Salesforce
What’s the difference between Salesforce.com and Force.com?
As a developer, I’ve been involved with Salesforce for about six years and found the marketing around Force.com, Salesforce.com and Salesforce1 to…
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Salesforce
Salesforce Order of Execution
As Salesforce Developers and Salesforce Administrators, we need to understand how the system will process and validate the data that we are…
Salesforce
Designing a Sales Process in Salesforce
A sales process is a series of repeatable steps that the sales team will take with a prospect to sell them the…
Salesforce
How To Reduce Visualforce’s View State
View State is a technique Salesforce uses to maintain the current state of the page and the data that was queried between the user requesting things from the server and sending any changes back to the server.If the view state gets too large problems can begin to occur.
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Best Practices for Exception Handling in Salesforce Apex
What’s an Exception An exception is an unexpected event that occurs when code is executing. Basically apex is signalling there is a…
JavaScript
Salesforce Developers Need to Learn JavaScript Today
Over the years, it’s been possible for Salesforcce Developers to avoid needing to learn JavaScript because things could usually be done through…
Programming
What is Salesforce Lightning
Lightning has really expanded since it was originally introduced at Dreamforce 2014. Originally, Lightning was introduced as a couple of different products…
Salesforce
Tracking Why a Lead or Opportunity is Unqualified or Lost
One of the key advantages of CRM is that it gives insights for management into the Sales process and provide feedback what…
Salesforce
What’s the Difference Between Before and After Triggers
Apex Triggers don’t need to be complicated. If you have worked with databases like SQL Server or MySQL the triggers execute in…
Salesforce
How I became a Salesforce Developer
I believe that most Salesforce developers that started before trailhead started in a way similar to mine. I didn’t plan on becoming…
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How to Automatically Convert Leads in Apex
In the blog post “What’s the difference between a Lead and Opportunity?” I spent a bit of time covering how leads are…
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What’s the difference between a Lead and Opportunity?
A lead is basically a person that has contact information that you should be able to sell to, they have been created…
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Best Practices for Salesforce Lead Sources
“Lead Source” is a standard picklist field on the Lead which is used to determine where that particular Lead came from. This…
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Deleting Stuck Jobs Via Salesforce Apex
Every now and then, I find I get a few jobs that are stuck in the queue which end up causing things…
Programming
The Programmer and His Mythical Thoughts
A long time ago, Fred Brooks put this text into his book the Mythical Man-Month. I shared it on Facebook in 2010,…
Programming
Why I’m doing #100DaysOfCode
I have been professionally programming for about 10 years or so. I created my first website at least 12 years ago back…
Programming
What’s the difference between Scrum and Kanban?
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.
Programming
Getting Confident as a Developer
Being confident is about believing in yourself and having knowing you have the abilities necessary to accomplish a task. The task could…
Programming
Salesforce: Enforcing Security in Apex
Salesforce allows data access to be specified at the object level, field level, and finally record level. To get listed on the…
Programming
First Application Posted On the AppExchange
Really excited to announce that the application I’ve been working on for the last few months is now available on the Salesforce…