Perspectives on Salesforce.com

The Perspectives on Salesforce.com blog has moved. The blog is now located at http://sfdc.arrowpointe.com.

If you are subscribed to the Feedburner feed, everything should take care of itself. I have redirected those feeds already. If you are receiving this post in your aggregator, then you are all set.

The new site is being run on WordPress. I am opening it up allowing people to register if they wish to contribute content. I’d like this blog to be a place where many people author the content and have it act as a supplement to the high-quality Best Practices blog that Salesforce maintains. I have not been too good about it so far, but I’d like the blog to take on more of a solutions-focus than a news-focus. To date, it’s been more about Salesforce news and functionality wishes. I want to leave the news to Salesforcewatch.com and stick to the functionality wishes and solutions. This is a bit of an overlap with Salesforce’s blog, but should still supplement it by having an independent consultant/developer point of view.

The about page has the information you need on registering and what that means. For starters, all postings by new registrants will need to be authorized for publishing, but that can be changed if this goes anywhere.

Please post comments with your feedback. I’m interested in getting suggestions on making this work and knowing if it’s of interest to people.

Visit the Winter Release landing page to see details regarding the new functionality.

The Admin Preview and Release Notes are particularly useful if you want some offline reading.

Salesforce has posted a tech note on the changes to the API for the Winter Release.

When I logged into Salesforce today, I received a Scheduled Maintenance notice. It’s a notice for being offline for 12 hours.

Could it be the Winter Release?

Scheduled Maintenance Notification
Saturday November 12, 11:00 AM PST — Saturday November 12, 11:00 PM PST

Please be advised that salesforce.com will be performing scheduled maintenance on Saturday November 12, 11:00 AM PST — Saturday November 12, 11:00 PM PST.

During this interval, the salesforce.com system will not be available.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you and your company.

As always, thank you for your business.

— The team at salesforce.com

UPDATE: Looks like it’s just a Data Center move. I will see what I can find out about the Winter release.

Salesforce posted their Dreamforce presentations. Below are links to some of the more interesting developer-focused ones. There is no audio.

Sforce and Customforce Hacks – Provides a good look into new functionality being offered in Winter ’06.

AJAX Toolkit – Nothing here you can’t learn from the manual, but is a decent getting started presentation.

Open Source Software – Decent presentation points you towards the Sourceforge site.

Gearing Up – Overview of the PHP, Perl and ForceAmp tools.