Seriously "Struck—By—Trailhead"
You read it correctly; it's not “struck by lightning“, it's “struck by trailhead“. We love Lightning a lot, but Trailhead so far is such an amazing time saver for Concretio, that we can’t resist saying that. We recently presented and shared our thoughts about the same at the Trailhead developer meet-up in India, where we shared with other partners and developers how we are using Trailhead to internally educate our developers and save any classroom training time for new hires coming from other platforms/languages.
That's not the only reason we’re struck by the Trailhead and feeling so excited about it. Recently, my team completed the “Event Monitoring” module in Trailhead; as it was an API-first feature, we all got excited to beat Salesforce and deliver it before it comes anywhere in the Salesforce UI. As most of the developers at Concretio are comfortable with AngularJS, REST, and JSON combination, we decided as a team to add a new feature to our Chrome extension named “Salesforce Tool Suite“. To my surprise, we were able to complete this new feature in less than a week, and it's already released on the Chrome Web Store (you can install the extension on Chrome and try it).
Please note: we are not done with the feature yet; it is just a first release, which lets any admin or developer download event log files. Coming up in the next release is detailed charting and more meaningful ways to visualize the same information (stay tuned).
Now, you must be able to relate to our excitement about Trailhead. I love the way my team gets excited and shares on Slack when they complete badges, learning, and passion towards it on steroids now. The following is a recent share from Aditya, who joined Concretio recently and comes with 3+ years of rich experience in PHP and web development.
Learning shining new Lightning Experience via Trailhead
I can’t be unfair with Lightning, after stealing and tweaking the punchline “struckbylighting” to “struckbytrailhead”. Salesforce is getting a major revamp in terms of UX and performance via Lightning Experience on every device, i.e., on desktop as well, in the coming release. It is quite possible that you are not sure what this new Lightning experience is all about and how it relates to you. Don’t worry, the Trailhead team is ready with a few new trails/modules for everyone, from a hardcore developer to an admin or an end user (sales rep). We are completing all the modules to make sure we don’t miss the point-and-click part before going deep into coding, and I’m sure you would like to do the same. Here are quick links for your reference to get started with the Lightning experience in Trailhead.
Admins
Admin Trail—Starting with Lightning Experience (3 modules)
Start your journey to becoming a new Salesforce admin with the new Lightning Experience. This trail is designed for brand-new admins whose company purchased a new Salesforce org that has Lightning Experience enabled. (start here)
Admin Trail—Migrating to Lightning Experience (4 modules)
Increase the productivity of your sales team by migrating your existing org to the new Lightning Experience. This trail is geared toward existing admins who will be migrating their existing org to Lightning Experience. (start here)
Developers
Developer Trail—Lightning Experience (5 modules)
Build apps fast for Lightning Experience with Visualforce, components, and new design resources (start here)
End Users (Sales reps)
Sales Rep Trail—Using Lightning Experience (2 modules)
Learn how to use the new Salesforce to sell lightning fast in as few clicks as possible. (start here)
Hope you are not forgetting to share your hard-earned badges on social media and the company’s Slack/Chatter.
