Salesforce
Designing a Sales Process in Salesforce
A sales process is a series of repeatable steps that the sales team will take with a prospect to sell them the…
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Salesforce
How To Reduce Visualforce’s View State
View State is a technique Salesforce uses to maintain the current state of the page and the data that was queried between the user requesting things from the server and sending any changes back to the server.If the view state gets too large problems can begin to occur.
JavaScript
Salesforce Developers Need to Learn JavaScript Today
Over the years, it’s been possible for Salesforcce Developers to avoid needing to learn JavaScript because things could usually be done through…
Programming
What is Salesforce Lightning
Lightning has really expanded since it was originally introduced at Dreamforce 2014. Originally, Lightning was introduced as a couple of different products…
Salesforce
What’s the Difference Between Before and After Triggers
Apex Triggers don’t need to be complicated. If you have worked with databases like SQL Server or MySQL the triggers execute in…
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How I became a Salesforce Developer
I believe that most Salesforce developers that started before trailhead started in a way similar to mine. I didn’t plan on becoming…
Salesforce
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…
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Deleting Stuck Jobs Via Salesforce Apex
Every now and then, I find I get a few jobs that are stuck in the queue which end up causing things…
Programming
First Application Posted On the AppExchange
Really excited to announce that the application I’ve been working on for the last few months is now available on the Salesforce…
Salesforce
Introducing Salesforce’s Custom MetaData Types
Quite a while ago, Salesforce introduced some very significant changes to custom settings. If you aren’t sure what custom settings are please…
Programming
Apex: Converting Lists to Sets, and Sets To Lists
As many Salesforce Apex programmers know, in Salesforce it’s pretty much an unchallenged best practice that all code should be able to…
Programming
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…
Programming
How to read cookies set by JavaScript in a Salesforce Apex Class
I recently had a requirement to have JavaScript create a cookie and then read it in later by an Apex class. You…
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…
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…
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…
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…