Dreamforce 11 is rapidly approaching and our developer track is filling in nicely.  One of the things I'm very excited to work on is highlighting the growing Force.com open source community during the event.  If you haven't had a chance, you should check out Code Share on DeveloperForce and take a look at some of the latest entries–lots of great stuff happening.  

Are you working on an open source project?  Do you want to connect with other practitioners and the larger community while at Dreamforce?  If so, I definitely want to talk to you.  

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Yes, it's the Tuesday after Memorial Day weekend and you, like me, are back at work.  And maybe, also a little like me, you're starting the day saying, "Now what?"

So let me answer that for you: you should immediately do two things.  First, sign up for the Force.com Dev Meetup that's coming to Chicago on June 7 — yes, that's right after Cloudforce Chicago and you can easily attend both.  Second, you should sign up for Dreamforce using the very special developer discount code our own Mr. Nick Tran put together for you.

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Join us for a special online open source event.  Friday afternoon, May 20, from 1 to 4p central time, Richard Vanhook and I will host a documentation jam around his "Apex Lang" project.  If you haven't seen it before, you should take a minute to check it out. It's a great way to get a head start on your projects.  Here's the old Google Code repo, here's the new GitHub repo.

Joining is easy — simply click here to register.  Stay for as long or a little as you like — all levels of contribution are welcome.

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Force.com Labs has been busy over the last few weeks.  Here's a quick round up of new apps which you — yes, you — must take a look at. 

Salesforce for Twitter v3 is now Salesforce for Twitter and Facebook v4.  Yes — you read that right — a whole new social network AND a new version number from the app you know and love.  This is hot off the presses, so be sure to be the first to tweet about it.

Chatter Blacklist came out of a couple of weeks ago and it's ****** awesome.  Wait how did those asterisks… Continue reading

It’s been a big month for movers and shakers on the Force.com Labs charts. Notice that we have a new king: Milestones PM!

Thanks to everyone for your support and as always you can post comments here or by following @ForceDotComLabs or @ReidCarlberg on Twitter.

Have a question? Just ask.

1. Milestones PM – Project and Task Management
2. Adoption Dashboards
3. Salesforce for Twitter (version 3)
4. AppExchange Dashboard Pack
5. Find Nearby – Accounts, Contacts, Leads – Managed, PE/EE/UE/DE
6. Survey Force
7. Project and Issue Management
8. Salesforce International Mapping using Google Maps
9. Maildrop
10. Lead and Opportunity Management Dashboards
11. Brackets – Tournament Pool Game Management
12. CMSForce 2
13. Mass Update And Mass Edit From List View
14. Mass Update Anything 1.0.5 (Windows)
15. Chatter Usage