Good Day, Sir! Show, a Salesforce Podcast

Trust Is Not Cheap

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 13:15:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss recent Salesforce-related news, Microsoft canceling AI data center leases, sentiments that AI isn't giving Salesforce a boost, Torvald's comments on AI, vibe-coding, Apple being late to release a full Siri AI, reinforcing a certain host's opinion of web development, and other related topics.

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Why AI Isn’t Giving Salesforce a Boost — The Information
NIK on X: "🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: Microsoft will not participate in OpenAI Stargate project due to overestimation of demand it’s over https://t.co/CwoBJFE6D5" / X
Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ | Tom's Hardware
Stephan Rehfeld on X: "The advent of "web development" has been the worst thing to happen to computer science in its entire history and has nearly destroyed its foundation. In the beginning, the idea behind the Web was simple and ingenious: hypertext documents that link to each other and provide" / X
How to Keep More of Your Money by Reducing Taxes in Retirement
Apple's full Siri overhaul might be pushed back to 2027 | Mashable
Apple AI Delays Spark Backlash Among Devoted Fans and Analysts - Business Insider
Andrej Karpathy on X: "There's a new kind of coding I call "vibe coding", where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists. It's possible because the LLMs (e.g. Cursor Composer w Sonnet) are getting too good. Also I just talk to Composer with SuperWhisper" / X
Vibe Coding Explained — The Information

Up and to the Right

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 17:45:00 -0600

In this episode, we discuss AI disruption in the industry, economic concerns, Microsoft shenanigans, OpenAI's precarious business position, and 2026 predictions for the Salesforce ecosystem and beyond.

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App Crappers

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 18:45:00 -0600

In this episode, we discuss MuleSoft and Camel similarities and take a brief tangent on the prevalence of XML as a data format, vibe-coding, SaaS fatigue, subscription overload, and Illuminated Cloud's support for GraphQL.

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Diminishing Returns

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 19:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss experiences with AI coding, layoffs and unemployment, DevOps Center, Salesforce's Q1 financials, Informatica acquisition, and AI agents.

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AI Killed the Podcast Star

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 22:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we discuss Salesforce's Super Bowl ad, various AI-related topics, SLDS2, and the Salesforce Spring '25 release.

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PERFECLY SPELLED

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 12:15:00 -0600

In this episode, we discuss Agentforce 2.0, OpenAI and general AI topics, and give our predictions for 2025.

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Fruity and Delicious

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 19:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we discuss the complexity of deciding between refactoring an existing org or starting over with a new org, Clara Shih's departure from Salesforce, return-to-office mandates, Agentforce Testing Center, and Marc Benioff's latest comments on AI.

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Humans with Agency

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 11:15:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss Benioff's comments on Microsoft Copilot and AI being overhyped, AI being a race to the bottom, and a few notable Winter '25 release note features.

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Off with Their Heads

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 21:30:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss John Mulaney's roast of Dreamforce, AgentForce, Klarna's plans to stop using Workday and Salesforce, Illuminated Cloud, and AI-generated podcasts.

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Make the Org Gods Happy

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 11:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss the Good Day, Sir! community meetup at Dreamforce, challenges with deployments, invocable methods, Salesforce's acquisition of Own, Salesforce's AI strategy, and Ellison's view on AI winners.

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Revolutionized by AI

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 20:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss technology bolstering tipping culture, whether the DevOps Center is ready yet, lightning UI updates, the rise and fall of Stack Overflow, and the increase of spamming on LinkedIn.

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Spread the Value

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 12:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss chaining queueables, clean programming coding laws, ServiceNow's hiring of Salesforce employees, Google I/O AI, Microsoft Surface Copilot, rumors of Google acquiring HubSpot, and Salesforce's Q1 financial results.

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Unfortunate Rebranding

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Mon, 06 May 2024 21:15:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss unit testing, Salesforce's rumored bid to acquire Informatica, Microsoft's ARM chips, Oracle moving headquarters to Nashville, and a few notable highlights from the Summer '24 release notes.

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Infinite Helpers

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 17:30:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss the need to always challenge assumptions, Jason Fried’s thoughts on SaaS, Personal AI agents, The UK’s 4-day work week, Microsoft’s unbundling of Teams and Office, Mitch Spano’s blog post on selective unit testing, Shopify poaching salesforce folks, the possibility of Apple getting into robots, Johnny Ive and Sam Altman cooking up a “personal AI device”, and the ever-aging Gmail.

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It’s the Model, Stupid!

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 16:45:00 -0500

In this episode, we catch up on the TrailblazerDX event, data cloud, various topics around generative AI coding assistants, and a brief discussion on approaching data de-duplication.

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Wrong, but Magnified

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 17:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we discuss podcasting 2.0 and Value4Value support, becoming a developer, opinions on AI and its impact on learn-to-code, the GitHub data tracking results on the fastest-growing countries for software development, Bret Taylor's recent funding round for AI startup, activist investors trimming stake in Salesforce, and the increased popularity in passkeys.

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Digital People

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 18:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we discuss Apple Vision Pro, Watson XCode Assistant, Microsoft becoming Oracle's largest customer, highlights from the Salesforce Spring '24 release notes, Slack, lessons learned as a developer list, and Benioff's interviews at Davos and AI.

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Exploiting the Opportunity

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 12:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we discuss TrailblazerDX registration, Open AI and Salesforce, Salesforce as a development platform, AI coding tools, named credentials, and Salesforce's Q3 2024 earnings report.

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Harmonize The Systems

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 16:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we celebrate 10 years of producing this podcast and discuss a rant about Agile and Okta's security breach.

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Landwich

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 19:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss the seven sins of software development, Salesforce's Einstein Trust Layer, and test Jeremy's knowledge with a bit of AI trivia.

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The Whole Megillah

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Sun, 24 Sep 2023 12:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss our reactions to Marc Benioff's Dreamforce '23 Main Keynote.

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Properly Chill

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Sun, 10 Sep 2023 13:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss the Good Day, Sir! Community meetup at Black Hammer, Dreamforce 2023 and Benioff's comment to move the conference out of San Francisco, DevOps and deployments, permissions, Salesforce Park's Sho Restaurant canceled, Lightning web component improvements, and McKinsey's partnership with Salesforce.

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Satchels of Human Goo

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 14:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss low-code tools, code semantics, product first vs. code first, branching strategy, Nvidia's sales growth, AI grifting, and some notable updates from the Winter '24 release notes.

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Incredibly Stingy

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 09:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss green coding, Hyperforce, recent lawsuits aimed at Salesforce, layoffs, quiet terminations, and funny videos by Ike Wagh.

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Egg MacGuffin

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Sun, 16 Jul 2023 15:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we get out of the office and record from our local watering hole, Thirsty Growler. We discuss AI and its general impact on developers, the repository pattern, SOQL Lib, SF CLI 2.0, Figma, Certinia, FFLib, Anchor Brewing, and many tangents thanks to the beer.

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GDS GPT

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 14:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss Apple's announced Vision Pro, the annoyance of the GPT buzzword, Salesforce and Google Cloud AI offerings, Brett Taylor's play for CEO, and Salesforce as a job title.

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Touching Teslas

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 15:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss subscription services, ChatGPT, a somewhat uninteresting developer ecosystem survey by JetBrains, and other Salesforce-related topics.

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Deprecated

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 10:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss topics from TrailblazerDX '23, Salesforce's focus on profitability, and new core products for Education and Non-Profit.

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Farm to Compiler

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Fri, 24 Feb 2023 18:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we discuss Streamscript, platform events, EinsteinGPT, Bret Taylor's new venture, Http Trailers, Code Analyzer, and 37Signals move to a private cloud.

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Still Wiping

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 16:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we discuss the latest tech industry layoffs, release note highlights, github, flows, and predictions/hopes for 2023.

Reinventing All the Bugs

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 10:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we discuss some notable lightning component updates from the Spring'23 release notes, feedback on scratch org setup and environment setting tracking, and recent rumors/news related to Salesforce's recent changes in leadership and employee productivity woes.

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Great Lakes of Scratch Orgs

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 15:30:00 -0600

In this episode, we discuss org-shapes and issues with sourcing metadata, Bret Taylor and other executives leaving Salesforce, working from home, and the future of development.

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Inspection Driven Development

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 13:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we discuss code inspections, Cramer's apology, and the recent tech industry layoffs.

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Pull Up Your Pants

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 14:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we bring back the bourbon and have some fun sloshing our way through a number of topics, from spirits to salesforce.

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Life Choices

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Fri, 30 Sep 2022 15:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we recap Dreamforce '22 from in-person and remote perspectives and discuss a few of the announced features.

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Trading Sideways

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Fri, 09 Sep 2022 14:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss Microsoft's continued support of Java, Oracle's cloud business growth, Salesforce co-producing a docuseries with CNBC, and quiet quiting.

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Tree Knob

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 10:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss Datasonet, avoidable issues with a Dymo printer, Salesforce performance delays during preview releases, CSS container queries, Salesforce's Kinetics design system, and vendor lock-in.

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Broken Promises

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Fri, 19 Aug 2022 13:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss Dreamforce '22, OAuth flows, DataSonnet, pub/sub, LWC development, Oracle losing to Salesforce, Illuminated Cloud, and Salesforce's leaked org chart.

Too Old to Grind

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 14:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss the downside of soft deletion, Dreamforce registration, minimum-viable-products (MVPs), and other topics.

Managing the Decline

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Fri, 08 Jul 2022 12:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss the StackOverflow 2022 Developer survey, DevOps, things you learn as a developer, and the usage of the DRY principle.

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Knobs & Switches

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Fri, 10 Jun 2022 13:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss Salesforce's pilot of NFT Cloud, greenwashing, software complexity, and transparency concerning company non-competes and job salaries.

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Angle Brackets All the Way Down

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Thu, 26 May 2022 10:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we get a surprise visit from Stephan Chandler-Garcia, a Developer Advocate at Salesforce, to chat about various Salesforce developer topics and events.

Special Guest: Stephan Chandler-Garcia.

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Code Curious

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Fri, 29 Apr 2022 13:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss marketing cloud branding changes, Salesforce's acquisition of Phennecs, Heroku, and highlights from the TrailblazerDX conference keynotes.

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Ergonomology

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Fri, 08 Apr 2022 10:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss desk ergonomics, experience building a complex web component, managing system limits at runtime, Microsoft's Power Platform, Thoughtworks Technology Radar, voice-driven coding, companies encouraging employees to return to the office, and Salesforce's global partnership with Formula 1.

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I Don't like Your Title

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 10:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss the 3 elements of Agile, Amazon's metaverse-like game to train people on AWS, Platform events publish callbacks pilot, Salesforce's wellness retreat, claymorphism and design trends, certification stacking, and is it ok to admit when a solution is to complex for you to delivery.

