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As many of you know, I do enjoy writing books. Which is a good thing given that I’ve written quite a few of them. I’m proud of all of my books, but there are a few that fall into a special category – and that includes my latest effort. If you’ve looked at the book market, you’ve probably noticed that a lot of books are very similar. Most subjects offer dozens of competing books that have pretty much the same content. Personally, I’ve always felt that if a good book exists on a particular subject, I shouldn’t waste my time writing another one.

As a result, most (if not all) of my books have been either unique, or the first one in a given space. For example: my original Visual Basic Programmer’s Guide to the Windows API was the only book for a long time that dared to teach Visual Basic programmers to use the Windows API.

My recent book on teaching leadership skills to teens is nothing like anything else on the market. Which brings us to Advanced Apex Programming. As I mentioned in my previous blog post, I’ve been spending more and more time over the past few years working in Apex – the native language of Salesforce.com.

I’ve learned a great deal in the process and well, you know how it is. Sooner or later, if I learn something, I end up writing a book to teach it. In this case, I was astonished to find that nobody has written an advanced Apex book yet. There’s lots of great reference material, a good selection of articles, and plenty of beginner’s texts out there.

But there was no book to help the intermediate developers take the next step, and give the advanced developers something to geek out to. Even the domain, was available! I couldn’t resist. You can read about the book at. I’m as excited about it as I was that original VB Programmer’s guide. As with that book, I think it’s going to help a lot of programmers write a lot of great code and become more successful. And as an author, hearing from readers that a book I’ve written has helped them build their careers is what really makes it worth the effort.

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26 Responses to “Advanced Apex Programming for Salesforce.com and Force.com” • Says: Hello Mr. Appleman, I really appreciate this post. I was one of those that learned how to use the Windows API from Visual Basic based on your book. It helped me looked like a wizard.

I also met you many years ago when your book came out, I believe it was at a VBits conference. I remember after reading your book(s) I had the thought I’d liked to be published one day. Interestingly enough, a couple of weeks ago my book came out, “Windows PowerShell for Developers”.

Thanks for the education and inspiration. Program protector license key free. Doug • Dan Says: Hi Doug: Congratulations on the book. I played around with PowerShell for a while – it’s a very intriguing language. But I didn’t spend enough time with it to become expert enough for it to become part of my daily toolkit. Maybe I need to get your book 🙂 • Says: Thank you.

Send me an address or email and I’ll arrange a copy to be sent. Thanks again. Doug • Roshan Sahatiya Says: Hello Dan, I was long awaiting a book on advanced Apex. Thank You for this.

I am based in India; Where do I get this book? Can you please guide for the same?

Kind Regards, Roshan • Dan Says: I think your best source of the book for India at this time would be Amazon.co.uk. It should be less expensive to ship from there than from the U.S.

Dan • Luke Says: Hi, Can you tell me if I can buy a PDF of the book? Somehow I cannot find it anywhere? • admin Says: I do plan to make it available one day on the Kindle and possibly the Nook. But I don’t have time to do the work before Dreamforce. Right now only printed books are available.

• Richard Lulenski Says: Hi Dan, I picked this up at Dreamforce. I’m just getting started with some controller extensions and although the concepts in your book are advanced for me, some of it still makes sense.

You explain issues so that I can understand and follow them some, even with my limited knowledge. Much technical literature is, for me, too technical. Do you have a more basic apex book? Hopefully I’ll figure out my current problem, or resort to the Hire On Demand job board. Thanks so much.