Jesse Altman

Salesforce Architect

Year in Review and Looking Forward to 2014

2013 has been an amazing year! I started this year with two personal goals. I wanted to get more certified and I wanted to get more involved in the community. 2013 in Review Within the first half of 2013, I got 4 certifications (bringing my total to 6): While I was doing that, I got

Introduction to Aura

Since Dreamforce ’13 and the launch of Salesforce1, you may have heard “Aura” getting thrown around. Aura is a UI framework for developing dynamic web apps for mobile and desktop devices, while providing a scalable long-lived lifecycle to support building apps engineered for growth. It supports partitioned multi-tier component development that bridges the client and

Breaking the Mold

Last week, Dec 9th to Dec 15th, was the Computer Science Education Week and more than 15,000,000 students helped write over 509,000,000 lines of code using the Hour of Code, an effort to get all students at least an hour of computer programming experience. The idea behind all of this is that the world is

Working with Salesforce1 on the Desktop

Salesforce1, the new mobile app released by Salesforce at Dreamforce ’13, allows for rapid development of mobile apps, making it simple to add functionality to the mobile platform. Salesforce1 is currently available in the iTunes Store (requires iOS6+) and Google Play Store (requires Android 4.2+). To speed up development, it is relatively simple to work