Salesforce Developer Podcast
226 episodes - English - Latest episode: 5 days ago - ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsTune 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.
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025: Salesforce Developer Tools with Nate Totten
April 13, 2020 08:00 - 21 minutes - 20.1 MBToday, 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. ...
024: Developer to Architect with Bhavana Singh
April 06, 2020 08:00 - 32 minutes - 30.1 MBToday, 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 t...
023: Web Component Development with David Norris
March 30, 2020 08:00 - 26 minutes - 25 MBToday, 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...
022: Trailhead Superbadges with Matheus Gonçalves
March 23, 2020 08:00 - 17 minutes - 16.3 MBToday 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’ in...
021: 100 Days Of Trailhead With Rachel Watson
March 16, 2020 08:00 - 14 minutes - 14 MBToday 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...
020: Limits Monitoring with Daniel Hoechst
March 09, 2020 08:00 - 17 minutes - 16.8 MBToday, 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 impor...
019: Salesforce Military with Alex Sutherland
March 02, 2020 09:00 - 16 minutes - 16.3 MBSalesforce is committed to upskilling the military community with high demand technology skills and providing our partners with a diverse and trained talent pipeline. Today, Alex Sutherland, Air Force Veteran and Salesforce Practice Director at Liberty IT Solutions joins us. Together we talk about some of his time with Salesforce, experiences with the military, and the intersection of the two worlds. Show Highlights: Hear how Alex got his start as an IT Professional and about his fir...
018: Spring '20 Base Components with Greg Rewis
February 24, 2020 09:00 - 17 minutes - 16.5 MBToday we are talking about what’s new in Spring ‘20 Base Components. Greg Rewis, Director of Product Management for Lightning Components is no stranger to HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. He joins me today to share some of the latest additions to the Base Component Library, including the ability to develop locally with Salesforce DX. He also shares his take on what it means to make Base Components open source. Spring ‘20 is shaping up to see a huge shift and new frontier for development. S...
017: Spring '20 Apex with Chris Peterson
February 17, 2020 09:00 - 20 minutes - 19.4 MBChris Peterson, Director of Product Management for Apex at Salesforce, joins us this week to discuss Spring ‘20 Apex. Chris’s day-to-day is often complex; it includes approving increases in Apex limits, sometimes putting out developmental “fires,” and overseeing Apex product development. In today’s episode, we highlight some key elements about Spring ‘20 Apex, including Apex Finalizers. We also discuss some of the security enhancements coming, including the addition of WITH_SECURITY_ENFO...
016: Workbench with Ryan Brainard
February 10, 2020 09:00 - 21 minutes - 20.2 MBRyan Brainard, Principal Member of Technical Staff at Heroku, joins me on The Salesforce Developer podcast to talk about the curious history of Workbench. While never an officially supported aspect of Salesforce (it’s technically an open source reference application) it has still found a place as something of a Swiss Army knife of debugging utilities for working with Salesforce and its related API’s. Follow us along for an origin story of this toolset and it’s evolution over the years. Tow...
015: The Role of Architects with Steven Herod
February 03, 2020 09:00 - 22 minutes - 21.3 MBThis week our guest on the podcast is Steven Herod is a Certified Technical Architect and Managing Director at Accenture where he is responsible for Global Salesforce Operations. In this episode, Steven shares some distinctions between being a developer and an architect and some of the roles that architects play in creating successful applications and strategies used to get across the finish line. Additionally, together we talk about the term architect and how it has gained momentum within ...
014: Accessibility Projects with Shreyans Jain
January 27, 2020 09:00 - 13 minutes - 13.3 MBThis week Shreyans Jain, Senior Member of Technical Staff at Salesforce, joins me to discuss his passion for technological equality. This drives him to continue to work on and innovate on the Salesforce Platform and other technologies on accessibility. Together we talk about the use of various AI technology and APIs to achieve the goal of broader equality across the internet and platforms. Show Highlights: Shreyans’ experience and passion for making information accessible through ...
