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Adventures in DevOpsNavigating Salesforce DevOps Challenges and AI Innovations - DevOps 228In today's episode, Will and Jillian dive deep into the evolving landscape of Salesforce DevOps, joined by the experienced Vernon Keenan. This episode covers a range of critical topics including recent changes in Salesforce's AI product offerings and the complexities surrounding their pricing. Vernon takes us on his personal journey from telecom to pioneering a tax engine on Salesforce, leading to his current focus on Go and Kubernetes-driven DevOps solutions.They unpack the challenges developers face with Salesforce's SFDX and metadata API, explore how companies like Capado, Flowsome, and Gearset are tackling these issues, and discuss innovative approaches from...2024-12-191h 13
Shuswap Food ConversationsEpisode 108 - Chelsea Keenan and Lydia McKnight - Yankee Flats MeatsListen in on Warren's conversation with Lydia McKnight and Chelsea Keenan of Yankee Flats Meats. Lydia and Chelsea will talk about their joint venture involving their two families, their locally raised animals and now a custom butcher shop with two locations, Salmon Arm and Vernon. Their journey involves many trials and successes and they remain committed to providing our community with the highest quality, locally sourced meats while promoting sustainable farming practices and supporting local producers.2024-12-1856 min
Query & CompanyFootball Preview! Jeff George, James Boyd, and Kyle Neddenriep Join!(00:00-26:07) – Query & Company opens on a Friday with Jake Query and producer Eddie Garrison discussing the Indiana Fever with the regular season now over. They preview the Fever’s upcoming playoff series against the Connecticut Sun and then get into a conversation about how historic a season Shohei Ohtani is having. They compare what he is doing this year to what Babe Ruth did back in the day. (26:07-36:23) – Jake and Eddie shift their conversation to the Indianapolis Colts by previewing their game Sunday against the Chicago Bears. They highlight how stout the defense for Chicago has been d...2024-09-202h 03
Be More with Tom BassettBe More AI Aware (Part 1) with Ian GottsI'm joined by Ian Gotts (@iangotts) to discuss how to Be More GPT Aware in the context of Salesforce. This is a must watch if you are a Salesforce Admin, Consultant, Business Analyst, Developer, Designer or Architect and want to stay up to date with how GPT is reshaping the world.
During the conversation we'll discuss some useful resources to get started and key influencers in this area;
- Power of GPT is in the prompts (Blog); https://medium.com/@iangotts/the-power-of-gpt-is-not-the-llm-but-the-prompt-48967adfc163
- ElementsGPT ; elements.cloud/elementsGPT
- GPT Listings & Prompt Management; GeePeeTee.cloud
- Mark Good; AIForceTraining...2023-12-1518 min
Be More with Tom BassettBe More AI Aware (Part 2) with Ian GottsI'm joined by Ian Gotts (@iangotts) to discuss how to Be More GPT Aware in the context of Salesforce. This is a must watch if you are a Salesforce Admin, Consultant, Business Analyst, Developer, Designer or Architect and want to stay up to date with how GPT is reshaping the world.
