Code Coverage - Salesforce Developer Podcast

Episode 49 - Back After Technical Difficulties May 20, 2021

Still not dead. Getting damned close to episode 50, might actually see that prior to 2025. In this episode we chat about Steven's adventures into AWS and React, Salesforce as a platform, and a few other odds and ends. I honestly don't know if anyone ever reads this but I failed to make any notes while recording and don't want to listen all the way through because I'm busying trying to make Google Cloud functions function. Stay safe, stay well, do good things. Lacey (and that other guy).

Episode 48 - Approximately a Salesforce Podcast Sep 30, 2020

I would write some show notes, but time is tight, hence this is late. We DO talk about Salesforce a bit, with some quick comments on Bob (??) and... something else. Also F1, because Steven likes racing cars now.

Episode 47 - 98% Salesforce Content Jul 27, 2020

We broke some world records or something and recorded again. This time we actually do talk about Salesforce for the whole show. Well, most of it. Some. Some of it. We definitely talk about Salesforce.

Episode 46 or 71 or Something Jul 08, 2020

A whole lot of waffle (what else would you expect) with the occasional mention of Salesforce.

Episode 45 — Season 2 or Something Jul 30, 2019

It's a new highly anticipated episode of what might be the world's most irregular and/or infrequent podcast, with more waffles than ever. In this episode we talk about:

Zoom, Neal Stephenson, the ATO and security scares
Matt overthinking things and forgetting his Salesforce basics (i.e. query selectivity in triggers)
Formula One
10x developers
Working out when to upgrade your tools
Accenture's SF Power Kit for DX
Testing
Motorbikes, cars and servicing

You can find Accenture's SF Power Kit here: https://github.com/Accenture/sfpowerkit

The Ad:

The snails:

Episode 43 — The Brisbane Time Glitch Mar 21, 2019

In this episode we're coming to you live from last year, where we're recording at Down Under Dreaming (yes, with a 'g'): Brisbane Edition.

In this episode we talk more Salesforce than usual in front of a real audience, and talk to both Emily Hey and Doug Christ who was visiting from the US.

Episode 44 — Did We Miss Something? Mar 08, 2019

Against all odds, it's an episode of Code Coverage. Topics discussed include:

* Audio problems, not knowing we were actually having some (doh) * A brief tour or some of the features from Spring '19 * Salesforce and devops, or not * The end of a an era Aura * Lightning Web Components and their likely impact * New flow builder * The latest release of OS/2

Episode 42 — The Guilt Nov 09, 2018

We really do mean to publish more often. Promise. We even line up times and and everything.

It's us again, talking somewhat about Salesforce, but with a few (ok, many) inevitable tangents thrown in. Some of the topics covered:

* Forcelandia and Dreamforce

* Being a male ally

* IDEs and Salesforce (again!)

* Cars and the software that runs them

Episode 41 - Version 3dot14 Beta Jul 04, 2018

Another year passes, another episode gets release. Well it feels like that anyway. This took a week or so to publish after recording because our tracks got out of sync somehow. It sounds like my track (Matt) has been sped up slightly, with a few glitches pulling them back in time on occasion. So, apologies for that. Topics discussed in this episode:

Some actual code that Steven wrote
My washing machine
Dealing with release bugs
Mobile Operating Systems and virtual assistants
CRUD, FLS and Security Reviews
Salesforce IDEs and tools
Software development / programming books we like

Episode 40 — The Grittier Gritty Re-reboot Apr 18, 2018

Lo and behold, we recorded again. It's almost becoming a habit. Once again you're stuck with myself and Steven rabbiting on about all sorts, including:

Using bookmarks in your browser (bleeding edge stuff here)
Salesforce (some new cloud thing)
Deployment antics and packages
How to break production environments
Trailhead, DX and Git - the new learning curve
Lightning experience performance
Steven's ambitions to be Eminem, certifications and badges
Where our listeners (you are very much appreciated!) are located around the world

Episode 39 — The Gritty Reboot Jan 23, 2018

We're back, and rambling more than ever. We chat about many things including the Spring release, IDEs and The Welkin Suite, computer keyboards and phones.

I don't think we talk about JavaScript.

Episode 38 — Jarrod Hunt Bags Developers Aug 02, 2017

In this episode of Code Coverage Steven is off on a bit of a jolly so I'm joined by Jarrod Hunt, we discuss:

The upcoming Down Under Dreaming Conference in Sydney
Teaching code concepts to admins: what's useful for them to know
The role of BAs sitting between clients and developers
What developers could do better from a BA's point of view

There's a few surprising (at least to me) lessons for developers in here, and it's interesting to see that some of the same things developers look for a team member are the same as those that a BA might look for.

