Salesforce Developer Podcast

Svatka Simpson is VP of Architecture at Appirio. Svatka is a full stack developer turned architect, with experience in JavaScript, HTML, ASP, .Net, and Salesforce. Today, she shares her journey from a brief career in the culinary art to the world of technology and offers some advice about development and architecture as well as discussing the influences and allies she has met along the way.

Show Highlights:

• Svatka’s introduction to Javascript, Salesforce, and Bulk API.
• Some ways in which Svatka looks at repeatable processes for data and data migrations, as well as some ways in which she and her team at Appirio, we can bring in the script alongside mapping.
• Her transition from a developer to an architect.
• Svatka shares some influencers and amazing women and VPs that are a part of the technology ecosystem. 
• We discuss data privacy, owning your digital footprint, and why Svatka is so passionate about it. 

Resources/ShoutOuts:

Svatka Simpson on LinkedIn

Svatka Simpson on Twitter

Charly Prinsloo

Gina Marques

Susannah Kate St Germain

Alex Sutherland

Mid-Atlantic Dreamin'

Grace Hopper Conference

Dr. Fei-Fei Lee

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Today, I have the pleasure of sharing my conversation with Kevin Hill, Senior Director of Product Management for Lightning Web Components at Salesforce. Kevin and I discuss the development of Lightning Web Components as well as some upcoming LWC features. We begin our conversation with a discussion about migrating Aura components over to Lightning Web Components.

Show Highlights:

• Some of the features and ideas Kevin and his team considered when migrating Aura components to LWC.
• How Mysore is different from LWC.
• The core technology of LWC is developed in open source. 
• Kevin talks about the origin story of LWC recipes and why you want to use them as a catalyst for writing the best components in Salesforce.
• Lightning Web Components roadmaps are open source in the form of RFCs and are publicly available.
• LWC upcoming features: CSS-only modules and server-side rendering.
• Kevin's effort to have office hours with developers.

Resources:

Kevin on Twitter

Kevin on LinkedIn

Kevin on Github

LWC OSS (with create-lwc-app)

LWC Recipes

LWC Sample Apps

LWC RFC

Kevin's Calendly

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Fragforce is the global charity gaming team started at Salesforce that is raising money to support kids facing scary stuff like social mistreatment, medical issues such as cancer, cystic fibrosis, and severe accidents. Today, I share my conversation with the co-founder of Fragforce, Siebren Bakker, and two of its organizers, Paulson McIntyre, and Mike Parker. We discussed how Fragforce began, it’s first fundraising event, and what they are doing within the gaming and Salesforce community today, to help raise funds for children’s charities. 

Show Highlights:

• How a workplace conversation laid the foundation for what was to become Fragforce.
• Six months later, they had their first event - you’ll hear what that event was like and some of the challenges they experienced early on.
• Expectations versus reality: “We were expecting [to raise] $3,000 to $5,000 for the year. So, when we went up to $7,000 at the one event, it was like, well, our expectations are wrong, in a good way.”
• Fragforce from an organizational point of view: the complexities of gaming for charity.
• The various kinds of games played, including board gaming, tabletop gaming, and role-playing games. Plus, people can get involved.
• The growth of Fragforce: their international reach, the average number of gaming hours spent, and the average amount of money raised per year. 
• Using the platform with their site: running on Heroku, provided by Salesforce, how they view event data, participant data, and more.

Resources:

Fragforce

Fragforce on Twitch

Your host on Twitch

Siebren on Twitter

Paulson on Github

Mike Parker on Github

Shout Out:

Heather Dykstra

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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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As developers, we need to be aware of what security features are available in Salesforce and how we can keep the organization safe and secure. Today, Doug Merrett, Manager of Security and Compliance Advisors for Salesforce in Australia, joins me to talk about org security. Together we explore the importance of keeping your data safe, how to keep it safe, and why you should be doing your own backups in addition to Salesforce daily exports. 

Show Highlights: 

• Some of the things you should be considering regarding field-level security, including maintaining a level of confidentiality for users within your company or organization.
• What to do if somebody has stolen your org credentials and gets in the “front door.”
• Using IP restrictions and two-factor authentication as layers of org security.
• How two-factor authentication and the Salesforce authenticator application work.
• What you should consider when it comes to securing an auth loop within a connected app.
• Some day-to-day procedures you can do to make sure your data is going to be safe.
• Event monitoring and how it materially increases the security of your Salesforce org.

Resources:

Doug on LinkedIn

Developer Security Portal

Trailhead Security Basics

Trailhead Data Security

Customer Data Best Practices

Salesforce Trust Security Resources

Episode 17: Spring ’20 Apex with Chris Peterson

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Today, Nate Totten, Product Manager for Developer Tooling at Salesforce, is on the show to share his insight and wisdom on some of the various tools now available to developers. We discuss a few changes that have come to tooling, especially VS Code and the Salesforce CLI, and what we can expect to see on the developer roadmap in the months ahead. We also have a conversation about the developer release cycle, how it works, and how it helps to keep Nate and his team on track, week after week.  

