Twin Cities Salesforce.com Developer User Group Presentation April 2012

Welcome to the

Twin Cities Developer

User Group

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Introductions

• Welcome to the First Official TCDUG Meeting

• What to Expect

• How are we Different from the User Group?

• Around the Room – Meet your Peers

• Your Name and Company

• How long with Force.com?

• What you would like to contribute?

• What you would like to gain?

Sponsors

• Redpath Consulting Group (Paul)

• Facilities and WiFi

• Demand Chain Systems (Scott, Theresa)

• Logistics

• Administrative Support

• Organizational Support

• Salesforce Developer Relations (Kavindra, Katie, Lauren)

• Platform, Communication, and Refreshments

• Interested in becoming a Sponsor? Contact Andy!

Group Rally Points

• Meetings and Membership

• Meetup - http://www.meetup.com/SFTCDUG

• News and Polls

• LinkedIn: “Salesforce.com Twin Cities Developer Group”

• Facebook: “Salesforce.com Twin Cities Developer Group”

• Coming Soon: Communityforce on Salesforce.com

• Contact Andy?

• Twitter: @andyboettcher

• Email: [email protected]

http://www.meetup.com/SFTCDUG

Quick Break

Discussion 1:

Architectural Best Practices

Examples of Architectural Best Practices

• Good Relational Database Design

• Object and Field Naming

• Generalization of Fields

• Lookups vs. Master / Child Relationships

• Junction Objects

• Formulas!

• Field Level Security vs. Page Layout Security


• Standard Naming / Coding Conventions

• Many “Standards” out there

• Pick a Standard, stick with it!

• Some ideas:

• Prefix Variables with Type

• When to use Private / Public / Global


• Repeatable Code Structure

• Page, Class, Trigger, Test Class Templates

• Logically segment code pages

• Centralize and reference often-used items

• Functions class

• Test class – data creation


• Comments / Debug Statements

• There is never a thing as too many comments!

• Use to logically segment code pages

• Use as an information header

• Structure debug statements

• Class.Method INFO: <message>


• Documentation (Technical)

• SF “Schema Builder”

• Leverage comments

• Let your naming conventions help


• Governor Limit Tips – ALWAYS assume bulk!

• Use Maps instead of loops

• No DML or SOQL in loops

• Keep script in loops to a minimum

• Update and Delete without SOQL

• Future and Batch annotations

• Always review new limits per release


• Code Reviews

• Always walk a peer through your code

• “A Developer tests how they code”

• Constant improvement / learning

Discussion 2:

Adoption Challenges:

What can a Developer do?

Adoption Challenges

• Tools for Management

• What can a developer provide management?

• Discussion

Adoption Challenges

• Tools for Development

• What can a developer do to aid adoption?

• Get key users involved early

• Augment the platform (jQuery, etc.)

• Always think “you know what, if we…”

Adoption Challenges

• When to raise your voice?

• There is no bad or wrong time

• There are no wrong opinions

• Withholding opinion can mean re-work later

• Experience counts

• Don’t get caught in project “tunnel-vision”

Quick Break

Discussion 3:

When to use Visualforce

vs.

When to use pure HTML

Visualforce vs. HTML

• Open Discussion

Ping your

Peers

What’s Next?

• Connect with the Community!

• Quarterly Meetings

• Next meeting – late June?

• Did this time work for everyone?

• Location ideas? (we’re a big group!)

• Topics?

• Guest speakers?

THANK YOU

Twin Cities Salesforce.com Developer User Group Presentation April 2012

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