What one piece of advice would you offer to an experience developer working on the Salesforce Platform for the first time? I asked our developer evangelist team.

Over the last several weeks we had the great pleasure of working with Ken Krogue and Thomas Oldroyd at InsideSales.com on our third Sponsor Success Webinar, Campaign Planning is Key. We learned how a very disciplined approach to event marketing lead to over 1057 live meetings at Dreamforce ’12.

If you’re a developer building applications on the Force.com platform, you might be considering using pagination to improve your page response time and your users’ overall experience.

And just as those users might prefer to have data sets in straightforward, well-defined chunks so that they can find particular results, you might prefer reading through straightforward, well-defined criteria so that you can choose the best pagination tool. The “Paginating Data for Force.com Applications” article outlines that criteria.

WOW! We had an amazing response to our Call for Papers this year, with over 250 submissions from our developer community! Thank you to all who submitted; it’s wonderful seeing …

The future annotation is a great feature in the Salesforce Platform. However, it only supports primitives for argument methods. Using the JSON serialize|deserialize methods, you can easily pass sObjects and custom objects. Here’s how.

The new widgets feature in Site.com, available in Summer ’13, uses a build-once-then-reuse approach to save you time when building your website. By combining existing Site.com page elements, such as panels, content blocks, custom code, and data repeaters, you can build widgets—in essence, your own custom page elements—to suit your unique requirements. And just like any other page element, you can reuse custom widgets on any site page or page template in your site.

The Salesforce.com mobile apps are powered by the same public APIs that developers use. Find out about some of the innovative features we’ve added to the Connect API to help us—and you—develop faster mobile apps.

At WWDC this week, Apple announced that they have paid out over $10B to developers. Congratulations, Apple! We love developers, and the app revolution. We are seeing the same incredible momentum and need for mobile apps in the enterprise.

You’ve been tasked with extracting data from a Salesforce object. If you’re dealing with small volumes of data, this operation might be simple, involving only a few button clicks using some of the great tools available on the AppExchange.

But when it comes to dealing with millions of records in a limited time frame, you might need to take extra steps to optimize the data throughput. Read this post to learn just what those steps are.

Visualforce charting is one of the most popular features added to Visualforce while I’ve been writing documentation for the product, and JavaScript Remoting is one of the most powerful. Perhaps you’ve wondered how to combine the two. This article shows you how, with a complete source code sample that compares “traditional” Visualforce charting with the same chart implemented using JavaScript Remoting.