Shawn Franklin

I just received word from the Salesforce.com Product Manager that DLR and I have been accepted into the Force.com Sites Pilot program.

I guess you can say its a privilege. It’s basically a beta program intended to allow a few customers “production” access to the Force.com Sites technology so that they can fine tune anything before they make it generally available to every Salesforce.com customer. The pilot program, I hear, was rather selective.

Currently, I’m going through the initial set up (nothing to show yet) but I do hope to be able to show some progress, or at least screen shots, here.

A few years ago the web standard was to build your site no wider than 800px. With advances in monitor technology and size, most web-saavy users cannot remember the days of 800px-wide sites.

Therefore, I took a deep dive into our Google Analytics accounts and sure enough, people shop our website with some rather large resolutions (e.g. 1920×1200, 1680×1050, 1400×1050, 1600×1200).

So, I’ve recently widened the site to 990px:

Screenshot of the new, wider drt.com

I’ve recently upgraded to WordPress 2.7.1 and modified the theme.

There is a project at Digital Realty Trust that we are developing and will use WordPress as the selected platform. Now, I’ll have more working knowledge about WP while I manage this project.

So far I like 2.7. I’ve since downloaded the WordPress app to my iPhone and am writing this entry from my iPhone.

I encourage you to upgrade if you’re running WordPress.

I successfully navigated my first year at DreamForce (the annual Salesforce.com event of the year).

I had heard that you can get any one of 100,001 things from DreamForce, so my objective was to go and learn as much as I could about VisualForce and Apex. I’m certain I succeeded in reaching that goal.

Monday was a 14 hour day that included registration, the big keynote from the Salesforce.com CEO, session after session of learning, a two-hour hack-athon on the new Force.com Sites technology and ended with a Foo Fighters concert.

I’ve recently finished a new e-commerce website.

kellykaycreative dot com

Technologies include:

== What do you think of the gifts you get for pre-ordering a game? ==

I refer to the pre-order marketing gifts as those small trinkets you get at your local game store for pre-ordering a game in advance of its release.

I, for one, like to pre-order the games I am anticipating. I even enjoy getting a trinket to take home after pre-ordering. Its a very small way to “wet my appetite” before the game is released.

My tastes began, as most gamers my age did, enjoying the 2D nature of the Mario and Donkey Kong series.

Then, I used to enjoy the “scare” of Doom. I remember playing in my high school computer lab on the edge of my seat waiting to be scared by what was waiting around the corner.

Then, I used to enjoy the “gore” of Mortal Kombat. The “Finish Him” was always a welcome sound to my ears because it meant that what was to come would surey make both feet leave the ground.

Link to article by Salesforce.com CEO - Marc Benioff
http://www.techcrunchit.com/2008/08/01/welcome-to-web-30-now-your-other-computer-is-a-data-center/

The following is just a bulleted list of responses to both the article and user comments.

Agree - Web 3.0: Anyone Can Innovate

I’ve added a new category for posts to help organize examples of my work.

I plan to post images with short descriptions.

Check out my portfolio posts here.

I must say, I didn’t know there were so many political moves one must make to upgrade a web hosting environment.

Technically, it is a sound move. Windows Server 2008, IIS 7 and .NET 3.5 are the latest generation Windows OS and web hosting environment. The site I am managing isn’t even that complex of a site.

Politically, it seems there are so many people you have to “sell” in order to make the move.

That’s fine, but it is teaching me a skill I didn’t think I would learn while trying to upgrade a web hosting environment - create a win for a customer, create a win for someone internally, and create a win for myself.