Morning came too soon this AM. I got my groggy self together and fed before making my way to the Moscone Center. Registration was quick and easy; according to my badge Professional Capital Services, LLC is a proud sponsor of Dreamforce '11!
Side story: During registration I received an interesting call. Guess who's the apprentice of a former Mr. Olympia? Just an example of how my tech skills are opening doors!
Currently, I'm seated in the Moscone West for my pre-Dreamforce training. We're discussing the basics of the visual aspects of Salesforce. In the back of my mind; tension is building as that exam is looming tomorrow. This session will be a good review of some of the Visualforce side of the exam. This session is led by Peter Chittum who has been VERY responsive to my questions within the Dreamforce app.
Topics discussed:
Pieces of SF considered layout
Differences between page layouts and VF pages
Enabling "Development Mode"
Using the "Component Reference" documentation
Using the inline editor
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Standard Controllers and Actions
Visualforce and Custom tags, namespaces, and attributes
Traversing relationships (up and down)
Databinding
Using other Web Technologies (CSS, Javascript, Flash)
Displaying multiple records/parts of records on a single page
Overriding Buttons
The Page Block Table
Overriding "Edit" Pages
Mass editing list views
Creating VF Templates
...and much much more.
Unfortunately time ran out before the end of the material. We got to Module 5 at a slow/normal pace for the crowd, 5 through 7 were expedited with the exercises joined. Skipped over Module 8: Survey of Additional Visualforce Topics (whomp, whommmmp) altogether and launched into an accelerated talk about Visual Workflow. We then skipped over all the new exciting stuff going on in Siteforce. The week is young, hopefully this isn't the last time I hear of this "Siteforce."
All in all it was a great refresher for the VF side of tomorrow's exam!
Onwards and upwards!