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A Listening Session

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Fri, 25 Feb 2022 11:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we discuss learning fatigue, multi-factor authentication (MFA) fatigue, Slack's recent outage, NFTs, and initial impressions of using Lightning Web Runtime (LWR) to create an Experience Site.

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Leaking Everywhere

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 14:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we discuss the challenges of working with a large platform, #teamearth, Salesforce NFT, and other tech related topics.

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Need to Know Basis

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Thu, 23 Dec 2021 12:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we discuss AWS Amplify, JetBrains Fleet, Oracle's acquisition of Cerner, review our 2021 predictions, and make new predictions for 2022.

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Metaland

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 13:00:00 -0600

In this episode, Salesforce retiring Audience Studio DMP, Brett Taylor's interview on CNBC's Closing Bell, Slack vs. forums for developer community support, and enabling Multi-factor Authentication (MFA)

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Roided Up

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Fri, 05 Nov 2021 16:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss candy and other food-related nonsense, retail and online shopping, unit testing vs. functional testing, Benioff's comments on net-zero, and HTML DOM and javascript frameworks.

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Too Many Commits

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Fri, 15 Oct 2021 10:15:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss our Dreamforce reactions, rumors about a CEO transition, being able to read code with an open mind, proposed changes to Chrome's developer tools message filtering, and tips for git commits.

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Forced into a Tangent

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Fri, 17 Sep 2021 11:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we follow up on using npm install with SFDX projects and discuss selector and repository patterns, the role of architects, and stresses associated with software development.

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Private Regions

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Fri, 10 Sep 2021 12:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss coding conventions and style, premature optimizations, CSV, Salesforce+, and 1Password.

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Still Pissed Off at the Web

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 21 Jul 2021 14:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss managing state in LWC components, submitting to maven central, camel pdf generator, as a 90s programmer what we thought the future of programming would be, Windows 11, Github Copilot, and the states of UI development.

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People Ruin Things

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Fri, 18 Jun 2021 14:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss smart toilets, StackOverflow's acquisition, Benioff's interview about Slack, and Apple WWDC.

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The Danger with Hot Fixes

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Fri, 21 May 2021 16:00:00 -0500

Hey Code Coverage, we noticed you are still below 75. We can't deploy you to Production ;)

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Confetti Talk

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Thu, 06 May 2021 15:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss notable highlights from the Summer '21 Release Notes, enterprise licensing, Heroku, the possibility of Dreamforce being in-person, and a brief discussion on web app architecture.

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RFC for Your CSV

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 14 Apr 2021 15:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss Google's certificate program, object destructuring, IntelliJ Updates, Apple TV, Salesforce's policies on vaccination and working from home, Cloud 3.0, and other community topics.

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Sir, Good Day!

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Thu, 25 Mar 2021 14:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss pizza methods, packaging anti-patterns, Adam Selipsky, SFDX-git-delta (a.k.a. SGD), thoughts on appropriate levels of abstraction, the pros and cons of outsourcing, and experiences building business rule engines.

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Come For the Flow, Stay For the Code

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 10 Mar 2021 13:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we discuss secret keys on GitHub, rumors of a new Salesforce CEO, Quokka, RedMonk's Top 20 languages, MOVA, Microsoft Exchange, and Open Sourcing the Salesforce CLI.

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I-Need-a-Beer-Week

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Thu, 25 Feb 2021 16:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we discuss full stack fatigue, unit testing and testing environments, and beer - cause it's been one of this weeks.

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Brew and Stay Fit

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 03 Feb 2021 15:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we discuss beer, cycling, a follow-up on our Flow discussion, Jeff Bezo's leaving Amazon, IBM reducing its blockchain team, Apple's earnings call, scratchpad, and other topics from the Good Day, Sir! Community.

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Close Your Loop, Dummy

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 27 Jan 2021 14:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we discuss vaccine cloud, GPT-3 sql generation, glassmorphism, Salesforce's developer survey, and Spring '21 release notes.

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You Can't Leave the Ohana

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Thu, 14 Jan 2021 15:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we discuss Wade Wegner's farewell to Salesforce, Sarah Franklin's promotion to CMO, recent acquisitions by Komodo and IBM, and a Zoom etiquette rant from Jeremy.

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Trying Not to Die

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Thu, 31 Dec 2020 14:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we review our 2019 predictions for 2020 and make new predictions for 2021.

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The Information’s Techodus List

Digital Media Overload

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Sat, 19 Dec 2020 11:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we are joined by Stephan Chandler-Garcia to discuss the latest developer-centric announcements from the DreamTX event.

Special Guest: Stephan Chandler-Garcia.

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Sessions

Cringing at Every Syllable

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 14:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we discuss Salesforce's acquisition of Slack.

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Grown Ass Man

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 18 Nov 2020 15:45:00 -0600

In this relatively brief episode, we discuss the performance of the new Apple M1 Macbooks, Larry Ellison's comments on new marketing tools, and an update on Jeremy's homebrew setup.

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Unhandled Inception

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Fri, 06 Nov 2020 10:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we discuss Microsoft's partnership with Adobe and C3, GitHub source code leak, a new CEO tax in San Francisco, and the unintended consequences of certifications and the H1B system.

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A Medium to Flavor

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Thu, 22 Oct 2020 18:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we listen to and share our thoughts on several topics from clips sourced from various technology related podcasts.

Earned Media

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 14:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss Tableau CRM, Otka, Work.com, reliance on automation, architecture and solution design, and the community thread on what you would do to not mess up a new Salesforce Org.

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You Can’t Lick Your Way to Namespaces

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Thu, 24 Sep 2020 17:00:00 -0500

Note, this is not one of our traditional shows. It is our first remote recording since the pandemic from our favorite bar, and things get candid. We barely talk Salesforce. John curses while Jeremy tries to keep the show on track. It might even be our last show...who knows. Listen at your own discretion.

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Fear of Missing Emails

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 09 Sep 2020 18:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we are joined by members of the Good Day, Sir! community to discuss our highlights from the Salesforce Winter '21 Release Notes.

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Learn the Curly Brackets

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 19 Aug 2020 14:00:00 -0500

In this special Good Day, Sir! Community episode, we discuss a Digital Dreamforce and related conferences, Salesforce automation, packaging, and other news related topics.

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Embrace Hybrid

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Thu, 06 Aug 2020 14:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss aura method security and how to scan for missing permissions, real-time event monitoring, OpenAI GPT-3, and low code/pro code.

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Living in a Fantasy World

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 21:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we are joined by Jodie Miners to discuss various topics including recent Salesforce platform announcements and releases, working with developer tools such as visual studio code and scratch orgs, and various resources that Jodie publishes to share with the community.

Special Guest: Jodie Miners.

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Stricken from the Internet

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Sun, 12 Jul 2020 08:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we are joined by Chuck Liddell, to discuss various topics, including features highlighted at the TrailheadDX virtual conference such as transactional finalizers and serverless functions.

Special Guest: Chuck Liddell.

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LinkedIn Vultures

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Fri, 26 Jun 2020 20:15:00 -0500

In this episode, we are joined by Scott Wells, creator of the Illuminated Cloud IDE, to share our thoughts, opinions, and reactions to announcements and features highlighted at the TrailheadDX virtual conference.

Special Guest: Scott Wells.

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Accidental Complexity

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 16:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss Apple's move to ARM chips, Snowflake, and the complexity of trying to automate change tracking and deployment for project-based work on Salesforce.com

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Failure Surface Area

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 27 May 2020 14:00:00 -0500

In this episode, wireless networking, low code, prioritizing releases, Facebook's new shopping feature, Salesforce open sourcing it's CLI, and a poorly written article that attempts to correlate Salesforce's growth with its backend architecture.

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A Low Code Show

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Fri, 15 May 2020 11:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss the low code event, companies extending working from home, a growing trend of people escaping silicon valley, and our experience with learning from programming books.

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Flair Everywhere

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 21:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss Dreamforce going virtual, Zoom's partnership with Oracle, badges, and whether you could replace Apex with Evergreen.

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Automation Surface Area

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 19:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we follow up on the topic of inlining functions, a rant on trigger development, new licensing terms for GitHub teams, IntelliJ updates, and Zoom.

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Hone the Craft

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Thu, 09 Apr 2020 14:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss wireless routers, approaches to onboarding developers, inline coding vs. functions, a perspective on Benioff's recent bonus, extended membership for the Salesforce CMO club, using docker to host a torrent client, and a networking quiz that one host fails miserably.

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Massage, Pull, and Push

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Thu, 02 Apr 2020 16:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss the possible effects and outcomes from the virus to the industry, first-time fatherhood and work, and held a quick round of trivia.

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Inconsiderate Namespaces

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Tue, 24 Mar 2020 16:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss working from home, long-winded namespaces, recent news, and looking for different ways to engage with the community.

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Seasonal Wools

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 11 Mar 2020 15:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss working remote, event cancellations, billing time for research, neumorphism, and social media.

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This Show Sucks

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Thu, 05 Mar 2020 08:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we discuss Trailhead chat, ServiceMax, Coronavirus travel concerns and conference cancellations, The CMO Club acquisition, and ODQA.

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Sprinkling in Little Nuggets

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Fri, 28 Feb 2020 12:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we discuss Keith Block's departure from Salesforce, Coronavirus concerns, ClearView's facial recognition data leak, Einstein NER, Salesforce's acquisition of Vlocity, and attempting to set up communities for authenticated access only.

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The Least Wrong Thing

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Thu, 20 Feb 2020 13:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we discuss some bad ways to write interfaces, Salesforce CLI release notes, keyboard shortcuts for lightning, Amazon blocking Microsoft's Pentagon contract, Google Cloud's enterprise strategy, and whether an analytics platform is a data warehouse.

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Containers of Containers

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 12 Feb 2020 17:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we discuss multitenant architectures, Spring '20 issues, Flow performance, Adobe's market cap, and IBM's choice to use Slack over MS Teams.

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Share the Cookie

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 05 Feb 2020 13:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we discuss Salesforces' acquisition of Evergage, rumored CSG layoffs, employees expensing Benioff's latest book, Microsoft cloud security, and the retirement of the Data Recovery Service.

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The DMV of Salesforce

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 22 Jan 2020 17:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we discuss working with multiple packages, WeWork, upstarts targeting companies like Salesforce and Oracle, and lightning components and javascript concurrency issues.

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Stop Propagation!

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 08 Jan 2020 17:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we review our 2019 prediction and discuss our predictions for 2020

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Check Your Limit

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 18 Dec 2019 13:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we discuss, Salesforce CRUD security, a few release note highlights, Oracle moving their OpenWorld conference to Las Vegas, and what impact an SAP and Salesforce acquisition or merger would have.

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#SwipeRightOnSalesforce

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Fri, 06 Dec 2019 15:15:00 -0600

In this episode, we discuss Salesforce's Q3 results, Cactus Force, risks of the AppExchange, and integration testing mocks.

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I Stole Chuck's Cookie

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Tue, 26 Nov 2019 09:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we discuss a few notable announcements from Dreamforce '19 and we hear from members of the community about what they enjoyed about the conference.

