Last Thursdays Developer Meetup was a great opportunity to get some hands on time with the Force.com platform and chat with local developers. One of the themes I tried to follow when putting together my session was “why tell when you can show, why show when you can do.” Continuing this theme, I took a few quick videos for those who were unable to attend
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Videos from the Developer Meetup
I came across an interesting article by Paul Krill of Infoworld the other day which the author made a important point in regards to developers moving into the cloud. Krill refers to a recent survey that indicates ” 61 percent of developers report that at least some of their IT resources will move to a public cloud within the next year” . This is further re-enforced by analysts like Forrester, who are also referenced in the article
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Developing in the Cloud grows in importance
Here’s the latest action: Textbook publishers making iPad deals — We’ve already covered Inkling , one of the startups moving textbooks onto Apple’s new device. Now the Wall Street Journal looks at ScrollMotion, another company developing iPad textbook applications.
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Roundup: Textbook publishers strike iPad deals, AOL beats expectations
The need for innovation in the enterprise does not stop when the economy turns sour. Instead, what we often see is that constraints will invariably lead to creative thinking, which leads to new products and new business processes. We talked with Salesforce.com yesterday about its new Visual Process Manager (VPM), available on the Force.com platform
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Salesforce.com: Cloud-Based DIY Business Applications for Sales and Service
We are hosting an informal, free event for Developers on Thursday evening, February 4th 2010. Come to the salesforce.com campus in San Mateo to join us and other developers in the area to learn more about the Force.com platform. We will be providing two options for learning.
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Meetup/Workshop Event in San Mateo, CA
(Editor’s note: Michael Greenberg is COO of Loyalty Lab. He submitted this story to VentureBeat.) It has never been a better time to be an entrepreneur
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It’s ok to steal…
2009 was a banner year for Salesforce.com. The enterprise cloud computing company made significant enhancements to its product lineup, reported overall strong earnings , and even launched their own take on realtime enterprise social networking and collaboration, Chatter
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Salesforce Simplifies Creation Of Business Applications With Visual Process Manager
Salesforce.com is broadening the range of its Force.com cloud development platform with a new visual tool set for designing business processes, the company announced Wednesday.
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Salesforce.Com Unveils Business Process Tools
Was it Steve Jobs who first said, “real developers ship”?
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It Takes Clouds to Deliver Lightning
A look at outages for cloud computing services over the past two years shows that most are minimal, a subset of the entire network. Very few cloud outages have caused massive data losses.
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Top 5 Cloud Outages of the Past Two Years: Lessons Learned
