JavaScript
What is a Self Invoking Function
In JavaScript, it’s common to hear lots of strange terminology without a lot of description around what it is or what it…
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Programming
What is Serverless Computing
In the ten years or so that I have been programming professionally, there’s been significant changes to the way we did things…
Cloud Computing
Why JavaScript
In the earlier days of the web, there was a battle between two scripting languages VBScript and JavaScript. VBScript, thankfully, eventually died…
JavaScript
How to Use Reduce on JavaScript Arrays
In functional programming, being able to reduce is one of the fundamental concepts. Reduce is used to iterate through the values in…
Programming
How to be a more Efficient Debugger
For the last 10+ years or so, I’ve been programming professionally. Even with ten years of practice, I still am unable to…
JavaScript
Detecting Inactivity in JavaScript
In a lot of web applications, it can be really useful to detect whether the user is still active or not. For…
JavaScript
How to merge Objects together in JavaScript
Merging objects together in JavaScript isn’t very difficult although there’s quite a few different ways that it can be done. Note, I’m…
Book Review
Book Review: Advanced Apex Programming
It’s no secret to those that know me that I read a lot and spend a lot of time gathering knowledge and…
Programming
How I stay informed of Salesforce Changes
Salesforce does three major releases per year which often include hundreds of changes whether they be bug fixes or new features. Staying…
Programming
10 Awesome Podcasts for Developers
Podcasts are radio like shows that are freely distributed on the internet. A lot of the time they’re distributed through Apple iTunes,…
Programming
What is the Serverless Framework?
The Serverless Framework is a free open source framework that allows us to easily build applications on cloud providers like AWS using serverless computing. By utilizing Serverless development and IT operations teams are able to quickly build functions and the events that will trigger them.
Programming
How to Rename a Salesforce Aura Component
Out of the box, Salesforce doesn't provide an a way to rename a Salesforce Lightning Component (Aura), but don't worry there is an easier way than creating a new one and copying everything over.
Cloud Computing
S3 File Manager
Amazon’s S3 service is incredible because of it’s incredibly scalable object storage infrastructure. Unlike consumer facing services like Dropbox there’s very few…
linux
Setting Up Caching on Apache
For the majority of websites, a great amount of the content doesn't change from day to day or even month to month. When a site gets a lot of repeat traffic we can dramatically reduce the load and costs by caching.
Programming
How to Choose An Apex Trigger Framework
If you have been programming on the Salesforce/Force.com platform for any amount of time I’m sure you have come into contact with…
Experience
How to Improve as a Developer
As a software developer, it’s really important to take time and improve your programming skills by learning new technologies and techniques. By…
JavaScript
How to get the URL Parameters in JavaScript
It’s no secret that JavaScript is now all around us, most html forms are using JavaScript for validation and of course there’s…
Salesforce
Introduction to Salesforce Approval Processes
An approval process is process that is used to approve records going into Salesforce or being modified within Salesforce. Approval processes are…
Programming
How to Clone an sObject in Salesforce
Salesforce supports basically two types of clones a clone and a deep clone. We’ll go over how to notice the difference later…
Programming
How to Sync Quotes using Apex
In Salesforce, quotes are a representation of prices that have been proposed to a customer for products or services. If you aren’t…