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Lauri Kurki is here to talk about what sales is and how Salesforce aids sales business. Why we developers might wanna learn sales? Let’s tune in! Main Points Lauri’s introduction The gap between sales and solutions built in Salesforce platform Break down sales into various layers of knowledge What to discuss with customers even before building the solutions Understand customer’s business and propose for improvement Dealing with four different types of customers, using iPhone selling as an example Upsell skill Developers’ selling advantage Links Book: Cracking Sales management Codee Performance by Jason Jordan

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Ruslan Kurchenko, Sfdc-Lax project author, joins us to talk about Salesforce open source and development environment setup. Main Points Ruslan’s self-introduction The big picture of open source in the Salesforce community Popular Salesforce open source projects Lightning Component development Ruslan’s popular SFDC-Lax project Async and Await in JavaScript Using open-source code in Salesforce production orgs Several cool open source projects under our radar Difference development environment comparison Links Ruslan’s Twitter handler Lax article series by Ruslan React-Lightning mocking-lib ng-lightning force-di Awesome-salesforce jetforcer plugin for Salesforce development

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Our guest Ari is an experienced quality and automation engineer. He spent time sitting with me on educating how quality engineering can contribute in our Salesforce development, and what specific challenges are exposed in the context of Salesforce environment. Main Points Ari’s introduction and job What Does a QE do in a project? A typical setup in a Salesforce development project? What are the benefits QA brings to the project? Discussions on interesting tools such as Jenkins, CCI, Atlassian tools, Robot framework… What challenges does Salesforce development introduce? (unstable Scratch org, creating UI testing for lightning UI…) Links Jenkins AtLassian

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Robert Söesemann ported PMD, a static code analyzer, to the Salesforce world. He teaches me what this is all about. This talk is a continuation from the last episode. Main Points How PMD works What is PMD for Apex Out-of-the-box rules Code formatting check in PMD for Apex Integration of PMD into various IDEs and CI-platforms How to get started Ways to customize and create new rules Contribute to the PMD open source repo Clean code with PMD as a Trailhead topic Links Robert’s Dreamforce talk about PMD in the year 2016 PMD main page Robert’s Twitter handle

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Robert Sösemann from Up2go guests in the show to talk about Clean code and Code Agility. Every salesforce programmer needs to pick these up, it is simply THAT important! Main Points What is Clean Code What is Code Agility Why should developers care about both Robert’s planned Dreamforce session about Code Agility Links Book: Clean code Book: Clean Coder Robert’s Twitter handle Robert on GitHub Robert on StackExchange

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Sara Morgan Nettles from Trailhead team joins the show to talk about Trailhead platform and Lightning Component development. I am especially inspired by Sara’s diligence and the amount of great achievement she has done in the professional career. Check out her ‘about me’ page linked in the show notes for more information! Main Points The guest’s role and working tasks in Salesforce Trailhead team What is Trailhead, its history, and new features The current progress of My Trailhead feature The Trailhead team How did the guest originally join the Trailhead team Remote work and self-disciplined Lightning Component development and the

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Elli Pennanen, Salesforce consultant, joins to talk about how Salesforce Academy trains unemployed people to skill up and join Salesforce ecosystem. Main Points Guest’s quick review about her journey in Salesforce Academy What is Salesforce Academy and what service does it offer Salesforce Academy from Finland Talk more about her Salesforce Academy journey end to end Official languages in Salesforce Academy Work and assignments in Salesforce Academy Salesforce Academy supports unemployed eager learners to join the ecosystem Smooth entering experience in Salesforce Academy for beginners Attend Salesforce local user group events How Salesforce Academy and local user group host experience

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Salesforce Academy trains unemployed people to skill up and join Salesforce ecosystem. Salesforce consultant Elli Pennanen is here with us to share her Salesforce Academy Journey.

1. Guest’s quick review about her journey in Salesforce Academy
2. What is Salesforce Academy and what service does it offer
3. Salesforce Academy from Finland
4. Talk more about her Salesforce Academy journey end to end
5. Official languages in Salesforce Academy
6. Work and assignments in Salesforce Academy
7. Salesforce Academy supports unemployed eager learners to join the ecosystem
8. Smooth entering experience in Salesforce Academy for beginners
9. Attend Salesforce local user group events
10. How Salesforce Academy and local user group host experience helps expand the guest’s network

• Elli’s Linkedin page
• Salesforce Academy homepage
• Salesforce Trailhead Learning platform

Dan Appleman, multi-hat wearing Salesforce MVP, Advanced Apex book author, shares his splendid knowledge and experience on various topics. Main Points The scope of Salesforce expert Information v.s. Curation, learn efficiently by books and Pluralsight courses What is Pluralsight? What types of courses are available in Pluralsight. Guest’s Pluralsight courses and course author experience Guest’s Pluralsight course: Building an Enterprise Private Blockchain on Salesforce Using the Salesforce platform and Apex to learn other technologies Guest’s insights on Lightning Component and Lightning Experience Design patterns for creating managed packages Salesforce MVP title Links Advanced Apex Programming book Dan’s Pluralsight Profile and

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