Cheek to Cheek
Appexchange is a really great system for packaging up modules for easy installing in Salesforce.com instances. But it’s not perfect–you can’t package up a lot of things you need to build out Salesforce.com for a customer. So, the current state of the platform still requires a lot of re-building. I spend too much time creating the same fields, same page layouts, and same profiles each time I work with a new client.
The only way it’s palatable for me is because I have two monitors on my computer and can pull up a completed Salesforce.com instance on one and my work in progress the other.
This makes the monkey work of creating the fields and laying them out correctly easier, because I’m not flipping between browser windows or looking at a printed page. If you do this kind of work, consider the $200 upgrade in video card and monitor to double the size of your desktop.
July 28th, 2006 at 8:54 am
Amen to that. The double monitor or very large monitor is absolutely indispensable for anyone who works on a computer. Once you try it, you can’t go back.
37signals did a post along these lines last October:
http://www.37signals.com/svn/archives2/the_science_of_interruptions.php
July 29th, 2006 at 9:24 pm
So AGREE to this one, a second Amen and raise you a hallelujah. I think it’s funny when other people come into my cube and are confused, … du’h where’s the other computer?… hehe
August 2nd, 2006 at 6:39 am
They look at me funny when I tell them that if I had a third monitor I could put skype and gaim on it and then all would be perfect…