Contest

Win Free E-Copies of Visualforce Development Cookbook

This week I’ve teamed up with Packt Publishing to organise a giveaway of my new book - Visualforce Development Cookbook.  

Three lucky winners will receive an e-copy of the book - keep reading to find out how you can be one of these lucky winners.

Overview

• Write effective controller tests
• Maintain multiple records from a single page
• Produce re-usable components for utility functions
• Create custom charts to visualise single or multiple sets of data
• Redraw part of a page in response to user input
• Replace standard components with custom, brand able versions
• Provide access to data via a public website
• Allow users to create and retrieve data from a mobile device

How to enter?

All you need to do is head on over to the book page, look through the product description of the book and drop a line via the comments for this post, including your email address, to let us know what interests you about this book. Its that simple!  

Deadline

The contest will close on 3rd November 2013. Winners will be contact by email, so be sure to use your real email address when you comment!

Update 04/11/2013 - the contest is now closed.  Winners will be announced shortly.

Update 06/11/2013  - and the winners have been chosen.

Congratulations:  Dennis Onyango, King Koo, Anil Bathula.  You’ll hear from Packt pubishing via email on how to access your e-copy of my book.

Commiserations to those that entered but didn’t win - watch out for more contests in the coming weeks.

Good luck!

 

My Dreamforce 2013 Sessions

The waiting is finally over - the agenda builder for 2013 is live.  For those who've been anxiously looking for the times of my sessions (me, at least) - here they are, with the added bonus that I'm a panelist on a third session on the Technical Architect certification. There's also a session that isn't mine, but you won't want to miss - the Developer Keynote.

Ticket to Ride

A 30 minute session in the Mobile Theatre, Moscone West, 1:45-2:15PM on Tuesday 19th November:

"Join Force.com's MVP Keir Bowden as he demonstrates a pair of hybrid applications that allow passengers to download tickets for use even when offline, and drivers to scan the ticket from the traveler's mobile device and register the passenger's presence on the journey. You'll see specific code examples of offline storage, QR code generation, and scanner integration."

Signup link.

Technical Architect Certification: Learn From Our Experts

 A one hour breakout session in room 3024, Moscone West, 4:30 - 5PM on Tuesday 19th November:

"Join us to navigate the pathway to salesforce.com's most difficult, but most prestigious certification: Technical Architect. Discover if you currently have the skills necessary to obtain this certification and if not, how to gain them. Learn from partners who have achieved the certification and the experience, skills and capabilities they leveraged to prepare for the certification process."

Signup link.

Mobilizing Your Visualforce Application with JQuery and KnockoutJS

 A 45 minute breakout session in room 2011, Moscone West, 5:15 - 6:00 PM on Wednesday 20th November:

"Join Force.com MVP Keir Bowden (aka Bob Buzzard) to learn how to mobilize your Visualforce applications. We'll take an existing survey application and make it mobile by creating pages based on the JQuery Mobile framework, replacing stateful controllers with Javascript remoting, and using Knockout.js to manage client-side data."

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Developer Keynote: Develop Social and Mobile Apps Faster Than Ever

A 1 hour session in the Gateway Ballroom, Moscone South, 10:30 - 11:30AM on Wednesday 20th November:

With more than one million developers worldwide, Salesforce Platform is the world's leading enterprise cloud platform for building mobile and social apps. Join Adam Seligman, VP of Developer Relations, and the rest of the developer community to hear how any developer can build killer social and mobile apps faster with the latest platform innovations."

Signup link.