Thoughts worth sharing

This summary of Rocky Mountain Ruby is not exhaustive, not complete, but includes a few notes about what stuck in my mind. We started with Focus by Mike Gerhard. Find focus. Right/rich brain, left/linear brain.

After Metallica and will.i.am entertained the masses on Wednesday night the second keynote on Thursday morning was focused on the platform - using the salesforce technology stack to go beyond CRM.

This week Dan and Abhi have travelled to San Francisco for the Salesforce.com Dreamforce 2011 conference. With 45,000 registered attendees this is now the biggest conference in technology.

I am really passionate about creating user interfaces that are clean, simple, and intuitive to use. With the addition of a new exciting tool I have been able to deliver Force.com web applications with a much better user experience.

Trineo is now listed in the Heroku Development Partner Program. This makes Trineo the first company to achieve both Salesforce.com Registered Partner and Heroku Development Partner in Australia and New Zealand.

It was inspiring to attend the ICE Ideas conference in Auckland today. The event attracted an extremely high calibre speaker list who were to be short and sharp with only a few minutes each to speak.

On February 22nd, Abhinav had a long phone interview with Tamlyn Stewart of The Press. All of Tamlyn’s notes and materials were destroyed in the earthquake, and so we regathered again to be interviewed.

We have been working for Deloitte New Zealand for some time now, and recently we received the following references from Matthew Haigh, Head of Innovation at Deloitte NZ.

When deploying a Rails web application that connects to the Salesforce.com API on the Heroku platform, one ideally wants to achieve a few things. First: not deviating from the standard Heroku deployment process.

Continuing from my previous post about agile development in the corporate context, I will point out the ways in which the team was structured and backed financially – in the context of the goals that were set for us.

Continuing from my previous post about agile development in the corporate context, I will describe the technology we used to be able to rapidly deliver web applications. We needed some basic structures in place.

I used to work for an Australian Telco – having been a founding member of a tiny team tasked with the delivery of short, sweet web apps that can be delivered quickly, and will resolve “low hanging fruit” business problems.