As a Force.com Certified Developer with about a year of experience developing in Salesforce and over five years working in the industry as a developer, there are much to like about in doing development on Salesforce.com platform. As a standardized platform, it does take care much of the UI design decision. However you feel about the look-and-feel of Salesforce, this does make the lives of non-UX designers, like myself, easier. Although I am not a huge fan of Salesforce having their custom programming languages and design of these languages, APEX, the programming language for Salesforce, and Visualforce, the mark-up language, are fairly easy to learn and they are making strong efforts to add features to these languages. As well, you can see they are opening up more and more aspects of Salesforce, making it easier to interact with external system as well as build your custom solution on top of Salesforce platform.
However, one aspect that has been frustrated me is the lack of open forum to document the pitfalls and bugs in Salesforce platform. The many discussion forums, both internal to Salesforce and external forums, such as StackOverflow, focuses on answering specific implementation questions. Salesforce's Community forum does have Known Issue section; however, this only tracks some of the cases open against their support and that were deemed to be worthy to be documented publicly. The problem with not having an open forum for such discussion is that it is difficult to identify whatever issue one is having is an isolated incidence or whether others are having similar issue and to have open discussion about work-around.
To this end, the purpose of this blog will be document the pitfalls and bugs in Salesforce platform found by this Force.com developer, so as to engage wider discussion on this issue, as well as to help others experiencing similar issue. In addition to this, I will post about useful resources I find or upcoming Salesforce-related events that looks to be useful. Finally, I might make some shameless plug on some of my works as well.
I hope those reading this blog find these posts useful in your Force.com Development work and encourage you to making Salesforce even better developer platform than it is.
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