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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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Salesforce Development: Integrations Salesforce Developer Tutorial – How to create a custom REST Resource in Apex Why This Is Useful Salesforce already gives you a REST API for your objects, and for a lot of integrations that’s plenty. But sometimes you need… 1 Sep 2021 4 min

Salesforce Development: Lightning Web Components (LWC) Salesforce Developer Tutorial – Apex and LWC Debugging Techniques Why This Is Useful Debugging is probably the most important skill you can develop as a developer, on any platform, and it’s the one nobody teaches.… 4 Aug 2021 5 min

Salesforce Development: Apex Salesforce Developer Tutorial – How to use Nebula Logger to Make Debug Logging Easier and Better Why This Is Useful If you’ve worked in Salesforce for any length of time you’ll know that debug logs can get genuinely painful. Salesforce dumps everything… 28 Jul 2021 4 min

Salesforce Development: Lightning Web Components (LWC) Salesforce Developer Tutorial (LWC) – How to use a Lightning Web Component in a List View Button Why This Is Useful You want a button on a list view that runs some custom logic against the selected records. Mass update, mass delete, kick… 21 Jul 2021 4 min

Salesforce Architecture Salesforce Open Source MVP’s: An Architectural Dive Into Pablo Gonzalez’s Happy Soup Application Episode Two Of The Open Source MVP Series Second episode of the Open Source MVP series, and today we’ve got Pablo Gonzalez, creator of Happy Soup.… 16 Jul 2021 4 min

Salesforce Development: Lightning Web Components (LWC) Salesforce Development Tutorial (LWC): How to use Data Attributes to easily pass data from your component HTML template to your JavaScript Controller What are Data Attributes and Why Should I Use Them? Data attributes are a truly magical thing that will, at some point, get you out of… 12 Jul 2021 4 min

The Apex Common Library Master Class The Domain Layer Pattern in Apex (Apex Common Part 10) What is the Domain Layer? The Domain Layer is, “An object model of the domain that incorporates both behavior and data”. – Martin Fowler In most… 5 May 2021 4 min

The Apex Common Library Master Class The Unit of Work Pattern in Apex (Apex Common Part 5) What is the Unit of Work Pattern (UOW) A Unit of Work, “Maintains a list of objects affected by a business transaction and coordinates the writing… 5 May 2021 3 min

The Apex Common Library Master Class The fflib_Application Class Explained (Apex Common Part 4) What is the fflib_Application class? Quality question… I mean honestly wtf is this thing? Lol, sorry, let’s figure it out together. The fflib_Application class is around… 5 May 2021 12 min

The Apex Common Library Master Class The Selector Layer Pattern in Apex (Apex Common Part 13) What is the Selector Layer The Selector Layer is Salesforce is based off Martin Fowler’s Data Mapper Layer concept. It’s, “a layer of Mappers that moves… 5 May 2021 3 min

The Apex Common Library Master Class The Factory Method Pattern in Apex (Apex Common Part 3) What is the Factory Method Pattern? The factory method pattern allows you to create objects (or instantiate classes) without having to specify the exact class that… 5 May 2021 4 min

The Apex Common Library Master Class Unit Testing with the Apex Mocks Library (Part 17) What is Apex Mocks? Apex Mocks is unit test mocking framework for Apex that was inspired by the very popular Java Mockito framework. The Apex Mocks… 5 May 2021 21 min