The Salesforce DX pilot is imminent, and it’s a pilot with a difference. Sure, DX is a groundbreaking initiative for Salesforce, breathtaking in its scope. Among other things, DX: Moves the source of truth from the cloud environment to source control – Read More at NimbleUser]]>
One of the many truly useful features of the Confluence enterprise wiki are page templates. Along with Confluence templates for sprint planning, retrospectives, and Go-No-Go decisions, we have checklist templates for routine maintenance – Read More at NimbleUser]]>Moreover, the buildfile supports using task branches, where each task is a separate JIRA issue. Each task (or feature) can be developed in its own Salesforce environment, and merged back into the mainline of development.
Targets are provided for both direct consulting projects and managed package products. For products, either sandboxes or trial orgs can be used with a corresponding task branch.
For more, see the Ant-SF repository on Bitbucket or GitHub.
First it was “Software as a Service”, pioneered by folks like Salesforce.com, back when the century was turning. Today, more and more of the things around us are becoming “as a service”. – Read More at NimbleUser]]>
With Winter ‘17 in the rear-view mirror, we’re already well on our way to Spring ‘17 – which will be our 15th major release of Nimble AMS. Fifteen seems like a milestone to me. DevOps on a cloud platform, like Salesforce, brings its own set of challenge. – Read More at NimbleUser]]>
As a DevOps devotee, there’s nothing I like better than a system with failsafes, checks, and balances. One great pleasure of working with Salesforce DevOps is that the APIs fail fast, fail safe, and log verbosely. Success means success. – Read More at NimbleUser]]>
Most software folks are familiar with the classic user story format: As a user role, I need this capability, for this benefit. User stories are great way to kick off deeper design discussions, except for one major flaw: – Read More at NimbleUser]]>
OK, I admit it, I’m a principle geek. In this topsy-turvy world, I cling to developer manifestos and self-help principles like flotsam and jetsam in a flood zone. – Read More at NimbleUser]]>
In a classic Ted Talk, Tom Hulme asks “What can we learn from shortcuts?”. For years, many of us have been looking for shortcuts through the Salesforce application lifecycle, so that we can use continuous delivery to develop packages – Read More at NimbleUser]]>
Running development builds continuously is de rigeur for most software teams now (65% the survey says). Since the mainstay of development builds is pulling code from development source code repositories, Atlasssian is making a play for simplifying the process – Read More at NimbleUser]]>
Professional technical writing platforms, like the DITA platform, are an excellent way to create single-source documentation. Hands-down. Though, in real life, the editing software is not mere-mortal friendly. – Read More at NimbleUser]]>
As much as I try to Automate All The Things, I still find myself walking through routine tasks with several simple steps. On busy days, it’s easy to miss a step, and on busier days, it’s easy to gloss over some of the fine details. – Read More at NimbleUser]]>
DITA is a tool created from the ground up for technical writers. It is, quite literally, an embodiment of best practices for people creating documents for software and hardware products. DITA stands for Darwin Information Typing Architecture. – Read More at NimbleUser]]>