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 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...

If Programming Languages were Beer...

If Programming Languages were Beer...

We were surprised the other day when we realized that If Programming Langua...

5 Skills Salesforce Devs Need for 2015

5 Skills Salesforce Devs Need for 2015

The Spring releases of Salesforce are my favorite. They are always packed w...

Catching Salesforce Outbound Messages with NodeJS

Catching Salesforce Outbound Messages with NodeJS

When building applications that are integrated with Salesforce , one of th...

Hey Salesforce Devs! Heroku Ain’t that Scary!

Hey Salesforce Devs! Heroku Ain’t that Scary!

I run the Heroku CoE at Appirio and therefore get pulled into a number of ...

The Future of Salesforce Development is… Javascript?

The Future of Salesforce Development is… Javascript?

When I started developing with Salesforce back in 2006, s-controls were ess...

84 Things You Should Know about the salesforce.com Spring ’15 Release

84 Things You Should Know about the salesforce.com Spring ’15 Release

The Spring 15 Release should be hitting boxes soon with 250+ new and impro...

AWS Lambda aka Node.js meets IFTTT as a service!

AWS Lambda aka Node.js meets IFTTT as a service!

Amazon Lambda was announced last November at re-Invent and billed as an ev...

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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 ...