Dreamforce 09

If you weren’t able to attend DreamForce this year (as I wasn’t), all the presentation have been made available at the Salesforce Community site.

The developer network also provides technical details and examples on integrating with Amazon, Facebook and Force.com Sites.

I think Sites is definitely going to be great selling point for Salesforce. Now from within Salesforce, you can develop applications and pages based on Apex and VisualForce and allow non-Salesforce users to access them. The pricing model still has to be determined and Sites is only in developer preview but it is definitely worth looking into.
You can sign up for a free developer account and attend one of the free webinars at the developer site.

Salesforce and Google Visualization

Salesforce developer network has an excellent tutorial on how you can integrate Google Visualization API with Salesforce data to provide users with a new more visual way to look at their data.

It uses the new Force.com Visualization toolkit that is hosted on Google’s Code Share site.

This really shows the power and flexability of cloud computing.

Visual Map of Cloud Computing

Peter Laird at Laird OnDemand has an excellent article where he explains the different markets in cloud computing as well as mapping how they all are related.
Visit it here.
Some interesting environments that highlight what an interesting time it is to be a developer…