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Salesforce Quick Tips Salesforce Developer Tutorial – How to Calculate the Distance Between Records Using Data Integration Rules and SOQL Distance Queries in Salesforce Have you ever needed to find all the Contacts within 10 miles of an office? Or maybe locate the nearest Leads to a traveling sales rep?… 20 Jan 2026 3 min

Salesforce Quick Tips Salesforce Developer Quick Tip – How to Dynamically Get Record Type IDs in Apex As a Salesforce developer, you will inevitably face a scenario where you need to assign a specific Record Type ID to a record you are creating… 19 Jan 2026 3 min

Salesforce Development: IDE Setups Salesforce Developer Quick Tip: How to Run Anonymous Apex in Visual Studio Code As an Apex developer, you often need to quickly test a class or verify logic without going through the full process of writing a formal test… 18 Jan 2026 3 min

Salesforce Development: Design Patterns in Salesforce What Is Polymorphism in Apex? (Design Patterns Ep. 5) If you ask five developers to define polymorphism, you might get five different answers. But at its core, the concept is simple: it means “having many… 1 Apr 2025 4 min

Salesforce Development: Design Patterns in Salesforce Inheritance in Apex (Salesforce Design Patterns Ep. 4) It has been a long time coming, but we are back with Episode 4 of the Design Patterns tutorial series! In this installment, we dive deep… 25 Mar 2025 5 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: 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

The Apex Master Class What Are Switch Statements in Apex? (Ep. 27) What Is A Switch Statement? A switch statement looks at one variable and picks a branch based on its value. It’s doing much the same job… 15 Jun 2022 3 min

The Apex Master Class Conditional Statements (If/Else) in Apex (Ep. 26) Making Your Code Decide Things Every bit of code we’ve written so far runs straight through, top to bottom, doing the same thing every time. Which… 13 Jun 2022 3 min