Josh Koenig to take up the slack with the Salesforce module
I first published the Salesforce module based on Steve McKenzie's Sandbox code due to the fact that I had a client (helpargentina.org) who needed integration with Salesforce, and naturally I thought the quality and maintainability of the software would be much better served by an open project that interested members of the community participated in. That was true then and it is true now, when it is Josh Koenig who is working on a project and has a great store of ideas and needs with which to update and stabilize the module and make it more flexible and powerful. Since due to other commitments I have been unable to give much love at all to this module in quite some time, there is no doubt in my mind that the best thing for the community and all concerned is for Josh to dive right into direct maintenance of the module, to which he has now been granted CVS access. I am sure Josh will be announcing his Road Map soon. Others have contributed a lot also, bringing to the discussion a lot of useful ideas and code, in connection with this module which is so hard to abstract from project-specific needs, notably Benjamin Melançon and Tom Friedhof. Go Drupal! Victor Kane http://awebfactory.com.ar
As long as I'm on a roll... Since Victor mentioned I'm taking on the Salesforce module, I wanted to know if anyone knew how to contact Arto Bendekin, the maintainer of Boost? I've been using it a lot lately, and think it has huge potential to help Drupal for midrange sites that are getting a fair amount of traffic, but lack the resources to move to high-grade hosting. Basically, it's the poor man's squid, and this can help out businesses and organizations that have VPS-grade hosting but still need to withstand high sustained traffic from anonymous users. I'd like to maintain some updates and get a 6.0 release out, but Arto's contact tab is disabled. Arto: if you're out there, I wanna help! :) cheers -josh
I forwarded your message to him. I'll make sure he gives you a reply very soon. ..chris On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 1:24 PM, Josh Koenig <josh@chapterthree.com> wrote:
As long as I'm on a roll...
Since Victor mentioned I'm taking on the Salesforce module, I wanted to know if anyone knew how to contact Arto Bendekin, the maintainer of Boost?
I've been using it a lot lately, and think it has huge potential to help Drupal for midrange sites that are getting a fair amount of traffic, but lack the resources to move to high-grade hosting. Basically, it's the poor man's squid, and this can help out businesses and organizations that have VPS-grade hosting but still need to withstand high sustained traffic from anonymous users.
I'd like to maintain some updates and get a 6.0 release out, but Arto's contact tab is disabled.
Arto: if you're out there, I wanna help! :)
cheers -josh
Hi all, My Salesforce code, which I sent to Victor for review and possible release as Salesforce 2.x, isn't otherwise released, and hasn't been added to the project yet as far as I know. But Josh, it's all yours! Our (Agaric Design Collective's) client is coming back for a second Salesforce-integrated site, so we'll be able to help out some more. All Agaric's contributions involved improving the website to Salesforce direction. We didn't need to sync data from Salesforce back to Drupal, so I merely tried not to break that while refactoring the code. Main contribution: we created something of an API module for allowing other modules to provide ways of getting information to Salesforce, and an interface for mapping those fields to elements of Salesforce objects. We then developed a fieldmapping module to match any Webform field to Salesforce fields. Important caveat to anyone considering Salesforce: our integration at least relies on the Salesforce API, which costs a whole lot of money for companies to access, and I'm a bit embittered by Salesforce's complete lack of response to the point that a tool like Drupal means APIs aren't just for the big players anymore. (See http://ideas.salesforce.com/article/show/24160 ) Oh, and for free software contact management, CiviCRM and its Drupal integration http://civicrm.org are looking awesome! benjamin Agaric Design Collective Open Source Free Software Web Development http://agaricdesign.com/ 774-286-1770
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 5:05 AM, Benjamin Melançon <pwgdarchive@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,
My Salesforce code, which I sent to Victor for review and possible release as Salesforce 2.x, isn't otherwise released, and hasn't been added to the project yet as far as I know. But Josh, it's all yours!
Awesome. Benjamin, send Josh the latest version of your code, just to be sure. I am also sending Josh a version I developed that persists Salesforce data onto the nodeprofile module instead of the core profile module, that I developed for a client but could never commit because doing so requires the more flexible API we have all been discussing which allows you to choose your form of (poison) persistence. Victor
Our (Agaric Design Collective's) client is coming back for a second Salesforce-integrated site, so we'll be able to help out some more.
All Agaric's contributions involved improving the website to Salesforce direction. We didn't need to sync data from Salesforce back to Drupal, so I merely tried not to break that while refactoring the code.
Main contribution: we created something of an API module for allowing other modules to provide ways of getting information to Salesforce, and an interface for mapping those fields to elements of Salesforce objects.
We then developed a fieldmapping module to match any Webform field to Salesforce fields.
Important caveat to anyone considering Salesforce: our integration at least relies on the Salesforce API, which costs a whole lot of money for companies to access, and I'm a bit embittered by Salesforce's complete lack of response to the point that a tool like Drupal means APIs aren't just for the big players anymore. (See http://ideas.salesforce.com/article/show/24160 ) Oh, and for free software contact management, CiviCRM and its Drupal integration http://civicrm.org are looking awesome!
benjamin
Agaric Design Collective Open Source Free Software Web Development http://agaricdesign.com/ 774-286-1770
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