Episode 37 — Almost Missed It Jul 14, 2017

More rambling! A discussion of various topics, some are even related to Salesforce. In particular we cover:

Curtailing Twitter usage
Rob Plays - C64 Game Reviews from Rob Caporetto (if you like these please do subscribe!)
Salesforce DX - some initial thoughts
Steven finally writes some Lightning Components
Waiting for Platform Event handling paradigms
Wishing for a larger runtime
A quick discussion on Salesforce books, with the two classics:
- Advanced Apex Programming by Dan Appleman
- Force.com Enterprise Architecture by Andy Fawcett

Episode 36 — There Is Potential Here... Jun 16, 2017

Episiode 35 — ...Or Not May 01, 2017

We're back again! Plans are afoot to make this more regular once again. But for now we've gone from Summer to Fall/Autumn in Australia, so here's a bunch of Chatter about the Summer '17 release.

Episode 34 — Back In the Saddle Feb 21, 2017

We're back! Maybe for more than a few weeks too. In this episode we drivel on about old computers, Lightning Experience, Locker Service and Spring '17.

Episode 33 — Scott Wells author of Illuminated Cloud Oct 01, 2016

In this episode of Code Coverage we talk to Scott Wells, the author of the Illumined Cloud IDE for Salesforce. Illuminated cloud is an alternative IDE built on ItelliJ, and sports many features that make life far easier for developers on the platform. Topics we discuss include:

How Scott got started building Illuminated Cloud
The feature set of Illuminated Cloud
How he implemented the debugger
Weirdness with APIs on the platform
Dreamforce!

Illuminated Cloud sessions at Dreamforce:

Tuesday Morning

Chris Fellows - Illuminated Cloud & Lightning Components

Tuesday Afternoon - 5:00pm

Scott Wells - Live Demo of Illuminated Cloud

Episode 32 — Simon Goodyear on Life, The Universe and Everything Sep 30, 2016

In this episode we're joined by Simon Goodyear, for a chat covering many aspects of developing on the platform. We got a bit carried away and it got a little long, but Simon has very interesting insights on all manner of topics, including:

Supporting customers when you develop a product
Drinking beer and starting businesses
Dynamics!
External Objects and OData
Lightning development on a large scale
Platform limits and innovation
Fun and games with managed packages
The choice of IDEs available for the platform
Damaging hardware and email management

Episode 31 — What Happened There? Sep 02, 2016

So we accidentally had another hiatus. This was entirely unintentional and we've talked plenty about recording, it's just that sometimes life (and work) happens. We're back... again... and planning to keep up some momentum this time.

Steven wrote some code and a tester found some bugs
A novel use of reports to do calculations akin to a roll-up summary
Matt found a quirk with SOQL's DAY_IN_WEEK() function
Swatch Internet Time
Various tools we use:
- Illuminated Cloud! The IDE Salesforce developers deserve
- TestPilot - automated test runs and org backups
- Gearset - a solid Salesforce delpoyment tool
Pains with using other people's computers (a.k.a. the cloud)
Matt bought a computer that he likes to use a lot
Stephen bought a more powerful computer that is happy to play multiple games at once

Episode 30 — Dan Appleman on Salesforce Development Over The Years, PluralSight and Lightning Apr 20, 2016

Note: some of my audio and pronounciation goes funky towards the end of this episode. I suffered some technical difficulties that meant I was hearing myself echo at full volume with approximately half a second of delay, I think I know exactly what this feels like now - Lacey

In this episode we chat with the amazingly productive Dan Appleman (@DanAppleman); if you don't recognise that name then you can't have been around the Salesforce development community for very long! Dan makes some excellent points on a variety of topics, including:

Developing on the platform over the years and how the gotchas have changed
How the CPU time governor limit is affected by process and workflows
The joys of working with Salesforce support
His PluralSight courses:
- Apex for Programmers
- Salesforce for .NET Developers (short course)
- Data Visualisation for Developers
His book: Advanced Apex Programming (now in the 3rd Edition)
Industry challenges that have arisen from greater levels of abstraction
JavaScript, it's use in Lightning, and what it means for developers
The problems with Salesforce's ISV program, and how it might impact new developers looking to build and sell Lightning components
How the Developer Relations Team are awesome

Episode 29 - Cal Smith on Salesforce StackExchange, Air Conditioning Patents, and Lightning Mar 10, 2016

In this episode we chat with Cal Smith (@CloudMech on Twitter). Cal has done many things over the years and has very interesting stories to tell, but he also goes above and beyond to teach others, and the evidence is clear to see on the StackExchange where he's known as crmprogdev.

