Dave Carroll
Director of Developer Evangelism, salesforce.com
Dave Carroll is the Director of Developer Evangelism at salesforce.com. In Dave’s 8 years at salesforce.com, his focus has been on growing the developer community around the company’s Force.com Platform as a Service. Dave was instrumental in launching and validating the Force.com platform. Dave has also led and participated in the creation of many developer tools, including the Force.com Toolkit for AJAX, Force.com Toolkit for Adobe Flex and the Force.com IDE Eclipse plugin. Dave has spent over 15 years developing software on a variety of platforms.
Presentations
Introduction to the Force.com Cloud Platform
Force.com provides a full, integrated stack of services that lets you build, test and deploy applications in the cloud. Join this session and learn about Force.com, its database, the novel metadata-driven capabilities that underpin the user interface and web service APIs, and the mobile, collaboration, security and distribution features. This session will cover the SOAP and REST web service APIs for Force.com that give access to operational control of persistence, asynchronous callouts on data changes, and a metadata API to get the data behind the data.
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Special Topic: Lightning VMforce Overview
In this lightning session, developers will learn all the essential elements necessary to use the VMforce enterprise Java cloud application platform. The session will cover basic project configuration, Force.com database support, connectivity to Force.com services, integration with the Spring framework including a quick tour of the Spring Roo add-on for VMforce. If developers can only make it to one VMforce conference session, then this Lightning Overview will give them all the information they need to get started.
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