141: OSS Software with James Simone

James Simone is a Lead Software Engineer here at Salesforce. One of his great passions in life is open-source software. That is exactly what we will be talking about today.

James was inspired to get into open-source software to help people share code in a more easily indexable, searchable format. This is even what led him to work here at Salesforce. In this episode, James teaches us how we can use open-source software, how to get into it, and some of the projects that he likes.

Show Highlights:

• How James came to work for Salesforce.
• What extreme programming is and where it came from.
• Why enterprises should support open-source software.
• How second-generation packaging affected Salesforce projects.
• How to navigate licensing and fair use when working with open-source software.
• All about Nebula Logger and the logging problem it solves.
• What Apex Rollup is.
• How to get involved in Nebula Logger and/or Apex Rollup.

Links:

• James on Twitter: https://twitter.com/mrwordsmith
• James on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mrwordsmith/
• James on Github: https://github.com/jamessimone
• Joys Of Apex: https://jamessimone.net/blog/joys-of-apex/

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