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Bootstrap is a free and really popular open source CSS framework that works pretty well for designing responsive websites and web applications.…
There's a lot of reasons why you may want to sort an array, often it is done to make things easier for the user of the application to understand the data. Arrays are normally sorted to be in ascending order (or alphabetical).
PHP's time() function returns the current unix timestamp. JavaScript doesn't exactly have the same functionality, but it's pretty close. Put a different and more understandable way, it returns the current time measured in seconds since the Unix Epoch (00:00:00 UTC on 1 January 1970). JavaScript has a similar way of getting the time but it's in milliseconds since the Unix Epoch.
Automated testing confirms whether a piece of particular code is working correctly. And, its no secret, that writing automated tests helps decrease…
Releasing changes from a sandbox into production Salesforce can be an interesting time as a developer. As your instance gains more and…
Salesforce has finally introduced a way to create test data for an entire test class; this will be a huge time savings…
When Salesforce introduced Trailhead in the Dreamforce 2014 Developer Keynote I wasn’t overly excited. Trailhead is Salesforce’s Learning Platform; it’s designed to…
Since I’ve started developing for Salesforce one thing that has always frustrated me is that the apex:pageBlockSection’s header wasn’t collapsing the section…
In the past, there’s been so many times I needed to tell if an object was numeric. With the below function, it’s…
Salesforce’s Spring 15 release is going to include mapping and geolocation for address fields. I believe, location based features started appearing before…
In this blog post, we'll discuss how to correctly do Callouts from Apex Triggers. Salesforce doesn't allow External Callouts to directly happen from Apex Triggers. You will get the error "Callout from triggers are currently not supported'.
Visualforce is Salesforce's MVC style pages. In this blog post, we'll cover how to display error messages in a Visualforce page and how to add error messages.
One of the hands on training sessions I attended was “Write Apex Tests Using Best Practices” which really proved to me that…
Why use patterns: patterns help us be more efficient patterns describe reusable solutions to common problems Bulk Processing Caching create triggers w/…
I was really blessed to be able to attend Dreamforce and learn even more about Salesforce. While attending there, I attended a…
In Salesforce, the first three characters of a record Id are the "Object Id Prefix".
The first three digits of an Id is an identifier to the type of entity that the object is. It doesn't matter if the Id is a 15 digit or 18 digit id.
For the last eleven months or so, I’ve been working a lot as a salesforce developer. In this time, I’ve learned an incredible…
Ever wonder about how to Remove the Annoying VIP Zone Video from the Niagara Falls Review’s website? I absolutely love following local…
Magento Site Performance Optimization by Mathieu Nayrolles is a handy little primer on the basics of optimizing a server for magento. This…