During the conversation we'll discuss some useful resources to get started and key influencers in this area;
- Power of GPT is in the prompts (Blog); https://medium.com/@iangotts/the-power-of-gpt-is-not-the-llm-but-the-prompt-48967adfc163
- ElementsGPT ; elements.cloud/elementsGPT
- GPT Listings & Prompt Management; GeePeeTee.cloud
- Mark Good; AIForceTraining.com
...2023-12-1521 min
Trivia With Budds10 Trivia Questions on Again TriviaAll of these answers contain the word "again" somewhere. Support the show by grabbing some swag! Trivia books, shirts, & more! Fact of the Day: On December 8, 1963, Barry Keenan and Joe Amsler, former high school classmates from Los Angeles, kidnapped Frank Sinatra, Jr. in order to demand a hefty ransom from his famous father. THE FIRST TRIVIA QUESTION STARTS AT 02:10 Theme song by www.soundcloud.com/Frawsty Bed Music: Synthwave 1 by Frank Schroeter Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/9699-synthwave-1 License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/stan...2023-05-3008 min
The Manwhore Podcast: Sex-Positive ConversationsBilly's Slutty Bookshelf — The 9-year Podiversary Episode!Nine-Year Podiversary Episode!Show Dates:4/21 - Naked Comedy Show: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-naked-comedy-show-tickets-6066932247674/26 - Pete’s Candy Shop, 10pm5/6 - Cobra Club, 8:30pmDo all your book shopping through http://bookshop.org/shop/billy!1. Sex with Shakespeare by Jillian Keenan (Episode 145)2. The Ethical Slut by Janet Hardy & Dossie Easton (Episode 121)3. When Brooklyn Was Queer by Hugh Ryan (Episode 375)4. Not Gay by Dr. Jane Ward (Episode 86)5. UnSlut by Meghan Joyce Tozer neé Emily Lindin...2023-04-1649 min
Keenan Vision Podcast - Produced by SalesforceDevops.netSFDX-HARDIS – A demo with Nicolas Vuillamy from CloudityThis edition of the Keenan Vision Podcast I interview Nicolas Vuillamy, a CTO at Cloudity, who is a Salesforce system integrator and custom application developer based in Europe. We talk about his open source project sfdx-hardis (documentation, Github).
Nicolas and his team got a little frustrated with the devops sprawl and other management issues when it came to working with SFDX-CLI pipelines. To make it all work better they created sfdx-hardis, which is a layer on top of SFDX-CLI which encapsulates a lot of common commands.
In this interview we go over the motivation for...2023-02-2838 minKeenan Vision Podcast - Produced by SalesforceDevops.netSalesforce DevOps Center Launches with High ExpectationsThis is a podcast presentation of an article published earlier this week.
https://salesforcedevops.net/index.php/2022/12/19/salesforce-devops-center-launches-with-high-expectations/
Salesforce last week finally announced General Availability of DevOps Center, a new Salesforce feature designed to ease application development and release management. DevOps Center was originally introduced under “safe harbor” in late 2019, so this announcement culminates one of the most anticipated releases of a Salesforce feature in the last few years. “DevOps Center is one of our most-requested and most-anticipated solutions ever because it increases efficiency and productivity – and it makes work easier and more accurate for thousand...2022-12-2022 min
Salesforce Posse PodcastE21 The Salesforce DevOps EcosystemAs the Salesforce ecosystem expands and integrates with global business technologies, the salesforce DevOps has significantly matured and grown since it started. In today's episode of the Salesforce Posse Podcast, we are joined by Vernon Keenan to talk about the Salesforce DevOps Ecosystem and the importance of Value Stream Management.
Vernon Keenan is a Senior Industry Analyst at SalesforceDevops.net. He is an industry analyst and technologist entrepreneur who has founded businesses that use cutting-edge technology to serve customers. He is an internationally renowned Internet commerce sector analyst and thought leader. He was a pioneer in the...2022-12-0526 minKeenan Vision Podcast - Produced by SalesforceDevops.netProvar: Salesforce Devops Top Products Demo with VernThis week on the Keenan Vision Podcast we delve into Provar Manager with Sam Arroyo, Provar product manager. In this tour we go through what is Provar Manager and get a demo.
What is Provar and Provar Manager?
The Provar Quality Hub
Enterprise hub for collating and understanding all kinds of testing inputs
Test Manager Demo
Test Plans
Application Lifecycle Management integration
Analytics and metrics
Salesforce DevOps Center integration
Elements.Cloud integration
Reports and Dashboards
About Provar
Provar pairs intuitive testing solutions, including Provar Automation and Provar Manager, with world-class service to help teams capitalize...2022-11-0134 minKeenan Vision Podcast - Produced by SalesforceDevops.netProdly: Salesforce Devops Top Products Demo with VernWe have more excellent Salesforce devops demos this week with another member of the SalesforceDevops.net Top Products Gallery, Prodly.
We are blessed to have David Clark, VP of Product over at Prodly to give us a tour of the product today.
Prodly Overview
Demo
Environments
Environment prep
Ancillary Metadata Management
Moving around ancillary metadata
Saving tons of time
Thank you everyone.
Prodly enables Salesforce teams to increase productivity by 80 percent while reducing risk up to 30 percent by putting next-gen DevOps into the hands of admins and citizen developers.
