Salesforces success is largely due to its unrivalled customisation options. The CRM solution can be moulded to your unique business processes, allowing for immeasurable customisation options.
Salesforce doesn’t break this trend when it comes to automation. Continue reading “Salesforce Automation Overview”
Dependency injection using Custom Metadata Types is a great way to write code on Salesforce that is easily extensible. Even if you never actually end up extending your design Continue reading “Parameterised Dependency Injection via Custom Metadata Types”
The choice between writing custom Apex code or using declarative tools in Salesforce has always been a difficult one to make. Process Builder is capable of more than Workflow was, but it came at a big performance cost. In this article, Roger Mitchell measures that performance cost again. And it looks like things have improved considerably since 2016. Continue reading “Performance Testing of Process Builder vs Apex”
When you start out in Salesforce development, there seems to be little need for software design patterns. Perhaps because development starts with little triggers doing this and that in a few lines of code. But, as soon as the requirements, codebase, and team-size grow, then the advantages of patterns and other software engineering practices kick in. Continue reading “Patterns in Apex: Dependency Injection, Strategy, and Decorator”
Salesforce has a number of recommendations regarding best practice when writing Apex triggers. Two of these recommendations are:
Continue reading “Salesforce Trigger Handlers Driven by Custom Metadata”
Trigger recursion in Apex can be a bit hard to get your head around. Often it is indirect, so hard to diagnose. What can happen is that Continue reading “Please don’t use static flags to control Apex Trigger recursion!”
Your Salesforce Org is made up of two types of data: Continue reading “Salesforce is Opening Up Metadata to Apex Code”