Automated testing confirms whether a piece of particular code is working correctly. And, its no secret, that writing automated tests helps decrease bugs and locate existing bugs. Why write test methods? Test Methods are required to deploy Apex to a production environment. In Salesforce, all classes must have at least 75% code coverage. If you…
Releasing changes from a sandbox into production Salesforce can be an interesting time as a developer. As your instance gains more and more code, and tests, the amount of time it takes for changes to deploy increases. Quick deploy is a relatively new feature that can deploy components up to 96 hours after they have…
Salesforce has finally introduced a way to create test data for an entire test class; this will be a huge time savings for developers. The rollback of records created during execution happens at the end of the test class’ execution. By only inserting records once, we should see tests run faster and require less system…
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 teach you how to administer and program in force.com Over the last few months, it’s really started to come together and offer lots of interesting content, and challenges. Overview Trailhead consists of three…
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 when it was clicked. In this post, I’ve provided example code that will allow you to make headers collapsible when clicked by the user. By adding the below JavaScript, we can easily add…
In the past, there’s been so many times I needed to tell if an object was numeric. With the below function, it’s very easy to tell if an item is numeric. If your project is already using jQuery, you could always use jQuery.IsNumeric()
Salesforce’s Spring 15 release is going to include mapping and geolocation for address fields. I believe, location based features started appearing before I started using Salesforce. Even more exciting, is that visualforce will include a map component. The mapping component appears to be using Google Maps, but this could probably change. The new mapping component…
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 a lot of what I believed and was doing were right. Without further ado, here’s my notes: Goals for tests Auomated methods that verify application integrity Future Proof Proactively Identify Problems before they…
Why use patterns: patterns help us be more efficient patterns describe reusable solutions to common problems Bulk Processing Caching create triggers w/ ability to process hundreds of lookups challenge: queries, DML, memory collect all keys from trigger object in Set Object Query once using SOQL in clause with key set cache results in map object…
I was really blessed to be able to attend Dreamforce and learn even more about Salesforce. While attending there, I attended a lot of the different keynotes and saw a lot of the new exciting features in action. Dreamforce Sessions At Dreamforce there was dozens of interesting sounding sessions. There were a few different ones…
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 amount about Salesforce. This blog article is a culmination of all the different things I’ve experienced and learned along the way. The syntax for Salesforce Apex is very similar to Java, but there’s…
Ever wonder about how to Remove the Annoying VIP Zone Video from the Niagara Falls Review’s website? I absolutely love following local news, but I really can’t stand being forced to pretend I’m going to watch a video.
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Magento Site Performance Optimization by Mathieu Nayrolles is a handy little primer on the basics of optimizing a server for magento. This little gem covers the basics, doesn’t spend a lot of time on fluff, and moves quickly into optimizing MySQL and covers the basics of using two mysql instances (through replication) one for writing…
In this blog post, we discuss Salesforce Future methods and how to use them.
I recently found out about Workbench for Salesforce at Dreamforce. Workbench is a web based set of tools that’s designed for Salesforce Administrators and developers to interact with Salesforce.com using the Force.com APIs. Using Workbench it’s pretty easy to view data, do data loading, perform SOQL queries or SOSL searches, etc. After logging in successfully…
Checking if a list is null and has no results is pretty easy. The best way to do this is to use the ISNULL operator and and to check if the results has a size that isn’t 0.
