salesforce_winter13_release_notes

https://na1.salesforce.com/help/doc/en/salesforce_winter13_release_notes.pdf

Learning Infomatica

Developer Resource URL
https://community.informatica.com/community/developers

Dreamforce 2012

Welcome to Dreamforce 2012.Salesforce.com Dreamforce is a Nice Event To Understand power of Cloud Computing.Meeting lot a Salesforce partners watch live demo.It is an interesting event for developer/Manager/CEO's .To learn more about dreamforce follow the URL

http://www.salesforce.com/dreamforce/DF11/about/

Learn salesforce yours self

Hi Here is an URL you can teach yourself   force.com basics.It is an 3 year old Still works


http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/salesforce.com-training-certification/id325668840

Clould Types

In IT industry last 4 to 5 year a new buzz world is shaking the industry that is cake is called "CLOUD" from CEO to developer everybody at least thinking about it .Cloud computing  is growing there is  around 3 types of clouds .
Could Computing Wiki : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing
1.Public Could
2.Private Could
3.Hybrid Could

salesforce.com Helpers

Salesforce.com Developer Resources
Salesforce.com comuunity
Job Resources

salesforce.com itunes podcast URL by Chris

To attened salesforce certification for developers and administration Chris Itunes podcast will help little bit but won't help to take full exam need more extra preparation i think salesforcec provided 401exam pratical problems will help better then any other resource



Here is Chris i tunes podcast URL

Getting force.com environment for development or exploring the platform

Force.com is an web based platform ,to get environment you need an (web user id and password). according to force.com platform the user id must be in the form of an email id . like myaccount@domainname.com ,if you don't have any email id no problem maintain the user id string like email format but using an live email id is helpful for remembrance but in large team development environment maintain string is better.

To open an account you need a registration page  so the the following URL you get an free developer account

http://www.developerforce.com/events/regular/registration.php?d=70130000000EjHb  or in the following page http://developer.force.com/ look for Get a Free Developer Edition 

At the time of developer account creation ,yours account must be a email string format ,and you will notice a email colum there u need to give a valid email if it will useful to get authentication system validation string and security token for development so please give there a valid email id.


After clicking the page provide the details yours sales force account (environment is created ).

About force.com or sales force learning skills for developers , Admins and Managers

force.com platform is like any others software platforms like Java ,oracle ,SAP,etc..,.But it is one of the market leading could  platforms works using any supported browsers.

Any body want learn about force.com technologies ,there is very good documentation in http://wiki.developerforce.com/index.php/Documentation but here you have lot of documentation is there with out anybody guidance it is little bit difficult  to navigating the website  for experienced programmers also it gives starting trouble.
If you followed some blogs or spoke with somebody who know the platform  or watching related videos 5 min that is very easy learning things in the platform.But it is not that much difficult you need to know how to search things following blogs or  developer forum help which is properly maintained by force.com developers a very good resource http://boards.developerforce.com/sforce/?category.id=developers.

Right now you understand how to use sales force resources. Suppose I am  learning a new programming i will get lot for question like
                                  1.What is the advantage of this programming language  or platform ,how is it is different from other programming languages ,what are the components available in this programming languages how i can use this programming language like lot of questions am stopping this argument here. and explaining how to learn the skills.

Suppose if you want learning developer and admins points of view first you need environment.Here yours question is
how to get  force.com environment ?.
Getting force.com environment for development or exploring the platform

Salesforce.com sandboxes

force.com platform have three diff type of sanbox account which is use to develop and test and maintain the force.com platform applications.

Here am trying to mention i.e salesforce.com is a company name force.com is the salesforce.com company developed development platform.

Sandbox:
1.Developer sanbox
2.Configuration sandbox
3.Full copy sandbox.


1.Developer sandbox: It is just like configuration sandbox,it used for application development purpose.it is depends on existing application setup


2.Configuration sandbox: Used for for testing we can due production level testing on it with minimum data.

3.extract copy of production sandbox used for user level testing .