For my day job I spend most of my day working in the Salesforce ecosystem. I try to write tools that help out other people that work with Salesforce.

The largest of the projects (and the oldest) is Solenopsis and my current pet project is Prospero.

Why Sponsor Me?

While I do provide all of my projects to the world at large under Open Source licenses there are still things that require capital in order to do. Unfortunately domain names aren't free and neither are things like Apple's developer program which is required to have signed packages. With your sponsorship money I'll be paying to "keep the lights on" with things like domain names and the developer program. And extra funds above and beyond what is required will be put back into the community to help either kick-start other projects or used to sponsor other developers.

Opensource Project Roadmap

Solenopsis

For the foreseeable future, my team will continue to use Solenopsis for our day-to-day deployments and development. We will continue to keep updating it with use cases that need. We are not planning on this being a replacement for SFDX but simply another way to do deployments for folks not focusing on Lightning. Once our team migrates over to Lightning then Solenopsis may go into maintenance mode if we no longer continue to use it daily.

Event Monitoring

In addition to the sdfc-eventMonitoring CLI tool kit I developed I have been working on a more robust system for acquiring Event Monitoring logs and deploying them to other data stores. This has had to be put on hold while I physically move and all of the hardware I was using to develop and test it are boxed up. But I will be revisiting it with gusto later this year.

Prospero

The current project that I am spending my free time on, Prospero is designed to fill a need to mask data in CSV and JSON files before sharing them out. I came up with this idea while preparing for a talk on Event Monitoring and wanted an easy way to clean up the data so I could show it on stage for a live demo without the fear of leaking private data about my Salesforce org to everyone in attendance. I am targeting a packaged release that will be available for Windows, OSX and Linux. However, to get a application that can be installed on OSX without any security warnings requires me to be part of the Apple developer program which costs $100 annually. This is the primary driver behind my current Github sponsorship push.