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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: Apex Salesforce Open Source MVP’s: How to use James Simone’s Rollup Application A New Series: Salesforce Open Source MVPs This is the first episode of a brand new series, and I want to explain why I’m starting it.… 2 Mar 2021 4 min

Salesforce Development: Lightning Web Components (LWC) Salesforce Developer Tutorial (LWC): How to Generate a PDF from a Lightning Web Component Why This Is Useful This one’s more obvious than most of my videos, so I’ll be quick. Businesses constantly need to generate a one-off PDF. A… 24 Feb 2021 4 min

Salesforce Development: Integrations Salesforce Developer Tutorial (Integrations): How to Send POST Requests In Apex Why This Is Useful Sooner or later Salesforce needs to send data somewhere rather than just receive it. Pushing an Account to an ERP, notifying a… 17 Feb 2021 4 min

Salesforce Development: Integrations Salesforce Developer Tutorial: How to use Wrapper Classes in Apex to Simplify your Integrations Why This Is Useful You’re calling an external API. It sends you back a big pile of JSON. Now what? You could untangle it by hand… 4 Feb 2021 4 min

Salesforce Development: Lightning Web Components (LWC) GameStop Stock WallStreetBets Salesforce App: Get Updates on the GME Short Squeeze in your SF Org A Very Special Episode If you haven’t heard about the GameStop stock situation then I genuinely don’t know where you’ve been. And if you’re like me… 31 Jan 2021 3 min

Salesforce Development: Lightning Web Components (LWC) Salesforce Development Tutorial(LWC): How to Generate a Word Document from a Lightning Web Component Why Create an LWC that can Generate Word Documents? This is a little more self explanatory than many of the blog posts I do, but let’s… 20 Jan 2021 10 min

Salesforce Development: Apex Triggers Salesforce Developer Tutorial: How to use Asynchronous Change Event Triggers in Salesforce Why This Is Useful Regular Apex triggers run inside the user’s transaction. Which means every bit of logic you put in one makes the save slower,… 12 Jan 2021 4 min

Salesforce Development Tutorials Salesforce DevOps Tutorial: How to Build a CI/CD Pipeline using CircleCI and GitHub Why Should You Care About CI/CD? Let me paint you a picture and you tell me if it sounds familiar. You’re working in a ten year… 30 Dec 2020 16 min

Salesforce Development: Apex Salesforce Development Tutorial: How to use the Safe Navigation Operator in Apex to reduce the amount of null checking in your codebase Why use the Safe Navigation Operator?? My guy, this is the best thing Salesforce has added to the Apex language in forever! Embrace it! To elaborate… 2 Dec 2020 3 min

Salesforce Development: Integrations Salesforce Development Tutorial: How to use Named Credentials to simplify your Apex Salesforce Integrations Why should you bother using Named Credentials? In short, it’s gonna save you a bunch of time, code and unnecessary configuration, especially when you are authenticating… 19 Nov 2020 3 min

Salesforce Development: Lightning Web Components (LWC) Salesforce Development Tutorial (LWC): How to Setup the LWC Local Development Server Why setup the Local Development Server? After you use it a couple times I promise you won’t ever ask this question again, lol. It makes your… 11 Nov 2020 3 min

Salesforce Development Tutorials Salesforce Development Tutorial (LWC): How to create Custom Lightning Web Component Utility Modules Why create Utility Modules for Lightning Web Components? If you’re asking this question, I have feeling you don’t often utilize utility modules (or utility classes) anywhere…… 29 Oct 2020 5 min