On this episode of the Salesforce Developer Podcast, we are talking about hardware, software and what it takes to run a successful team. My guest is Qingqing Liu, a principal mobile architect at Salesforce. Over the last seven years she has been involved with the vast majority of any public-facing mobile application we have done.

I am thrilled to have Daniel Ballinger on the show this week. He is a Salesforce MVP, Senior .NET and Salesforce Developer at FuseIT.  Daniel and I crossed paths when I was running the IoT Zone for Dreamforce and we wanted to up our robotics game a bit. That is when I came across the Self-Driving Astro and knew the project would be a delight for our audience.  Today we talk about the origins and designs for that project and more.

It was great to have a conversation with my former boss and colleague Dave Carroll, now a Senior Director of Product Management for the Salesforce DX team. Dave shares his passion for the developers on the platform and for the developer experience.  With his former role running Developer Evangelism at Salesforce, Dave is no stranger when it comes to using Salesforce to create innovative solutions for developers and was responsible for the AJAX toolkit.

We are pleased to have Roopa Mohan this week on the Salesforce Developer Podcast. Roopa has been with the Salesforce for seven years—five of those years on the legendary Hammer team. Hammer is the suite of tools we use here at Salesforce to help ensure the quality of every single release we put out the door.  Join us for a fascinating conversation as Roopa shares some of her insights with regards to Hammer and its evolution.

This week, we are happy to have Brian Fear on the show. Brian started his career on the platform doing customer support at Salesforce and is now a developer for Camping World. Brian loves helping people and he has quite a history of pushing some limits to go the extra mile and answer others’ questions. Known by the alias sfdcfox, he is one of the top contributors on the Salesforce StackExchange with over 290,000 reputation points. His answers have helped over 7 million people and that is just amazing!

It is our pleasure to have Fabien Taillon on this episode of the Salesforce Developer Podcast. Fabien is a Salesforce MVP and the Chief Technical Officer at Texeï in France. We talk to him about taking a critical application from Aura and porting it to Lightning Web Components (LWC). Fabien discusses his experiences as he transitioned to this new programming model.

On this episode, we are pleased to welcome Jessica Murphy to the show. We talk about Jessica's journey into discovering developing with Salesforce and the influence others have had on that experiences - as well as sharing those experiences with Salesforce Saturdays. She is a co-conspirator of Salesforce Saturdays in Phoenix since 2015 with two other women with the goal of helping other developers find success.

This week Dan Harrison, a master technical architect with Salesforce's Emerging Technology team, joins us to talk about Salesforce Blockchain. What is blockchain? It is a rapidly progressing technology often considered a part of cryptocurrency. The core technology is actually known as digital ledger. In this episode, Dan walks us through what exactly that means.

On this episode, I welcome Robert Sösemann as we discuss static code analysis. Rob was first introduced to me as the godfather of static code analysis for APEX as he is the founder and organizer of the APEX module for PMD, a tool for analyzing code quality, for developers. He is dedicated to this tool and helps contributors get started with it.

Tune in to the Salesforce Developer Podcast to hear short and insightful stories for developers, from developers. Join Joshua Birk, Developer Evangelist and Godfather of Trailhead, as he hosts developer trailblazers from around the world as they share their stories of learning, building and integrating with Salesforce.