Some of the topics discussed include:

How he got involved with the platform
How he uses the Salesforce StackExchange and what benefits he thinks it offers
Mechanical engineering relates to software development
Air conditioning patents in the auto industry
The contrast between computing in the past and computing today

Episode 28 - Not Actually Dead Mar 01, 2016

The two of us catching up on the gap, talking about the new year and Steven fills us in on Salesforce Shield.

Episode 27 (The Lost Episode): Kevin Boyle from Gearset and musings on Salesforce Deployments Dec 08, 2015

Kevin Boyle https://twitter.com/kevfromireland from Gearset https://gearset.com/ joins us at .... (gulp) Dreamforce '15 to talk about Salesforce Deployments and his product as well as other things.

Yes, this episode is a bit late.

You just won't believe the story about how this happened. Would you believe Lions and Tigers and bears! Oh My!

How about... the dog ate it?

Or... would you believe I'm just really slack?

Episode 26 - David Liu and sfdc99.com (Part 2) Oct 13, 2015

Continuation of our conversation from Part 2, including 'Bring your Parents to work' day and Google's free food :)

Episode 26 - David Liu and sfdc99.com (Part 1) Oct 13, 2015

One of our Dreamforce episodes. A wide ranging conversation with David Liu about sfdc99, architecture, software development and working at Google.

Episode 25 - Dreamforce 2015 Special #1 Sep 16, 2015

The upcoming Apex Debugger, Flow & Process Builder.

Episode 24 - Daniel Ballinger on WSDL2Apex, Salesforce bugs, StackExchange and converting from C# Aug 24, 2015

Salesforce MVP Daniel Ballinger talking about winning at StackExchange, the crazy bugs he's found in Salesforce, FuseIT's excellent WSDL2Apex replacement, converting from Salesforce to C# and a guide to installing a new stereo in a 2003 Mitsubishi Lancer.

Follow on twitter: https://twitter.com/FishOfPrey
Read his blog: http://www.fishofprey.com/
See him on StackExchange: http://salesforce.stackexchange.com/users/102/daniel-ballinger
Download the FuseIT SFDC Explorer: http://www.fuseit.com/Solutions/SFDC-Explorer/Help-WSDL-Parser.aspx
How to install a new stereo in a 2003 Mitsubishi Lancer: http://www.fishofprey.com/2009/12/installing-new-stereo-in-2003.html

Episode 23 - Steven and Matt at the Pub Jun 25, 2015

A guest cancelation due to injury results in a free ranging conversation at the pub between Steven and Matt on the following topics.

Continuous Integration
Enterprise Patterns
Mobile Development
Useful Tools
Chicken Parmigiana

Episode 22 - Eliot Harper and ET/Marketing Cloud Journey Builder Jun 11, 2015

In this episode of Code Coverage we talk to Eliot Harper (@eliotharper), CTO at Digital Logic, a Marketing Services company based in Melbourne, Australia. Eliot describes himself as a customer journey practitioner and is author of Journey Builder Developer's Guide http://amzn.to/1a9gWNo; an in-depth book on customer journey integration with Salesforce Marketing Cloud. Eliot orientates us to Journey Builder development, covering: * A brief orientation to Salesforce Marketing Cloud * The Customer Journey Revolution * Journey Builder * Customer Journey Applications * Interaction Components * Workflow Document Format (WDF) * Custom Activities

Episode 21 - Chris Duarte on Trailhead Apr 03, 2015

In this episode we talk to Chris Duarte about all things Trailhead, including a sneak peek at some of the upcoming content! There was a slight technical issue on Steven's end, but we left it in since it made us laugh.

Episode 20 - Peter Knolle on Lightning Components Mar 05, 2015

Force.com MVP Peter Knolle (@PeterKnolle) talks in detail about Lightning Components, where they're used and how they're built.

This episode clocks in at 50 minutes, but it's all great content from Peter and we just couldn't cut any of it out.

Episode 19 - Abhinav Keswani on Heroku Feb 12, 2015

Abhinav Keswani from Trineo takes us on a tour of Heroku, explaining what it is, using it with Saelsforce, structuring your apps, and how to move legacy systems to it.

Episode 18 - Kevin Poorman and the Apex 10 Commandments Jan 25, 2015

Kevin (@codefriar) gives us a blow down of the 10, 11, 12 Commandments of Apex Development (We added a few).