By reimagining the change...2022-10-2533 minKeenan Vision Podcast - Produced by SalesforceDevops.netSalto: Salesforce Devops Top Products Demo with VernWelcome to the latest episode of the Keenan Vision podcast! This is part of our continuing series of hosting companies who made the SalesforceDevops.net Top Products list. This week we are graced with Dan Puttman who is showing us Salto. (dan.puttman@salto.io).
Salto translates your business applications’ configuration into text, allowing you to search, compare, test, deploy, and track changes across your environments. Dan shows us NaCl, the new application description language devised by Salto, and how it works throughout a Salesforce release management system.
Outline
What is and Why Salto?
En...2022-10-1830 min
Talkhouse PodcastRevisited: Aaron Dessner with Julien BakerThis episode originally aired on December 16, 2021.We’ve hosted some incredible Talkhouse Podcast conversations in 2021, and for our final brand-new episode of the year, we’ve got two people responsible for some of the best records of this year: Julien Baker and Aaron Dessner.Baker released her third album, Little Oblivions, back in February, and it’s a doozy. Expanding her sonic palette massively, Baker delivered her powerful, vulnerable songs with much bigger sounds. That might have felt like a gamble, but it paid off massively—she produced it herself and pushed herself into new spaces.2022-10-1349 minKeenan Vision Podcast - Produced by SalesforceDevops.netDreamforce 2022 Report by Vern – Sept. 23, 2022Dreamforce Recap
Top Line – Definitely very successful
Trailblazers
Vendor Ecosystem
Overall energy and push
Genie
Opening keynote – as theatrical as ever. Brett Taylor took center stage to unveil Genie.
A re-packaging of Salesforce Marketing CDP, nee Datorama.
Adapters to each cloud
Analysis
Salesforce is being talked about as not being a growth company because they can’t compete in the “intelligent data layer.”
This move is strong because Salesforce is now the #1 enterprise application delivery platform, having recently eclipsed SAP in quarterly revenues. It has a chance of sparking interest and orders from an ever-incre...2022-09-2323 minKeenan Vision Podcast - Produced by SalesforceDevops.netCopado: Salesforce Devops Top Products Demo with Vern, Episode 10, Sept. 6, 2022In this episode I get a full demo and product description from Copado demo star nlarrabee@copado.com Nolan Larrabee. This is a podcast series that is part of the Salesforce Devops Top Products gallery. Please be sure to check it out at https://salesforcedevops.net/index.php/salesforce-devops-top-products-gallery/.
I love how Nolan took us on a journey through a day-in-life of a Copado team member. I saw how Copado leverages metadata intelligence to keep up with org changes and to organize the development process. We also saw how Copado has an extensive Application Lifecycle Management (ALM...2022-09-0629 minKeenan Vision Podcast - Produced by SalesforceDevops.netOpsera: Salesforce Devops Top Products Demo with Vern – August 30, 2022In this episode I get to talk to Derek Ross, a demo star from Opsera. This is a podcast series that is part of the Salesforce Devops Top Products gallery. Please be sure to check it out at https://salesforcedevops.net/index.php/salesforce-devops-top-products-gallery/.
Derek gives a full demo of Opsera here. We start off with looking at how the Salesforce release management features work in detail. We then look at the workflow interface and how that works with cloud nave devops too. Then we go into details about observability and how to use information generated during...2022-08-3030 minKeenan Vision Podcast - Produced by SalesforceDevops.netNew Research: SaaS Devops Grows to Critical Importance – August 16, 2022In this episode I go over the latest market research findings at SalesforceDevops.net. In this article https://salesforcedevops.net/index.php/2022/08/16/saas-devops-grows-to-critical-importance/ I go a public equity survey where I looked at 126 public cloud companies. I analyzed the growth and the number of new companies entering the market.
