On January 29th and 30th I attended the Lighting Tour of Salesforce.com that was held here in San Diego. I had a lot of fun, and got a great sense that my skills in web development may have a great deal of carryover into working with and developing for Salesforce.
Cutest stickers at @salesforce #lightningnow seminar here in San Diego. Added to my iPad though I took my notes on paper today. Day 2 of #lightningnow learning about Kanban view inside @Salesforce + bonus t-shirt! Remain impressed by quality of Trailhead exercises for a novice like me. I also like that it’s kind of Shazam!/Mage/Captain Marvel.
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In web development one has to be cognizant of issues related to caching when making frequent updates. Here’s the setting you’d look for to make sure you’re seeing freshly edited content.
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I was very impressed with the API versioning that’s a part of Salesforce. You can target different versions of Apex and in this way you can migrate to newer API versions as you need to in a manner that’s safe. Salesforce can keep innovating, and your apps won’t break. That’s smart.
I was also very interested to see the differences in code from “old style” and their “new style.” Of course I had no concept of the older style but I can see that they’ve taken some time to encapsulate very robust and common functionality in ways that are quicker to develop for.