This is a redux of his (And James Loghry's @dancinllama) presentation at Dreamforce '14: http://youtu.be/T01lemqlJRU

Episode 17 - Passing the Technical Architect Review Board with Andrew Manetakis and Ehsan Mahmoudi Jan 01, 2015

This week its a special episode, a recorded conversation between three Certified Technical Architects from Cloud Sherpas, its Steven and two of his team members Andrew Manetakis and Ehsan Mahmoudi.

They discuss their reflections on the Technical Architect Review Board

The emotional impact of undertaking the certification.
Case study tips.
Assessing your readiness and how to prepare yourself.
Required experience you should have.
Handling the hypothetical.
The difference between being an TA and being a Developer.
Impressions of the judging process.

Episode 16 - Kevin O'Hara on Open Source Development, NodeJS and nForce Dec 18, 2014

In this episode of Code Coverage we hear from Kevin O'Hara on why he loves open source development. In particular we discuss what's coming up in nForce, what working on open source is like, and an exciting new developer tool that he's working on.

Episode 15 - Kevin Poorman on Ruby, ngForce and Trailhead Nov 20, 2014

Returning to regular programming (pun intended) after the live episodes of Dreamforce, this week we talk to the unstoppable force that is Force.com MVP Kevin Poorman. We got to the end of this episode and still had plenty that we wanted to talk about, so we're planning to get him back on the show in the near future. After listening to this, we think you'll be wanting to hear more from Kevin too!

DF14 Special: Episode 14 - Samantha Ready and Lightning Nov 15, 2014

It's Senior Developer Evangelist Samantha Ready the day after the her stint on the Developer Keynote stage giving us a deep dive into Lightning Components, what they are, how they are built and how its going to power the next generation of Salesforce's User Interface.

We also touch on Lightning Connect and Heroku's Keynote announcements!

DF14 Special: Episode 13 - Adam Seligman and a quick recap of the Developer Keynote Nov 08, 2014

Adam Seligman, Vice President of Developer Relations gives a quick recap of this years Developer Keynote.

With special guest Matt Lacey :)

DF14 Special: Episode 12 Tom Patros and AngularJS Oct 28, 2014

Red Argyle Managing Partner Tom Patros gives us the run down on AngularJS one of the hottest JavasScript frameworks for rich desktop and mobile applications.

Tom discusses the best ways to get AngularJS and Salesforce working together and gives a background for those new to Angular to help them get started.

DF14 Special: Episode 11 - Angela Mahoney and Adam Daw on running a Developer User Group Oct 23, 2014

Angela Mahoney (Portland Developer Group co-lead) and Adam Daw (Ottawa Developer Group co-lead) discuss what makes a successful Developer Group and some of the things they do to have successful meetings.

Episode 0 - Who are Steven and Matt and what do they have planned for #DF14 Oct 11, 2014

Its a mellow conversation between Steven and Matt about who they are, how they got into Salesforce and what they have planned for Dreamforce 2014!

Episode 10 - Gaurav Kheterpal and Mobile! Mobile! Mobile! Sep 24, 2014

A deep dive into mobile development with Mobile Expert an Appcelerator Titan (MVP) Gaurav Kheterpal. https://www.linkedin.com/in/gauravkheterpal @gauravkheterpal Guarav reflects on his history in telecommunication development and mobile application development. He discusses:

Appcelerator Titanium http://www.appcelerator.com/ and Sencha Touch http://www.sencha.com/products/touch
The best use cases for Native and Hybrid application development and cross platform frameworks.
The functions and capabilities of the Salesforce Mobile SDK including the new 2.3 Mobile SDK https://developer.salesforce.com/page/Mobile_SDK_Release_Notes
Resources for starting mobile development on Salesforce.
Overviews and the pros and cons of the following mobile frameworks:
- jQuery Mobile http://jquerymobile.com/
- Sencha Touch http://www.sencha.com/products/touch
- AngularJS https://angularjs.org/
- Ionic http://ionicframework.com/

This is an information packed episode and a great intro for someone looking to get an rapid overview of the landscape.

Episode 9 - Mary Scotton on Diversity in Tech and Dreamforce Dev / Admin Zones! Sep 10, 2014

This week its Mary Scotton (@rockchick322004), Developer Evangelist at Salesforce.com

Mary joins us to discuss her Women in Tech blogging series as well as the broader 'Diversity in Tech' landscape.

We also cover the new Admin Zone (Sharing space with the Dev Zone), how Admins and Developers can work together and what's in store for Dreamforce!

