A couple Cubic Compass customers on the US East Coast are seeking Interactive Web Developers to take their i-Dialogue websites/portals to the next level.

These are full-time, onsite positions located in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida and Philadelphia. See details here and here.

Those following my recent video blog entries have probably noticed a pretty concerted effort on our part to improve the user experience (UX) of our CMS.

You can pretty much single-click your way through the most common functions today as we've converted to a 3 tier UI that progressively reveals advanced features and functionality as you descend into the dialog windows.

It's amazing how many experiences we tolerate in Windows on a day to day basis. This Windows UX Ideas site has started a constructive dialogue on the topic.

(No, that's not a Salesforce Ideas site. Even though it looks identical, the author custom developed the site in PHP... very nice)

We're looking for a Web User Interface Specialist and a Web Project Manager (click on links for details).

Please send resumes to jobs@cubiccompass.com.

In this video, I walk through the creation of a simple "Contact Us" web page that inserts Contacts directly into Salesforce. Contact me at mike@cubiccompass.com if you'd like a more personalized demonstration.

Full screen version here

Kudos to James Shore on the release of his new book "The Art of Agile Development".

Jim and I spent several months together in 2001-2002 developing a Customer Portal framework for a leading on-premise CRM software package with the occasional mentoring from Ward Cunningham (inventor of the original Wiki).

From the few chapters I've read from Jim's book already, it very elegantly articulates many pragmatic principles that are centric (I believe) to delivering successful software projects, as well as tackling difficult topics such as software measurement, risk management, and compensation.

Video interview with Jim here.

This video was inspired by a Salesforce.com customer asking how to create a search page similar to Salesforce's Partner Finder using Dialogue Script.

(I apologize for the video cropping....Full screen video here)

Check out this new Wiki article if you have a need for publishing RSS feeds from Salesforce-driven data.

The context of the article uses a "Jobs__c" custom object, but I'll leave it to your imagination and creativity to truly leverage the full potential of this feature.

I had assumed this "rumor" of Salesforce.com switching 4,000 employees to Macs had in fact occurred several months ago based on following Simon's contributions to the Mac world and attending Dreamforce demos.

I'm not far behind making the switch myself. I've decided rather than running Parallels to maintain a stable Windows XP/Visual Studio machine and a separate Mac/Eclipse environment for general browser-based productivity and Salesforce specific work.

No surprise which one will get used the most. I just love the instant boot of the Mac books.

The all SaaS environment utilized by our company makes employee on-boarding, collaboration, and roaming much easier. It's vexing to see companies with only 12 employees shackled to Exchange. If migration is the only barrier to SaaS, then expect to see more service-oriented integration tools and vendors emerge.

Mobile productivity and multiple device synchronization is the next challenge. Google Phone had better be just around the corner.