Start Building Now
You don't have to wait for the next Tour de Force event, you can get started today. Try a tutorial, watch the demos, or post questions and interact with other developers in the discussion forums. And this is just the tip of the iceberg. For additional resources, including tools, documentation, sample code and more, be sure to visit developer.force.com.
Tutorials
Each of these five tutorials walks you through a different aspect of Force.com application building. Each tutorial takes approximately 20-30 minutes to complete, so in less than an hour you can get your first hands-on experience building a real solution -- a simple app called Mileage Tracker. You'll build and deploy the base application, and then extend it by adding additional business logic and creating a custom user interface. In doing so, you'll learn skills you can use to build your own on-demand business solution.
Force.com Diagram
Create The App
Build the app using the Force.com builder.
Build the same app using the Force.com IDE.
Add Business Logic
Use Apex Code to add business logic to the app.
Extend User Interface
Use Visualforce to extend the visual interface.
Get Source
Learn to use the Code Share repository to store and share application code.
Tour de Force 2008
San Francisco
Jan 17
Atlanta
Apr 08
Chicago
Apr 10
New York
Apr 16
Boston
Apr 22
London
May 07
Santa Clara
Jun 23
Dublin
Jun 30
Tokyo
Jul 03
Bangalore
TBD
Stockholm
TBD
Seattle
TBD
Amsterdam
TBD
Miami
TBD
Melbourne
TBD
Washington
TBD
Los Angeles
TBD
Sydney
TBD
Munich
TBD
More cities to come soon!

Demos

 

Get a ten-minute demo that provides an overview of force.com technologies and development model.
Visualforce and beyond.
A demo of the first programming language designed exclusively for building cloud-compouting applications.

 

For access to the complete set of Force.com demos, video tutorials and other resources, join developer.force.com today.

Discussion Boards
General Development
Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:26:58 GMT - slane
Easily transfer app metadata?
Apex Code Development
Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:34:13 GMT - gregs
Debugging TestMethods
Visualforce Development
Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:33:41 GMT - cc_crm
Change record owner in VisualForce page
Java Development
Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:31:39 GMT - Swati.dhingra
Integration with Oracle
.NET Development
Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:38:33 GMT - mtNeil
ConvertedDate query behaviour changed?
Jobs Board
Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:26:09 GMT - NeilMe
Salesforce Integration Engineer