There is just something in the air. You can feel the electricity and the excitement building — Dreamforce is almost upon us. As you might expect, internally there is a flurry of emails flying around to ensure everything is ready. This is only my second Dreamforce as a Salesforce employee, but it is already a highlight of my year.
It is hard to imagine that over the past few years, Dreamforce has seen the announcement of amazing technologies like Visualforce and Apex for creating custom cloud application, and the Twitter and Facebook toolkits for tapping into the social networks and leveraging the wisdom of the crowds, just to mention a few. This year promises to be no different.
This year I am presenting a session in the Advanced Developers track, on Thursday afternoon @ 2:45PM titled Riding the Google Wave. (For more details such as up to date session location check out the Agenda Builder) You may already have seenDave’s post introducing some of the possibilities Google Wave offers in terms of an innovative channel for improving customer service. I have spent the last few weeks building Robots, Gadgets and some agents for connecting Google Wave with Salesforce in preparation of the presentation.
If you are thinking of attending the session (which I certainly hope you do), here are a few links to some great introductions/tutorials which will help you get the most out of the session. (note: some of these links may require a wave account)
- Overview of the Google Wave API
- Google Wave Samples Gallery
- Force.com Toolkit for Google App Engine
- Force.com Toolkit for Google App Engine – Java Users Guide
I look forward to seeing you there!