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May 16, 2012

Using the String.split() method with a Pipe Delimiter

Today I noticed a very interesting fact about the String.split() and String.contains() methods within Salesforce while attempting to iterate through a text field that contained one or more pipe (|) delimited strings. First, I ran a check…

Scott Covert in Tython

Aug 9, 2016

Location-Aware Salesforce App Cloud Development with Beacons and Automatic Geocoding

Although there was no hackathon at #Dreamforce2015 I was fortunate enough to participate in the next best thing by presenting two sessions at the conference.

Scott Covert in Tython

May 15, 2012

Preserving Your Tab Style’s Color Scheme within a VFPage when showHeader is False

Sometimes it is necessary to set the showHeader attribute of the apex:page tag to false within your Visualforce page. Unfortunately, doing this causes you to lose any color scheme brought…

Scott Covert in Tython

Dec 18, 2012

Solving the Salesforce Managed Package Redirecting Problem

If you have developed an app being offered on the AppExchange then you may have noticed some interesting behavior by Visualforce redirects once customers install your package.

Scott Covert in Tython

May 27, 2012

Cascade Insert with External Id Fields

Many times I have run into the situation where I would like to insert a parent record and its children into Salesforce’s database simultaneously. This can be a little tricky if you are inserting a list of parent records and would like to instantiate the children…

Scott Covert in Tython

Dec 18, 2012

Running the Force.com Plugin for Eclipse on a Chromebook

For all those lucky little boys and girls who will be pulling out a shiny new Samsung Chromebook from their stockings this year I’m afraid I must point out a small lump of coal-you can’t run Eclipse within Chrome OS. As many of you…

Scott Covert in Tython

Jan 26, 2012

CloudSpokes — Magical Disappearing Salesforce Button with jQuery

I just submitted an entry for my second competition at CloudSpokes; here is a link to the page that describes the challenge. This time we were asked to utilize javascript to make a custom button disappear from the…

Scott Covert in Tython

Oct 15, 2014

4th Place in the 2014 Dreamforce Hackathon!

This past weekend was the annual hackathon hosted by Salesforce in San Francisco leading up to the Dreamforce conference. If you’ve never participated in a hackathon before I highly recommend it (especially this one); you would be hard pressed to find…

Scott Covert in Tython

Jan 26, 2012

CloudSpokes — Simple Timer & Timecard System for Salesforce

I recently found this cool site — cloudspokes.com — that hosts developer challenges for Salesforce and other platforms. I recently submitted an entry for my first competition; here is a link to the page that describes the…

Scott Covert in Tython

Jan 6, 2013

Salesforce Etiquette: Excusing One’s Self from the Subdomain of a Managed Package

Happy New Year boys & girls! In preparing a new version of an app I released on the AppExchange I came across the interesting problem of needing to excuse myself from my managed package…

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