Now a Salesforce.com Certified Developer

I recently sat for the DEV401 certification exam at DreamForce ‘09 and passed.

The nice thing about it is I sat for the test on Tuesday and on Wednesday at DreamForce they had these boards printed up standing in the heaviest-traveled area of the show floor.

DreamForce '09 - My name amongst those who passed cert exams

DreamForce '09 - My name amongst those who passed cert exams

My name amongst those who passed cert exams

My name amongst those who passed cert exams

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Podcasting on iTunes

A couple of months ago we started publishing our audio and video files on iTunes via Podcast and Video Podcast respectively.

If you have iTunes installed, you can find our channel here: Digital Realty Trust Knowledge Library

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Google Products

Just a quick note to highlight the proliferation of Google throughout my life:

  • Home – I use gmail like an addict
  • Home – All of my contacts are synced up with Google Contacts
  • Home – My wife and I use Google Docs to help keep track of the family budget
  • Home – My wife and I use Google Picasa to store all of our photos online
  • Home – My wife and I use Blogger to…blog
  • Home – I subscribe to several RSS feeds and use Google Reader multiple times a day
  • Home – I recently set up a Google Voice account for call-forwarding and voice mail
  • Work – I use the Google Data Visualization API at work to generate graphs
  • Work – Of course, I use Google Search hourly
  • Work – We will be using Google AdWords to manage our PPC campaign in 2010 
  • Work – Several of our videos are hosted on YouTube
  • Work – A large section of our corporate website uses Google Maps
  • Work – We use Google Analytics to track stats on our website

No wonder they are slowly taking over the world.

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Certificate: Adobe DreamWeaver 101

This is my “Certificate of Completion” from Lynda.com for sitting through the course titled, “Creating a First Web Site with DreamWeaver CS4.”

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Marketing “Systems” I use

I was just putting together a list of all “systems” I use here in the Marketing department and thought I would share. My job title, officially, is ‘Marketing Information Systems Manager’.

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Force.com Sites

I just received word from the Salesforce.com Product Manager that DLR and I have been accepted into the Force.com Sites Pilot program.

I guess you can say its a privilege. It’s basically a beta program intended to allow a few customers “production” access to the Force.com Sites technology so that they can fine tune anything before they make it generally available to every Salesforce.com customer. The pilot program, I hear, was rather selective.

Currently, I’m going through the initial set up (nothing to show yet) but I do hope to be able to show some progress, or at least screen shots, here.

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“drt.com wide”

A few years ago the web standard was to build your site no wider than 800px. With advances in monitor technology and size, most web-saavy users cannot remember the days of 800px-wide sites.

Therefore, I took a deep dive into our Google Analytics accounts and sure enough, people shop our website with some rather large resolutions (e.g. 1920×1200, 1680×1050, 1400×1050, 1600×1200).

So, I’ve recently widened the site to 990px:

Screenshot of the new, wider drt.com

Screenshot of the new, wider drt.com

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Recent upgrade

I’ve recently upgraded to WordPress 2.7.1 and modified the theme.

There is a project at Digital Realty Trust that we are developing and will use WordPress as the selected platform. Now, I’ll have more working knowledge about WP while I manage this project.

So far I like 2.7. I’ve since downloaded the WordPress app to my iPhone and am writing this entry from my iPhone.

I encourage you to upgrade if you’re running WordPress.

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DreamForce 2008 = Overwhelming

I successfully navigated my first year at DreamForce (the annual Salesforce.com event of the year).

I had heard that you can get any one of 100,001 things from DreamForce, so my objective was to go and learn as much as I could about VisualForce and Apex. I’m certain I succeeded in reaching that goal.

Monday was a 14 hour day that included registration, the big keynote from the Salesforce.com CEO, session after session of learning, a two-hour hack-athon on the new Force.com Sites technology and ended with a Foo Fighters concert.

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e-commerce website

I’ve recently finished a new e-commerce website.

kellykaycreative dot com

Technologies include:

  • LAMP environment at 1and1.com
  • Drupal – drupal.org
  • ubercart – ubercart.org
  • PayPal integrated
  • Please see the Credits page on the website
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