Some of you might know that I co-lead Twin Cities Salesforce Developer User Group. In one of our sessions, we recap the experience of attending Dreamforce 2013 (DF13). I would like to share some of the significant learning from the session that will help all the developers, admins, and business users.
Summary of the Dreamforce 2013
The theme of the conference: “Internet of Things”
- 120,000+ attendees
- $100 million economic benefit to San Francisco
- 27 Live DJs performing
- 5,000 gallons of coffee served
- 2,700 kits for homeless children packed
- $2,090,000* won via 1st ever SFDC hackathon (see all the apps developed here: Submissions | Salesforce $1 Million Hackathon)
- Largest developer zone ever (3x larger!)
Major Announcements & Features
- New mobile platform: Salesforce1
- Entirely new platform
- Visualforce
- Objects / tabs
- Admin platform: “SalesforceA“
- Force.com CLI
- Command line APEX scripting
- http://bit.ly/JHHIQE
Cool Sessions
- All Sessions available on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/dreamforce/videos
- Getting started with Apex for Admins
- Exercises! (Find attached DF13Files.zip)
- Visual Workflow
- Headless Flows – Spring Pilot
- “API First”
- Dynamic vs. Static Limits (“flexible limits”)
- Based on pod load instead of stated limits
- CustomanalyticsusingSOQL cubes
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZYMNZNiNsg
- Canvas
- Using Heroku
- Two-way communications
- TTTC – “True to the Core”
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4RM37DVqGQ&fromEmail=1
Developer Resources
- developer.force.com
- Salesforce community boards
- Salesforce Success Community
- salesforce.stackexchange.com
- #askForce on Twitter
- #salesforce on IRC (freenode.net)
- YOUR PEERS! ?
Source Control Tools for Salesforce.com
- Phabricator: http://phabricator.org/
- Continuous Deployment and Source Control session: How to Setup Continuous Integration With Git, Jenkins, and Force.com – YouTube
Attached Documents
- DF13 Files.zip => H.O.T.S. (Hands On Training Sessions) Guide from DF13
- DF13_YouTubeLinks.xlsx => The compiled list of DF13 sessions
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CRM Customer Relationship Management DF13 Dreamforce Kashi Kashif Ahmed Salesforce Salesforce Admin / CRM Salesforce.com
Last modified: February 28, 2023