Based on those observations, I predict that SaaS devops will grow to critical importance because of the number and complexity of managing SaaS systems in the future2022-08-1613 min
Keenan Vision Podcast - Produced by SalesforceDevops.netSalesforce TrailblazerDX 2022 and DevOps Center Launched, Again -- Keenan Vision Podcast -- Episode 7 -- April, 29, 2022In this episode I am running solo and giving a personal report on Salesforce TrailblazerDX 2022 show in San Francisco. I also have detailed information on the latest product announcements on Slack and Salesforce DevOps Center. I report on an interview I had with the product manager and give you the scoop on what to expect.
https://salesforcedevops.net/index.php/2022/04/27/salesforce-devops-center-public-beta-due-in-june/
https://salesforcedevops.net/index.php/2022/04/27/salesforce-trailblazerdx-2022-opens-with-flow-slack-mulesoft-and-tableau-news/2022-04-3015 minKeenan Vision Podcast - Produced by SalesforceDevops.netWatch Out For Those Guardrails! – Waqas Nazir of DigitSec – Keenan Vision Podcast Episode 6, Feb 25, 2022This week on the Keenan Vision Podcast we continue our interview series with Waqas Nazir, CEO and founder of DigitSec, a leading Salesforce cybersecurity vendor (DigitSec.com).
https://www.darkreading.com/cloud/salesforce-devops-needs-guardrails
Here are the points covered by Vernon Keenan and Waqas Nazir in this interesting and lively conversation.
Waqas shares how he was eminently practical getting into computers and engineering.
He talks about his engineering background, which involved electrical engineering
Then we hear about his experience at Microsoft
He was lucky enough to be there when Microsoft made a major pivot towards...2022-02-2630 minKeenan Vision Podcast - Produced by SalesforceDevops.netDo More With Less – Kumar Chivukula – Keenan Vision Podcast Episode 5, Feb 18, 2022This week on the Keenan Vision Podcast we continue with our devops thought leader series with Kumar Chivukula, CTO of Opsersa. Check out how Kumar gets about making enterprises get the job done with less effort. Plus find out how Opsera is making it through the pandemic.
Here are the key points we covered in this conversation:
Kumar’s journey through Silicon Valley with Adobe and Symantec
Challenges faced when putting applications into the cloud
Found there to be challenges in doing software development across an organization
Kumar gives the Opsera elevator pitch for IT execs an...2022-02-1931 minKeenan Vision Podcast - Produced by SalesforceDevops.netProfessionalizing Business Engineering - Gil Hoffer - Keenan Vision Podcast Episode 4, February 4, 2022Join the Keenan Vision Podcast for a fascinating and fun interview of Gil Hoffer, co-founder and CTO of Salto, by Vernon Keenan. Learn about Gil’s perspective on Business Engineering, his love of code, and some cool stories from his past.
These are the key point covered in this lively conversation:
Gil’s experience as a company builder
How as an operator he figured out the complexity of configuring all the applications
Vern describes how revolutionary products like HashiCorp Terraform was to devops and notes that Salto is kind doing the same thing with “infrastructure as code”.
...2022-02-0431 minKeenan Vision Podcast - Produced by SalesforceDevops.netFrom Devops Heroics to Excellence - Ian Gotts - Keenan Vision Podcast Episode 3 January 28, 2022Join the Keenan Vision Podcast for a fascinating and important interview of Ian Gotts, CEO of Elements.Cloud, by Vernon Keenan. So many important topics are covered by Ian and Vern you will want to listen through to the very end!
Here are some of the key points covered:
How did Ian get so smart about application delivery and devops?
What is Elements.Cloud as a product?
Who is the Elements.Cloud customer?
Ian describes how he has focused on the Salesforce Center of Excellence and how that has benefited users and platform owners
Ian touches s...2022-01-2831 minTalkhouse PodcastAaron Dessner with Julien BakerWe’ve hosted some incredible Talkhouse conversations in 2021, and for our final brand-new episode of the year, we’ve got two people responsible for some of the best records of this year: Julien Baker and Aaron Dessner.Baker released her third album, Little Oblivions, back in February, and it’s a doozy. Expanding her sonic palette massively, Baker delivered her powerful, vulnerable songs with much bigger sounds. That might have felt like a gamble, but it paid off massively—she produced it herself and pushed herself into new spaces.2021-12-1647 minKeenan Vision Podcast - Produced by SalesforceDevops.netSalesforce Extension Pack Review: Breakthrough Tool Needs Improvement - Keenan Vision Podcast 002This is an abridged version of a full review video that shows me using the product: https://youtu.be/sInYK7yCfxU
Read the review: https://salesforcedevops.net/index.php/2021/06/30/salesforce-extension-pack-review-breakthrough-tool-needs-improvement/
Before Visual Studio Code (VS Code) from Microsoft became the preferred integrated developer environment (IDE) for Salesforce, developers struggled with Java-based Eclipse because it was the only supported IDE. Now, in 2021 this has all changed with VS Code plus Salesforce Extension Pack integrated with command line utilities resulting in much faster Salesforce devops pipelines.
