Dreamforce 2010 and jQuery
I finally got around to submitting a paper for Dreamforce 2010. The title…..wait for it……wait…..”Take Your Visualforce Pages to the Next Level with jQuery & jQuery UI”.
Visualforce is great for building solid and scalable web apps. Where it falls short is enhanced web 2.0 (I actually cringe at this term) usability. It lays a solid foundation but lacks slick UI features that users of today’s web expect and will soon demand. jQuery and jQuery UI make it incredibly easy to add enhanced functionality. In this presentation I will show best practices, pitfalls to watch out for, and of course show off some slick apps that use jQuery. What this won’t be is an advanced deep dive on jQuery. This presentation will show anyone who has a little web and Visualforce experience how to apply jQuery to projects they are working on as soon as they get back to work.
Salesforce has seriously pushed Flex the last few years but I guarantee you that 90% of the time I can build the exact same functionality in less lines of code with jQuery. It’s time to show some diversity at Dreamforce. Simply look at this trend for google searches.
jQuery is the most popular javascript library out there today and it even beats Adobe Flex in terms of people looking for more information. If Flex gets a dedicated session at Dreamforce so should jQuery!
If you are a regular reader of this blog you know I’ve got a quirky style with a touch of humor thrown in there. I’ll be sure to carry this over to my presentation unless salesforce makes me be all serious and professional, BORING.
If you like this idea please hit the link below and cast your vote.
Take Your Visualforce Pages to the Next Level with jQuery & jQuery UI
You’ve got my vote – great topic. I’m sure you’ll do a fantastic job and the session will be packed. I’ll arrive early for a front row seat. Good Luck – they will be crazy not to accept this for DF 2010
You have my vote. As a fellow jQuery/vForce developer I look forward to your presentation. I also agree we could kick the pants off flex in a heartbeat 90% of the time. The only real benefit flex can have over us is AIR and more interaction capability with the desktop it is running on.
You have my vote too…………um….what am I voting on???? I am not really sure why I read your blog, guess it just makes me proud. As usual, I don’t understand your language.
I’ve found jQuery to be powerful, elegant, easy to learn and fun to use, let me know if you need modal dialog tips.
A coworker of mine likes to reverse engineer the salesforce standard functionality, and he said he found jQuery in there several times, so they are definitely on board! I’ll go vote for the white paper now…
@michaelforce
Interesting. I know they use ext.js and maybe Prototype but I’ve never seen jQuery. Maybe he saw the ‘$’ symbol and thought it was jQuery but maybe it was Prototype and they share use of this character?
Fantastic! You’ve got my vote!… heck, I like your idea so much I’m in for rigging the vote if we can figure out how
Also, I wanted to say THANK YOU since your posts on jQuery (and other non-standards) have been immeasurably valuable to me over the last several months. I’m using jQuery for large parts of my user interface on a project and you’re almost the only references available for comparing solutions and methods (especially the sticky jquery-sfdc interaction details).
Response from my customers has been overwhelming on the improvements jQuery enabled, we just need more promotion!
This is great! My vote has been cast. Dreamforce 2010, here I come!