It's been far too long since the previous community update. To be fair, I have been doing a fair bit of traveling, mostly on the Tour de Force. Check out our videos from the Dublin event for a taste. In the interim we've released the awesome Google Data API Toolkit, and a new version of the Force.com IDE.

Besides the events, I've been doing a fair bit of blogging and learning about the platform. Right now I'm spending a lot of time pruning the wiki. I hope to make a few improvements, including making things a little easier to find. I've also started to use some of the wiki capabilities such as categories. So for example, here is a page of multimedia items on the wiki. It's not complete yet, but I hope you find it useful. Feel free to ping me about the wiki and any changes you would like to see (or not to see :-) ).

Enjoy the rest of this post, wherein I point to most of the new items that have appeared on developer.force.com recently.

Regards,
Jon

Resources

We have a couple of new resources for you:

• Force.com Toolkit for Google Data APIs - Code the Clouds and integrate Google applications with the Force.com platform
• Workbench 2.0 - a web-based, open source suite of tools to manage your org
• Force.com Developer Library - fact sheets, white papers, tutorials and two full-length books
• Force.com IDE Developer Preview Updated to Summer '08 - as I blogged, there's a new version of the IDE now available

Code

Check out the following new code samples:

• Testing Email Services with Inbound Attachments
• Creating Ideas from Inbound Emails using Email Services
• Visualforce Sample - Dynamic Edit Page
• Visualforce Sample - Consolidated Case History Timeline
• Visualforce Sample - Quote Generation with Pages2PDF

Many thanks to Andrew Waite and Rasmus Mencke for these great samples.

Blogs

Here are some blog posts that caught my eye:

• What the Cloud can Carry - Peter makes the case for enterprise developers to use SaaS and PaaS, not just SMSs
• Workbench: From Idea to 2.0 - Ryan explaining the history behind Workbench
• Intercepting Workflow Outbound Messages in a Ruby Server - I've been experimenting with Workflow and Ruby
• Emailing Visualforce Pages Rendered as PDFs - I've been experimenting with Visualforce and creating PDFs using the new renderAs tag

Multimedia

The following events/screencasts/webinars are now available for your viewing pleasure:

• Master Visualforce in Summer '08 - Move Beyond S-Controls
• The Force.com Platform & Google Data APIs in Action

Upcoming Events

From our event calendar, we have the following events that may interest you:

• Dreamforce '08 - Tour de Force at Dreamforce (November 2-5)