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.
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…