My last post made me realize that I haven't already pointed out Marc Andreessen's excellent essay: The three kinds of platforms you meet on the internet.
And if the essay itself wasn't reward enough, check this out:
Thursday, March 06, 2008
Speaking of Platforms...
Get Your salesforce.com Org Under Version Control
Jeff Atwood, a software engineering hero to many, recently wrote about version control for databases.
His post spurred me to use the Force.com IDE to put my latest salesforce.com project under version control. It's dead simple to utilize a version control system for your entire salesforce application now: S-Controls, Apex code and salesforce schema included. (Here are the instructions for Subversion: Force.com Code Share)
If being able to define a database, build complex logic and create a sophisticated user interface wasn't enough to convince everyone that salesforce.com is a true development platform, the Force.com development environment just made it a little bit harder to deny.
And the whole platform is delivered as a service...
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