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Word Salad

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 13 Nov 2019 16:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we discuss Salesforce.Org, Salesforce's new CMS, Project Nightingale, and Apple's new Macbook Pro 16-inch.

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Write-Only Code

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 06 Nov 2019 15:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we discuss unit testing private methods, clean code, Apple's commitment to solving the housing crisis, Azure Arc, new git commands, Adam Blitzer named CEO of Marketing Cloud, tech regulations, and a few questions from the Salesforce subreddit.

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Degraded Performance

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss Trailhead Live, unlocked packages, Microsoft's win of the Pentagon's cloud bid, Facebook, and Tableau.

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Fairly Inadequate

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 23 Oct 2019 14:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss searching for a tool to gauge code quality, trailhead, social media, thoughts on Benioff's recent interviews, and WeWork.

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Between Two Palm Trees

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 16 Oct 2019 16:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss our new recording setup, WeWork, Benioff in the news, Oracle, Salesforce switching to the Go language, and lightning web components.

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My Own MyTrailhead in My Org

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 17:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss upgrading operating systems, tiny airplane seats, Trailhead, Docker in trouble, and community feedback on our 2GP discussion.

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Defrag the Hard Drives

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 25 Sep 2019 17:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss Salesforce IDE tools and the developer console, CTRL - A Conditional Transformer Language Model, Apple's U1 chip, 2nd generation packaging, Salesforce's Manufacturing and Consumer Goods verticals, and issues with Platform Events.

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Way Basic

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 11 Sep 2019 16:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss Salesforce's new ad campaign, WeWork IPO, Uber continuing to invest in their Uber Freight division, Larry Ellison lawsuit over NetSuite acquisition, JetBrains developer survey, and the recent Apple Event announcements.

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Old Day Code

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Thu, 05 Sep 2019 10:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss some of our highlights from the Winter '20 Release Notes including Visual Studio Code remote development support, access to the Recycle Bin in Lightning, Lightning Web Components available as open-source, field-level security, metadata dependency tools, Bulk Query 2.0, 2nd Generation Packaging, and ISV Hammer.

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Stuffing JSON Everywhere

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 28 Aug 2019 15:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss options for automating data extracts from Salesforce to a CSV file, the usage of JSON for configuration data, and part 2/2 of Jeremy's conversation with Shane McLaughlin.

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Lightning Process Builder (a love song) - YouTube

Spamming the Debug Log

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Fri, 23 Aug 2019 08:15:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss various things learned as an ISV, the usefulness of IDEs and browser debug tools, jest, Salesforce's acquisition of ClickSoftware, shareholder value, public/private/hybrid clouds, Salesforce's decision to tone down its Hawaiian culture theming, and part 1 of 2 segments of Jeremy's conversation with Shane McLaughlin.

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Touch It with Different Permissions

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 07 Aug 2019 14:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss Don Robin's and Chuck Liddell's LWC course on PluralSight, Dreamforce 2019 Registration, Illuminated Cloud's debug analyzer, Guidewire hiring Michael Rosenbaum away from Salesforce, documenting and designing solutions for developers, and naming conventions.

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Don’t Mess with Momma’s Sleep

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 31 Jul 2019 18:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss how Slack re-wrote their desktop app from scratch, backlog vs. ready and their usage, dev tips, Salesforce's new quadrant on Gartner, Salesforce's partnership with Alibaba, Mavensmate, and sdkman.io.

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Inspect Your Inspector

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Thu, 18 Jul 2019 10:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss Microsoft Teams, SFDX Falcon, triggers and limits with installed apps, and domain-driven design.

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Orphaned Aliases

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 03 Jul 2019 15:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss alternatives to spinners, GraphQL, Tableau, Boeing outsourcing development, and centers of excellence.

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Puns and Jokes

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 26 Jun 2019 18:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss what was learned from scanning 10.2 billion lines of Apex code, Tableau, the top 10 highest-paid CEO's, Hacker News asks what Salesforce is, and Salesforce Certifications and Trailhead fraud.

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Spinners Everywhere

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Tue, 25 Jun 2019 08:15:00 -0500

In this episode, we record from a local watering hole, Thirsty Growler, and discuss the overuse of lightning spinners, big-objects, tableau, and good devs vs. good Salesforce devs.

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Clicks Good, Code Bad

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 12 Jun 2019 18:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss, Salesforce's acquisition of Tableau, hiring based on coding puzzles, our ideal technologies, and freelancing.

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Read Only Peppers

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Thu, 06 Jun 2019 18:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss Apple announcements, Github Sponsors, permageddon, TralheadDX, and the Extracurricular.

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Oh, Data!

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 15 May 2019 19:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss Salesforce's upcoming earnings, Ivanka Trump to talk job training with Salesforce brass, Einstein Analytics features from the Summer '19 release notes, and the sessions that will be available at The Extracurricular, a community event hosted inside of TrailheaDX.

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Estimazation

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Sat, 11 May 2019 11:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we record remotely from a local spot, Cork and Growler, and discuss test setup methods, siloed project roles, and a bunch of other random stuff.

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T-rex Arms

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 01 May 2019 16:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss the usage of agile buzzwords while not doing agile, change data capture, Accenture being sued by Hertz, and Benioff's donation to study and address homelessness.

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On My Last Ramen

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 24 Apr 2019 15:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss communication skills and resumes, skyscrapers, and the Summer '19 release notes.

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Stupid Amounts of Money

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Fri, 19 Apr 2019 17:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss Salesforce's acquisition of Salesforce.org and MapAnything, working with SFDX, and user stories.

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DevOps Hygiene

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 10 Apr 2019 17:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss the San Francisco Giants Calendar, Git Flow, IntelliJ, Illuminated Cloud, and managing your release environments.

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Frosted Tips

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 03 Apr 2019 16:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss Mark Zuckerberg's comments on regulation, Apple's recent announcements of Apple TV+, issues with multiple logins and community sites, succeeding and failing with agile, pay equality, and Jeremy becoming a Salesforce MVP.

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Big Red Stuff

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 27 Mar 2019 19:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss more about beer than we should have, web hooks, Salesforce embedding Quip, callout errors, the need for a better way to manage deployments, a call for speakers for The Extracurricular, and Chuck Liddel's and Don Robbin's tutorial on Lightning Web Components.

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Multi-paradigm

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 13 Mar 2019 19:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss sleep apnea, tips and resources for developers getting started, sqlite, gacks, and issues with email relaying.

Don't Break the Build

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 19:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we discuss Salesforce's Fiscal 2020 projections, version control repositories, MyTrailhead, hard-coded Ids in process builder flows, and a little beer and wine talk.

All Purpose Nerd

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 27 Feb 2019 20:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we discuss getting enough sleep and staying active, building a community on platform vs. custom, lightning development, experienced gained developing on Salesforce, and Aura archiving March 2019.

Toast Is Good

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 13 Feb 2019 19:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we discuss beer (what else), apex transactions and context, my code, and unit testing.

A Safe Place

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 06 Feb 2019 20:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we discuss the popularity of PHP, Salesforce towner tours, Spotify, Microsoft 365, Satya Nadella's achievements, Action buttons, Four Roses Bourbon, and IDE's.

Billionaires Making It Up

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 30 Jan 2019 19:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we discuss queueables and integrations, startup hustle culture, Apple's financials, HackerRank 2019 Developer Survey, Microsoft's financials, and compile woes.

Naming Anxiety

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Sat, 26 Jan 2019 22:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we record at a local watering hole to discuss working with Field Service Lightning, the difficulty of naming things, the ability to reduce user licenses in Essentials edition, and Salesforce open sourcing AI technology behind Einstein.

Get Good with git

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 16 Jan 2019 19:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we discuss the complexity of buying a tv, the rebuild Salesforce SDK, ClickSoftware, getting lightning ready, working with the new Cloud Flow Designer, and deployments.

After Show Title: I'm Flexible

My Annual Shower

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 09 Jan 2019 20:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we discuss lightning development, dev console, TIOBE Index, review our 2018 predictions, and give our 2019 predictions.

A Sentimental Piece

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 19 Dec 2018 18:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we celebrate our 200th episode and talk about the origin of the podcast, answer questions from the community, lightning web components, and the role acidity plays in food and drink.

Introducing Lightning Web Components | Developer Force Blog

Yo Dawg I Heard You Like Metadata Platforms

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 12 Dec 2018 18:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we discuss facial recognition and privacy concerns, Salesforce hires Paula Goldman as VP, Chief Ethical and Humane Use Officer, changes to field history tracking enforcement, and expriences with configuring SSO and JIT (just-in-time) provisioning.

RAML Lama Ding Dong

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 05 Dec 2018 17:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we discuss Salesforce NA33 outage, Microsoft building a chromium based browser, AWS, Microsoft and Docker, process over automation, digital transformation, 5G, and Flutter.

Single Page GACK

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 28 Nov 2018 17:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we discuss roles on a Salesforce implementation project, Salesforce.com's Q3 2018 quarterly results, and error handling with the Lightning Components.

Json Jsoff

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 21 Nov 2018 15:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we discuss the callouts and mocking, design principles, process, release management, and the state of javascript awards.

Probably Spam

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 14 Nov 2018 17:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we discuss ISV development, certfications, code coverage and quality code, Amazon moving away from Oracle, Zendesk Sunshine, and AI replacing people.

www.live

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 07 Nov 2018 17:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we pilot our first live broadcast and discuss process builder, flows, and workflows and developer experience.

Pinging the OAuth

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 31 Oct 2018 17:00:00 -0500

In this episode we discuss, Jeremy's latest brews, the latest Apple Event announcements, Amazon's outage, and wishing everyone a happy and safe Halloween.

My Handlers Are Big

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 18:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss open-force, action plans, Microsoft's Q4 earnings, Open Data and Customer 360, and Java licensing.

De-Branded

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 16:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss Salesforce Mascots, namespaces, the developer keynote, using Javascript ES6 with Lightning.

Happy birthday dear Astro…and the real story behind all the Salesforce characters!

A Minute for Time

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 26 Sep 2018 16:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss protests and guerrilla campaigns at Dreamforce, the shutdown of the Salesforce Transit Center, Salesforce Customer 360, Anonymous Classes, Salesforce on Siri, Amazon services and Salesforce, and Benioff's interview with Cramer.

Square Coats

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 19 Sep 2018 17:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss the Marc Benioff's purchase of Time Magazine, Einstein Voice, Quip Slides, Survey Monkey, Docker Desktop, and being stuck in trigger hell.

Giant Products

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 29 Aug 2018 17:00:00 -0500

In this episode we discuss, Salesforce.com's Q2 results, companies offering promotions without raises, and the latest Winter '19 release notes.

A World of Notches

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 22 Aug 2018 17:00:00 -0500

In this episode we discuss, Apple's rumored iPhone lineup, Twitter API's impacting 3rd party clients, scratch orgs, Salesforce's continued pressure over Border Patrol contracts, and enterprise integration solutions.

