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Josh Birk (@joshbirk)  is a Developer Evangelist at Salesforce.com and so if you're listening to this podcast there's a great chance that you've already come across him in your internet adventures. He's recently started blogging at http://joshbirk.herokuapp.com on a variety of topics and also posts on the Salesfore Developers Blog. In this episode Josh talks to us about:

His Background

• How he arrived at Salesforce via ModelMetrics
• Using Flex and developing the Flex REST toolkits

Summer '14 release highlights

• Increased API request limits for developers
• Flex queue for batch job management
• Approval buttons for Salesforce1
• Improvements to Remote Objects: Upsert functionality and Apex overrides for CRUD operations
• The power of Flow
• The Query Planner tool

Salesforce.com Platform Specifics

• What GA, Developer Preview, Pilot and Beta mean
• An introduction to Canvas