Programming
Apex: How to Dynamically Tell if a Salesforce Field Exists
Lately, I’ve been working on a lot of dynamic apex and soql. I had a requirement to develop a custom appexchange app…
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Programming
How to have a Visualforce Page Download as a pdf
When creating applications it's a pretty common request to be able to create a formatted report or file in pdf file format. For the most part, most customized pages and data can be easily converted into a PDF file without having to make many changes. In Salesforce, we can change customized Visualforce pages to create a pdf file by using the renderAs property and set the value to pdf.
Book Review
Book Review: Mastering Application Development with Force.com
A few weeks ago, I saw a post on Twitter about Kevin Poorman releasing a new book about programming in Salesforce Apex…
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Using jQuery in Visualforce
jQuery is one of the most utilized JavaScript libraries and can be easily be integrated into any visualforce page regardless of whether…
Salesforce
Apex How to Get a List of Fields Set on an sObject
I recently had a requirement to dynamically determine what fields had been set or queried on a sObject, so that a comparison…
Salesforce
Security in Salesforce
Salesforce has quite a bit of built in security; and has lots of security features that can be customized. Access to most…
Book Review
Book Review: Practical Salesforce.com Development Without Code
Practical Salesforce.com Development Without Code written by Phil Weinmeister has been recently released. I think the book really targets those new to…
Programming
How to use Bootstrap In Visualforce
Bootstrap is a free and really popular open source CSS framework that works pretty well for designing responsive websites and web applications.…
Programming
Introduction to Testing in Salesforce
Automated testing confirms whether a piece of particular code is working correctly. And, its no secret, that writing automated tests helps decrease…
Salesforce
Salesforce Quick Deploy
Releasing changes from a sandbox into production Salesforce can be an interesting time as a developer. As your instance gains more and…
Salesforce
Salesforce Spring15 Test Class Additions
Salesforce has finally introduced a way to create test data for an entire test class; this will be a huge time savings…
Salesforce
Introduction to Salesforce Trailhead
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…
Salesforce
How to Make the apex:pageblocksection header collapsible
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…
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Salesforce Spring15 Including Mapping Features
Salesforce’s Spring 15 release is going to include mapping and geolocation for address fields. I believe, location based features started appearing before…
Programming
How to do Callouts from Apex Triggers
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'.
Programming
How to Show error messages in Visualforce
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.
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Dreamforce 2014 Notes: Write Apex Tests Using Best Practices
One of the hands on training sessions I attended was “Write Apex Tests Using Best Practices” which really proved to me that…
Salesforce
Dreamforce 2014 Notes: Writing Apex and Visualforce Using Re-usable Patterns
Why use patterns: patterns help us be more efficient patterns describe reusable solutions to common problems Bulk Processing Caching create triggers w/…
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Looking Back at Dreamforce 2014
I was really blessed to be able to attend Dreamforce and learn even more about Salesforce. While attending there, I attended a…
Programming
How to get Salesforce Object key prefix
In Salesforce, the first three characters of a record Id are the "Object Id Prefix".