In the blog post “What’s the difference between a Lead and Opportunity?” I spent a bit of time covering how leads are converted into accounts, contacts, and opportunities. Basically, a lead is converted when the sales person thinks that there’s actually an opportunity to sell them something. In a lot of cases, it might make…
A lead is basically a person that has contact information that you should be able to sell to, they have been created because they have contacted you in someway with some sort of need whether this be that they filled out a contact form on your website or they exchanged business cards with somebody at a tradeshow. …
“Lead Source” is a standard picklist field on the Lead which is used to determine where that particular Lead came from.
This field is highly valuable to a skilled marketing team because it will allow them to evaluate how the leads they are acquiring are doing for the sales team.
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Every now and then, I find I get a few jobs that are stuck in the queue which end up causing things like reports to stop being generated or stop pardot from syncing or just causing general chaos.
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I often listen to the Developer Tea podcast on my way to the office. Today Johnathan shared this quote from Annie Dillard:
“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time. A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order—willed, faked, and so brought into being; it is a peace and a haven set into the wreck of time; it is a lifeboat on which you find yourself, decades later, still living.” ―Annie Dillard, The Writing Life
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A long time ago, Fred Brooks put this text into his book the Mythical Man-Month. I shared it on Facebook in 2010, and it seems that every year Facebook highlights it on the anniversary of me first sharing it.
I find it truly inspirational.
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I have been professionally programming for about 10 years or so. I created my first website at least 12 years ago back when html consisted of font tags everywhere and flashing marquees that thankfully fell out of style. I wrote my first JavaScript around 2000 or so, but I never really felt that I really understood JavaScript. This past year in a lot of ways has been pretty painful as JavaScript to me ended up mostly meaning mostly jQuery. In April 2016, I started a new job where we have been mostly writing JavaScript, and going completely serverless.
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Kanban and scrum are both agile frameworks for managing how stuff gets done. Agile is basically a set of ideals and principles that guide us on how to work together to get stuff done well and efficient.
Being confident is about believing in yourself and having knowing you have the abilities necessary to accomplish a task. The task could be anything even programming or asking a woman out on a date.
Confidence is gained overtime, there’s no quick and easy way to get confidence.
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NetSuite is customizable, cloud based, enterprise software for running a small-medium or mid-market sized business. Aside from Salesforce, there isn’t really much software out there that allows a company to tightly integrate all of the business into one solution that can scale really well.
Salesforce allows data access to be specified at the object level, field level, and finally record level. To get listed on the AppExchange an application has to go through a really extensive security review process. As part of the review process Salesforce confirms that security permissions are being adhered to. Unfortunately, apex doesn’t automatically follow…
Really excited to announce that the application I’ve been working on for the last few months is now available on the Salesforce AppExchange. One of the most exciting things is that it went live with a Salesforce Lightning Component.…
As part of the HTTP protocol HTTP Status Codes are returned to allow software to easily identify what the problem is and what they should do in response.
In synchronous programming, each step is performed one after the previous one is finished executing. This means that each step blocks the next step.
In a lot of cases, we probably don’t necessarily need to do everything in order. In asynchronous programming, steps can all execute in parallel and/or in really any order.…
Quite a while ago, Salesforce introduced some very significant changes to custom settings. If you aren’t sure what custom settings are please take the time to read my How To Use Salesforce Custom Settings post. This post covers a lot of the changes and when you should start looking at using Custom MetaData Types.…
When developing on Salesforce’s force.com platform it’s essential to avoid hardcoding application settings because a deployment will be required every time something needs to be changed. Application Settings could be anything really, but often it’s things like an email address, ip address, or even a passkey. For those not already aware, a Salesforce deployment can take hours to finally happen which may cause significant downtime in some businesses. …
As many Salesforce Apex programmers know, in Salesforce it’s pretty much an unchallenged best practice that all code should be able to handle bulk inserts, updates, etc. When adhering to this best practice, it’s really common to use sets, or lists as parameters in functions. Sometimes, there’s a need to convert between lists, or sets, or maybe even maps. …
onnecting the Serverless Framework to AWS is pretty painless once we have downloaded our credentials from AWS.
In this blog post, we’ll touch on how to get our AWS API credentials, configure serverless and set up a project for it.
“Unhandled rejection AccessDeniedException: Your access has been denied by EC2, please make sure your function execution role have permission to CreateNetworkInterface. EC2 Error Code: UnauthorizedOperation. EC2 Error Message: You are not authorized to perform this operation.”
That’s a pretty annoying error to receive when deploying from Serverless to AWS, but the fix is really pretty simple.
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Salesforce task records are basically action items or items on a to-do list. Tasks are commonly logged against relevant records like a Lead, Opportunity, Contact, or Account. Sometimes, depending, on your organization’s data model it may also make sense to log tasks against custom objects. …
