Quick Winter '16 Glance

In case you missed The New Salesforce broadcast event, here is what happened (in 5 words or less):

Lightning Experience was introduced!

There are a lot of things the developers should be excited about, but also there is a big learning curve coming up. If you haven't worked with Lightning Components previously, I strongly recommend you to get on it as soon as possible, especially if you're a developer with no or minimal JavaScript knowledge.

In addition to Salesforce1 Lightning, the Winter '16 release is coming up, which means there are even more changes and new features coming up to the platform. Not to mention that Dreamforce '15 around the corner, may the force be with us in order to keep on top of all the things.

From a developer point of view, at a glance, these are some of the Winter '16 release notes (in no particular order) that I'm excited about:

• Fully Integrate Your External Data with Writeable External Objects
• Debug Apex Code in Eclipse (Generally Available)
• Receive Less Granular Logs at the Debug Level for Apex Code
• Set Recipients of Email Notifications for Unhandled Apex Exceptions
• Improve Performance and Reliability with Platform Cache
• Make Unlimited Callouts to Internal Salesforce URLs
• Make Calls to PageReference.getContent() in Asynchronous Apex
• Serialize and Deserialize JSON Map Objects Reliably
• Deserialize JSON String Objects with Extraneous Attributes
•  New and Changed Apex Classes
• New Objects
• API Status Code Changes

I'm getting on Trailhead now to get some Lightning badges, and you should too!