Episode 8 - Gary Breavington on OWASP and Platform Security Aug 28, 2014

Gary Breavington is a Senior Technical Consultant at Extentor and joins us to discuss OWASP, and how some of their top ten vulnerabilities can and should be addressed by Salesforce1 developers.

Episode 7 - Boris Bachovski on the Advanced Developer Certification Aug 13, 2014

Boris Bachovski is a Senior Salesforce.com Developer with Deloitte Australia, he joins us this week to discuss his impressions of the Advanced Developer Certification.

Episode 6 - Josh Birk on Summer '14 Highlights Jul 31, 2014

Josh Birk (@joshbirk) is a Developer Evangelist at Salesforce.com and so if you're listening to this podcast there's a great chance that you've already come across him in your internet adventures. He's recently started blogging at http://joshbirk.herokuapp.com on a variety of topics and also posts on the Salesfore Developers Blog. In this episode Josh talks to us about:

His Background

How he arrived at Salesforce via ModelMetrics
Using Flex and developing the Flex REST toolkits

Summer '14 release highlights

Increased API request limits for developers
Flex queue for batch job management
Approval buttons for Salesforce1
Improvements to Remote Objects: Upsert functionality and Apex overrides for CRUD operations
The power of Flow
The Query Planner tool

Salesforce.com Platform Specifics

What GA, Developer Preview, Pilot and Beta mean
An introduction to Canvas

Episode 5 - Daniel Hoechst with Continuous Integration, Unit Test approaches and Remote Objects Jul 20, 2014

Danidel is a 3 times Salesforce MVP, avid Salesforce user, administrator, and developer. He also helps lead the Salt Lake City area Salesforce User Group. He blogs at http://www.verticalcoder.com/ tweets at https://twitter.com/dhoechst and codes at https://github.com/dhoechst Topics covered

How he learned Force.com and the importance of Twitter in the process.

Team Development

Continuous Integration with Drone.io and BitBucket.
Tools for working with git - SourceTree
Books for learning git: Pro Git
IDE tools - MavensMate/Sublime

Remote Objects

What you can do with them
Changes to Remote Objects coming in Summer '14

Integrating Salesforce with your Fax Server. Yes, really. Apex Testing Tips and his Salesforce Test-Factory framework

Importance of Assertions
SeeAllData and avoiding it.
Daniel's Salesforce Test-Factory framework https://github.com/dhoechst/Salesforce-Test-Factory

Episode 4 - Carolina Ruiz - Force.com community building Jul 03, 2014

Force.com MVP Carolina Ruiz (@CarolEnLaNube) http://codeandvogue.com/ talks about taking the Salesforce1 platform to University Students, starting a DUG and blogging in Spanish!

Episode 3 - Andrew Fawcett with Enterprise Patterns and the Tooling API Jun 19, 2014

How Andrew got involved in Salesforces
Enterprise Patterns (Gang of Four) and their applicability to Salesforce
To Tooling API and what you can do with it.

Episode 2 - Reid Carlberg and the Internet of Things Jun 05, 2014

Drones and how he integrated it them with Salesforce1
Dreamforce and why he won't be flying drones at inside
How Reid got into Developer Evangelism.
Node.js and why he likes it.
Why Steven should buy Sublime Text and other favorite text editors
The Internet of Things and how Salesforce can fit in.
How you can get started with IoT programming at home.
How to get started in Salesforce Development as a novice or experienced developer.
Polyglot programming on the platform.
What makes an effective developer.

Episode 1 - Keir Bowden and Developing for Salesforce1 Apr 25, 2014

Keir Bowden, Certified Technical Architect, Advanced Developer and CTO of BrightGen and author of Visualforce Cookbook Keir discusses his background and how he got into force.com 6502 Assembly language Salesforce1 development with Visualforce including:

Using Twitter Bootstrap
Apache Cordova vs In App browser on iOS.
Force.com SDK, Salesforce1 and Apache Cordova
Debugging your app with Salesforce1
Online vs 'Mobile mobile' apps.
Offline functionality

Keir's book 'Visualforce Cookbook'

What's involved in writing a technical book.
What he was aiming for in writing the book.

Learning to program and teaching people to program Keir's tools of choice What he likes about node.js and developing Javascript Creative approaches to dashboard refreshing :) Follow Keir at @bobbuzzard https://twitter.com/bob_buzzard Find his blog at http://bobbuzzard.blogspot.com.au Buy his book at http://www.packtpub.com/visualforce-development-cookbook/book

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