To help spread the word about this fantastic development...2021-07-0108 min
Keenan Vision Podcast - Produced by SalesforceDevops.netSalesforce TDX 21 -- Keenan Vision Episode 001Hey everybody! It's Vern Keenan here with the very first edition of the Keenan Vision podcast recorded on Friday June 25, 2021!
Before I say anything else, I want to thank everybody who has supported me on this journey of helping people figure out Salesforce devops.
I couldn't do this without your support, so thank you.
Let's kick off with something everyone wants to hear about, which is the TrailheaDX 21 event broadcast this week from Salesforce headquarters in San Francisco. I'll be giving you my spin on things from the devops perspective.
TrailheaDX sho...2021-06-2605 min
InspiringExcellenceVernon Keenan-Key technologies to enable DevOps2021-06-2502 min
InspiringExcellenceVernon Keenan-Key technologies to enable DevOps2021-06-2502 minInspiringExcellenceVernon Keenan- DevOps is critical2021-06-2501 minInspiringExcellenceVernon Keenan- DevOps is critical2021-06-2501 min
Elements.cloud PodcastVernon Keenan, Senior Industry Analyst at SalesforceDevops.net: The Devops PyramidVernon Keenan, industry analyst and consultant, explains the need for layers of Devops and makes a case for paying rigorous attention to making changes to Salesforce Orgs. First, repositories for source code, then release management, developer platforms, pipeline orchestration, observability, the human element, application lifecycle management, and finally corporate management. With lots of concrete details and real-life examples, he lays out a best-practice framework for continuous improvement.2021-06-1138 min
Honey, You Should Watch This.I'm Gonna Get You SuckaIn this episode, Greg and his special guest, James, introduce Susan to one of their favorite late 80s comedies, Keenan Ivory Wayans' "I'm Gonna Git You Sucka."
The blacksploitation parody stars Wayans with actors of the blacksploitation genre: Jim Brown, Bernie Casey, Antonio Fargas, and Isaac Hayes. Other actors in the film are Kadeem Hardison, Ja'net Dubois, John Witherspoon, Dawnn Lewis, Damon Wayans, Clarence Williams III, John Vernon, and Chris Rock.
While Greg and James reminisce about the many times they've watched this highly-quotable movie, Susan explains the movie's origins and how...2020-07-201h 20
Draftvice-Football Podcast- News/Analysis surrounding Fantasy Football and the NFL DraftDraftvice-Fantasy Football- Week 3 Thoughts & Waiver WireDraftvice-Fantasy Football- Week 3 Thoughts & Waiver WireAnother week of football is in the books- hear the rest of the reactions to week 3 and some popular fantasy waiver pick ups ahead of week 4. #NFLWeek3 #FantasyFootball #FantasyFootballRanks #WidereceiverRanks #Runningbackranks #FantasyRBS #NFLNews Follow the podcast on twitter: @draftviceon Instagram: @draftvice_footballhttps://www.facebook.com/Draftvice/Walter (instagram/snapchat/twitter): @BrojodeathpunchWebsite: www.draftvice.comWe check out- Pittsburgh v...2019-09-2524 min
St. Paul FilmcastPOINT BLANK (1967)POINT BLANK Directed by John Boorman Starrting Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, John Vernon, Keenan Wynn, and Carroll O'Connor.
Based on the book "The Hunter" by Richard Stark. pseudonym for Donald E. Westlake
His name is Walker and after being betrayed by his friend and wife and left for dead, is now back looking for revenge and the money is owed.