Keto Schmeto

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 15 Aug 2018 18:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss Salesforce auto-transitioning orgs to LEX, thoughts on how our careers changed over the years, and working with packages.

Abstractions Crashing Down

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 08 Aug 2018 17:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss, Keith Block's promotion to Co-CEO, Docker test containers, debate validation logic in before or after triggers, and Marketing Cloud's API error.

Nonban

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 01 Aug 2018 17:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss Dreamforce, the misuse of kanban, issues discovered casting a Datetime value to a Date, Apple's 3rd quarter results, lightning development, and a lot of misc. topics.

Undocumented Workaround

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 25 Jul 2018 16:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss support and reporting bugs, Salesforce.com's acquisition of Dataroma, and discuss topics sent to us by the Good Day, Sir! Community.

ENTERING_MANAGED_PKG

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 11 Jul 2018 14:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss DigitalOcean developer trends report, ICE protestors, Salesforce AI tools for customer service, architecting Lightning components for testability, and issues with building on top of managed packages.

You're Doing It Wrong

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Thu, 05 Jul 2018 17:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss deployment and unit test issues, unit testing preferences, dealing with nulls, bad habits, the recent cancellation of a conference in San Francisco over safety concerns, and a study on open workspaces.

Schrodinger's File

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 27 Jun 2018 18:15:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss issues with Adobe Audition, Salesforce.com's investment in Tact.ai, employees petitioning companies to stop providing services to government border patrol agencies, helping customers mature into a software development process, Skuid Millau, and some guidelines for the Slack community.

Ten Showers

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 20 Jun 2018 18:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss Texas Dreamin' 2018, Elon Musk's rules for meetings, communities sharing model and deployment issues, and the new switch statement in Apex.

Nothing Burger

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 06 Jun 2018 17:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss lightning component development, debug issues, Microsoft's acquisition of Github, and notable announcements from the Apple WWDC 2018 keynote.

Spit and Polish

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 30 May 2018 17:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss Salesforce.com's Fiscal Q1 2019 results, the speculated AI winter, Marc Benioff's stance on GDPR, and likes and dislikes of working with Lightning Components.

Pour Fast

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 23 May 2018 16:00:00 -0500

In this episode we discuss, Bulma and Spring Boot, the cost of insurance and being independent, how little we know of GDPR, nested lightning component initialization, and debate the impact of AI in the near term.

Too Many Photons to the Retina

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 09 May 2018 17:45:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss Oracle launching its blockchain-as-a-service platform, Oracle's autonomous IT push, Salesforce's study on color themes for data visualizations, and highlights from the Summer '18 release notes.

Nougatories

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 02 May 2018 17:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss blue-collar signing bonuses, Salesforce.com certifications, IBM Watson and AI in general, SAP's renewed focus on CRM, personal data backup solutions, Apple stock, and we answer questions from the Good Day, Sir! community.

Get Rid of All the Admins

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 25 Apr 2018 17:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss interviewing for a Technical Architect position, San Francisco's continued issues with safety and cleanliness, Amazon, Bootleggers and Baptists, pre-release orgs, testing on multiple browsers, and Keith Block's comments on AI and blockchain.

A Material Misstatement

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 11 Apr 2018 17:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we continue our recap on TrailheaDX, Salesforce.com's MuleSoft acquisition, and Mark Zuckerberg's Senate hearing.

Pizza of My Fantasies

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 04 Apr 2018 10:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we are joined by Chuck Liddell and Stephan Garcia to discuss our thoughts, opinions, and experiences from the Salesforce.com TrailheaDX conference and The Extracurricular community event.

Special Guests: Chuck Liddell and Stephan Chandler-Garcia.

MuleForce

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 21 Mar 2018 17:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss TrailheaDX and Salesforce.com's acquisition of MuleSoft.

Calorically Neutral

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 14 Mar 2018 17:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss The Extracurricular and TrailheaDX, the Stack Overflow 2018 Developer Survey, Salesforce Ventures investment in Dropbox, Saleforce's acquisition of CloudCraze, Salesforce Essentials, and the top languages, skills, or platforms used for open source.

Extra Napkins

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 07 Mar 2018 16:00:00 -0600

In this episode we are joined by Salesforce.com Evangelist Kevin Poorman to discuss queueables, promise libraries, Pets for Patriots, static vs dynamic functional languages, JOOQ, and we debate the need for a packaging manager for Salesforce.com.

Someone Got Weaned

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 21 Feb 2018 17:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we discuss freelancing, the announcement of Developer Controlled Packages (DCP), integration tools and Mulesoft, and we choose a challenge for the GDS Coding Challenge pilot.

Apex Jockey

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 14 Feb 2018 17:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we discuss minifying apex code, working with Pardot landing page templates, refactoring and abstraction, and Marc Benioff's comments at the New York Times New Work Summit 2018.

One Degree from Namespaces

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 07 Feb 2018 17:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we discuss certifications, the "Uber of Humans", Marc Benioff's interview on CNBC discussing the regulation of social media, and naming conflicts in Apex.

A Swig of Butts

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 31 Jan 2018 17:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we discuss Marc Benioff's comments on regulating social media, Larry Ellison's comments on outcompeting Salesforce in SaaS, using namespaces, and collecting debug logs for unauthenticated site users.

Playing the Field

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 24 Jan 2018 18:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we discuss Marc Benioff's comments on regulating social media companies at Davos, the recent service disruption, Trailhead resumes, Spring '18 release notes, Microsoft's cross-platform Powershell, and unit testing.

Really Cool Access Database

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 17 Jan 2018 17:00:00 -0600

In this episode we discuss, a bunch of stuff that I can't remember because I drank too much whiskey so check out the show links or just listen to the show. Join our Slack Community if you read this and wish for a more informative show notes...or just join to see what people talk about. Jeremy doesn't now I did this so...shhhhhhhhhhhh...be cool.

Trees and Blobs

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Fri, 12 Jan 2018 18:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we discuss our experiences with all day meetings, running MS SQL in a docker container on a Mac, Rootstock acquiring Kenandy, changes to the Lightning URL format, and Salesforce acquiring Attic Labs to join the Quip team.

Man-Hugs

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 03 Jan 2018 18:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we discuss @TestSetup methods being counted in code coverage stats, Salesforce and other companies moving away from Oracle, Andrew Fawcett joining Salesforce.com as VP Product Management in the platform group, Apex Sharp, and Intel's processor design flaw.

Grape Soda

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 27 Dec 2017 17:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we discuss Finisar opening a facility in Texas as part of Apple's $1 billion Advanced Manufacturing Fund for American manufacturers, John Zissomos leaving Salesforce.com, error handling and null checking, the recent release of Illuminated Cloud 2.0, and finally we reflect on the events of 2017 and discuss our pridictions for 2018.

A Kerfuffle Amongst the Indoctrinated

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 20 Dec 2017 18:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we discuss scouting too far ahead on project requirements, debate agile vs waterfall, and answer questions from the Good Day, Sir! Community.

Two Dirty Lines of Code

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 13 Dec 2017 18:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we discuss Matt Lacey's IDE survey, switching away from Evernote, the portablity of code, unit testing, and answer questions from the Good Day, Sir! Community.

Abstraction Happy

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 06 Dec 2017 17:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we discuss design patterns, null checking, chequebook journalism, Brett Nelson's GDS Soundboard, recent changes in Salesforce product management team, and HPE CEO Meg Whitman stepping down.

Blockchaining

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 29 Nov 2017 16:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we continue our discussion on custom integrations and discuss Marc Benioff being named #1 in comparably ranking of top CEOs, and blockchain(ing?).

Two Rebrandings Behind

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 22 Nov 2017 15:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we discuss building configurable integration software, Salesforce's Q3 results, and a switch statement coming to Apex in the near future thanks to recent updates to the Apex Compiler.

Ironic Sweater

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 15 Nov 2017 17:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we discuss Einstein Analytics and SAQL, Marc Benioff's interview on the topic of equal pay, Salesforce's 2017 Invester Day, and the Dreamforce 2017 Developer Keynote.

The Coder Spectrum

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 08 Nov 2017 17:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we discuss various topics streaming out of the Dreamforce 2017 conference.

Unexpected Chili

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 01 Nov 2017 17:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss avoiding social media, progressive web apps, deployment and unit testing, and end-to-end testing vs. unit testing.

My Code

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 18 Oct 2017 17:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss refactoring, global search, the Salesforce Success Community being rebranded to the Trailblazer Community, and Skuid's upcoming Millau Release.

Sniffy Sniff

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 11 Oct 2017 17:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss issues with deploying metadata that has been significantly refactored, Apex getting listed on the TIOBE index, the controversy around the NPM CEO, caution for those traveling to California, and questions from the Good Day, Sir! Community.

Nodehana!

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 04 Oct 2017 18:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss Google Clips, primary key (PK) chunking, the coming software apocalypse, and answer questions from the Good Day, Sir! Community.

Uber Poo

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 27 Sep 2017 13:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss buying a new Apple iPhone and changes to Siri search, Marc Benioff's birthday and being awarded by Variety, Equifax CEO resigning, ProsperWorks raising $53 million to compete with Salesforce.com, and answer questions from the Good Day, Sir! Slack Community.

Losing Width

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 20 Sep 2017 18:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss SAP suing AB InBev, Equifax's data breach, having a beginner's mind, the recent Apple device announcements, server-side vs. client-side development, and dealing with large projects.

How to Train Your Dragon

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 06 Sep 2017 16:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss Salesforce's elusive research division, live coding interviews, and the Lightning Theme coming to Visualforce pages in Winter '18.

Uniquely Annoying

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 30 Aug 2017 17:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss Target moving away from AWS, low code platforms, and answer questions from the Good Day, Sir! Community.

Bearded Irish

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Thu, 24 Aug 2017 09:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss Salesforce.com's Q2 financial results over some tasty brews.

Salesforce Announces Record Q2 Earnings, Surpasses $10B Run Rate Milestone Faster Than Any Enterprise Software Company in History

Happy Clappy

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 16 Aug 2017 17:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss migrating emails into enhanced email, Service Cloud, Salesforce security, managed packages, the Workbench outage, Mavensmate IDE, and answer questions from the Good Day, Sir! Community.

Fat Packages

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 09 Aug 2017 15:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss podcasting, managed packages, lightning component development, flows, and agile projects with fellow podcaster and co-host of the Code Coverage podcast, Steven Herod.

The Training Wheels Are Off

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Mon, 07 Aug 2017 12:00:00 -0500

In this episode, our guest Shaun Holmes shares with us what to expect at SurfForce '17 - The community event with a twist. We also discuss some frustrations with how Process Builder and code interact.

In the Milieu

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 26 Jul 2017 17:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss creepy loyalty programs, Google Glass 2.0, Oracle and SAP clouds, Windows Azure Docker containers, developer surveys, and Salesforce.com's new podcast titled Blazing Trails.

