{"id":3484,"date":"2010-12-06T18:57:17","date_gmt":"2010-12-06T17:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/3484-one-day-of-hacks-rest-and-cloud-salesforce-com-cloudstock.html"},"modified":"2010-12-06T18:57:17","modified_gmt":"2010-12-06T17:57:17","slug":"one-day-of-hacks-rest-and-cloud-salesforce-com-cloudstock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/3484-one-day-of-hacks-rest-and-cloud-salesforce-com-cloudstock.html","title":{"rendered":"One day of hacks, REST and cloud: Salesforce.com Cloudstock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m in San Francisco for the annual Salesforce.com conference, where the pre-conference day is called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cloudstockevent.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cloudstock<\/a> and features a bunch of sessions on cloud development from vendors whom Salesforce.com considers more partners than competitors, and from Salesforce.com itself, along with a hackathon competition where you build an instant cloud app.<\/p>\n<p>Why Cloudstock? The parallels with Woodstock\u2019s peace love and music are obscure, but I think the idea is revolution of cloud vs revolution of free love, or something. Presumably nothing to do with mud, getting high or sneaking in without paying.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m guessing that the PR goal is to position Salesforce.com at the heart of cloud computing. Good PR, but there are many other ways to do cloud.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m in a session on Google App Engine and new Google platform technologies \u2013 an introductory talk by Christian Schalk. More on that in this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/3487-google-app-engine-and-why-vendor-honesty-pays.html\" target=\"_blank\">separate post<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m in San Francisco for the annual Salesforce.com conference, where the pre-conference day is called Cloudstock and features a bunch of sessions on cloud development from vendors whom Salesforce.com considers more partners than competitors, and from Salesforce.com itself, along with a hackathon competition where you build an instant cloud app. Why Cloudstock? The parallels with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/3484-one-day-of-hacks-rest-and-cloud-salesforce-com-cloudstock.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">One day of hacks, REST and cloud: Salesforce.com Cloudstock<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,36,71],"tags":[267,345,423,797],"class_list":["post-3484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cloud-computing","category-google","category-salesforcecom","tag-cloud-computing","tag-dreamforce","tag-google-app-engine","tag-salesforce-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}