016: Workbench with Ryan Brainard

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ryan Brainard, Principal Member of Technical Staff at Heroku, joins me on The Salesforce Developer podcast to talk about the curious history of Workbench.  While never an officially supported aspect of Salesforce (it’s technically an open source reference application) it has still found a place as something of a Swiss Army knife of debugging utilities for working with Salesforce and its related API’s.  Follow us along for an origin story of this toolset and it’s evolution over the years. Towards the end we’ll get a little teaser into what Ryan’s working on over at Heroku.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Show Highlights:</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The early days of Workbench, running Workbench open source from his laptop computer, and its evolution from his laptop to the cloud</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How Workbench has helped developers debug, investigate, and work with Salesforce features and APIs</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Workbench as a demonstration of the open source project</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">When he realized Workbench was becoming more than just a “pet project” and gaining momentum</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Ryan’s favorite Workbench feature, the Matrix Cycle View</span></li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><strong>Resources:</strong><strong><br /></strong><a href= "https://twitter.com/ryanbrainard?lang=en"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Ryan on Twitter</span></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanbrainard"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Ryan on LinkedIn</span><span style= "font-weight: 400;"><br /></span></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.github.com/ryanbrainard"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Ryan on Github</span><span style= "font-weight: 400;"><br /></