Best wishes and looking ahead

As 2008 draws to a close and we celebrate the Christmas season and look forward to 2009, we can look back and review all the happenings in the cloud computing world…..

DreamForce 2009 introduced Salesforce Sites – opening up the CRM platform to hosting custom applications. Also integration with Amazon Web Services and Facebook was announced.

Oracle partnered with Amazon to provide backup storage using Amazon’s S3 service

Adobe AIR becomes widely available on Windows, Mac and Linux. Thus allowing developers to develop applications outside of the browser and take full advantage of desktop capabilities (drag and drop, access to local filesystem). This coupled with the Flex/AIR toolkit for Salesforce provides even more integration possibilities.

Learn Adobe Flex in a week

Adobe Flex is an open source platform that allows you to create RIA (rich internet applications) easily that can run on all browsers and uses the Adobe Flash Player. This platform is of special interest to Salesforce users because Salesforce provides a flex toolkit that eases integration between Flex and the Salesforce APIs.

Adobe provides a easy to follow course that will get you up to speed with Flex at Flex in a Week.

Salesforce developers can go to the ADN website to learn more about integrating Flex with Salesforce.

Welcome to Oracle and Salesforce development

First thank you for taking the time to visit this site and read the articles.

Let me introduce myself…..

I am Peter Martin, originally from Ireland and now living in Michigan, US. I have been involved with application development since 1993 in various industries and on different platforms (JCL, Cobol all the way through to Internet development).

My interests and expertise now lie with Oracle Application Express and Salesforce.

I hope that this can serve as center for tips and tricks with these platforms. But also more importantly I hope to clear away some of the more confusing aspects for beginning developers as well as non-developers.

I will also be writing about other technical topics (Adobe Flex, SEO).