About
We deliver quality software, and tools for people who care about delivering quality software.
A Little History
Officially formed as October Swimmer LLC in Oregon in 2017, October Swimmer evolved from Christian Warden’s development work going back to 2000 and early experiments in selling Salesforce applications starting in 2012.
October Swimmer is committed to building professional-grade tools using modern software development practices with a commitment to building readable, maintainable, testable code.
Timeline
2012
Kanban for Salesforce
First October Swimmer product launches
2015
Apex Flame
Debug and profile Apex code
2017
force CLI & batchforce
Christian takes over force CLI maintainership; batchforce launches for bulk data operations
2018
ro & Lunasa
Simple Salesforce data export tool; drag-and-drop appointment scheduler
2020
force-md
Edit and tidy Salesforce metadata files
2023
apexfmt
Automatic Apex code formatting
2025
Thunder, p2
Build Lightning apps in Go; GitHub App for automatic project scheduling
2026
aer
Local Apex interpreter and test runner