Salesforce has a number of recommendations regarding best practice when writing Apex triggers. Two of these recommendations are:
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Category: Development
Never mind the half-baked solution, what was the problem? (The X Y Problem)
As a consultant, and as a developer, one of the most useful things you can do is to take a step back. If someone asks you a question about a detail of a solution they are working on, it’s often worth finding out what problem they were originally trying to solve. Continue reading “Never mind the half-baked solution, what was the problem? (The X Y Problem)”
Are You Ready For Custom Metadata?!
Salesforce are once again staying true to one of their mottos, “Clicks, not code!”, with a release that is currently being tested on the pilot scheme. Continue reading “Are You Ready For Custom Metadata?!”
Please don’t use static flags to control Apex Trigger recursion!
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!”
Hungarian naming conventions were not always evil
As a Salesforce developer, used to working in Apex the lack of strong typing in Javascript can be a challenge.
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Some shade between the snow in Salesforce Lightning
Salesforce have started to announce some details of what we can expect in Winter 18… One thing to change is the look and feel of Lightning Experience.
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Crowdsourced testing…. A solution for testing Salesforce Lightning?
Salesforce Lightning is great at a lot of things… It looks modern, the component-oriented model works really nicely, the builder tool is nice.
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A “Provider” Pattern in Salesforce Lighting
As a developer coming to Lightning, one of the immediate questions is:
How can I share code between my components?
Well, there’s a nice summary of two code-sharing options on the Salesforce Developers Blog: Modularizing Code in Lightning Components. But, Continue reading “A “Provider” Pattern in Salesforce Lighting”
Introducing Salesforce DX Open Beta
Salesforce have been dangling DX in front of source-control-hungry developers for some time now. And now it’s finally in Open Beta!
Salesforce is Opening Up Metadata to Apex Code
Your Salesforce Org is made up of two types of data: Continue reading “Salesforce is Opening Up Metadata to Apex Code”
