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Salesforce for Newcomers: Orgs, Sandboxes, Trust and Security
As a newcomer to Salesforce, you will quickly come across several important terms that are fundamental to understanding how Salesforce works. These terms are Org, Sandbox, Trust, and Security. In this article, we will explain each of these terms in detail and how they fit into the overall Salesforce ecosystem.
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5 Strategies to get Around SOQL Query Limits
In Apex, there’s quite a few constraints that are strictly enforced because the platform is a shared multitenant environment. Quite a few of the limits result in runtime exceptions that can’t be handled. For those familiar with Salesforce, it’s no secret that there’s a lot of limits. For example, there’s limits around the ViewState which […]
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Awesome Resources for Learning Salesforce Lightning
At Dreamforce 2014, Salesforce announced they were changing the Salesforce User Interface to make it simpler to use. The new User Interface is called Salesforce Lightning. In my blog post, What is Salesforce Lightning I cover a lot more about what it is and how development differs from using Apex and Visualforce. If you don’t […]
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How to Start a Career in Salesforce Development
Salesforce is an incredibly popular product and has a pretty large following in the technical community. Salesforce Administrators, Business Analysts, Developers, and Architects are constantly being required. There’s a lot reasons to consider starting a career in Salesforce development.
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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 inserting or manipulating. As any system does, the rules follow a general pattern that’s known as the Salesforce Order of Execution.
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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 problem and that it can’t deal with the issue.
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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 because they have contacted you in someway with some sort of need whether this be that they filled out a contact form on your website or they exchanged business cards with somebody at […]
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5 Incredible Resources For Learning to Program Salesforce
Salesforce is an incredibly large and customizable platform with hundreds of different features. Learning to use Salesforce can be difficult, but learning to program and manage Salesforce is even more daunting. Below I’ve provided you with the best resources I could find on programming Salesforce. Before jumping into learning to program apex, I recommend you […]
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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 and really mastering the development environment. Kevin Poorman’s “Mastering Application Development with Force.com” covers a lot of different parts of Salesforce’s Force.com platform that aren’t well covered elsewhere.