111: Training for Salesforce with Don Robins Part 1

Don Robins is a Salesforce MVP, technical educator and instructor, author, and speaker. With over 35 years of experience in the software development space, Don has an extensive background in custom business applications. Having zero CRM background, Don navigated his way through Salesforce, fell in love with it, and has been with Salesforce ever since. 

An award-winning Salesforce Instructor, Don has presented at annual Dreamforce conferences since 2010 and has been facilitating Salesforce developer classes and workshops.

This is a two-part conversation where Don shares how he got into Salesforce, his long career educating people, some of his thoughts on the platform, and finally, an interesting formula.

Show Highlights:

 

Don’s early years and his career doing voice-overs  Building business applications and creating a relational database His first Salesforce experience having zero CRM background  What he loves about Salesforce Productivity tools in the early days Mastering the complexities and the interdependencies in the metadata Why we need to put our focus on DevOps

 

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Connect with Robin on these platforms:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/donrobins LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/donaldrobins Github: https://github.com/forcementor

Pluralsight course on "Salesforce Platform for Developers, the Big Picture": https://pluralsight.pxf.io/C0150

LinkedIn course on "The Serious Stack behind Salesforce": https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/serious-stack-behind-salesforce-developers-don-robins/

Punta Dreamin' 2018 Closing Keynote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2kZmlAfTRY&t=1611s

Play by Play catalog: http://www.sfplaybyplay.com

Forcementor Training Partnership: www.forcementor.com