Hey, I'm Jeff Douglas

I like to make things with 1's and 0's and occasionally wood and metal. I've been a developer since... as long as I can remember. I work at Salesforce and for the past 8 years I've been building Trailhead as one of the three initial members.

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Alexa for Salesforce with Amazon Echo

Alexa for Salesforce with Amazon Echo

Amazon Echo is a voice command device with functions including question an...

Node-RED for Salesforce

Node-RED for Salesforce

I happened across Node-RED last week while prepping for a topcoder challe...

Node-RED for Topcoder Challenges with IBM Bluemix & Watson

Node-RED for Topcoder Challenges with IBM Bluemix & Watson

For the past week Ive been obsessed with Node-RED . If you are not familiar...

Raise a pint to Forcelandia!

Raise a pint to Forcelandia!

Yesterday I spoke at the first annual Forcelandia conference in Portland, O...

Join me at Forcelandia for Salesforce & Beer!

Join me at Forcelandia for Salesforce & Beer!

Forcelandia is arguably the best Salesforce and beer themed conference in t...

Building the TopBlogger API with LoopBack

Building the TopBlogger API with LoopBack

Last week I published an article outling how I rewrote an existing Express...

Roll Your Own API vs. LoopBack

Roll Your Own API vs. LoopBack

Earlier this year I ran a series of topcoder challenges to build a Node.js ...

PTO in Alaska!

PTO in Alaska!

I left a couple of weeks ago on a month long family vacation in Alaska. Unf...

New Salesforce Lightning Component Framework Learning Resources

New Salesforce Lightning Component Framework Learning Resources

We ran our Salesforce1 Lightning series of challenges at topcoder last fall...

Deploying Apps to Heroku with Docker

Deploying Apps to Heroku with Docker

Yesterday Heroku released beta support to build and deploy Heroku apps with...

Start Writing ES6 JavaScript in your Node.js Apps Today!

Start Writing ES6 JavaScript in your Node.js Apps Today!

ECMAScript 6 (the next version of JavaScript) should be rolling out in brow...

Hello Banners API for React & Flux

Hello Banners API for React & Flux

Welcome to part three of our Building with React & Flux series. Check out t...

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Build Salesforce Hyperautomation Solutions with MuleSoft

Build Salesforce Hyperautomation Solutions with MuleSoft

Streamline business processes and automate manual tasks across your organiz...

Fun with Salesforce Collections

Fun with Salesforce Collections

The Apex language provides developers with three classes (Set, List and Map...

SOQL – How I Query With Thee, Let Me Count the Ways

SOQL – How I Query With Thee, Let Me Count the Ways

Ive been wanting to write this post since the new aggregate functions were ...