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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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...

Building Single Page Apps with React & Reflux for Salesforce

Building Single Page Apps with React & Reflux for Salesforce

We are taking a slight detour in our Building with React & Flux series to s...

Salesforce Lightning - The Enterprise JavaScript Component Framework

Salesforce Lightning - The Enterprise JavaScript Component Framework

I presented to the the San Diego Salesforce Developer Group a couple of wee...

Building Hello Banners with React & Flux

Building Hello Banners with React & Flux

Welcome to part two of my Building with React & Flux series. Check out the ...

17 Sites Every Force.com Developer Should Bookmark

17 Sites Every Force.com Developer Should Bookmark

The Salesforce developer ecosystem is expanding nearly as fast as my waistl...

Getting Started with React & Flux

Getting Started with React & Flux

In the last couple of months youve probably heard talk around the watercool...

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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 ...