James Simone

Random Shuffle For Lists & The Importance Of Revisiting Old Code I had a requirement come up the other day that sent me back to nearly the very beginning of my professional coding life — selecting random… (A new post in the ongoing Joys Of Apex series.

Formula Date Issues Calculating time differences correctly is challenging.

Testing Custom Permissions Custom Permissions changed the game when it came to creating programmatic checks for feature management within Salesforce.

The XY Problem In Programming The Problem Code A question came up on the the other day about optimizing a section of code that was, apparently, leading to some CPU… (A new post in the ongoing Joys Of Apex series.

setTimeout & Implementing Delays In Apex Setting delays programmatically within Apex represents a unique challenge.

Refactoring Tips & Tricks Identifying areas for potential code reuse is not always obvious.

LWC Custom Path The Path component that comes standard with Salesforce is a wonderful visualization tool for Sales when working on Leads / Opportunities… (A new post in the ongoing Joys Of Apex series.

LWC Modal Cleanup and Testing If you had told a handful of people from the would spend most of our Friday night and weekend working on a better focus-trap for the , I… (A new post in the ongoing Joys Of Apex series.

Lightning Web Component Composable Modal Continuing on the LWC train from our talk on comes this post on creating a reusable modal, or pop-up, as a Lightning Web Component.

Lightning Web Component Composable Pagination Let’s talk about pagination — one of the common challenges in frontend development, particularly in the mobile-first world of consumer… (A new post in the ongoing Joys Of Apex series.

Lazy Iterators Welcome back to the !

Test Driven Development Example This series has spent quite a bit of time talking about Test Driven Development (TDD), and has shown many examples along the way.

Continuous Integration With SFDX Updating your build pipeline to use SFDX is something that is coming up with greater and greater frequency.

Building A Better Singleton In , I touched briefly on my disappointment in being unable to bring to fruition a better pattern for creating singletons — the perfect way… (A new post in the ongoing Joys Of Apex series.

Picklist Validation Short little shoutout at the beginning — Xi Xiao was kind enough to interview me on the , talking about .

Batchable & Queueable Apex Batchable and Queueable Apex are both powerful processing frameworks within Salesforce.

Sorting And Performance In Apex Recently, a reader came to me, wanting to discuss the potential performance implications of using the I have been espousing here: Please… (A new post in the ongoing Joys Of Apex series.

Object-Oriented Basics I’ve received a number of requests asking for a little background on Apex, so I’ve decided to create this little tutorial from the ground up… (A new post in the ongoing Joys Of Apex series.

React Versus Lightning Web Components I’m in the midst of writing a “back to basics” , which has been a popular request for some time now.

Extendable (Dynamic) APIs API development in Apex (and pretty much every other language) is mostly bespoke, requiring the duplication of rest resources.

Enum Apex Class Gotchas The abstract enum class in Apex can be very helpful as a class-like object, but there are a few things you should keep in mind to avoid… (A new post in the ongoing Joys Of Apex series.

Writing Performant Tests Let’s go back to basics when talking about designing and working in Apex codebases.

Lightweight Trigger Handler Tap into the power of the Trigger Handler pattern in Salesforce with this extremely lightweight Trigger Handler framework.

Idiomatic Apex We often hear the word “idiomatic” applied to programming languages to express the language-specific way of accomplishing routinely… (A new post in the ongoing Joys Of Apex series.

Future Methods, Callouts & Callbacks Today we’re going to talk about “future” methods - Salesforce’s way of handling asynchronous code.

The Repository Pattern Welcome back to .

Building An Apex Logging Service Welcome back to another Joys Of Apex session.

Dependency Injection & The Factory Pattern Welcome back to another episode in the continuing Joys Of Apex discussion.

Mocking DML I never met a unit test I didn’t like. - Me, probably.

Introduction & Testing Philosophy Whether you’re a seasoned Salesforce.com vet or somebody just getting into Apex development, it’s my hope that this instructional series… (A new post in the ongoing Joys Of Apex series.