This document outlines an agenda for a Salesforce Kerala Developer User Group meetup. The meetup will cover an introduction to Force.com, point and click development, the programmatic approach, best practices, tools and tips. It will discuss how the community is for learning on the cloud, networking with peers, training, certification, and discussing with and learning from experts. The technical portion will cover the Force.com platform, the Apex programming language, point and click configuration via objects and tabs, formulas, validation rules, workflows, page layouts, and Chatter. It will also discuss signing up for a developer account, the programmatic approach using triggers, classes, APIs, SOQL and SOSL, governor limits

1. Salesforce Kerala Developer User
Group Meetup
Shivanath Devinarayanan
Salesforce Evangelist
@shivanathd

2. #SalesforceKerala

3. Agenda
 What is this community about?
 Intro to Force.com
 Point and Click
 Programmatic Approach
 Best practices
 Tools , Tips and Tricks
 Questions

4. What is this community about?
 Learn on the cloud
 Developer peers
 Training & Certification
 Forum to discuss
 Opportunity to speak and collaborate
 Learn from the best
 Latest about Salesforce.com and Force.com

5. Intro to
 Platform as a Service and Multi-tenant
 Apex - world’s 1st on demand language
 5X faster Development and 1/2th cost !
 Compilation on the cloud
 All you need is a browser
 Salesforce.com v/s Force.com

6. Point and Click Development
 Objects & Tabs
 Schema Builder
 Formula fields
 Validation Rules
 Workflow Rules & Approval Processes
 Email Alerts
 Outbound Messages
 Field Updates
 Page Layouts
 Chatter

7. Sign Up for Dev Account
 http://developer.force.com/join
Login to salesforce
 http://login.salesforce.com

8. Programmatic Approach
 Triggers
 Classes
 Test Classes
 Web service Classes
 VF Controllers
 API
 SOQL & SOSL
 Governor limits
 Sandboxes and Deployment
 VisualForce
 Force.com Sites

9. Best practices
 When to use WorkFlow V/s Trigger
 Try the AppExchange
 Mind the governors
 Bulkify your trigger
 Avoid SOQL in Loops
 Always write test methods
 Know when to do it outside Salesforce

10. Where to go ?
 Developer Force forum : http://developer.force.com
 Jeff Douglas blog : http://blog.jeffdouglas.com
 Salesforce Kerala Developer User Group !
 Twitter #askforce
 StackExchange : salesforce.stackexchange.com
Tools
 Force.com IDE
 Workbench : http://workbench.developerforce.com
 Salesforce.com Utility Belt
 DataLoader

11. What are your
thoughts?
shivanathd @shivanathd shivanathd mail@shivanathd.com