Be a Human Person

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 19 Jul 2017 18:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we continue to discuss various points of view around the future of developing on the Salesforce.com platform, the need for a package management system, and some more details about the upcoming Surfforce conference.

Some Wisdom in the Rambling

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 12 Jul 2017 17:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss Jeremy's experiences after attending TrailheaDX and explore various points of view on the future of working with the Salesforce.com platform.

The Crazy Factor

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Thu, 06 Jul 2017 10:00:00 -0500

In this episode, Jeremy is joined by Chuck Liddell to discuss their experience at Trailheadx, Packaging 2, using scratch orgs for the admin/developer workflow, platform events, and Chuck's new integration product, Valence.

API Reach Around

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 21 Jun 2017 17:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss losing our listing on iTunes, Matsusaka beef, issues deploying metadata with updated managed packages, unit tests that snowball in complexity, the Apex Metadata API, and plans for the upcoming TrailheaDX Salesforce Developer Conference.

Hypesters

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 07 Jun 2017 17:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss phonetic string matching, upcoming social features in Skype, Pega's CEO keynote, and notable product announcements by Apple at WWDC17.

Every Cliff Is a Wall

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 31 May 2017 17:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we revisit our discussion on the @testSetup annotation and discuss issues with Visualforce action functions, concerns over deployments that affect users that are actively using the system, Salesforce developer documentation not being indexed by Google, Shannon Hale's Reddit AMA responses, and we answer questions from the Good Day, Sir! Community.

It’s Worth Being Brittle

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 24 May 2017 17:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss using the @testSetup annotation, Chrome enterprise supporting SaaS apps, AWS hiring James Gosling, and we answer questions from the Good Day, Sir! Community.

Code of Hour

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Fri, 19 May 2017 12:15:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss our experiences at Texas Dreamin' 2017, various ways people learn to code, and Salesforce's Fiscal 2018 first quarter results.

Moonshot

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 03 May 2017 17:00:00 -0500

In this episode we discuss custom lightning development, PhantomJS and Headless Chrome, Apple’s Q2 earnings, Hulu TV, Oracle restructuring its sales team, Benioff’s $400 billion job creation goal, and where to meet up for happy hour at Texas Dreamin 2017.

Close Enough for Enterprise Software

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 26 Apr 2017 18:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss Amazon’s Lex as a service, AWS CEO’s comments on Oracle customers, getting started as a developer, our first computers and the languages we used, implementing Salesforce using Agile, the risk of Lightning UIs suffering from poor usability design, the risk of business logic in lightning controllers, opinions on the Lightning Design System (SLDS), and the productivity of Salesforce development vs other languages.

A Gusher

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 19 Apr 2017 17:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss Salesforce achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions, various highlights from Facebook's F8 conference, Oracle's recent acquisitions, Punycode phishing attack, and losing patience with Lightning.

Artisanal Small Batch

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 12 Apr 2017 18:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss the IntelliJ 2017 release, accusations by the Department of Labor concerning Google's wage gap, Benioff capping off the Salesforce Tower, and the need to release early and often.

Young Einstein

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 05 Apr 2017 18:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we bring back beer and discuss our favorite April Fools pranks, Salesforce receiving a Cloud Positive Classification from the Department of Defense (DoD), Salesforce’s continued effort to close the wage gap, and transitioning solutions from Excel to Salesforce.

Lady in the Cylinder

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 29 Mar 2017 18:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss Salesforce.com's new mascot, Amazon Connect, Internet privacy laws, rumors that Oracle may acquire Accenture, and Angular v4.0.

Heavy Editing

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 22 Mar 2017 20:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss Apex transactions, SalesforceDX, user research and wireframes, Angular woes, and Marc Benioff's comments after meeting with President Trump.

Mitigated by DX

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 15 Mar 2017 22:00:00 -0500

In this episode we follow up on the Salesforce.com FY18 Kickoff Coke demo, answer questions from our Slack community, and discuss Pi day and Einstein’s birthday, who pays for wait-time during deployments, Skuid raising $24 million in new financing, Microsoft’s DeepCoder, and rogue high performers.

Nerding It Up

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 08 Mar 2017 18:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we discuss developing lightning components with 3rd party frameworks, Salesforce Quick-Start implementations, the Salesforce FY18 Kickoff event, and IBM Watson and Salesforce Einstein partnership.

Roll Trucks

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Thu, 02 Mar 2017 18:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we discuss sharing rules and system context, design sprints and BDUF in general, monetizing IoT data, consulting practices, and Salesforce.com’s Q4 2017 results and earning call.

Callout Colon

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Sat, 25 Feb 2017 17:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we discuss using named credentials, big tech companies relocating their conferences, Google's experimental Upspin file sharing framework, and we answer questions from the Good Day, Sir! Community.

Sticky Wicket

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Fri, 17 Feb 2017 16:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we discuss quotes and CPQ, using font-end frameworks with Salesforce, Chris Rock's controversial routine at the Salesforce Annual Sales Kick-off Meeting, IsNull vs IsBlank, leaving code better than how you found it, and Google's Spanner database service.

Interested, Willing and Capable

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Fri, 10 Feb 2017 13:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we discuss Quip revamping its UI, community events Surf Force and Texas Dreamin', deployment frequency, Salesforce.com's release overview videos, transitioning from Visualforce to Lightning, and Salesforce.com's Connected Small Business Report.

IUnknown

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Fri, 03 Feb 2017 13:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we discuss Microsoft's and Apple's financial results, CS60 performance problems, Dropbox's fastest to $1B run rate, Dropbox Paper and Smart Sync, Slack Grid, Salesforce's new Bellevue office, and we answer questions from the Good Day, Sir! Slack Community.

Lightning Lightweight Containers

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Fri, 27 Jan 2017 12:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we discuss Salesforce continuing to invest in Hyderabad, our preferences for organizing a class, Salesforce being compared to Blackberry, REST API composite resources, using the Bulk API in the browser, and the cost of maintaining certifications.

A Fair Ask

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Fri, 20 Jan 2017 11:30:00 -0600

In this episode, we discuss slow deployments, unit testing, Oracle's new data centers, Salesforce hiring Monica Langely as an executive VP, Microsoft's continued investment in AI, and Marc Benioff's interview from the annual World Economic Forum.

Suggestive but Not Vulgar

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Fri, 13 Jan 2017 17:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we discuss fat-washing cocktails, FinancialForce's new CEO, Atlassian acquiring Trello, dueling with Salesforce support, and questions from the Good Day, Sir! Slack community.

Vibration Materials

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Fri, 06 Jan 2017 15:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we discuss certifications, thoughts on working with dual screens, workarounds for visualforce bugs, IdeaExchange, Apple's App Store numbers and the Salesforce AppExchange, and Microsoft LinkedIn.

Nestled in a Nice Stack

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Thu, 29 Dec 2016 17:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we discuss the aftermatch of the team dynamic topic from Episode 109, questions from the Good Day Sir! Community, notable topics from 2016, and our predictions for Salesforce and the tech industry for 2017.

Dirty Bits

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Fri, 23 Dec 2016 15:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we discuss poorly written Process Builder processes, team dynamics, exception handling performance, and answer questions from members of the Good Day, Sir! Community.

Giant, Sloppy Functions

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Fri, 16 Dec 2016 12:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we discuss getting older in tech, choosing custom develpment over installing apps, tech leaders to meet with President-elect Trump, inline code vs. short functions, source control and deployments, TrailheaDX 2017, and helping Jeremy decide whether to get a new Mac Mini or build a custom entertainment PC.

Shooting the Fitbit

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Fri, 09 Dec 2016 10:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we discuss why good developers might write terrible code, unit testing vs. functional testing, process builder, concerns around catfishing candidates and outsourcing, and why German pilsners are better than Czech pilsners.

7-Layer App

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Fri, 02 Dec 2016 15:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we discuss the snowball affect of subscription services, Thoughtworks Technology Radar, Skuid's Brooklyn Release, and Domain-Driven Design (DDD).

Dongle Success

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Fri, 25 Nov 2016 11:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we discuss Salesforce.com's Q3 2017 earnings, the lack of a development enviornment for Marketing Cloud, and an updated review of the MacBook Pro 15".

Abuser of Superlatives

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Fri, 18 Nov 2016 13:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we discuss developing Lightning Components, Re/code's interview with Marc Benioff, and first impressions of the new MacBook Pro.

Theoretical Heartburn

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Fri, 11 Nov 2016 10:30:00 -0600

In this episode, we discuss an Einstein opinion article removed from the Oracle blog, the pitfalls of adding workflow rules in production, organizing trigger logic, Steve Balmer's comments on buying Salesforce.com, and the recent Macbook Pro product.

Mass Reimplementation

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Fri, 28 Oct 2016 10:00:00 -0500

in this episode, we discuss Microsoft, Wipro acquiring Appirio, IoT devices hacked for DDoS attack, Quip, Oracle's NetSuite acquisition, Benioff walking away from Twitter acquisition, and Process Builder errors.

Breakfast and Whiskey

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Fri, 21 Oct 2016 11:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss TypeScript, ReactiveX, Javascript as a language, artificial intelligence, Salesforce not acquiring Twitter, concerns over the SaaS business model, and Workplace by Facebook.

Starting from Zero

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Sat, 08 Oct 2016 16:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss our impressions of Dreamforce 2016 and SalesforceDX.

Cog Mentality

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Sat, 01 Oct 2016 16:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss Twitter acquisition rumors, Salesforce.com wanting to block Microsoft-LinkedIn deal, Oracle Project Visual Code, Google G Suite, and issues with managed packages and unit testing.

Begin Transaction

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Thu, 22 Sep 2016 15:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss Oktoberfest beer, Salesforce.com Einstein, open-source software, Troops, Vlocity, Microsoft stock buyback, Salesforce Stickers for iMessage, Google Allo, custom iterators, and unit testing records with unique constraints.

Acquisition for Innovation

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Fri, 02 Sep 2016 11:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss issues with slow Salesforce.com Sandbox creation and ongoing developer tool performance, and Salesforce.com's Q2 financial results.

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Silent but Deadly

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Fri, 26 Aug 2016 15:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss Salesforce.com Health Cloud, our Dreamforce attendance, artificial intelligence (AI) as it pertains to CRM, Marc Benioff on the cover of Forbes, whether anything innovative has come out of Salesforce.com in recent years, and issues with lengthy save and compile times in sandbox environments.

Citizen Scientists

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Fri, 19 Aug 2016 13:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss using Saas tools vs. Word documents, the Chrome Javascript console bug and sites intentionally disabling the Javascript console, reports of stock analysts lowering expectations for Salesforce.com’s upcoming Q2 financial results, and Salesforce.com’s acquisition of BeyondCore.