013: Salesforce JavaScript Frameworks with Kris Gray
January 20, 2020 09:00 - 16 minutes - 15.8 MBThis week I welcome Kris Gray, Principal Software Engineer at Salesforce, to the show. He shares how JavaScript frameworks have been used at Salesforce throughout the years. In the early years, the main challenge was a wild west of different frameworks. Then as development standards were changing, Salesforce was trying to get its own component framework up and running. It’s been a long and complicated route to get to Lightning Web Components, so enjoy this brief history of JavaScript framew...
012: Salesforce IoT With Charlie Isaacs
January 13, 2020 09:00 - 12 minutes - 12.3 MBThis week Charlie Isaacs, VP and CTO of Customer Connections, joins me on the Salesforce Developer Podcast. Over the last 5 years, he has been evangelizing the Internet of Things (IoT) for Salesforce and has helped incubate dozens of Salesforce customers into the world of IoT. Together we talk about Charlie’s experiences with prototyping new features, working with customers, and demonstrating Salesforce IoT. We also delve into the concept of prototyping work with engineers. Charlie likes t...
011: Getting Dev Certified with Julia Doctoroff
January 06, 2020 09:00 - 21 minutes - 20 MBToday’s episode features Julia Doctoroff, a Managing Implementation Consultant at makepositive. She is a San Francisco native who made the move to London several years ago. After moving to London, she soon realized she wanted to have a deeper understanding and better communication with the development teams at her organization. So, she decided to get Dev Certified. Together we discuss her experiences in getting a developer certification from the perspective of a Salesforce Admin. Juli...
010: Accessibility Development with Adam Rodenbeck
December 30, 2019 09:00 - 15 minutes - 15 MBToday on the Salesforce Developer’s Podcast, I am happy to host Adam Rodenbeck, an accessibility specialist. Listen in as we talk about accessibility design and Adam’s journey to his dream job at Salesforce. Adam, who is blind himself, has professionally always been involved in either testing, developing, or designing systems for accessibility. Together we discuss what exactly accessibility specialists do at Salesforce. Adam says they are like consultants as they work with the design proc...
009: Mobile Development with Qingqing Liu
December 23, 2019 09:00 - 12 minutes - 11.8 MBOn 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. Today Qingqing discusses the goal of providing the best experience for the user through staying ahead of two different trends: where Salesforce is heading as a c...
008: IoT Projects with Daniel Ballinger
December 16, 2019 09:00 - 17 minutes - 16.5 MBI 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. For instance, Dan talks about his involvement with a proje...
007: Salesforce CLI with Dave Carroll
December 09, 2019 09:00 - 10 minutes - 10.5 MBIt 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 which gave the platform extensive capabi...
006: Hammer Testing with Roopa Mohan
December 02, 2019 09:00 - 13 minutes - 13 MBWe 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. She has been working on this team long enough to remember when Hamm...
005: Salesforce Stack Exchange with Brian Fear
November 25, 2019 09:00 - 11 minutes - 11.7 MBThis 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 jus...
004: Porting Aura to LWC with Fabien Taillon
November 19, 2019 10:30 - 12 minutes - 11.8 MBIt 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. His company needed a timesheet application, and they were all Salesforce developers. So, they decided to build it directly in ...
003: Salesforce Saturdays with Jessica Murphy
November 19, 2019 10:00 - 27 minutes - 26 MBOn 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. Salesforce Saturdays occur around the country to various coffee shops and someti...
002: The Salesforce Blockchain with Dan Harrison
November 19, 2019 09:30 - 15 minutes - 15 MBThis 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. Blockchain and digital ledger technology is not technology we are waiting for the future to use. This technology is getting put i...
001: Static Code Analysis with Robert Sösemann
November 19, 2019 09:00 - 13 minutes - 13.2 MBOn this episode, 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. During our conversation, we discuss key elements of code development, including speed, agility and, most importantly, quality. That is where PMD come...
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September 26, 2019 13:08 - 1 minute - 1.85 MBTune 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. *** EPISODE CREDITS: If you like this podcast and are thinking of creating your own, consider talking to our producer, Danny Ozment. He helps thought leaders, influenc...