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The new GitHub Deploy to Salesforce Button!
The GitHub Salesforce Deployment tool has been one of my most successful tools to date, i’m really pleased with it and how well it has been adopted. You can read more about the inspiration and...
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Calling Flow from Apex
Since Summer’14 it has been possible to invoke a Flow from Apex, through the oddly named Interview system class method start. This blog talks about using this as a means to provide an extensibility...
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Calling Salesforce API’s from Ant Script – Querying Records
Back in June last year i wrote a blog entitled Look ma, no hands!, its main focus was how to leverage the then new ability to install and uninstall packages via the Metadata API. However there was...
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Apex Metadata API Q&A
The Apex Metadata API has now been updated to reflect the Metadata API from Winter’15, which means a host of new component types, including the topic on everyones lips, Lightning! Though sadly, my demo...
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Mocking SOQL sub-select query results
If your a fan of TDD you’ll hopefully have been following FinancialForce.com‘s latest open source contribution to the Salesforce community, known as ApexMocks. Providing a fantastic framework for...
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Permission Sets and Packaging
Permission Sets have been giving me and an unlucky few who are unable to install my Declarative Rollup Summary Tool some headaches since i introduced them. Thankfully I’ve recently discovered why and...
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Introducing the LittleBits Connector for Salesforce
As those of you know that follow my brickinthecloud.com blog, i love using API’s in the cloud to connect not only applications, but devices. Salesforce themselves also share this passion, just take a...
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Creating, Assigning and Checking Custom Permissions
I have been wanting to explore Custom Permissions for a little while now, since they are now GA in Winter’15 i thought its about time i got stuck in. Profiles, Permission Sets have until recently, been...
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Controlling Internet Devices via Lightning Process Builder
Lightning Process Builder will soon become GA once the Spring’15 rollout completes in early February, just a few short weeks away as i write this. I don’t actually know where to start in terms of how...
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Declarative Lookup Rollup Summaries – Spring’15 Release
This tool has had a steady number of releases last year, containing a few bug fixes and tweaks. This Spring’15 release contains a few enhancements i’d like to talk about in more detail in this blog. So...
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Extending Lightning Process Builder and Visual Workflow with Apex
I love empowering as many people to experience the power of Salesforce’s hugely customisable and extensible platform as possible. In fact this platform has taught me that creating a great solution is...
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Unit Testing, Apex Enterprise Patterns and ApexMocks – Part 1
If you attended my Advanced Apex Enterprise Patterns session at Dreamforce 2014 you’ll have heard me highlight the different between Apex tests that are either written as true unit test vs those...
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Unit Testing, Apex Enterprise Patterns and ApexMocks – Part 2
In Part 1 of this blog series i introduced a new means of applying true unit testing to Apex code leveraging the Apex Enterprise Patterns. Covering the differences between true unit testing vs...
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Where to place Validation code in an Apex Trigger?
Quite often when i answer questions on Salesforce StackExchange they prompt me to consider future blog posts. This question has been sat on my blog list for a while and i’m finally going to tackle the...
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Automating Org Setup via Process Builder and Metadata API
As those of you following my blog will know i’ve been exploring Invocable Methods. Having submitted a session abstract to this years Salesforce1 World Tour London event and had it selected. I set about...
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Be One with the Platform through Custom Metadata
Whats more exciting than using the Force.com platform to build great solutions? Extending it! Custom Metadata (GA in Summer’15) came about through Salesforce’s realisation that there is a new breed of...
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Custom Metadata, Custom UI’s, Packaging and Change Sets
This is the final part of my two part blog series on Summer 15’s new Custom Metadata feature. The first blog focused on defining the Custom Metadata Type (MDT for short) and reading and writing record...
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Using Action Link Templates to Declaratively call API’s
Salesforce recently introduced a new platform feature which has now become GA called Action Link Templates. Since then its been staring me in the face and bugging me that i didn’t quite understand them...
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Great Contributions to Apex Enterprise Patterns!
Just one week before the start of Dreamforce 2015, the Apex Enterprise Pattern library will be 2 years old since it was first published. My community time is increasingly busy these days not only...
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Exploring IoT with LittleBits and Salesforce #DF15
As soon as I got my hands on the LittleBits kit last December, i quickly fell in love with it. With its mission to bring IoT and electronics closer to everyone or in the words of LittleBits themselves...
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