Warming to SalesForce
I finally figured out what that weird, high strung, can’t sleep, anxious feeling is that I’ve had for a few days. Stress! It’s been so long without deadlines and related technical problems beyond my control that I almost forgot what it was like.
So much for blogging every day, but there’s a demo due tomorrow around 11am CST that now, about 12 hours before I plan to give it, is finally and smoothly providing about 80% of the features I had planned for it. One of the roadblocks is actually a bug, reported a few months ago, with SalesForce so I don’t feel so bad about that one.
I have been very impressed with the SalesForce platform. I did not expect to be saying that after a handful of professional experiences with closed-source universes that are supposed to provide all the tools you’ll ever need…but provide only pain, suffering, and expense instead.
“Oh hey, Miva, how’s it going? Great..great…still really shitty? Oh, you’re re-launching your platform, how nice. You still suck. Say Hi to your mom for me.”
Everything that I expected to need to hand-code in Javascript vis a vis VisualForce has been available as a feature of APEX – with a learning curve of course, don’t get me wrong. I was just getting cocky about sailing through their certification exams, but they actually look hard to fake.
