![]() Inspired by the GitHub Clone in Desktop button you see on Github. New developers on the platform also often struggle with Ant and Eclipse, leaving them copy and pasting to get the code in, yuk! As well as leaving a potentially unwanted package definition in the developers org. Sure packages helped, but that put the overhead on the author to update them as well as the repository. ![]() While this idea had not fully formed then, I was observing the barrier to entry for anyone getting a cool bit of open source Apex into their org was quite high compared to other platforms. In that session we talked about our thoughts on building an open source community on the platform. UPDATE September 2014: I have now updated the tool to generate the HTML to place in your README file for more information please see this blog entry, so you can have a button that looks like this on your README.Īt Dreamforce 2011, I had the pleasure of meeting Reid Carlberg, Jeff Douglas, Eric Magnuson and Richard Vanhook for the first time face to face, this alone was very exciting! I was co-presenting with them in a session entitled, ‘ The New Frontier: PaaS and Open Source‘.
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