Pouring It Liberally

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Fri, 12 Aug 2016 16:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss project estimation and work-life balance, issues with the latest updates to Google Chrome, Jeremy’s homebrew keg setup, whether to attend Dreamforce'16 or not, synchronization issues between Salesforce Clouds, and Salesforce.com's acquisition of Quip.

Hot, Cold, and Bourbon

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Thu, 04 Aug 2016 15:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we are joined by Salesforce.com MVP and entrepreneur Nick Hamm to discuss how 10K Advisors looks to fill the void for top Salesforce.com Talent.

The Bros and the Babes

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Thu, 28 Jul 2016 16:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss the recent Salesforce.com MVP Lightning Experience Summit, the Troops Slackbot for Sales, 10K Advisors, Microsoft's Professional Degree Program, Salesforce1 mobile dropping support for some devices, Amazon acquiring Cloud9 IDE, job postings for Salesforce.com coders, and StackOverflow.com's new Documentation site.

Agile Killed the Architect

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Thu, 14 Jul 2016 14:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss Amazon's Prime Day, show reviews that we missed, Hyperdev, StackOverflow's new research site, The Night Of, rumors that Oracle is buying Netsuite, whether Agile is making Technical Architects obsolete or if the role is just evolving, and changes to the Lightning Experience navigation coming in Winter 17.

Beer for Breakfast

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Fri, 08 Jul 2016 12:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss Google's human fly paper, hitting Salesforce limitations when setting up test data, a review of the Illuminated Cloud IDE for Salesforce.com, rant about the setup tools for the Lightning UX, the rebranding of the Salesforce.com Mobile SDK, Keir Bowden's article on "The MVP Life" and debate whether MVP's can be honest and critical in the community without fear, and Microsoft's announcement of Dynamics 365 and AppSource.

Sad Soup

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Thu, 30 Jun 2016 14:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss Marc Benioff's comments on the Brexit decision, when to use point and click tools vs coding, fixing a bad Salesforce.com instance vs starting over, MavensMate IDE suspending development and alternative IDE's, issues with invalid metadata being produced by the Salesforce.com MetadataAPI, and AWS Lambda.

BSaaS

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Fri, 24 Jun 2016 16:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss Oracle racing Salesforce.com to $10 billion, Docker for Mac and Windows, Salesforce Mobile App Cloud, Lightning Communities, and Surf Force, a user group event being organized by Shaun Holmes.

Don't forget to mark your calendar for Surf Force! August 13,2016 Aberavon, Wales. You can register by visiting www.surfforce.co and stay in touch by following @surfforce on twitter.

Hug a Finn

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 14:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss the existence of a tech bubble, notable topics from the Apple WWDC, the value of certifications, TrailheadX, and Microsoft's acquisition of LinkedIn.

Glee Phase

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Fri, 10 Jun 2016 15:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss field history tracking not available to unit tests, the Salesforce.com superlative index, the Salesforce.com data center teams and AWS, the SEC looking to crackdown on non-GAAP accounting, Salesforce opening a COE (center of excellence) in Hyderabad, and notable topics from the Salesforce TrailheaDX Developer Conference.

Not a Done Deal

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Sat, 04 Jun 2016 16:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss asking questions on support forums, Google winning copyright lawsuit filed by Oracle, speculations on how Salesforce.com could utilize AWS, The Information's 2016 rankings of tech events to attend, social media struggling with social commerce, and Salesforce.com's acquisition of Demandware.

Dramatically Weakened

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Thu, 26 May 2016 15:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP), single barrel whiskey, Salesforce's recent acquisitions costing an estimated $75 million, Apple Store app approvals vs Salesforce AppExchange approvals, Salesforce.com licenses increasing by 40% in the UK, follow up on Amazon Smile, questions Jim Cramer asked Benioff on his recent political stances, Benioff's comments on the Q1 2017 numbers, and Benioff's response to more buyout rumors.

Dangerous and Gross

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Sat, 21 May 2016 11:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss charitable shopping with Amazon Smile, Google Home, issues with referencing static resources in the Summer'16 release, Fitbit acquiring Coin's wearable payment assets, Google spreadsheets integrated with Salesforce, Project Sayonara, Marc Benioff campaigning against George Lucas' museum, Salesforce.com's Fiscal 2017 Q1 Results, and more details on the NA14 outage.

Not Available

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Thu, 12 May 2016 15:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss Node.js and Javascript fatigue, Jeff Bezos making $6 billion in 20 minutes, the Salesforce NA14 outage, Salesforce using AWS, Salesforce's Thunder IoT Cloud, Cisco Jasper, and Dan Lyons' book "Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble"

Garnished with Fresh Pink Goo

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Thu, 28 Apr 2016 21:00:00 -0500

In this episode, Jeremy shares his tips on preparing tri-tip beef and we discuss annoying UPS warning tones, a reported incident at Apple HQ, Slack targeting Salesforce and Oracle, a debate on integration tools such as Informatica Cloud, the inability to change your rating on Salesforce Knowledge Articles, the lack of information on the TrailheaDX Salesforce Developer Conference, and Forbes interview with Adam Seligman on building apps for the Salesforce Platform.

Accidental Exposure

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Thu, 21 Apr 2016 15:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we officially announce our new Slack community and discuss Marc Benioff's most recent bonus, using FluidApp with Gmail, Gartner naming Salesforce.com the leader in AIM (Application, Infrastructure, and Middleware), TrailheaDX, Skuid's Rockaway release, a lightning round of Lightning UX topics, and the Lightning Locker Service.

Here It Is, Come Plug It

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Thu, 14 Apr 2016 10:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss Twitter acquiring Peer, Benioff using Microsoft's HoloLens, Dan Lyons' comments on Hubspot, National Equal Pay Day, Keith Block's new watch, Salesforce's Proxy Statement for 2016 Annual meeting of Stockholders, Salesforce being sued for discrimination, and Amazon reaching $10 billion in sales.

A Pavlovian Response

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Fri, 08 Apr 2016 18:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss The Clouds featuring Shell Black on bass, the StackOverflow 2016 Developer Survey, IBM acquiring Bluewolf, Salesforce acquiring MetaMind, Salesforce partnering with NEC, Apptus adding support for Microsoft Dynamics, and highlights from the Microsoft Build 2016 conference.

Like a Cheese, China

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Fri, 01 Apr 2016 17:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we are joined by guest host and long-time friend of the show Shaun Holmes to discuss and debate many different topics around the Salesforce.com platform including working with Salesforce.com Support.

Fusion All the Things

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Fri, 18 Mar 2016 12:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss Dropbox building their own cloud and moving away from AWS, Marc Benioff's commitment to making sure the Salesforce Tower includes mindful spaces, using encrypted fields in Salesforce, the recently announced Salesforce Field Service Lightning, and Oracle's financial results.

Cacao Nibs

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Fri, 04 Mar 2016 15:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we discuss Salesforce.com's Q4 earnings, Alphabet and Salesforce Ventures invesing millions in ThousandEyes, and the FBI attempting to force Apple to provided a hack for iOS.

The Caboose Dilemma

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Fri, 26 Feb 2016 10:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we discuss choosing an MVC framework, how Salesforce MVPs are chosen, Tod Nielson leaving Salesforce, predictions on Salesforce.com's platform, PWC's talent exchange and the gig economy, Salesforce.com's acquisition of PredictionIO, Netflix's migration to the Amazon Cloud, and talk about the things we enjoy by playing Castaway/Desert Island.

Departmental Rogueness

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Fri, 19 Feb 2016 10:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we discuss Oracle's continued transition into the Cloud and Apple’s fight against FBI demands to create a backdoor into iOS.

Package Too Big

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Thu, 11 Feb 2016 15:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we are joined by our good friend Teddy Zemedie to discuss popular design stats in 2015 published by Avacode, managing and deploying Salesforce configuration and code changes using version control, and Heroku Connect.

It’s Elastic!

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Mon, 08 Feb 2016 13:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we discuss gulp, twitter struggling to monetize, and the Salesforce live broadcast of their FY17 kickoff and product demos of new features for Sales and Service Lightning clouds.

Killed by the Nerds of the World

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Thu, 28 Jan 2016 15:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we discuss the World Economic Forum in Davos, the SteelBrick acquisition causing partner pain, a seeming increase of reports that Salesforce.com will have a rough 2016, the Wave Analytics reboot and IoT, and Oracle offering sales people major bonuses for getting customers to buy cloud offerings.

Manspreading

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Thu, 14 Jan 2016 15:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we discuss cooking with a sous-vide, the current state of IoT, using ORM patterns in Apex, banned words for 2016, notable topics from the Spring '16 release notes, and reported updates to Salesforce Analytics (Wave).

Ok, Sassy

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Thu, 24 Dec 2015 10:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we discuss the recently announced Salesforce and Box integration, a possible Salesforce acquisition of SteelBrick, the Salesforce acquisition of MinHash, recent reportings of a price drop for the Analytics Cloud, and close out the year with some memorable clips and some predictions for 2016.

Merry Christmas! and thank you to everyone who listens to us, has written a review, engaged us on Twitter, and been a guest on our show. We had a lot of fun producing this show this year and look forward to another great year!

Here Be Unicorns

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Fri, 11 Dec 2015 10:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we record from Lone Star Taps & Caps where we sample various beverages and we discuss Swift going open source, Salesforce's Q3 financials, and other misc. topics.

Blue Poo Drama

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Mon, 30 Nov 2015 14:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we discuss recent Salesforce.com performance/connectivity issues, the confusing features of Chatter, the StackExchange's need for a new logo, Marc Benioff's office, the absurd idea of "free spec work", and a discussion on properly managing data migrations.

Courage to Do the Right Thing

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Thu, 12 Nov 2015 11:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we discuss Salesforce spending $3 million to close their gender pay gap, #NoCodeNovember, and tips and advice for common issues we face when reviewing existing Salesforce implementations.

Homo Nimbus

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Thu, 29 Oct 2015 14:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss Salesforce's ever growing real-estate needs, Salesforce Ventures, dealing with updates to PaaS environments, Larry Ellison's keynote from Oracle OpenWorld 2015, the value of the AppExchange to Salesforce, the confusion around Lightning and Skuid, and how JavaScript is more popular than ever.

Initiate Kneecap

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Fri, 23 Oct 2015 12:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we talk about processes and estimating projects, get nostalgic about Back to the Future, gripe about annoying downtime and delays developing on Salesforce, and brainstorm on new cloud verticals for the Salesforce platform.

Powered by Thunder

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Thu, 08 Oct 2015 15:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss blue ice, Amazon pulling AppleTV from their catalog, Facebook feeds and ads, Benioff taking a break from Facebook, updates to MavensMate IDE, and Amazon's QuickSight BI tool.

Baby Roots

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Thu, 01 Oct 2015 13:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss Salesforce's stance on CISA, the tech industry's impact on San Francisco, BASE CRM, the slow adoption of IoT, Microsoft's acquisition of Adxstudio, and creepy employee trackers.

