What a year! It’s around this time of year when I would be heading to Dreamforce (Salesforce’s biggest event of the year) to meet up with students and present some sessions on something to do with Salesforce :). Nothing beats meeting up and collaborating and learning from each other, so hoping next year will be a blast!! I passed my Salesforce Non-Profit Certification, really interesting certification and I was really quite blown away by the power of it and hows it’s come on over the year. Combine this with charities/non-profits getting 10 free licenses from Salesforce and you really do have a ..read more

The Salesforce platforms are huge and sometimes it’s hard to keep up with all the changes. These Salesforce capability maps are based on my own experience but if you find any gaps please let me know!! I’d love to make them as complete as I can. Updates: 10/Jun/2020 – Thanks to Bonny Hinners & Mark Tossell for the addition of oData, CMS, Customer 360 Data & Tableau One diagram I seem to come back to time and again, is the Salesforce Functional Capability Map. Its main benefit is to be able to picture all Salesforce functional capabilities or features across the Salesforce platforms at ..read more

So Anup and I have decided to create a new Salesforce podcast called the ‘Salesforce Posse Podcast’. We’ve just launched our first podcast episode last week and so far, to our surprise, it’s been more than just our parents listening in! We’re going to be experimenting with the format a bit over the next couple of months, seeing what works and what doesn’t but we’d love your feedback on what you want to hear. The podcast will have a Salesforce Developer/Architect slant but also providing what’s happened in Salesforce in the previous month. Our first podcast was just a news wrap up from the prev ..read more

I’m a trustee of a Charity, Technical Architect at NetStronghold, organiser of London’s Calling, create and support my online Salesforce courses with now over 20,000 students… ugh, dabble in the financial markets, have a 7-month-old son, support the Salesforce community, not forgetting having some fun in-between… I can get quite busy and can get distracted too. But at some point, you need to focus on what’s important right now while juggling all that life throws at you, which can be tricky. I always want to achieve more or learn something new (was bread-making yesterday for the first time) but ..read more

I can’t believe it’s a year since I was in India! I was invited over to talk at IndiaDreamin as well as run a session on creating your first app in Salesforce! I realised it was over 20 years since I started university! So my talk was on the history of computing between me starting Uni and now… then and also into the future with Serverless technology and Salesforce! Anyway, I created a video of my trip to India, enjoy! I also blogged about my experience in My reflection on India ..read more

A little while ago I visited the great city of Austin (my first time in Central America!). Thanks so much to everyone who made the trip so enjoyable but I stopped off to catch up with Spanning Backup. They have a great Google, Salesforce & Office 365 backup solution. I challenged them to do a lift pitch. Pitching their app in the time it took for us to go from the ground floor to their work floor! Do you have an app and want to try the lift pitch challenge? let me know ..read more

Salesforce Saturdays were started (I believe) by Stephanie Herrera who would meet up with like-minded Salesforce people to learn the platform on a Saturday. She started meeting in coffee shops and slowly as the group increased in size and they would hunt out a bigger coffee shop. Since then Salesforce Saturdays have been setup across the globe as an informal way to learn Salesforce. Some of the things that people get up to are: Catching up on the latest Salesforce Release Study for a Salesforce Certification or Release exam Take Trailhead badges or Super-badges Get help troubleshooting a formu ..read more

So Anup and I have decided to create a new Salesforce podcast called the ‘Salesforce Posse Podcast’. We’ve just launched our first podcast episode last week and so far, to our surprise, it’s been more than just our parents listening in! We’re going to be experimenting with the format a bit over the next couple of months, seeing what works and what doesn’t but we’d love your feedback on what you want to hear. The podcast will have a Salesforce Developer/Architect slant but also providing what’s happened in Salesforce in the previous month. Our first podcast was just a news wrap up from the prev ..read more

I’m a trustee of a Charity, Technical Architect at NetStronghold, organiser of London’s Calling, create and support my online Salesforce courses with now over 20,000 students… ugh, dabble in the financial markets, have a 7-month-old son, support the Salesforce community, not forgetting having some fun in-between… I can get quite busy and can get distracted too. But at some point, you need to focus on what’s important right now while juggling all that life throws at you, which can be tricky. I always want to achieve more or learn something new (was bread-making yesterday for the first time) but ..read more