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Comment on Cloudspokes: A Developer’s Review by Talesforce

Talesforce — Thu, 24 May 2012 07:30:35 +0000

It’s not just about coding fun, it’s also about learning some seriously interesting new stuff. In any case, I think everybody has their own reasons for being on CloudSpokes so I respect your opinion on that.

As for getting issues resolved, the organizers have done a fabulous job of fixing any discrepancies/ bugs as and when I (and some others I know of) have pointed them out. They recently corrected a scoring error in the challenge that I mentioned in my earlier comment.

There’s no doubt that the community has completely transformed from when it started off two years back and I’m sure it will get better with time. I’m glad you’re revisiting your decision and I’m sure everyone will look forward to having you back at CloudSpokes. Cheers!

Comment on Cloudspokes: A Developer’s Review by Joel Dietz (@fractastical)

Joel Dietz (@fractastical) — Wed, 23 May 2012 16:13:51 +0000

Right on. If it is a little fun contest it is no big deal, but if I am taking time off from other activities for a larger prize, I think it is important that Cloudspokes delivers consistently rather than sporadically. Even with this post they responded saying they wanted to talk via phone but didn’t respond to my latest email (or any of my previous follow-up emails from months ago).

Comment on Cloudspokes: A Developer’s Review by Talesforce

Talesforce — Tue, 15 May 2012 06:05:47 +0000

I’m just another CloudSpokes enthusiast who came across this and I’d like to state upfront that I’m not for/ against your opinion. However, as part of this community, I do believe it’s also upon us (developers) to make CloudSpokes bigger and better.

I think what you experienced on CloudSpokes is more an exception than a norm. While I agree that some challenges haven’t run as smoothly as others, I think you’ve got to give credit to the CloudSpokes team for managing a 40,000+ developer community and dozens of challenges being run in parallel.

Having said that, I’ve recently been part of a challenge (Real Estate Mobile) which wasn’t judged/ scored correctly. I followed up on it via email several times but did not receive a response. However, I’m still hopeful that some day that scoring error would be rectified and I’ll be compensated for my efforts.

None the less, I believe majority of CloudSpokes challenges are a great test for developers and are managed extremely well. You might not want to wait another year to miss out some serious coding fun

Comment on Why Open Source? by Joel Dietz (@fractastical)

Joel Dietz (@fractastical) — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:45:20 +0000

Absolutely. The thing for me is that it is easier to work in the context of an existing enthusiastic community than create your own and the interests of many in the enterprise don’t tend to be a cause for enthusiasm among talented developers. I occasionally wonder even if it was a mistake spending time developing my jQuery library for Salesforce given the general lack of interest and the fact that only very few people contribute back.

Comment on Sample Ruby on Rails app with the Databasedotcom gem by Ruby External CRON manager on Heroku with Sinatra, Resque and Redis « w3z.info

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 10:12:37 +0000

[...] a couple of times on the web. The most recent and appealing posts and apps have been written by Fractastical, Metadaddy and Dburkes. They explain in a really readable way how to install, configure and use [...]

Comment on Sample Ruby on Rails app with the Databasedotcom gem by Ruby External CRON manager on Heroku with Sinatra, Resque and Redis « Tquila

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 09:47:12 +0000

Comment on Why Open Source? by Alex Berg (@alex_berg)

Alex Berg (@alex_berg) — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 14:05:43 +0000

Well, there’s different kinds of targets for open source software. Think of the difference between applications and infrastructure.

Open source infrastructure is an attractive choice, because everyone who uses it has incentive to contribute bug fixes and feature enhancements to keep the infrastructure fresh and to keep the community around it.

Open source applications are an attractive choice for people who want an application that is not business-critical and to use on a basic level.

It’s tough to make money in either of these open source areas, but there are ways. For infrastructure, you can charge for premium support. For applications, you can charge for pluggable add-ins as your product.

This is just a quick viewport onto the topic. I would guess that most open source developers don’t intend to make money, but just want to be members of a community or just want to learn by aasking for feedback.

Comment on Transform your Visualforce Lookups into jQuery Autocompletes by Joel Dietz (@fractastical)

Joel Dietz (@fractastical) — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 11:19:35 +0000

I’m guessing you don’t have the PageControllerBase class installed in your org yet. If you add it you should be fine.

Comment on Transform your Visualforce Lookups into jQuery Autocompletes by Avijit

Avijit — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 05:17:28 +0000

I am getting problem not working for me .Error: Compile Error: Invalid type: PageControllerBase at line 14 column 8

Comment on Advantages of the Force.com Platform by Joel Dietz (@fractastical)

Joel Dietz (@fractastical) — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 12:30:29 +0000

JSONObject is native now, btw. I haven’t done any benchmarking yet though.