1/2 Ironman tomorrow

Last Updated on Saturday, 22 September 2007 09:32 Written by Steve Friday, 21 September 2007 05:08

By this time tomorrow I hope to have completed my first half Ironman triathlon. This has been the goal of my training since early May, so I’m pretty excited that it’s finally here.

It will consist of:

1. 1.2 mile swim – not very painful
2. 56 mile bike – fairly painful
3. 13.1 mile run – I suspect this will be very painful!

My training was right on track until August, when I got derailed by a series of events. A bike crash, a tooth extraction, a sprained foot, and finally tonsillitis. So I’ve basically had a 6 week taper. Before that I put in 13 miles in the pool, 253 miles running, and 892 miles on the bike.

I think I’ll be OK, but the biggest concern is that foot pain will show up at some point in the run. I did 3 miles on the treadmill today and didn’t feel a thing, but we’ll see what tomorrow brings.

It’s going to be a bit cold at race-time, and it might be raining. So think warm thoughts and wish me luck!

Dreamforce 2007 Wrap Up

Last Updated on Thursday, 20 September 2007 11:10 Written by Steve Thursday, 20 September 2007 11:10

I’m bleary eyed as I write this wrap up of the Salesforce user Conference. I had a great time seeing lots of old friends and meeting a bunch of great new folks. Here were my top 15 moments:

1. INXS, baybee!
2. Going to the Nonprofit Salesforce.com party. Four words: stretch limo, Tiburon, and Marga-greet-as.
3. Demoing the fun work Matthew and I did with Apex, and what Andrew and Jesse have built with Plone integration, and getting great response.
4. Having Simon Fell ask me what my number one feature request was…and giving him 4!
5. Staying up late with Evan Callahan–it was like geek summer camp…
6. Being one of 3 folks to win a Developer Hero award from Adam Gross. Thanks Adam!
7. Getting interviewed by Peter Coffee on the Expo floor
8. Hearing great news on direction of the platform–big doings in the next 12 months
9. Having 75 separate conversations about how we all have way too much work to do
10. Getting nominated for an Appy award and losing to a much more deserving nonprofit–congrats Family Service Agency of San Francisco! And continued good luck with your implementation!
11. Demoing for Sonny Cloward the heavy customizations we’ve done to manage our consulting program in Salesforce.com
12. Getting to thank Glenn at CRMFusion and Andrew at Clicktools for giving us access to their awesome products. Mark from Apextremes was so busy telling people about Conga, I didn’t get a chance to thank him!
13. Seeing Chris Pokrana continue to cash in on that photo shoot from 2005–he was on-screen 3 times in the keynote
14. Meeting tons of great people–let’s stay in touch.
15. Actually using twitter in a helpful way…I didn’t think it was possible

Thanks again to the Salesforce.com Foundation who got us all there, and showed us a great time. Now, off to dig myself out of a big pile of email!

Giving history matrix report on Contact via private Appexchange

Last Updated on Thursday, 20 September 2007 07:50 Written by Steve Thursday, 20 September 2007 07:46

At Dreamforce yesterday I showed how easy it is to add someone else’s components to your Salesforce.com instance by using private Appexchange packages. The example was an inline display of a matrix report showing the giving history of a Contact.

To install the giving matrix reports, follow the steps outlined in this video.

And here’s a link to the private Appexchange listing

Enjoy!