Tag: Salesforce Lightning

Awesome Resources for Learning Salesforce Lightning

At Dreamforce 2014, Salesforce announced they were changing the Salesforce User Interface to make it simpler to use. The new User Interface is called Salesforce Lightning. In my blog post, What is Salesforce Lightning I cover a lot more about what it is and how development differs from using Apex and Visualforce.

If you don’t have any experience with JavaScript, it will make programming Salesforce Lightning a lot more difficult. I strong recommend having a look at my blog post Resources for Learning JavaScript before you dive into learning Salesforce Lightning because JavaScript is what’s used predominantly in the controller now.

In the last two years or so, there’s been a steady increase in the number of resources that have become available for learning lightning. I launched my first lightning component as part of an AppExchange product about a year ago and have been doing lots of lightning, react and node development since then. I believe that all Salesforce Developers will need to learn and master javascript to avoid becoming irrelevant and unemployable in the next couple of years. Continue reading →

Using Promises in Salesforce Lightning

It’s no secret that Salesforce Lightning is changing the way we develop for Salesforce. At Dreamforce 2014, Salesforce introduced Salesforce Lightning and it is proving to change a lot of things we do on the platform and I’m sure it will make things a lot better for users in the long term. If you aren’t already familiar with Salesforce Lightning then you need to read my post called What is Salesforce Lightning. Continue reading →

How to Add Third Party JavaScript Libraries to Salesforce Lightning

It’s not secret that Salesforce Lightning is a huge shift away from Visualforce and Apex, I feel like I’ve had to relearn years of development and lean heavily on my javascript development experienced. If you aren’t sure what Salesforce Lightning is or aren’t sure why it’s a huge shift, you need to read my blog article called what is salesforce lightning.

What is a Third Party Library

Third party libraries allow developers to build quickly and take advantage of other people’s abstractions to avoid having to spend time working around browser issues or etc. In JavaScript, third party libraries and code reuse are all of the rage. A third party library is basically anything your team personally write and require for your project to work. Continue reading →

5 Resources for Learning JavaScript

Traditionally when somebody said JavaScript, they were talking about a language that just did stuff on the client side like form validation or the occasional animation or UI enhancement. For years now, JavaScript has been all of the rage. Most new technology startups are now using JavaScript on the frontend, and on their backend services. Continue reading →

Salesforce Developers Need to Learn JavaScript Today

Over the years, it’s been possible for Salesforcce Developers to avoid needing to learn JavaScript because things could usually be done through a combination of apex and visualforce. If you don’t know JavaScript and you are a Salesforce Developer, you need to really consider finishing this post and learning JavaScript. Continue reading →

What is Salesforce Lightning

Lightning has really expanded since it was originally introduced at Dreamforce 2014. Originally, Lightning was introduced as a couple of different products that were all sort of related because they had the same incredibly new looking UI. Continue reading →

First Application Posted On the AppExchange

Really excited to announce that the application I’ve been working on for the last few months is now available on the Salesforce AppExchange. One of the most exciting things is that it went live with a Salesforce Lightning Component. Continue reading →

Looking Back at Dreamforce 2014

Welcome to Dreamforce I was really blessed to be able to attend Dreamforce and learn even more about Salesforce.

While attending there, I attended a lot of the different keynotes and saw a lot of the new exciting features in action.

Dreamforce Sessions

At Dreamforce there was dozens of interesting sounding sessions. There were a few different ones that really stood out to me and offered interesting and new material to me. I believe that a lot of the sessions were recorded and able to viewed at a later date which is really exciting and available on youtube here.

One of my favourite sessions was Advanced Development using Apex Design Patterns by Robert Nunemaker. The vide is one if the hundreds uploaded by Salesforce to youtube here.

New Product Announcements

Before attending Dreamforce, I didn’t realize that Salesforce made a lot of its new product announcements there. Some of the new products they announced were: Lightning Components, Process Builder, Salesforce Wave,

Wave / Analytic Cloud

By Far, Wave was the most interesting announcement at Dreamforce 2014. It is a fairly dynamic business intelligence product that is optimized for use on mobile devices. What’s most awesome about Wave is that it will allow for on the spot and completely interactive exploration by business users rather than the static generated reports that have been prewritten.

Duplication Prevention

Through the use of fuzzy logic and other logic it will now be possible to stop duplication from occurring within Salesforce.

Sale Reach

Sales Reach units the power of Pardot, Communities and Sales Cloud into one system. Apparently, it will be able to do popup notifications on the Salesforce1 Application and assist with Leads/Prospect Tracking.

Lightning

Lightning is all about reducing development time and code. Lightning is basically a component framework and new set of tools that make building apps and making automation much faster.

Lightning Components allow developers to create reusable components for use in building apps. Lightning seems to be an event-driven architecture that makes use primarily of JavaScript and model-view controller architecture.

Process Builder allows business processes to be automated more easily and in a visual way.

Lightning Connect is the ability to connect to external data sources and with point and click be able to incorporate the data into Salesforce. The basic idea is that gone are the days of legacy systems and data silos, it would now be possible to use this data in Salesforce and with Wave.

Service Cloud

Smart Agent Console is designed to make it easier to provide good customer service to customers by making searching more intelligent, and where applicable making it possible to show sales data and billing data. It’s no secret that more competent agents allows companies to offer better service with less agents, reducing their service costs.

Community Cloud

Community Designer offers a few different themes that out of the box allow businesses to better connect to customers and reduce support costs. Community Designer allows new communities to be deployed by writing no-code and using point and click.

Topics allow users to access all of the relevant information in one place and even follow it to always stay up to date.

I’m so excited for Dreamforce 2015 and can’t wait to go.