Geeks on parade

Last Updated on Thursday, 26 October 2006 03:16 Written by Steve Thursday, 26 October 2006 03:13

We’re hosting the Plone Conference up here in Seattle this week. It turning out to be a great gathering of over 300 Plone aficionados from all over the world. A lot of the best Plone minds are in town, and the conference is going very well.

I dropped by last night and saw some quick presentations that were a bit mind blowing. There are some really cool things being built in Plone on the new Zope 3 framework. There are a lot of changes that will make the kind of work we do in Plone easier and less painful to maintain over time. Did I mention we’ve done close to 100 Plone sites?

Today I’m heading over to do a quick demo of the Salesforce Connector for Plone with my coworker Andrew. Should be fun to show it to folks who get Plone but don’t necessarily know much about Salesforce.com. Maybe we can even get Andy McKay to take a look at some ideas we’ve got on how to improve things. Got 15 minutes for some free consulting?

technorati tags: Salesforce.com, nptech, plone

Pete Hickok on his Salesforce instance

Last Updated on Thursday, 26 October 2006 03:18 Written by Steve Thursday, 26 October 2006 12:50

I got to have a conversation with Pete Hickok today about how Oregon Natural Desert Association uses Salesforce.com. I had the pleasure of working with Pete, Kelly, Erin, and Bill early in 2006 on getting them up and running in Salesforce.com. Pete’s been cranking with it ever since and doing some cool stuff.

Pete talks about how Oregon Natural Desert Association is using Opportunities to model membership, and how Salesforce reports power his renewal mailing process. He also talks a little bit about giving board members access to data. Here’s our conversation:

You can also download the MP3.

Thanks again to Pete and ONDA who were true guinnea pigs for me–very patient folks down there in Bend!

technorati tags: Salesforce.com, nptech

Free Salesforce development book

Last Updated on Thursday, 26 October 2006 07:50 Written by Steve Thursday, 26 October 2006 07:50

At the Dreamforce conference they handed out copies of a newly published book called Creating On-Demand Applications with AppExchange. It’s a pretty nice capture of how you can do everything from customize the app via point-and-click, all teh way up through hard core programming. They even include a nice section explaining what APEX is and isn’t.

You can’t buy it on Amazon, but you can get a PDF for free from Salesforce with free registration.