My work on the Force.com Site I built recently was listed on the “Sites Gallery” by Salesforce.com.

Check it out – http://developer.force.com/sitesgallery

Force.com Sites Gallery

Check it out – http://datacenters.digitalrealtytrust.com/

Screenshot of page 1 of My First Force.com Site

This Force.com Site consisted of:

• 3 visualforce pages
• 1 apex class
• 1 apex test class
• 2 custom objects and a ton of custom fields
• all images and videos were stored on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and served through Cloudfront
• most CSS and javascript files were stored on AWS and served through Cloudfront
• uses JW Player (http://www.longtailvideo.com/) to play the video
• uses jquery for the mouse over popup

Learns:

• the rich-text fields are still in “beta” for a reason – they don’t seem to work on visualforce pages yet
• writing test methods for an apex class is a pain! – start by writing the test method first, then write the production method

I’m glad to have this experience under my belt. In fact, I’m proud enough of the Site that the local SFDC User Group is letting me present it (and my experience) to the group at the next meeting.

I recently sat for the DEV401 certification exam at DreamForce ’09 and passed.

The nice thing about it is I sat for the test on Tuesday and on Wednesday at DreamForce they had these boards printed up standing in the heaviest-traveled area of the show floor.

My name amongst those who passed cert exams

DreamForce '09 - My name amongst those who passed cert exams

This is my “Certificate of Completion” from Lynda.com for sitting through the course titled, “Creating a First Web Site with DreamWeaver CS4.”

I was just putting together a list of all “systems” I use here in the Marketing department and thought I would share. My job title, officially, is ‘Marketing Information Systems Manager’.

Here is the list:

• Website – (www.digitalrealtytrust.com): built on .NET 3.5 on Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008
• “Knowledge Library” – (knowledge.digitalrealtytrust.com): built on the WordPress blogging platform
• Salesforce.com – (www.salesforce.com): the sales force automation, CRM tool we use
• Engage B2B – (www.silverpop.com): the email marketing automation tool we use
• GoToWebinar – (www.gotowebinar.com): our online webinar provider
• Google Analytics – (www.google.com/analtyics): our web stats tracking tool
• Google Picasa – (www.google.com/picasa): our online photo library
• YouTube – (www.youtube.com/digitalrealtytrust): video sharing account
• Twitter – (www.twitter.com/drtdatacenters): so our users know “what [we're] doing”
• LinkedIn – (www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1898885): our social networking group
• Basecamp – (www.basecamphq.com): our online project management software
• OnStream (www.onstreammedia.com): our CDN, video hosting and serving account
• bit.ly – (www.bit.ly): our URL microformat service
• Google FeedBurner – (www.feedburner.com): our RSS feed publishing tool
• iTunes – (www.itunes.com): our podcast and video podcast listing directory
• GoDaddy – (www.godaddy.com): our domain registrar

I was making a list of all my admin passwords for the above list, saw the list continue to grow and thought it was pretty impressive list of tools and systems for which I am the admin.