Node.js

Quick & Easy ETL from Salesforce to MySQL with Workflow & Heroku

While sometimes unfortunate it is often necessary to have data silos that share data. The Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) pattern has been around for a long time to address this need and there are tons of solutions out there. If you just need a quick and easy way to copy new & updated records in Salesforce to an external data source, a simple Heroku app and Salesforce Workflow might be the quickest and easiest solution.

Salesforce REST APIs – From Zero to Cloud to Local Dev in Minutes

When getting acquainted with new technologies I believe that users shouldn’t have to spend more than 15 minutes getting something simple up and running. I wanted to apply this idea to building an app on the Salesforce REST APIs so I built Quick Force (Node). In about 12 minutes you can deploy a Node.js app on Heroku that uses the Salesforce REST APIs, setup OAuth, then pull the app down to your local machine, make and test changes, and then redeploy those changes.

NPM Packages in Maven Central with NPM WebJars

A few months ago I launched Bower WebJars which provides a way for anyone to deploy Bower packages into Maven Central through WebJars. Since then 539 packages have been deployed! Today I’ve added NPM WebJars which is built on the same foundation as Bower WebJars but for NPM packages. Give it a try and let me know how it goes. If you are curious about the changes to make this happen, check out the pull request.

Introducing Gulp Launcher

Many developers already have the Node.js toolchain installed on their machines but when I lead workshops there are always a few who don’t. The process of installing Node build toolchains can take quite a bit of time for new users (especially on Windows). To simplify the process of getting the gulp toolchain setup, Bruce Eckel and I created gulp launcher. With a fresh system you can run gulp with only one download and one command:

Getting Started with Node.js on The Cloud

In my new job at salesforce.com I’m incredibly exited about getting into Heroku, a Platform as a Service provider / Cloud Application Platform. In a future blog post I’ll provide more details on what Heroku is and how it works. But if you are like me the first thing you want to do when learning a new technology is to take it for a test drive. I decided to take my Heroku test drive using the recently announced Node.