Programming
Introduction to Salesforce Workbench
I recently found out about Workbench for Salesforce at Dreamforce. Workbench is a web based set of tools that’s designed for Salesforce…
Category: Programming
Programming
How to Check for 0 Results in VisualForce
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.
Programming
Visualforce Custom Controllers and Extensions
When we create Visualforce pages in Salesforce we have a few different ways that we can architect the code that will do any business logic that we need.
Programming
What is An API
API is an acronym for Application Programming Interface. An API is a way for two applications to talk to one another. I…
Wordpress
Reducing WordPress Comment Spam
Self-hosted WordPress sites often attract a lot of comment spam which requires your valuable time or resources to reduce to more manageable…
SQL Server
SSRS – Useful Header / Footer Expressions
SQL Server Reporting Services is an excellent tool for controlling the output of reports and having reports created dynamically and even emailed…
Wordpress
Akismet (Anti-Spam)
Akismet has worked extremely well for me over the last two years, it’s only inaccurately identified two comments as spam out of…
Programming
Converting Access to MySQL
For a client, I took on some very old ASP code that desperately needed some TLC before the site relaunches. While working…
PHP
Zen Coding
When I first heard of Zen Coding on Sitepoint, I figured it was some other gimmick that might save me about 0.01%…
Experience
How I became A Developer
Computers have interested me virtually my entire life. I don’t remember when I got my 1st computer, I remember my dad and…
Programming
Resource interpreted as other but transferred with MIME type text/javascript.
When I was looking at a site with the Chrome Developer Tools, it had a little error icon that said “Resource interpreted…
Programming
Clean Code – Are Comments Required?
On LinkedIn, I noticed a question that didn't really have any answers or additional comments. "If I write clean code, do I need comments?" was asked by the user on the discussion board. In an ideal world, you wouldn't need to write comments, but we don't live in an ideal world.I think that you still do need some comments, but that the number and frequency of comments should significantly decrease.
Magento
Why I Recommend PayPal
I spend a significant amount of my timing deal with ecommerce and different shopping systems. One of my all time favourite solutions…
SQL Server
SQL Server – Get Only the Date
Very often, I need the date of some data and do not like to convert the date to a varchar and then…
PHP
WAMP Server Not Accessible on Port 80
WAMP Server generally runs fine without any problems, although sometimes we have to make some configuration changes because of other software monitoring…
PHP
WAMP Server On Windows 7 64bit
Getting WAMP to run properly on Windows 7 isn’t very difficult as long as the permissions are properly set. Also, keep in…
Magento
Magento CheckOut Page Blank
I had a very strange issue with a client’s installation of magento a few nights ago. The checkout page was completely blank…
SQL Server
SSRS Doesn’t Respond
Every few months, especially after a windows update, I find that SQL Server Reporting Services’ ReportManager just won’t load. There’s no errors,…
JavaScript
Dealing With Dates in JavaScript
Dates and DateTimes are difficult to deal with in most languages. The Date object is a datatype that’s built in the JavaScript…
Programming
Dealing with Crappy Code
As a freelance developer / consultant, I am regularly hired by clients that outsource software development and don’t have somebody that looks…