Poorman K.J. - Mastering Application Development with Force.com

Kevin J. Poorman has been working with the Salesforce1 platform since 2008. He has architected and built a number of applications on the platform for enterprises and fortune 500 companies in the advertising industry. He has been a Force.com MVP for 3 years. He is active in the community as a developer user group leader, and he can also regularly be found blogging at http://www.codefriar.com, on Twitter (@codefriar), and on the #salesforce IRC channel as well as on the Salesforce developer forums and Salesforce stack overflow. He has also created and maintains the ngForce library for writing Angular.js apps on the platform. In 2015, Kevin joined the Salesforce Marketing Cloud as a senior customer success architect helping marketers succeed at mobile marketing. He regularly speaks on mobile development using Salesforce1, the Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Ionic, and RubyMotion.

I'd like to take some time to thank those who helped this book become reality. First and foremost, my wife, Stephanie, who's been instrumental in encouraging me when I got anchored in the morass of writer's block. Also, I'd like to thank Reid Carlberg and Jeff Finken, who have always been more my mentors than bosses. And, I couldn't have done any of this without the support and friendship of the Salesforce MVP community. I am truly blessed to have been able to write this while standing on the shoulders of not just giants, but Titans who have never feared reaching out to help others. Thank you all.

Rakesh Gupta is a Salesforce MVP, evangelist, trainer, blogger, and an independent Salesforce consultant. He is from Katihar, Bihar, and he lives in Mumbai. He has been working on the Force.com platform since 2011. Currently, he is working as a Salesforce consultant and is a regular contributor to the Salesforce Success Community. He is the coauthor of Developing Applications with Salesforce Chatter and Salesforce.com Customization Handbook , Packt Publishing, and he is also a technical reviewer of Learning Force.com Application Development , Packt Publishing. He is the author of Learning Salesforce Visual Workflow , Packt Publishing. He has written more than 150 articles on Flow and Process Builder to demonstrate its use to minimize the code usage. He is one of the flow experts from the industry. He is very passionate about Force.com and shares information through various channels, including his blog at http://automationchampion.com.

He has trained more than 200 professionals around the globe and handled corporate trainings. He has six certifications in Salesforce. He works on all the aspects of Salesforce and is an expert in data migration, integration, configuration, and customization. He is the leader of the Navi Mumbai and Nashik developer user groups in India. He is also the initiator of the Mumbai Salesforce user group. He organizes meetups at regular intervals for the groups he is part of.

He can be reached at <>, or you can follow him on Twitter at @rakeshistom .

I would like to thank my parents, Kedar Nath Gupta and Madhuri Gupta, my sister, Sarika Gupta, and my friend Meenakshi Kalra for helping me make time for writing blogs and encouraging me. Also, I would like to thank the team at Packt Publishing and the author of this book for giving me this unique opportunity.

Zarna Chintan Naik is a proprietor of YES CRM Consultants, a Salesforce.com consulting company based in Mumbai. YES CRM Consultants is primarily focused on Salesforce.com consulting, administration, and training services for clients based around the globe.

Zarna and her team also have expertise in multiple appexchange products, including Conga Merge, Clicktools, Rollup Helper, and Drawloop.

Zarna herself holds multiple certifications: Salesforce.com Certified Administrator, Developer, and Sales and Service Cloud Consultant. Previously, she worked for one of the leading Salesforce.com partners in the USA. She has also reviewed Learning Force.com Application Development , Packt Publishing . To know more about Zarna and YES CRM Consultants, log on to www.yescrm.org or visit her LinkedIn profile at https://in.linkedin.com/in/zarnadesai.

I would like to thank my parents, in-laws, husband, sister, friends, and family for their continued support for my work.

Rahul Sharma has been working on the Force.com platform since 2010 and is a certified advanced developer and administrator. He has worked on many applications involving custom development and integration. He is an active super contributor to the Force.com community and Stackexchange. He holds a bachelor's degree in electronic engineering and is based out of Mumbai, India. His areas of interest are JavaScript and mobile development other than Salesforce. He can be reached at about.me/rahuls91221.

Some of the other books he has worked on are Learning Force.com Application Development and Visualforce Developer's Guide , both by Packt Publishing.

Gautam Singh is a computer science engineer, blogger, online trainer, technical reviewer, and a smiling human being. He is from Patna, Bihar, and he lives in San Jose, California, USA.

He has been working with the Salesforce platform since 2012, and from the very start he has contributed to motivating and training a large number of homo sapiens in Salesforce and its certificates. Recently, he was on the reviewer panel for