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2018-09-0330 min
The Projection Booth PodcastSpecial Report: I'm Gonna Git You Sucka! (1988)Keenan Ivory Wayans's I'm Gonna Git You Sucka (1988) is at once a parody of and follow-up to Blaxploitation films of the 1970s. In it, Wayans stars as Jack Spade, the new blood trying to take down Mr. Big (John Vernon) with a team of classic heroes like John Slade (Bernie Casey), Hammer (Isaac Hayes), Slammer (Jim Brown), Kung Fu Joe (Steve James) and Fly Guy (Antonio Fargas).Chris Cummins joins Mike to discuss the film. Special guests include actor Antonio Fargas (Putney Swope, Cleopatra Jones) and producer Peter McCarthy (Tapeheads, Roadside Prophets).Learn more about your ad...2017-07-142h 12
Invasion of the RemakePoint Blank (1967) Vs. Payback (1999)Two movies based on The Hunter by Donald E. Westlake under the pen name Richard Stark brought Westlake's most famous character, Parker, to the silver screen, but they wouldn't be actually called Parker. Westlake famously protected the character and the name Parker wouldn't be used until after his death when Jason Statham starred in a movie title after the titular character. Point Blank (1967) with Lee Marvin starring as Walker/Parker in a very ethereal adaptation of the novel alongside Angie Dickinson, Keenan Wynn, Caroll O'Connor, and John Vernon was the first to adapt the novel, although now...2016-05-251h 53
Open House Podcast#031 | September 30th, 2010: Deep VoicesClick the post for details on this episode!
Today's episode is going to rock your socks. In an exclusive session, Deep Voices has come to jam out an hour of solid tunes on the Open House decks... In 2004, long-time studio partners, Steve Baltes of Germany and Dyloot of San Francisco teamed up to form DEEP VOICES. Together in a Trans-Atlantic partnership, they have united their styles and continue to captivate listeners with their own blend of deep and melodic progressive trance. This year, Deep Voices has remixed The Thrillseekers & M.I.K.E. and Thomas Datt for the Anjunabeats label, a...2010-09-301h 06
Your Story, Your Way: Full AudiobookMount Vernon Love Story: A Novel of George and Martha Washington Audiobook by Mary Higgins ClarkListen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 150980
Title: Mount Vernon Love Story: A Novel of George and Martha Washington
Author: Mary Higgins Clark
Narrator: Linda Emond
Format: Unabridged
Length: 06:00:00
Language: English
Release date: 10-01-08
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Historical Romance
Summary:
In Mount Vernon Love Story, bestselling author Mary Higgins Clark reveals the flesh-and-blood man who became the 'father of our country' in a story that is charming, insightful, and immensely entertaining.
Always a lover of history, Mary Higgins Clark wrote this extensively researched biographical novel and titled it...2008-10-016h 00
Your Story, Your Way: Full AudiobookBlack List Audiobook by Elvis MitchellListen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 53699
Title: Black List
Author: Elvis Mitchell, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Narrator: Elvis Mitchell, With Contributers
Format: Abridged
Length: 01:44:32
Language: English
Release date: 09-16-08
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Genres: Biography & Memoir, History & Culture, General
Summary:
In The Black List, twenty-five prominent African-Americans of various professions, disciplines, and backgrounds offer their own
stories and insights on the struggles, triumphs, and joys of black life in America and, in the process, redefine 'black list' for a new century.
As seen in original portraits by renowned photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders and in a series...2008-09-161h 44
Your Story, Your Way: Full AudiobookBoy with the Lightning Feet Audiobook by Sally GardnerListen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 265527
Title: Boy with the Lightning Feet
Author: Sally Gardner
Narrator: Andrew Sachs
Format: Unabridged
Length: 01:12:09
Language: English
Release date: 02-02-07
Publisher: Hachette Children Group UK
Genres: Kids, Fairy Tales & Folklore
Summary:
Timmy Twinkle is chubby. That means he gets bullied at school and hasn't any friends. He longs to play football, but he's hopeless at games. He's miserable. And it doesn't help when Gramps tells him about Great-Uncle Vernon, a chubby boy who grew up to be a famous footballer.
Then his gran's friend May comes to...2007-02-021h 12