I recently saw a tweet that included nothing but a link and a lot of salesforce.com related tags.
Visual Force Blows (link was shortened in original tweet so I couldn’t see title)
What could this be I pondered? A new product announcement? A glowing review of the force.com platform? Upon clicking the link I entered the “I hate Apex and Visualforce Zone” (Dun Dun Dunnnnnnnnnnn). Some dude on a blog (man, everyone has a blog now days) is trying to build a dynamic link menu with data pulled from salesforce objects and using visualforce to display. This seems pretty normal right? Let us check out some excerpts first:
On Apex and Visualforce:
Sounds great in theory, however in reality it makes you want to stab yourself. A lot.
I on the other hand would bathe in it if I could. Oh ya….Visualforce and Apex, sooo bubbly clean. Ya, that was weird. Let’s move on.
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Tomorrow, January 7th, there will be another Force.com Developer Meeting in Seattle (first Thursday of every month). If you develop on the Force.com platform with Apex, Visualforce, use the API, or want to learn more about these topics please feel free to join us.
Date: Thursday, January 7th.
Time: 8:00 – 10:00 AM PST
Location: West Monroe Partners
1215 4th Ave Suite 1010
Seattle, WA 98109
The West Monroe Partners office is located on the 10th floor.
Public Parking garages are located in the building, as well as in a 1-2 block radius. The area is also well serviced by public transportation.
The agenda for this meeting will be as follows:
- Presentation/Demo – Jason Venable (tehnrd.com) will be demoing his runner up application he created for the most recent Force.com Cloud Developer Challenge. The site is GameForce and includes two games: Blackjack and multiplayer connect four. (http://tehnrd-developer-edition.na7.force.com/gamehome). It was built with 100% Force.com, no flash or JavaScript. Jason is a Salesforce.com Admin and Developer at F5 focused mainly on process automation for the worldwide sales team.
- Open forum – opportunity to discuss any questions/issues you may have about all things Salesforce
If you are planning on attending this month’s meeting, please send me an email (vgrasparil@westmonroepartners.com) to RSVP.
If you would like to present an application you have built or share some best practices you have learned with the group, please let me know so we can schedule it into a future meeting.
See you on January 7th!
Yup, thats me! I’ll be showing off the gaming site I built on force.com, http://www.tehnrd.com/gameforce/. I’ll show off the basic UI stuff but we will also peel back the covers to see how it works the magic on the back end.
Tonight the wife and I did the after Christmas return run. If you did your return shopping last week you are nuts, unless for some completely logistical reason, you were forced to do it then. We were at the biggest and busiest mall in the state of Washington and it was not busy at all, yet most of the after Christmas sales were still going and merchandise stock was still decent.
One of our first stops was Victoria’s Secret for an exchange. If you have been shopping lately you know that there are two types of Victoria’s Secret stores. One, the not so man friendly, and two, the not man friendly at all. The latter are the older ones that still have the pink and gold decor splattered over every surface. The other is the newer remodeled stores which are more modern and use a white, black, and grey color scheme in the store. This particular store was the not so man friendly version.
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