Getting your users attention with Custom Notifications
Getting your users attention is not always easy, choosing how, when and where to notify them is critical. Ever since Lightning Experience and Salesforce Mobile came out the notification bell has been a...
View ArticleThe Third Edition
I’m proud to announce the third edition of my book has now been released. Back in March this year I took the plunge start updates to many key areas and add two brand new chapters. Between the 2 years...
View ArticleChange is inventible so build for it!
We rarely get the luxury these days of knowing everything up front when designing and implementing software, as they say, “it is about the journey not the destination”. And so it is with some business...
View ArticleApex Process Orchestration and Monitoring with Platform Events
When it comes to implementing asynchronous workloads in Apex developers have a number of options such as Batch Apex and Queueable, each can be driven by user or system driven actions. This blog focuses...
View ArticleDeclarative Rollup Summary Tool Update
I typically do not blog about each new release of this tool, but since its been awhile and there is some key features in this release I thought I would add to the usual release notes. If you are not...
View ArticleReducing Field Validation Boilerplate Code
Boilerplate code is code that we repeat often with little or no variation. When it comes to writing field validations in Apex, especially within Apex Triggers there are a number of examples of this....
View ArticleMy Top 5 Apex APIs and Bonus
As readers of this blog will already have determined, I love API’s! So when I was approached by the team at 100 Days of Trailhead to share my Top 5 “things” my mind fell to API’s. This is a short blog...
View ArticleThe Future of DLRS
Salesforce platform has long since had a place in my heart for the empowerment it brings to people who like to create. As a developer I love to create and feel the satisfaction in helping others. With...
View ArticleNew Book – Salesforce Platform Enterprise Architecture 4th Edition
It has been nearly 10 years back in 2014 when the first edition of my book Force.com Enterprise Architecture was first published and clearly a lot has moved on since then and not just the platform...
View ArticleNew job, a tool update and a bit of coding reflection
Hello everyone! It’s been a little while since I last added a blog, and today is an exciting day. This post covers some personal news about a new chapter in my life, an update to one of my oldest...
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