It’s been far too long since the previous community update. To be fair, I have been doing a fair bit of traveling, mostly on the Tour de Force. Check out our videos from the Dublin event for a taste. In the interim we’ve released the awesome Google Data API Toolkit, and a new version of the Force.com IDE.

Besides the events, I’ve been doing a fair bit of blogging and learning about the platform. Right now I’m spending a lot of time pruning the wiki. I hope to make a few improvements, including making things a little easier to find. I’ve also started to use some of the wiki capabilities such as categories. So for example, here is a page of multimedia items on the wiki. It’s not complete yet, but I hope you find it useful. Feel free to ping me about the wiki and any changes you would like to see (or not to see ).

Enjoy the rest of this post, wherein I point to most of the new items that have appeared on developer.force.com recently.

Regards,
Jon

Resources

We have a couple of new resources for you:

• Force.com Toolkit for Google Data APIs – Code the Clouds and integrate Google applications with the Force.com platform
• Workbench 2.0 – a web-based, open source suite of tools to manage your org
• Force.com Developer Library – fact sheets, white papers, tutorials and two full-length books
• Force.com IDE Developer Preview Updated to Summer ’08 – as I blogged, there’s a new version of the IDE now available

Code

Check out the following new code samples:

• Testing Email Services with Inbound Attachments
• Creating Ideas from Inbound Emails using Email Services
• Visualforce Sample – Dynamic Edit Page
• Visualforce Sample – Consolidated Case History Timeline
• Visualforce Sample – Quote Generation with Pages2PDF

Many thanks to Andrew Waite and Rasmus Mencke for these great samples.

Blogs

Here are some blog posts that caught my eye:

• What the Cloud can Carry – Peter makes the case for enterprise developers to use SaaS and PaaS, not just SMSs
• Workbench: From Idea to 2.0 – Ryan explaining the history behind Workbench
• Intercepting Workflow Outbound Messages in a Ruby Server – I’ve been experimenting with Workflow and Ruby
• Emailing Visualforce Pages Rendered as PDFs – I’ve been experimenting with Visualforce and creating PDFs using the new renderAs tag

Multimedia

The following events/screencasts/webinars are now available for your viewing pleasure:

• Master Visualforce in Summer ’08 – Move Beyond S-Controls
• The Force.com Platform & Google Data APIs in Action

Upcoming Events

From our event calendar, we have the following events that may interest you:

• Dreamforce ’08 – Tour de Force at Dreamforce (November 2-5)

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Education Services

Education services have two upcoming courses:

• FDC-320 Force.com: Application Laboratory – in various cities in the US (June/July)
• FDC-320 Force.com: Application Laboratory – in London, UK (June)

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