If you’re planning on attending Dreamforce, I’ll be presenting features from apex-lang during the session “Using Code Share Projects in Force.com” and would love for you to be there. The session is during the last time slot (save the best for last right?) on Thursday, Dec 6 from 11am-12pm in the Force.com Theater.

Thankful for EDL Consulting

And while I’m on the subject of apex-lang, I’d like to thank Bill Loumpouridis and Craig Traxler at EDL for giving me the freedom and support to create apex-lang. I’ve used many open source projects and apex-lang is my way of giving back to the community. I recognize that other companies might not grant me that freedom and support and for that, I’m certainly thankful EDL Consulting. If you’re looking for a great place to work, look no further.

Abstract: Using Code Share Projects in Force.com

Force.com code share projects are a great resource to enhance developer productivity when building custom apps. So why reinvent the wheel when you don’t have to? This session begins with an introduction the Force.com code share initiative, and then transitions to how you can take advantage and contribute to projects. We’ll also provide plenty of technical knowledge on how to utilize the apex-lang Code Share Project inspired by the Apache Commons Lang library. Apex-lang’s goal is to make Apex programming easier by providing a host of helper utilities for the base Apex API, notably string manipulation methods, basic numerical methods, pagination and construction of complex SOQL queries.