Lightning

Podcast : Chewing The Lightning With LeeAnne Templeman And Justin Edelstein

Posted on by Matthew Morris

It’s been a month since Dreamforce 2015, so I thought that it might be interesting to replay some of the hot topics of conversation from around the Dev and Admin Zone.

I was joined in the AdminZone podcast studio by two experienced and talented people from the community to help me understand what we need to make the transition to using Lightning.

LeeAnne Templeman is a Developer Evangelist at Salesforce, she can be found on twitter @leeandroid.

LeeAnne Templeman

LeeAnne Templeman

Justin Edelstein is co-founder and CIO at, Arkus a Salesforce partner based in New York, he’s a Salesforce MVP and you can tweet him @JustEdelstein.

Justin Edelstein

Justin Edelstein

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Podcast : Thunder and Lightning with Peter Coffee

Posted on by Matthew Morris

This week I have for you a conversation with Peter Coffee who is the Vice President for Strategic Research at Salesforce.

Many of you will recognise Peter as the host of pre-keynote conversations at many Salesforce events. I think I am right in saying that it is his voice which announces every keynote session at Dreamforce, which he has to pre-record in the run up to the conference.

Peter Coffee and the IoT Hierarchy Of Needs

Peter Coffee and the IoT Hierarchy Of Needs at Dreamforce 2015

If you’re interested in “the future”, then Peter is your man. He leads the emerging trends track at Dreamforce, which from what I have seen gives a 2-3 year view into the future of Salesforce and the technology industry.

Before he was hired by Marc Benioff in 2007, Peter was a technology journalist. He’s also a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and back in the day he even wrote a book entitled How to program Java.

If you want to improve your understanding of how technology and business work together and where they are leading us Peter is your man.

I sat down with Peter in the press room at Dreamforce on the very last day with the hope that he could help straighten out my thoughts about all the announcements and technologies which were on show that week.  Clearly my head was still spinning as you’ll hear we made reference to the I’m a Mac adverts which ran from 2006 to about 2009, so a good 6 years ago. Not the 2 or 3 that came out of my mouth. Things move fast today it seems.

You can find Peter on twitter @petercoffee

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Podcast : Learn Lightning With Don Robins

Posted on by Matthew Morris

This week I’m speaking with Don Robins, who is an award winning instructor for Salesforce University and he has been a pioneer in providing education and advice for Salesforce admins and developers wanting to learn how to exploit Salesforce’s new Lightning technologies.

Don and I got together in a San Francisco bar, directly across the road from the Dreamforce conference which had just closed.  This conversation came almost exactly a year after our first conversation about the release of Salesforce Lightning components.  We started by talking about how quickly the time had passed, and how people (including me) can catch up and start understanding how to exploit the power of Lightning.

Over the past 18 months, Don has produced some excellent materials which introduce developers and admins to building with Lightning.  Top of the list is Don’s Salesforce University online course which you can access for FREE.  Don also produced a series of 6 blog posts which introduce the concepts of lightning and are a great primer for the training course.

If your job is as Salesforce developer or Admin then you should to continue to the on-line training, which is a high quality Salesforce University production with video and slides.

All of these great resources can be seen by going to the link http://bit.ly/lightningDon.

Take a look at the blog at http://www.technologyflows.com, you can tweet me @matmorris.

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Podcast : Salesforce Lightning With Skip Sauls & Doug Chasman

Posted on by Matthew Morris

This time we hear from 2 people right at the heart of Salesforce’s Lighting technology evolution.

Skip Sauls is a Director of Product Management at Salesforce and he is working alongside Doug Chasman who is Principal Architect on the Platform team.

The work of their team is making it possible for developers and admins to customise Salesforces’ user interface like never before.

Doug was one of the two original architects of Visualforce, and I started by asking him if Lighting components will replace VisualForce.

SkipDougInterview

This interview was recorded about 2 weeks prior to the announcement of the new Salesforce Lighting Experience, so we we’re able to discuss that on tape. Skip and Doug were extremely open about the technologies which they have waiting in the wings and Lighting Out sounds like it has the potential to be a transformational technology.

Dreamforce 2015 is taking place next week from the 15th September, if you’re going be sure to seek out Skip and Doug. If you’re staying at home, watch the online broadcasts and keep an eye on the Salesforce YouTube channel for the sessions to be published in the weeks following the conference.

Take a look at the blog at http://www.technologyflows.com, you can tweet me @matmorris.

Thanks for listening!

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