Thursday, September 19, 2013

Upcoming Salesforce Webinars for Oct. 2013 - Migration, Notification, Mobile, and More

The October, 2013 lineup for the Salesforce webinars has been released, the details for which you can find in the Salesforce event calendar, as per usual.  For this month, instead of focusing on a single theme, the webinars cover various topics ranging from migration, to notification, to mobile development, and to Apex development.

The first webinar for October, which will be held at 7:00am and 10:00am PDT on October 2nd, is entitled Salesforce API Series: Release Management with the Metadata API.  Based on the description and technologies mentioned, the focus of this webinar will be on continuous integration.  This is not something we had to deal with, but for those looking to automate their release of process, this would be interest to you.

On October 10th (9:30am PDT), there will be another session of CodeTalk.  This time, it will be on Apex programming, so the Apex developers out there, get your questions ready.

On October 16th (7:00am and 10:00am PDT), there will be a second webinar, entitiled Alert! Event Notification Options for Force.com Apps.  This webinar promises to go over and discuss various event notification that are available through Salesforce.  The event notification is something that many of our customers ask for, so I am interesting to see if I can pick up some new techniques in this webinar.

Finally, on October 23rd (7:00am and 10:00am PDT) there will be another webinar on mobile development.  This one is called Intro to Salesforce Mobile SDK: Building Android Apps.  Based on the title, this will be similar to the last webinar on iOS app development webinar, except it will walk through development in Android app.  If you enjoy that last webinar and interested doing Force.com app development on Android platform, this would definitely be an interest to you.

Monday, September 2, 2013

Upcoming Salesforce Webinars for Sept. 2013 - Mobile, Mobile, and More Mobile

I am just getting back from my vacation, and for my first post-vacation post, I would like to let you know about upcoming Salesforce Webinars for September 2013.

One of the resources that Salesforce avail to the developers is the webinar - online tutorial or question and answer period - they hold frequently.  These webinars are usually held over GoTo Meeting or Google Hangout, and you can register for free on their respective webpages.  You can find out about their upcoming webinars on the Salesforce event calendar, but I'll also post somewhat regularly about the upcoming webinars here as well.

The focus for September seems to be on mobile development, probably in conjunction with release of version 2 of the Salesforce Mobile SDK.  The first of the webinar is entitled Intro to the Salesforce Mobile SDK: Building iOS Apps and appears to focus on iOS application development using Mobile SDK 2.0.  This will be held on Thursday, Septebmer 5, 2013 at 7:00am PDT and 10:00am PDT.

At 11:00am PDT of  Tuesday, September 10, 2013, there will be a webinar on Rapid Mobile Application Development Using the Appery.io Mobile Pack and Salesforce.com.   I am not familiar with Appery.io, but based on name and on description, this is another framework for developing mobile web application.  I believe this webinar will actually be run by the representative from Appery.io, so we should be able to pick up a thing or two on integrating this framework with Salesforce.

Finally, there will be another CodeTalk on Mobile development at 9:30am PDT, Thursday, September 12, 2013.  CodeTalk is an online question-and-answer session on a chosen topic that Salesforce hold somewhat regularly, and the topic is usually is closely tied to a recently-held webinar.  I usually find these CodeTalks more helpful than the webinar as webinar seems to be more geared towards the beginning developer whereas these are actually answering the questions the developers have.  One thing I would advise is to get your questions ready as it can go by pretty quickly.