Salesforce
Publishing Platform Events from Apex
Triggering Platform events from within Salesforce is pretty easy. Learn how in this post.
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Programming
Building a Custom UI With Lightning Web Components (LWC)
Creating a UI that is intuitive and user-friendly can be challenging and time-consuming. In this blog post, we will walk through the process of building a custom UI with LWC.
Programming
An Introduction to Salesforce Platform Events
Salesforce Platform Events are an event-driven architecture provided by the Salesforce platform. In this guide we look at what, why, and when.
Salesforce
Lightning Tips for Visualforce Developers
Switching from Visualforce to using Lightning is not an easy transition as there's quite a few changes that Salesforce Developers will need to get used to. Lightning changes a lot of the way that Salesforce works.
Programming
13 Tips for Developing Lightning Web Components
In this blog article, you will learn 13 tips for developing maintainable and performant Lightning Web Components.
Programming
How to use Lightning Web Components in Visualforce
You can add lightning web components to existing Visualforce pages. In this blog post, you will learn how to use Lightning Web Components in Visualforce and with Apex.
Salesforce
25 Common Salesforce Lightning Web Component Interview Questions
During Salesforce Developer interviews, it's common to be asked quite a few different questions so a company can guage your knowledge and at what level you are.
Salesforce
How Lightning Web Components Communicate
Complex applications are made up of many different components that need to work together and share data. Components must be able to communicate with one another. There are several ways that LWC components can communicate with each other.
Salesforce
Using Lightning Web Components inside Aura Components
One question that often comes up is whether LWC and Aura Components can be used together in the same application. The answer is yes, they can be used together, but there are some important considerations to keep in mind.
Programming
Introduction to Salesforce Lightning Web Components
Salesforce developed Lightning Web Components after Apex, Visualforce, and Lightning Components (Aura). Aura missed the mark, so Salesforce went back to the drawing board...
Experience
What is Digital Transformation?
Digital Transformation is the process of using digital technologies to re-engineer business processes, culture, employee experiences and customer experiences. Digital Transformation shouldn't have a start and an end date, they are always on processes. Not a project!
Programming
Is Salesforce Apex Dead?
Flow, and Salesforce Flow Triggers feel like they are getting more and more powerful with each release. So is Salesforce Apex really dead?
Programming
I’m Writing a Book!
I'm really excited to announce that I am writing a book on Lightning Web Component development for Packt Publishing.
Programming
Using RegEx in Salesforce Apex
Regular expressions, also known as RegEx, are a powerful tool that can be used to search, match, and manipulate strings in various programming languages.
Programming
What is the difference Between enterprise WSDL and partner WSDL in Salesforce?
When connecting to the Salesforce SOAP API, there's two different WSDL options: the Enterprise WSDL and the Partner WSDL.
Programming
Creating a Custom Salesforce REST API Endpoint
Apex classes and methods can be exposed to external applications as REST based endpoints. This means that there's a very easy way to have an external application make a direct call into Salesforce to do a specific action.
Programming
Should Salesforce architects know how to code?
Salesforce Architects whether they be Solution Architects, Technical Architects or some other type of Architect should have at least a good working knowledge of how to code.
Programming
Best Practices for Documenting Your Salesforce Org
Documenting a Salesforce Org is really challenging because it can be complex especially when working across many different branches or divisions. Maintaining and keeping the documentation in sync is also really difficult if there isn't significant executive sponsorship.
JavaScript
Connecting to the Salesforce Analytics APIs through Node.js
In this blog article, we'll be focused in on the Analytics API because it's primarily used for reporting and dashboards.
JavaScript
Connecting to the Salesforce APIs through Node.js
There are a number of different JavaScript modules or libraries that are available on npm to connect to the different REST based Salesforce APIs. In this post, I show my favourite library.