#SwearJar | @jeremy (0) | @john (2)

A Glow Stick to the Eye

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Fri, 25 Sep 2015 16:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss our experience from Dreamforce, Uber, Forbes' list of interesting things from Dreamforce, the Women's Innovation panel, Microsoft's strong presence at the conference, the winners and losers of the conference, Jim Cramer's interview with Marc Benioff, the creepiness of IoT, and a high-level breakdown of the companies that use Salesforce.

#SwearJar | @jeremy (3) | @john (1)

Pretty Pink Comic Sans

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Mon, 21 Sep 2015 13:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we are joined by guest host Allison Bourn to discuss taking a step away from the madness of Dreamforce with activities like yoga, running, and morning dance parties. Allison also shares her thoughts on how Salesforce is working to provide solutions for higher education and healthcare industries.

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Happy Soup

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Sat, 19 Sep 2015 03:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we are joined by guest host Matthew Morris of the Technology Flows podcast and guest Kevin Reece, Sage Live Technical Evangelist and software engineer, to discuss the experience of developing Sage Live on the Salesforce Platform.

I'm Getting up Early for Bacon

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Thu, 17 Sep 2015 12:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we are joined by guest host Kristi Guzman to discuss the various sessions that we attended including trailhead, lighting experience, and debugging tools. We also learned more about the #GirlyGeeks (Women in Tech) group and how they offer support for women in the Salesforce community and the technology industry in general.

In the after show, we discuss our initial impressions of Marc Benioff's Keynote and the Community Cloud Keynote.

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Surface Up

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 16 Sep 2015 03:00:00 -0500

In this episode, our guest host Shell Black helps us kick off a week of live podcasting from the Salesforce Dreamforce 2015 Conference. We discuss various topics around the Lightning Experience and the use of analytics to enable intelligent systems.

In the after show, we give a short recap of our experience in the Admin Zone Podcast studio, debate the size of the conference and whether it is too big for San Francisco, and share some thoughts from some of the sessions that we attended.

Flip Flops and Tank Tops

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 11:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss IBM's cloud commercial, the Apple September 2015 Keynote event, and tips for Dreamforce.

Draggy Droppy

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Fri, 04 Sep 2015 15:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss Salesforce's Q2 financials and walk through some highlights from the Salesforce Winter '16 release notes.

It Had to Be Done

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 26 Aug 2015 18:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we debate the good and bad of the new Salesforce UI "Gatorade Edition" and what it could mean for customers, partners, developers, and the community in general. Oh, and don't use the hamburger!

#SwearJar | @jeremy (2) | @john (0)

A Big Bang Type of Thing

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Fri, 21 Aug 2015 11:45:00 -0500

In this episode we discuss the "New Salesforce" event, our Dreamforce live recording schedule, Amazon's working conditions, rumors of price changes for Wave, Custom Metadata types in Winter'16, a brief discussion on the upcoming Salesforce Q2 financials, and Microsoft's position as Salesforce's hottest competitor.

#SwearJar | @jeremy (5) | @john (5)

No Vacation for You!

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 05 Aug 2015 17:00:00 -0500

In this episode we discuss the Dreamforce Podcast Zone, donating to the ASPCA, installing Windows 10 and Visual Studio 2015, the Lexus Slide hoverboard, polymorphic fields, Dreamforce tips and trailhead, Sage Live, and dynamic apex.

#SwearJar | @jeremy (0) | @john (10$ Quiz Payout)

There's a Component for That

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Thu, 30 Jul 2015 12:00:00 -0500

In this episode we discuss the AppExchange for Components, downgrading managed packages, highlights of the Skuid Banzai release, the inability to copy and paste from javascript, support for Custom Permissions in Apex, Amazon AWS earnings, Talend's CEO thoughts on Salesforce and Big Data, and the ineffectiveness of performance reviews.

#SwearJar | @jeremy (0) | @john (2)

Damn Shareware

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Thu, 23 Jul 2015 17:30:00 -0500

In this episode we discuss Talend's support for Salesforce Analytics, the Skuid Banzai release, RedMonk's language rankings, Illuminated Cloud Force.com IDE for IntelliJ, the dangers of spaghetti code, asynchronous triggers, unexpected issues with getContent(), Moore's Law (again), and namespace support in Apex. Jeremy takes the "Who wants to be a Salesforce Admin" quiz.

#SwearJar | @jeremy (6) | @johndesantiago (1)

Off by One Decimal Place

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Thu, 16 Jul 2015 12:00:00 -0500

In this episode we discuss Salesforce reaching 1 million volunteer hours, Office 365, IBM's 7nm chip, jQuery 3.0, TideKit shutting down, Heroku Connect, Apex Metadata API support, improvements to the Salesforce Developer Docs portal, Salesforce Shield, Microsoft Cortana Analytics, Workday acquires Upshot, developer productivity, makers schedules vs. managers schedules, and .Net support for TLS 1.2.

#SwearJar | @jeremyross (2) | @johndesantiago (1)

Glitches Happen

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Thu, 09 Jul 2015 15:00:00 -0500

In this episode we discuss John becoming a Salesforce MVP, Microsoft cutting jobs, social network trends, Salesforce unmanaged packages, web form etiquette, and ways to structure a large web application.

Cash Cab

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 01 Jul 2015 22:00:00 -0500

In this episode we discuss Apple's battery replacement policy, printing latte art, automatic bug repairs, dependent page layouts, AppMesh's SalesMesh tool, Benioff's thoughts on regulators, issues with deploying list views, whether Slack would be a good acquisition for Salesforce, and promote the idea for a Dreamforce Cash Cab.

Industry Standard

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Sat, 27 Jun 2015 13:00:00 -0500

In this episode we discuss hoverboards, Google's GitHub alternative, triggers on account teams, needed fixes to the Salesforce developer site documentation, price increases for Amazon's Mechanical Turk, Fitbit IPO, Salesforce Foundation's grant to CoderDojo, Larry Ellison's comments during the Oracle Cloud Launch webcast, Salesforce's Service for Apps, Salesforce's acquisition of Kerensen Consulting, and Conga securing $70 million in funding.

Cloud Curmudgeons

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Fri, 19 Jun 2015 11:00:00 -0500

In this episode we are joined by our special guest Allison Bourn to discuss the Apple Watch, LastPass security breach, changes to the Salesforce ISV program, Salesforce's Marketing Cloud 2.0, the hidden potential of person accounts, Sales Wave Analytics, and the new Salesforce certifications.

I Will Throw a Mercury-filled Light Bulb

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Thu, 11 Jun 2015 15:00:00 -0500

In this episode we discuss receiving our registration confirmation for attending Dreamforce, getting our hands on a COIN credit card, recently announced Apple WatchOS features, the Salesforce Data Loader for Mac OS X, Gartner's magic quadrant for IaaS, and Salesforce.com making the Fortune 500.

Massage and Manipulate

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 03 Jun 2015 13:00:00 -0500

In this episode we discuss Sage's 2-2-2 charity model, the opening of the Salesforce Tower in London, Salesforce's acquisition of Tempo AI, and updates on Salesforce Wave.

Try Writing Some Software

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 27 May 2015 17:00:00 -0500

In this episode we discuss SugarCRM's Sugarexchange, customer service software that can feel, Microsoft's bid to takeover Salesforce, Salesforce's Q1 financials, and Salesforce's market share.

Rabid and Passionate

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Fri, 22 May 2015 15:00:00 -0500

In this episode our friend and Salesforce MVP extraordinaire Shell Black joins us to discuss what it means to be a Salesforce MVP and his experience at #MVPSummit2015.

Hashtag Safe Harbor!

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 13 May 2015 22:00:00 -0500

In this episode we discuss the #MVPSummit2015, using invocable methods with Skuid, Fitbit IPO, Windows 10 OaaS, Salesforce acquisition rumors, and Sage's SageLife application on the Salesforce.com platform.

Kick in the Shins

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Fri, 08 May 2015 17:00:00 -0500

In this episode we discuss the latest on the Salesforce buyout rumor, May the (Sales)force, custom metadata types, and the new Salesforce platform cache feature slated for Winter '16 release.

Hard Push

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Thu, 30 Apr 2015 11:00:00 -0500

In this episode we discuss Salesforce's App Exchange reaching 3 million downloads, Summer '15 release notes, Salesforce's HR tools, Amazon's cloud revenue, Benioff's interview with Cramer, and rumors of a Salesforce acquisition.

Too Many Dudes Trying to Solve a Problem

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Thu, 23 Apr 2015 15:00:00 -0500

In this episode we discuss Coin starting to ship, space coffee, taking a Salesforce custom UI and research survey, the cost of Dreamforce compared to other tech conferences, a women-in-tech article that had nothing to do with women, where to put validation logic in triggers, and potential price increases for Salesforce.com services.

#TabsRule

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 15 Apr 2015 18:00:00 -0500

In this episode we discuss Business Insider's article on what could be holding Salesforce.com back from being the biggest tech company and Stack Overflow's 2015 Developer Survey results.

Jeremy's Law

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Thu, 09 Apr 2015 18:00:00 -0500

In this episode we discuss converting lead child objects using the Process Builder, Salesforce's purchase of Toopher, Zoho CEO's comments on venture-fueled cloud bubbles, and out first impressions of Salesforce Wave / Analytics Cloud.

Criterias

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Fri, 03 Apr 2015 11:00:00 -0500

In this episode we discuss getting rid of javascript (April Fools?), Salesforce.com's deferred revenue numbers (again), quotes from Larry Ellison on Salesforce and Workday, and Process Builder.

A Cactus Is Not a Tree

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Sat, 28 Mar 2015 18:00:00 -0500

In this episode we discuss registering for Dreamforce 2015, Benioff winning the Celebrity Fitbit Challenge, issues with deploying large packages and metadata between sandbox and production, Benioff's stance against Indiana's Religious Freedom Restoration Act, Drunk UX testing, and Benioff's interview at the Lesbians Who Tech conference.

Sideways Mustaches

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Fri, 20 Mar 2015 14:00:00 -0500

In this episode we discuss Hertz putting cameras in rental cars, Salesforce on the Apple Watch, Marc Benioff's commitment to being the fastest to $10 billion, GigaOm shutting down, Salesforce Cloud data science, the Dallas Salesforce Developer Group, and the Salesforce Process Builder.

I’m Not a Good Listener

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 11 Mar 2015 14:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss recording in our new studio for the first time, 3D printing people, Salesforce on the Apple Watch, Salesforce sales and marketing costs, whether it is a fair comparison between Salesforce and other clouds like AWS, Benioff’s thoughts on tech entrepreneurs “giving back”, meetings at Salesforce must include at least 30% women, and the absurdity of the Pega Systems "Pega-Can” campaign.

I Backed Smart Underwear!

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Sat, 28 Feb 2015 16:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we discuss some words of wisdom from Vint Cerf, the poor state of journalism covering Salesforce’s revenue for Q4, a debate on what analytics is or should be, SAP Hybris YaaS, smart underwear, Salesforce partying with Metallica, Heroku Connect, Lightning Connect, Lightning Components, and Salesforce's Q4 results.

