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The logic of nested iteration can be a real trap for new programmers.

Salesforce admins, and perhaps especially nonprofit admins, have been wishing for a long time for the ability to build more functionality around Opportunity Contact Roles - like roll-up summary fields, validation rules, and triggers.

My presentation from PhillyForce '19, "Real-World Unit Testing: Get to 100% Coverage, the Right Way", is now available on YouTube.

Rollup Summary Fields are great.

This talk and workshop was given at the Philadelphia Salesforce User's Group with Andrés Catalán.

I've just released Amaxa, an open-source project I've been working on for several months.

One of the odder corners of the Salesforce data model is the compound fields.

Unit testing and code coverage are perennial topics on Salesforce Stack Exchange.

Salesforce reporting introduces some fascinating complexities to data visibility and exposure, particularly for organizations using Private Organization-Wide Defaults.

The <lightning:dataTable> component has built-in support for displaying links in table columns.

The Salesforce documentation is notably terse in describing Considerations When Using GROUP BY.

My Dreamforce '18 session, Continuous Integration and Salesforce DX: Concepts and Connections, had over 350 registrants and yielded some excellent and important questions about moving to Salesforce DX practice.

Dynamic SOQL with complex queries and filters can easily become an unreadable mess.

One of the key limitations of the Connect API, which provides interaction with Chatter inside Apex, is that unit tests of Connect API code typically require the use of seeAllData=true: Chatter in Apex methods don’t run in system mode, they run in the cont…

The Lightning Experience's record pages come with a very nice Activity timeline and publisher.

Sometimes, we need to filter an Account query by its Contacts, or some custom object Project__c by its associated Subject_Area__c records.

This talk draws on several past articles published here: Salesforce Lifecycle and Tooling: CircleCI and SFDX Integrating Static Analysis with PMD in the Salesforce Development Lifecycle Salesforce Lifecycle and Tooling: Testing on Multiple Org Types with…

The Boolean can be among the simplest data types: it is either true or false, full stop, no complications.

DML is not allowed in a Visualforce page controller's constructor.

I am a huge fan of the lightweight, easy-to-use simple_salesforce module for Python.

Let's suppose you're running a successful continuous integration program, using Salesforce DX and CircleCI or another continuous integration provider.

Performing child-parent SOQL is more complex than usual when the Task and Event objects are involved.

I have three computers and two phones, and I use Dropbox to sync photos between all of my devices.

The Salesforce platform has great reference documentation, great intro training through Trailhead, and some excellent books and resources on enterprise design patterns.

This is the second in a series looking at setting up a Salesforce project with a full suite of modern software engineering tools and services.

This is the first in a series looking at setting up a Salesforce project with a full suite of modern software engineering tools and services.

In many respects, the Salesforce API treats Hierarchy and List Custom Settings the same way: their schemata are the same, and most, though not all, static methods apply to both types of settings.

Visualforce has a way of punishing those who make assumptions about its behavior based on other development environments (including Apex and even HTML).

Click & Pledge nicely supports online registration for both free and paid/ticketed events.

This post has been extensively revised to broaden the applicability of the solution, covering anonymous and named Click & Pledge events.

What happens when you refer to a field across a lookup relationship, and the lookup relationship is null?

Building Note records in Salesforce, using the new notes introduced in Winter '16, is challenging for a number of reasons.

One of the biggest challenges I've encountered in working with MailChimp and its MailChimp for Salesforce application is 'private email lists'.

I've been working on a project to integrate a very important legacy database built in FileMaker ('AM') into Salesforce.