We were thrilled to see so many join the Haiku & Salesforce fun, as we had over 80 entries in our February Haiku contest to celebrate NaHaiWriMo (National Haiku Writing Month).
This contest has been very entertaining for us and we look forward to doing it again next year!
And now…your winners.
1st Place – Winner of a Trailblazer Hoodie – John Thompson @latentfuss
The only entry to be awarded votes by 4 of the 5 Accidental Admins, John’s haiku made us all laugh out loud. Solid work sir, we’ll be in touch to find out where to deliver your hoodie.
A baby seal dies
when multi-select picklists
are used said Steve Mo
We had several great entries, including an impressive 5 from
2nd-5th Place & Honorable Mentions
| 2ND Place: Yad Jayanth, T-Shirt Winner This long-form haiku from @YadCloud had the most 1st place votes & was tied for the win heading into our final voter. Congrats Yad! "salesforce, who are you? are you an identity? a community? then who aren't you? touch? other forgetten things? what then, a cloud? wave? are you licenses? sales, service, or marketing? are you your users? you are our zeitgeist; you fight discrimination, educate freely you give back and grow - hospitals to non-profits, schools and charities like a ray of sun - the corporation that smiles. you are Ohana" | 3rd Place: Cassie Supilowski @csupilow Apparently the Accidental team hates vague error message emails from Process Builder. "Oh, Process Builder With error emails so vague My death you will be" | 4th Place: Pat Solum @sodakforce We'll dedicate this effort to Timothy Treadwell aka Grizzly Man. "Caution trailblazers! Codey is awesome, friendly Real bears not so much" | 5th Place: Gemma Emmet, @gemziebeth This one really connected with one of the Admins, gaining a first place vote. "a deep gloom is nigh Nonsense is the Apex class Your admin doth sigh" |
| Honorable Mention: Pat Solum, @Sodakforce "Certification Plus experience equals Your trailblazer street cred" | Honorable Mention: Meg McLees, @MegMcLees How I Became an Admin: Boss tells me 'Do this.' Check out Trailhead for answers. Now I just do this." | Honorable Mention: Barrie Robertson, @ittookten "Part innovator, part problem solver, all heart an #AwesomeAdmin" | Honorable Mention: Yad Jayanth @yadcloud "intern deploys code 'I tested - it works just great!' then everything breaks" |
| Honorable Mention: Benjamin Bolopue, @sfdcgeek "Sandboxes are safe In playgrounds is where we learn Don't do shit in prod" | Honorable Mention:Barrie Robertson, @ittookten "Be you an Admin Or Salesforce Developer All are Ohana!" | Honorable Mention: Amy Oplinger, @salesforceamy "reading release notes so far behind they do seem to pair well with wine" | Honorable Mention: Barrie Robertson, @ittookten "Leader who leaves a path for others to follow That's a Trailblazer" |
| Honorable Mention: Yancy Whitaker @RangerYancy "Admin two o one Really want to get my first Certification" | Honorable Mention: Yad Jayanth @yadcloud "what did the callout ask the failing test method? ""Are you mocking me?""" | Honorable Mention: Yad Jayanth @yadcloud "i loved using ant used it for all my deploys ..until PETA called" | Honorable Mention: Yad Jayanth @yadcloud "Salesforce, oh Salesforce how, oh how do i love thee? let me count with Wave" |