Hire ‘em Cheap and Stack ‘em Deep

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Fri, 20 Feb 2015 15:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we discuss Dan Lyons and Valleywag, Walmart’s use of OpenStack, Grilling with apps and the Internet of Things, our thoughts on the the Slack vs Salesforce discussion from the Software Defined Talk Podcast, and the frustration of using the [see all data] attribute for unit testing.

You Just Yin and Yanged Yourself

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Thu, 12 Feb 2015 16:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we discuss Marc Benioff named CEO of the Year by TechCrunch, rant about Salesforce deployments and unit testing, issues related to Activity History and Chatter objects, the relationship between Microsoft and Salesforce, open source enterprise cloud computing, and we dispel the idea that Salesforce is past its prime.

Knock, Knock.

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Fri, 06 Feb 2015 13:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we take a look at the latest Hour of Code video from Marc Benioff, reminisce on the days we first started using a computer, patients and doctors moving into the new UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital, some killer jokes you can share with your friends, Microsoft acquiring Sunrise, an update on Salesforce Wave, and a recent interview with Neil Young on Pono Music.

In Technology We Trust

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 14:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we discuss Slack acquiring Screenhero, the end of the Google Glass explorer program, Amazon announcing a new email service for companies, follow-up on Benioff’s “creepy” interview, Skuid release naming, things to consider when using Sass, and the 15 Apex Commandments for developers.

We’re All Heading to Creepy

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Fri, 16 Jan 2015 14:30:00 -0600

In this episode, we discuss the mysterious Salesforce Analyst summit, Glassdoor’s list of top companies to work for, Hubspot’s CRM, Salesforce browser support, Salesforce Enterprise App-Store, Salesforce losing top Wave engineer, Benioff’s Fitbit/Salesforce “creepy” sales pitch, Oracle acquires Datalogix, Skuid Superbank release, and the Salesforce Spring '15 release.

The World Is Awesome Again

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Mon, 24 Nov 2014 21:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we discuss Marc Benioff awarded Business Person of the Year by Fortune, SOQL performance tips, Salesforce Trailhead, Salesforce quarterly results, and Microsoft announcing .Net will be open source and cross platform.

My Dog Ate Wave

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Fri, 07 Nov 2014 16:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we discuss the Salesforce Analytics Cloud in more detail.

One Freaking App

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 11:00:00 -0600

In this episode, we discuss our reactions to what was presented and announced at the Salesforce.com Dreamforce 2014 Conference.

Something Is Different about This Cookie

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Tue, 26 Aug 2014 14:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss annoying Salesforce ads, inconsistent session ids between Salesforce domains, Salesforce hacks, an update on Coin, features highlighted from the Skuid Summer 14 webinar, working with communities and dealing with cached content, GoInstant service shutting down, Salesforce SOS, and Salesforce.com Q2 earnings.

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A Fruit Makes a Seed

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Fri, 08 Aug 2014 10:45:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss Microsoft expanding availability of Dynamics CRM to other countries, the lunacy of performance reviews, some big updates about SKUID, Oracle’s acquisition of TOA, Salesforce launches Sales Reach, a few thoughts on Salesforce joining BSA, and a discussion on how Salesforce uses open source.

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When I Was 21 I Made Ginger Ale

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Mon, 04 Aug 2014 21:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we discuss whether layoffs at Microsoft could have an impact on Salesforce.com, visualforce stripping out html comments, the good and bad of commenting code, diversity at Salesforce.com, and some thoughts on Salesforce acquiring RelateIQ.

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No Soup for You!

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Fri, 11 Jul 2014 17:00:00 -0500

In this episode we discuss Benioff getting denied service at a fancy restaurant, the technology behind StarTrek replicators (yeah we geeked out for a bit), an update on Benioff selling shares, Salesforce Summer ’14 release dates, challenges Salesforce is likely facing releasing across an increasing number of pods, a few notable features being released for Summer ’14, the need for point-and-click tools to run unit tests, the need for Salesforce to provide better development tools, and Yoshiki.

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A Frickin’ Little Lego Character

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Sun, 06 Jul 2014 18:00:00 -0500

In this episode we discuss test-driven development (TDD) and the issues with TDD and Salesforce.com, improvements to development tools from Salesforce we would like to see, the practicality of modular development vs proprietary systems like Salesforce.com, the recent initiative on Women-In-Tech, Marc Benioff selling shares, the logistics of attending Dreamforce 2014, a really cool Lego life hack, and Netflix price increase for streaming on more than 2 screens.

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Get Your Sport Coat On

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Fri, 27 Jun 2014 10:00:00 -0500

In this episode we discuss going to Dreamforce 2014, Salesforce and Microsoft Office, wearables in an enterprise setting, the shaming school of philanthropy, optimistic locking in Salesforce.com, useless debug logs, an update on COIN, Salesforce.com as enterprise software, and Marc Benioff’s comments on Microsoft missing out on cloud computing.

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Pillows, Flashlights, and iPads

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 18 Jun 2014 20:00:00 -0500

In this episode we discuss using google image search to see what a company is known for, Comixology, Atlassian valued at 3.3 billion, Heartbleed bug, Salesforce backups using Backupify, Salesforce.com's new industries unit, John's new office chair the Herman Miller Embody, are tools like Docker going to overshadow PAAS, and the agony of an African programmer

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Diseconomies of Scale

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Fri, 18 Apr 2014 12:00:00 -0500

In this episode we discuss backing up your Salesforce data, a quick discussion on press freedom, the high interest in marketing software from companies like Salesforce, Oracle, and SAP, whether Google is a threat to Salesforce, the new “One” branding and the consolidation of services that it represents, Tactile, profitability of Salesforce, Salesforce’s 15 year milestone and the big data problem, and best practices for unit test factory methods.

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I Want to Introduce My Own Rat Hole

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Mon, 31 Mar 2014 11:00:00 -0500

In this episode we discuss using SKUID to build custom user interfaces in Salesforce.com, developer pilot of Visualforce Remote Objects, a quick tangent on what the Salesforce1 brand is (mobile vs platform), Matt Asay’s article on buying from “…Tech Leaders, Not Haters”, Force.com and Heroku with a single click, Heroku as an enterprise platform, speculation that Oracle could make a bid to buy Salesforce.com, and Salesforce’s Q4 earnings.

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Hardcore VB Nerds

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Wed, 12 Mar 2014 11:00:00 -0500

In this episode we discuss the recent Windows 8.1 update, thoughts on should Microsoft split into three companies, Thoughtworks recommendation that Node.js is ready for adoption, Heroku XL, Cal Newport on following your passion, and Marc Benioff’s teenage affair with the Macintosh.

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PRAAS (PR as a Service)

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Thu, 06 Mar 2014 09:00:00 -0600

In this long delayed episode we revisit our discussion on journalistic integrity, the results of the Salesforce Hackathon, Salesforce’s growth as a company, opinions on Microsofts Windows everywhere model, and touch a bit on NSA and its potential affect on the cloud industry.

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Self-Imposed Hiatus

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Mon, 13 Jan 2014 16:00:00 -0600

In this episode we discuss the updated Force.com IDE, Salesforce1 for mobile devices, Salesforce new hire Keith Block, the Hour of Code campaign, CouchDB creator Damien Katz joins Salesforce, and Oracles purchase of Responsys.

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Safety Goggles are Not Rock ’n’ Roll

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Mon, 16 Dec 2013 22:00:00 -0600

In this episode Jeremy coins the term "Shell-Force” and we discuss the Shell Black Whiteboard YouTube video series, Amazon drones, Jeremy gets the new Retina iPad Mini, the Microsoft PawnStars Scroogled Chromebook ad, Salesforce.com hackathon, journalistic integrity, do you really need a PaaS solution, Marc Benioff offering to host Healthcare.gov, Salesforce field history retention pilot, thoughts on how Force.com should be replaced with Huroku, and the start of a much larger discussion on why SaaS hasn’t proven to be profitable.

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Coming Down from the Hype

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Mon, 02 Dec 2013 21:00:00 -0600

In this episode we discuss the hype generated by the Salesforce Dreamforce conference, the Salesforce1 platform, what happened to the social enterprise, perspectives on what it means to be a customer company, HP Superpod, Salesforce $1M hackathon controversy, 10x more APIs, and Heroku1.

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Stank Ranking

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Mon, 25 Nov 2013 22:00:00 -0600

In this episode we discuss Heroku’s updated Postgres DB features, new Amazon AWS Services, Microsoft ending stack ranking, Coin credit card, Salesforce outages, the upcoming Salesforce Dreamforce 2013 conference, and the Salesforce UI in general.

Heroku + Postgres
Amazon Workshops
Amazon App Streaming
Onlive Gaming
Microsoft and Stack Rankings
Coin Credit Card
Salesforce Outages
Reactions to What To Wear: Salesforce Dreamforce Conference
New Salesforce Certification Logos

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Push the Reset Button on Your Mantras

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Tue, 19 Nov 2013 20:00:00 -0600

In this episode we discuss some comments by Marc Benioff in a recent interview, reported numbers on AppExchange sales figures, unit testing, lack of information on the Salesforce.com Trust site, and a mention on who is headlining the Dreamforce 2013 keynotes.

Okta Identity Management Service
Marc Benioff’s thoughts on Microsofts Future and Apple's future without Steve Jobs
AppExchange App Margins
Unit Testing other developers code is frustrating
Performance Issues and lack of information on the Salesforce Trust site
Who is headlining at Dreamforce?

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The Nerdy Guys Trying to Be Cool

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Mon, 11 Nov 2013 12:00:00 -0600

In this episode we discuss the Salesforce Dreamforce 2013 conference, the million dollar mobile hackathon contest, Heroku and limits of the Salesforce.com Apex language, the shutdown of Do.com, Women in Tech, and Hibernate compatibility issues with Spring.

Salesforce Dreamforce 2013 Conference
Salesforce $1 Million Hackathon
Kinvey
Heroku
Salesforce says goodbye to Do.com
Woman in Tech
Hibernate compatibility issues with Spring

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Get off your spreadsheets people!

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Sun, 27 Oct 2013 12:00:00 -0500

In this episode we discuss the aquisition of CoreMatix by Perficient, Workday partnership with Salesforce.com, GoDaddy acquisition of Media Temple, and a few thoughts on Salesforce Files and Identity services.

Perficient acquires CoreMatrix
Salesforce and Workday Partnership
Workday Big Data Analytics
Salesforce Q2 Numbers
GoDaddy acquires Media Temple - Chris Coyier’s thoughts on the acquisition
Salesforce Identity
Chatterbox is now Salesforce Files

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A Cacophony of MVPs

Jeremy Ross and John De Santiago — Thu, 24 Oct 2013 21:00:00 -0500

In this episode we discuss recent articles concerning Salesforce.com as an Enterprise Platform. We discuss the pros and cons of Salesforce as a platform and debate what the platform can deliver today vs what we feel is more marketing hype than reality.

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