I passed one of Salesforce’s newest certifications, Field Service Lightning. And, boy, was this one weird. Basically, if you’re thinking you want to pass this, I would wait a year. Work on something else. Because, unlike the other 7 exams…

Triggers. They’re fast, they’re easy, and if you follow a framework, you can have a lot of control over how they fire. But they can also be a nightmare. If something’s really, really broken, you can get yourself in a situation…

SOQL is the best. I mean, Dynamic SOQL? C’mon, that’s just cool. But SOQL has its problems. One big problem is big objects. I mean, more than 200k records big. You start querying that object, and you’re probably get a…

VisualForce is on its way out. Lightning is just about mandatory, and JavaScript all the things! Except, there’s still about 9,000 trillion VisualForce pages out there to maintain. To help reduce the amount of time you spend going back and…

I’ve seen a couple versions of rules developers feel are core to good Apex code. I’d like to throw these into the ring as concepts that have been helpful to me, and that I deviate from at my own peril:…

I just passed the DEV 501 multiple choice for Advanced Developer certification. Man, was that a weird test. As opposed to all the cool things Salesforce can do with Heroku Connect or the Tooling API, it wanted to really drill…

Jeff Douglas (as usual) has an excellent Apex POST request example at his blog. It demonstrates how to perform callouts during trigger execution. The example is missing one thing, however, that can be critical to the ability of the service…