D. - Getting Started with SOQL

Magulan D is a Salesforce.com administrator and developer. He started his career as a PHP developer and also worked as a Siebel CRM developer. During his career as a PHP developer, he created many sites.

Magulan is also a blogger, posting many useful tutorials relating to Salesforce.com development and administration works. Often these are workarounds for problems or issues that people usually face in their development. He has been working as a Salesforce.com developer since 2011.

First and foremost, I would like to thank Packt Publishing for giving me the opportunity to write this book. I would like to thank Joanne and Harshal for their continuous support in publishing this book.

I would like to thank Satheesh Kumar for his continuous effort in reviewing the book in spite of his busy schedule. He supported and encouraged me throughout my writing.

I would like to thank my wife Gowripriya for her support and motivation. She helped me a lot in my writing. She motivated me to write this book. Her reviews and comments helped me complete my writing. It was a long and difficult journey for her. I dedicate this book to her.

I would like to express my gratitude to all the people in Packt Publishing who supported me in publishing this book.

Satheesh Kumar A is a 24-year-old software professional from India. After completing his degree in Engineering, Satheesh selected his profession as a software developer with one of the most reputed IT service providers in India. Satheesh started his career as a Force.com developer, and he is now comfortable with all the forms of application development and administration in Force.com.

Carlos Ernesto Descalzi is a system developer with 15 years of experience, working mostly in different Java technologies, from JEE to Swing, JNI, developing from web applications to distributed and embedded systems.

Carlos is currently working with the G&L Group, and has been since 2007. He has been working as a Force.com developer for the last year. He worked as a JEE developer until then.

Other past companies where he has worked include the following:

Special thanks to my wife Dalila.

David W. Grigsby is currently focused on the integration of the Software as a Service (SaaS) application between on-premise and cloud applications using DocuSign to extend Salesforce, Google, and others to streamline virtual offices and remote personnel and increase the revenue production and marketing reach using new media technologies such as LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter.

His experience in development ranges from embedded devices, which generally use C++ and assembly language, to PCs that use the major PC languages and .NET. He has worked in the object-oriented development space since Visual C++ with MFC and Visual Foxpro 3.0 have been in the market. Microsoft Visual Studio and the .NET framework are continued extensions of this experience.

In all, he brings more than 30 years of business experience in broad systems, development, and whatever project he has been involved with.

His specialties are development languages, Microsoft Visual Studio, .NET, SQL, Consulting, Program Manager, Microsoft ISV, Microsoft Partner, Embedded Devices, instrumentation and debugging, architecture design for enterprise environments, Novell CNE, and Microsoft MCSE.

He loves his family and friends, the outdoors, art and music, learning new technologies, and pushing the envelope.

His past employers include Grigsby Consulting LLC, Microsoft, and DocuSign.

He has worked on the following books:

Vinayendra Nataraja is a developer and an information security enthusiast. He has worked on Salesforce as a developer for almost 3 years. He is a member of the Information System Security Association. Vinayendra is a passionate, self-driven individual who has won awards and accolades for his work. In his spare time, he finds security bugs and has won bug bounties for this. He is known as the "Bug Hunter" among his friends.

Vinayendra started his career as an application developer at Akamai Technologies, India. He then interned at Salesforce, USA in the summer of 2013 as a Tools and Automation Intern. He is currently working with Northeastern University as a Salesforce developer. He will be joining Salesforce.com as a Product Security Engineer this summer.

Vinayendra is currently pursuing a Master of Science degree in Information Assurance at Northeastern University, Boston, USA. He completed his undergraduate degree in Computer Science from Rashtreeya Vidyalaya College of Engineering, Bangalore, India.