chief Technology Officer at Appirio and Co-founder of the Merivis Foundation. He is a Salesforce Certified Technical Architect who continues to pursue programming as a hobby and professionally whenever possible. Today, Joe and I discuss his passion for educating others, and his work with Merivis, an organization dedicated to helping military veterans get back in the workplace through Salesforce skills. 

Show Highlights:

• The story of how Hector Perez Jr. and Joe came together to co-found Mervis Organization, fulfilling the desire to provide veterans an opportunity to transition into great jobs at Salesforce. 
• Some advantages that military experience brings to somebody trying to learn the Salesforce ecosystem.
• Joe describes the Mervis method and why he thinks it's been so successful.
• We talk about specific solutions Joe, Hector, and the team are using to help with training and education.  
• After Hector and Joe realized they couldn't run the Mervis program on email, they decided to run it on Salesforce. Joe shares that story.  
• How Trailhead changed the strategy of training Veterans on Salesforce. 
• Some of the strategies Joe uses for training people in architecture.

Links:

Joe on Twitter

Joe on Linkedin

Mervis

Merivis is a Trailblazer

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EPISODE CREDITS:

If you like this podcast and are thinking of creating your own, consider talking to my producer, Danny Ozment.

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Sébastien Colladon is a Technical Architect for Salesforce over in France. In this episode, Sébastien and I discussed one of his recent projects; a series of templates for Postman, a popular tool for working with API’s.  The templates cover a variety of use cases for Salesforce. The project is open-source and available online through Github. We also talked in-depth about what he is doing to make integration and testing more accessible for developers. 

Show Highlights:

• Sébastien describes the Salesforce Postman Collection.
• We explore some of the many useful features of Postman.
• Why a Salesforce developer might use Postman over something like Workbench.
• There are just under 200 templates in Postman, Sébastien provides some examples, like the REST API, and how they can be used.  
• The challenges and triumphs of building the Postman Collection. 

Links:

Sébastien on Twitter 

Sébastien on LinkedIn 

Sébastien Github 

Blog Post on the Postman Collection

Postman Collection repo

Shoutouts:

Philippe Ozil

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EPISODE CREDITS:

If you like this podcast and are thinking of creating your own, consider talking to my producer, Danny Ozment.

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Jason Lantz is the Senior Director of Release Engineering for the nonprofit arm at Salesforce.org. Today, Jason and I talk about managing and releasing open source projects for the nonprofit community. We also discuss the Nonprofit Success Pack (or NPSP), open source tools for automation, and hosting open source community sprints.

Show Highlights:

• How NPSP transitioned from a repository of metadata to a managed package.
• Some early efforts creating open source tools for automation and building them on the platform.
• The challenges in finding a cloud storage solution for open source release management.
• The building and developing side of open source projects.
• Open Source Sprints, what it has been like taking sprints virtual and one side project that came out amazing
• An overview of the Open Source Commons

Links

Jason on Twitter

Jason on LinkedIn

Jason GitHub

Get Started with Open Source Commons

Nonprofit Success Pack

The 4 C’s of a Open Source Community Sprint

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EPISODE CREDITS:

If you like this podcast and are thinking of creating your own, consider talking to my producer, Danny Ozment.

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This week, Salesforce Engineer for Google, Adam Olshansky, joins us on the show. In this episode, Adam and I take on a wide range of topics, including getting certified and why Adam believes everyone should use Trailhead to get certified. We also discuss the many perspectives admin and developers can have on various tasks and technologies within our industry.  

Show Highlights:

• Some certification recommendations for developers. 
• Perspectives on certifications: when taking a certification test, failure is sometimes part of the process, learn, and try again. And, don't go after certification to have it. Go after the certification to determine the content in-depth. 
• For those hoping to speak at a future conference, Adam offers some tips and advice for speaking or presenting on stage.
• Adam's share of how using the perspective of one role for a different role's task, for instance, being an admin and looking at code, can prove helpful to developers.

Links

Adam on Twitter

Adam on Linkedin

Why You Should Submit a Dreamforce Presentation Idea Blog Post

Pluralsight

Shout Outs

Don Robins

Amy Oplinger

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EPISODE CREDITS:

If you like this podcast and are thinking of creating your own, consider talking to my producer, Danny Ozment.

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This week on the Salesforce Developer Podcast, we are joined by Gaurav Kheterpal, Chief Technology Officer at MTX. Together we have an in-depth conversation about Commerce Cloud. We also discuss the commerce ecosystem as a whole and the rise of mobile development.  

Show Highlights:

• The growing importance of mobile when it comes to commerce development.
• Some distinctions between B2C versus B2B.
• The Commerce Cloud: what it is, what developers can expect, and a realm versus an org.
• The MVC model, both old and new, developers experience with Commerce Cloud
• Einstein AI for Commerce and the Commerce Cloud
• Integrations and available API’s for Commerce Cloud
• Considerations around GDPR and privacy laws with Commerce Cloud
• Gaurav shares some things developers starting their first enterprise commerce cloud project should know. 

Resources:

Gaurav on Twitter

Gaurav on Linkedin

Gaurav’s Github 

Gaurav’s Trailblazer Story

Gaurav’s Blog 

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EPISODE CREDITS:

If you like this podcast and are thinking of creating your own, consider talking to my producer, Danny Ozment.

He helps thought leaders, influencers, executives, HR professionals, recruiters, lawyers, realtors, bloggers, coaches, and authors create, launch, and produce podcasts that grow their business and impact the world.

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