State IT workers attended a workshop the other day, "From Idea to App in 1 Day," in which they learned "how to create custom applications in the cloud without needing to write any code." The class was offered for free to state government employees by Salesforce as part of its Platform Developer Day. It described the class this way: "This workshop will walk the attendee through creating an example cloud-based application. We’ll start with data models, work through adding automation logic, viewing reports/dashboards, and setting up security. This is a workshop with hands-on exercises and is available to all agencies and departments."
