Episode 30 — Dan Appleman on Salesforce Development Over The Years, PluralSight and Lightning

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Note: some of my audio and pronounciation goes funky towards the end of this episode. I suffered some technical difficulties that meant I was hearing myself echo at full volume with approximately half a second of delay, I think I know exactly what this feels like now - Lacey

In this episode we chat with the amazingly productive Dan Appleman (@DanAppleman); if you don't recognise that name then you can't have been around the Salesforce development community for very long! Dan makes some excellent points on a variety of topics, including:

• Developing on the platform over the years and how the gotchas have changed
• How the CPU time governor limit is affected by process and workflows
• The joys of working with Salesforce support
• His PluralSight courses:
  • Apex for Programmers
  • Salesforce for .NET Developers (short course)
  • Data Visualisation for Developers
• His book: Advanced Apex Programming (now in the 3rd Edition)
• Industry challenges that have arisen from greater levels of abstraction
• JavaScript, it's use in Lightning, and what it means for developers
• The problems with Salesforce's ISV program, and how it might impact new developers looking to build and sell Lightning components
• How the Developer Relations Team are awesome