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Salesforce Field Sets – a limitation and a workaround

By Vincent on April 24, 2011

Field sets make so much sense, and I was really looking forward to being able to set up some very easy to maintain code. Unfortunately field sets do have one limitation that I recently ran into. You can’t access them from Apex Code. To be fair, before Field Sets, you really had no options of [...]

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Javascript Remoting – A quicker (but different) way to get there

By Vincent on April 10, 2011

Update: I’ve recently recieved a very informative email from Salesforce. In this email, Salesforce explained some of the ideas that went into their design. It made a ton of sense, and I’ll talk about it at the end of this post. And thanks for the info Salesforce! I recently got Javascript Remoting enabled in my [...]

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Writing Salesforce Test Cases – Tips and Best Practices

By Vincent on March 20, 2011

Writing test code in Salesforce.com is a necessary step in deploying code. Yes it’s a bit annoying and it sucks when someone else’s test code breaks and prevents you from deploying your code. I saw an email in my inbox from Salesforce about a free webinar on testing and Coverage best proactices, and I’ve always [...]

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Editing SFDC Zipped Static Resources in Eclipse – Zip Editor

By Vincent on March 1, 2011

One of the reasons people don’t create a zipped static resource in Salesforce.com is that it’s a bit of a pain in the neck to edit their contents. You typically have to download the file from Salesforce (if you don’t already have a current version locally), unzip, perform your edits, zip them back up and [...]

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Dynamic Visualforce Bindings – ooOOOoo

By Vincent on February 18, 2011

This blog post is mainly a summary of what i just read in the SFDC Dynamic VF Bindings section of the documentation for version 21.0. Pretty cool stuff. This will allow programmers to make VF pages even more Administrator friendly (as opposed to be Developer only territory). So Dynamic Visualforce Bindings allow VF pages to [...]

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