Compared to .NET or J2EE, developing on Force.com is both very familiar and very different. It's familiar because you still follow the same-old Software Delivery Lifecycle. You write code, queries, and unit tests using familiar syntaxes and tools. When QA signs-off, you push components from development to production. And when users come up with something that we can do to make their lives easier, we do it all over again. Of course, there are some notable differences ...In a brief, 12-page introduction, we walk through how the Force.com platform works, from a developers perspective. [Read More]
