working code speaks

[Luke Freeland] After officially starting my first “work” Lightning component, here are some tips learned so far when developing a lightning component. – Learn more at Metilllium

[Robert Watson] Applications like Slack, Hipchat, and Google Hangouts are all different options that many companies use to promote sharing, collaboration, and transparency. But how do you stay connected to your overall community? – Learn more at Just Another Watson

[Josh Kaplan] Some of you are now saying some (or all) of the following:

“YESSSSSSSS!”
“Wait, why not me?”
“But I already had one, what now?”
“Salesforce DX rules! What about scratch orgs?”
“Great. How does this help ISVs?”

Allow me to address each of these. – Learn more at Salesforce Developers Blog

[Kartik Viswanadha, David Green] Learn how you can customize Salesforce Community Cloud to fit your needs with the Lightning Bolt framework, Lightning Components and Community Builder in this Webinar by Salesforce Dev.
– Learn more at Salesforce Developers

[Keir Bowden] Like a lot of other Salesforce developers I use Selenium from time to time to automatically test my Visualforce pages and Lightning Components. Now that I’m on the SalesforceDX pilot, I need to be able to use Selenium with scratch orgs. This presents a slight challenge, in that Selenium needs to open the browser and login to the scratch org rather than the sfdx cli. Wade Wegner’s post on using scratch orgs with the Salesforce Workbench detailed how to get set a scratch org password so I started down this route before realising that there’s a simpler way, based on the sfdx force:org:open command. – Learn more at Bob Buzzard

[Keir Bowden] The Summer 17 release of Salesforce sees the activation of the Lightning Components Locker Service critical update - something that I’d say has been anticipated and feared in equal measure since it was announced. If you’ve been hiding under a rock for the last couple of years, the Locker Service (among other things) adds a security layer to your Lightning Components JavaScript, isolating components by namespace to ensure that your Evil Co-worker can’t write components can’t go tinkering with the standard Salesforce components for nefarious purposes. – Learn more at Bob Buzzard

[Preeti Sharma] Do you want a way to perform smoke testing on new builds deployed in Test Environment? Start using Unified Modeling Language (UML) diagrams to make it easier. – Learn more at Appirio Tech Blog

[Craig Ceremuga] Throughout the years NimbleUser has written a number of in-house authoritative guides and documents on the Apex programming language. While a good start, our previous guidelines were too complicated and opinionated on the types of things that were unenforceable / didn’t matter in the grand scheme of building good software. – Learn more at NimbleUser and the Apex Style Guide Site