Show Highlights: 

• How a weekly release works when it comes to communications and new features
• Updates for VS Code, including new autocomplete
• Convenience features recently added including improved support for ApexDocs
• Updates to the tools that help managing your local code with orgs
• Release of local development as a beta: how it works and how developers can take part
• The desire to bring more development of the Apex platform locally

Resources:

Nate on Twitter

Nate on LinkedIn

Nate on Github

Force.com Github

Blog Post on Tooling Updates

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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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Today, Bhavana Singh, Solution Architect and the founder of Three Moons Consulting, joins me to discuss her technical career. Her journey began with one of the coolest titles ever, Payload Commander for NASA. Bhavana has nine Salesforce certifications and was the first recipient of the coveted developer Golden Hoodie award. During our time together, she described how she became a developer and why she made the jump to Solution Architect. 

Show Highlights: 

• Bhavana recollected on her time at NASA, working in a satellite control center
• What it has been like for her to move from one programming language to another or from one framework to another
• How she went from Java to being introduced to Salesforce
• Seeing things as a developer and how as an architect she can step out of the project and see the bigger picture
• Some of the common pitfalls unique to Salesforce itself
• How she transitioned to working for herself and what she means when she says you need to invest in yourself
• Bhavana’s experience as the first developer Golden Hoodie recipient
• How she got involved in RAD (Radical Apex Developers) women and some of the work she does as a coach for the group

Resources:

Bhavana on Twitter

Bhavana on LinkedIn

RAD Women

Shout outs:

Alison Park

Charlie Isaacs

Our episode with Charlie

Parker Harris

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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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Today, I sit down and talk with David Norris, Solution Engineer for Salesforce, about web component development. We specifically discuss his experiences in building a complex and highly visible lightning web component in the form of a timeline that renders a visualization for related data like events, tasks, and opportunities. In this episode, we break down the component creation process, from conceptualization to release.

Show Highlights:

• David’s conceptualization of component development 
• Going from the ideation phase into the actual design phase
• David’s philosophy on user-centered design: “If you have access to people that do user-centered design for a living, you should use them.”
• By designing on paper first, you can iterate much faster.
• Some of the tools David found useful during the design and mock-up phases
• His experience incorporating a third-party library into a web component
• The testing and replication process

Resources:

David on Twitter

David on LinkedIn

David on Github

David on Medium

David on Trailblazer.me

Timeline Component Repo

Blog Post on Ideation

Blog Post on Design

Blog Post on Scaling

Blog Post on using D3.js

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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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Today we are discussing Trailhead Superbadges with Technical Credential Developer at Salesforce, Matheus Gonçalves. He began his career as a Java developer and one fateful day at work, and he was ‘voluntold’ to learn Salesforce. Not long after he found and loved Trailhead, and now he gets to work on the creation of Superbadges.  We talk about how Superbadges fit into the overall credentialing ecosystem and how you can leverage them to power up your career.

Show Highlights:

• Matheus’ introduction to Salesforce and later Trailhead
• Breaking down Trailhead: Projects, Trails, and Superbadges
• How Matheus and his team create Superbadges
• Superbadges test your real-world usage of your Salesforce skills
• Compared to units or projects, Superbadges operate on a whole different level
• Challenge checking Superbadges
• The link between Trailhead, Superbadges, and Web Assessors 
• Matheus’ own podcasts, including the Toadcast

Resources:

Matheus' website

Matheus on Twitter

Matheus on Github

Matheus on LinkedIn

Prepare for the PD1 Trailmix

Toadcast

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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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Today we are talking about 100 Days of Trailhead and 100 Days of Apps with its co-founder Rachel Watson, a Technical Architecture Delivery Associate Manager with Accenture. 100 Days of Trailhead challenges developers within the Salesforce community to code for 100 days straight. Participants can choose to focus on any tracks available and for 2020 the tracks are learning, app building, automation, and hybrid.  Rachel and I go into some detail into the 100 Days of App Building and how you can get involved. We discuss how the initiative got started and how Rachel, along with her co-founders, turned the idea into a reality. 

Show Highlights:

• The story behind how Rachel got involved both in Salesforce development and the Salesforce ecosystem
• How Rachel along with co-founder Jessica Murphy started 100 Days of Trailhead
• Why accountability, coding, and community lead to 100 Days’ success
• Why Rachel and Jessica made the transition from 100 Days of Code for Salesforce Developers to 100 Days of Trailhead
• A reminder that if you are jumping into the initiative a little late, do it! The goal is to become better professionally, whether you participate for one day, ten, or one-hundred. 

Resources:

Rachel on LinkedIn

Rachel on Twitter

100 Days of Trailhead

100 Days of Apps
Jessica Murphy on Salesforce Developer Podcast

Shout Outs:

Paula Nelson

Jessica Murphy

Chris Duarte

Stephanie Herrera

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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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Today, we sit down with Daniel Hoechst, a Salesforce Architect at Instructure, to talk about his experiences on the platform, including how he got started and how an MBA has factored into his approach. Plus, we talk about some of his latest projects like the Limits Monitor, an app for monitoring Salesforce org limits and Test Factory, a utility that can be used in unit tests to create test data.

Show Highlights:

• How being an MBA has factored into his approach to Salesforce
• The importance of watching for edge cases that can break limits
• Pitfalls that developers get into that can cause troubles for orgs
• Limits Monitor: an application that helps you monitor limits and then send out warnings 
• Test Factory: A data factory based on an older test factory project called SmartFactory 

Resources:

Daniel on Twitter

Daniel on LinkedIn

Daniel on Github

Daniel's Limit Monitor

Daniel's Test Factory

Snowforce

Shout out:

Matthew Botos

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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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