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Publishing Platform Events from Apex

March 7, 2023Brian ClineProgramming, SalesforceSalesforce, salesforce integration, Salesforce Platform Events

Triggering Platform events from within Salesforce is pretty easy.

Learn how in this post.

Building a Custom UI With Lightning Web Components (LWC)

February 28, 2023Brian ClineProgramming, SalesforceLWC, Salesforce, Salesforce Lightning

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.

An Introduction to Salesforce Platform Events

February 14, 2023Brian Cline2 CommentsProgramming, SalesforceSalesforce, Salesforce Platform Events, software architecture

Salesforce Platform Events are an event-driven architecture provided by the Salesforce platform.

In this guide we look at what, why, and when.

Lightning Tips for Visualforce Developers

January 24, 2023Brian ClineSalesforceSalesforce, Salesforce Lightning

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.

13 Tips for Developing Lightning Web Components

January 10, 2023Brian ClineProgramming, SalesforceLightning Web Components, Salesforce, Salesforce Lightning

In this blog article, you will learn 13 tips for developing maintainable and performant Lightning Web Components.

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How to use Lightning Web Components in Visualforce

January 3, 2023Brian ClineProgramming, SalesforceLightning Web Components, Salesforce, Salesforce Best Practices, 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.

25 Common Salesforce Lightning Web Component Interview Questions

December 27, 2022Brian ClineSalesforceLightning Web Components, Salesforce, Salesforce Lightning

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.

How Lightning Web Components Communicate

December 20, 2022Brian ClineSalesforceLightning Web Components, Salesforce, Salesforce Lightning

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.

Using Lightning Web Components inside Aura Components

December 13, 2022Brian ClineSalesforceLightning Web Components, Salesforce

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.

Introduction to Salesforce Lightning Web Components

December 6, 2022Brian Cline1 CommentProgramming, SalesforceLightning Web Components, Salesforce, Salesforce Lightning

Salesforce developed Lightning Web Components after Apex, Visualforce, and Lightning Components (Aura).

Aura missed the mark, so Salesforce went back to the drawing board…

What is Digital Transformation?

November 22, 2022Brian ClineExperiencecrm, digital transformation, Salesforce

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!

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Is Salesforce Apex Dead?

November 15, 2022Brian ClineProgrammingSalesforce, Salesforce Apex

Flow, and Salesforce Flow Triggers feel like they are getting more and more powerful with each release.

So is Salesforce Apex really dead?

I’m Writing a Book!

October 16, 2022Brian ClineProgrammingSalesforce, Salesforce Lightning

I’m really excited to announce that I am writing a book on Lightning Web Component development for Packt Publishing.

Using RegEx in Salesforce Apex

September 20, 2022Brian ClineProgramming, SalesforceRegEx, Salesforce

Regular expressions, also known as RegEx, are a powerful tool that can be used to search, match, and manipulate strings in various programming languages.

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What is the difference Between enterprise WSDL and partner WSDL in Salesforce?

July 3, 2022Brian Cline1 CommentProgramming, Salesforceapi, Salesforce

When connecting to the Salesforce SOAP API, there’s two different WSDL options: the Enterprise WSDL and the Partner WSDL.

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Creating a Custom Salesforce REST API Endpoint

July 2, 2022Brian ClineProgramming, Salesforceapi, rest api, restful api, Salesforce, Salesforce API

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.

Should Salesforce architects know how to code?

May 15, 2022Brian ClineProgramming, SalesforceSalesforce, Salesforce Best Practices, software architecture

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.

Best Practices for Documenting Your Salesforce Org

May 4, 2022Brian ClineProgramming, SalesforceSalesforce, Salesforce Best Practices

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.

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Connecting to the Salesforce Analytics APIs through Node.js

May 3, 2022Brian ClineJavaScript, Programming, SalesforceSalesforce, Salesforce API, salesforce integration

In this blog article, we’ll be focused in on the Analytics API because it’s primarily used for reporting and dashboards.

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Connecting to the Salesforce APIs through Node.js

May 1, 2022Brian Cline1 CommentJavaScript, SalesforceSalesforce, salesforce integration

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.

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