The big guns of the technology world are sometimes like that aging baseball team making another run for the World Series.

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Batter Up! Enterprise Giants and the Games They Play

They say we have big brains because we have all needed to work better together over the past 150,000 years. The more people work together, the more tools they need to make collaboration a productive art, rather than a befuddled mess. Rather than wait for human evolution to keep up the pace, Salesforce.com recently delivered its Chatter cloud-based collaboration service, based on social networking methods more common on Facebook or Twitter.

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The Real Killer App Inside Chatter

I just wanted to send a quick reminder to all the participants of last Tuesday’s hackathon and the Developer Challenge — we still have the raffle for the Code Share giveaways! We extended the deadline for the Developer Challenge giveaway to the end of the month — for you sticklers, that means this coming Wednesday, June 30, at 11:59p Pacific time! At that point we’ll run the raffle from those who submitted, and will notify all the participants of the outcome by Friday July 2nd. Secondly, at the hackathon last week on the spur of the moment we decided we would also give away another iPad for those participants who put up their code on Code Share as well. I only see one up there so far — don’t let him walk away with the prize that easily! Unfortunately I didn’t get the contact information of all the participants, so if you see your favorite hackathon participant, spread the love and remind them to submit their code — the odds are very good right now.

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Final call for Code Share submissions for challenges

It is the end of a busy week here in the developer marketing group.

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Leverage the Cloud, you make it to the sky, and then you can reach the stars!

As announced at Cloudforce 2010 today, Chatter is not only available to all salesforce.com customers, Chatter is also available in the Force.com platform.

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Chatter is a game-changer for Force.com ISVs

Taggart Matthiesen just gave a very interesting talk on Advanced Force.com Development at CloudForce 2010.

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Coverage of Advanced Force.com Session at Cloudforce 2010

The keynote has just finished in San Jose at Cloudforce 2010 and there was a great buzz in the room attended by thousands on-site and on-line. Marc Benioff and special guests covered a number of topics and announcements, but what messages should a developer take away from the keynote

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Cloudforce 2010 Keynote – A Developer Perspective

I’ve just ducked into the Force.com: Build and Deploy a Free Cloud App session here at Cloudforce 2010 – in a room with more than 400 developers eager to create and deploy their own applications to a production environment. It’s awesome.   Right now, everyone is creating their Force.com Free Edition environments, and using them to provision a sandbox.

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Cloudforce 2010 session on Building and Deploying a Free Cloud App

It is only a few days before the San Jose Cloudforce and Developer Conference event. The energy is electric as all the final details are being locked down, run through, and polished. This is my favorite time before a big event

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Is the Build and Deploy a Free Cloud App track and Cloudforce right for you?

The Summer ’10 release of the Force.com IDE is now available! Check out the following new features: Downloadable Installers Installing the Force.com IDE is easier than ever. Download the Force.com IDE Installer for Windows, Mac, or Linux to get started with Eclipse 3.5 and the Force.com IDE.

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Force.com IDE for Summer ’10 Now Available