Salesforce Kerala Developer User Group Meetup

Shivanath DevinarayananSalesforce Evangelist@shivanathd

#SalesforceKerala

Agenda What is this community about? Intro to Force.com Point and Click Programmatic Approach Best practices Tools , Tips and Tricks Questions

What is this community about?

Learn on the cloud Developer peers Training & Certification Forum to discuss Opportunity to speak and collaborate Learn from the best Latest about Salesforce.com and Force.com

Intro to

Platform as a Service and Multi-tenant Apex - world’s 1st on demand language 5X faster Development and 1/2th cost ! Compilation on the cloud All you need is a browser Salesforce.com v/s Force.com

Point and Click Development

Objects & Tabs Schema Builder Formula fields Validation Rules Workflow Rules & Approval Processes

Email Alerts Outbound Messages Field Updates

Page Layouts Chatter

Sign Up for Dev Account

http://developer.force.com/join

Login to salesforce http://login.salesforce.com

Programmatic Approach

Triggers Classes

Test Classes Web service Classes VF Controllers

API SOQL & SOSL Governor limits Sandboxes and Deployment VisualForce Force.com Sites

Best practices

When to use WorkFlow V/s Trigger Try the AppExchange Mind the governors

Bulkify your trigger Avoid SOQL in Loops

Always write test methods Know when to do it outside Salesforce

Where to go ? Developer Force forum : http://developer.force.com Jeff Douglas blog : http://blog.jeffdouglas.com Salesforce Kerala Developer User Group ! Twitter #askforce StackExchange : salesforce.stackexchange.com

Tools Force.com IDE Workbench : http://workbench.developerforce.com Salesforce.com Utility Belt DataLoader

shivanathd @shivanathd shivanathd mail@shivanathd.com

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