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Salesforce development tutorials on Apex, Lightning Web Components, integrations and tooling. Practical walkthroughs with working code, from a Salesforce Certified Technical Architect.

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The LWC Master Class The Complete Guide to LWC Jest Testing: From Setup to Advanced Mocking If you are a Salesforce developer, you know the drill: Apex requires 75% code coverage to deploy. But what about your Lightning Web Components (LWC)? While… 22 Feb 2023 6 min

The LWC Master Class The Complete Guide to LWC Lifecycle Hooks If you want to move beyond basic “Hello World” components and build robust, professional Salesforce applications, you have to understand the LWC Lifecycle. In this tutorial… 14 Dec 2022 4 min

The Apex Master Class Apex For Loop Best Practices (Master Class Ep. 30) The Mistakes Everybody Makes Once Loops are where new Salesforce developers do the most damage, and it’s always the same short list of mistakes. Every one… 9 Dec 2022 4 min

The Apex Master Class The Complete Guide to SOQL and SOSL (Ep. 32) Finally, The Queries I have been quietly writing SOQL queries in examples since about episode 13 and saying “don’t worry, we’ll cover this later.” Well, it’s… 26 Oct 2022 6 min

Salesforce Development: Design Patterns in Salesforce Design Patterns in Salesforce (Ep. 3) – What is Encapsulation? The Definition Is Technically Correct And Useless Go looking for a definition of encapsulation and you’ll find something like: “Encapsulation refers to bundling data with the… 19 Oct 2022 4 min

Salesforce Quick Tips Salesforce LWC Quick Tip – How to Recognize Device Types in LWC’s Why This Is Useful Designing a Lightning Web Component that has to look right on a desktop, an iPad and an iPhone is a bit of… 17 Oct 2022 2 min

Salesforce Development: Design Patterns in Salesforce Design Patterns in Salesforce (Ep. 2) – What is Object Oriented Programming (OOP)? What Is Object Oriented Programming? Quick note before we start: none of this is Salesforce specific. Everything here applies equally to Java, C#, Python or JavaScript.… 12 Oct 2022 4 min

SoC and the Apex Common Library Tutorial Series Salesforce Developer Tutorial – The Complete Guide To The Apex Common Library in 2022 Everything, In One Place This one is the full compilation: absolutely everything you need to know about separation of concerns, the Apex Common Library, and the… 28 Sep 2022 4 min

Salesforce Development: Design Patterns in Salesforce Design Patterns in Salesforce (Ep. 1) – What are Design Patterns? When Should You Even Think About Design Patterns? I want to start with the last question first, because I think it’s the most important one and… 21 Sep 2022 4 min

Salesforce Development: Apex Triggers The Complete Guide to Apex Triggers (Ep. 31) You Made It Whew! Thirty episodes down. You are a machine. Now it’s time for the big one. Triggers are where everything you’ve learned so far… 7 Sep 2022 8 min

The Apex Master Class For Loops in Apex: Collection Iteration (Ep. 29) Doing Something To Everything Back in episode 16 we said collections let you hold 200 records in one variable. Great. Now how do you actually do… 20 Jun 2022 4 min

The Apex Master Class Switch Statements vs If/Else in Apex (Ep. 28) Two Tools, One Job The last two episodes gave you conditionals and switch statements, and they overlap a fair bit. So which one do you actually… 17 Jun 2022 3 min