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Boolean 'OR' in DemandTools MassImpact formulas

07 May 2020 🔖 tutorials salesforce demandtools 💬 EN ( FR )

Over on Salesforce Reddit, someone asked how to get “OR”-ing conditions together to work in a formula in the MassImpact module of Validity’s DemandTools ETL software.

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Le 'ou' booléen aux formules MassImpact de DemandTools

07 May 2020 🔖 tutoriels salesforce demandtools 💬 FR ( EN )

Sur le Reddit de Salesforce, on a demandé comment combiner des conditions avec une logique de « ou » dans une formule du logiciel DemandTools.

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Recompile dependent PL/SQL code after changes

27 Apr 2020 🔖 sql databases tips 💬 EN

Reminder: If you edit and recompile PL/SQL stored an Oracle database, you need to keep “dependencies” with other code in mind. You may need to ensure that other stored code relying upon your code is also recompiled.

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Writing & graphics for scheduled Facebook Live videos

21 Apr 2020 🔖 music videography 💬 EN

Want to take advantage of Facebook Live’s “scheduled” streams? Before you even log into Facebook or touch your tablet, pull out a pen and paper – you’ve got some creative marketing work to do.

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Livestreaming Music Diary - Facebook Live

20 Apr 2020 🔖 music videography 💬 EN

If you work in tech, you fix the printers for your family. During shelter-in-place, I’ve had a new duty for close friends and family: improving and running musical livestreams.

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Jitterbit Hosted API Tutorial: 302 Redirect with Cloud Studio

02 Apr 2020 🔖 jitterbit api integration tutorials 💬 EN

First, let’s build a Jitterbit API endpoint that performs a “302” HTTP redirect to https://example.com/ using “Cloud Studio” to flesh out the back-end behavior.

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Jitterbit Hosted APIs: Hello World tutorials

02 Apr 2020 🔖 jitterbit api integration tutorials 💬 EN

Jitterbit’s ETL (“Extract, Transform, Load”) platform allows you to “borrow” their web servers and use them to put URLs on the internet as small “API” endpoints where the back end of those “endpoints” is some sort of data-processing Jitterbit operation you’ve built.

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What is #FlattenTheCurve? Why is everything cancelled?

13 Mar 2020 🔖 health 💬 EN

If you work in technology, you can relate to the feeling of being invisible specifically because you go above and beyond the call of duty, right?

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Netlify CMS Jekyll Minimum Viable Build

21 Feb 2020 🔖 architecture tips git jamstack web development minimum viable build 💬 EN

I’m trying to figure out if a friend currently on Wordpress could ever enjoy using a static page builder accompanied by a CMS, or if they just really need the comfort of knowing they can use Wordpress Visual Composer / Squarespace / Wix to move things around their web pages at will. Netlify’s free tier (thank you!!) is going to be really helpful in letting me set up a prototype for them to test drive.

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Door Prize: Excel VBA code for turning your ex-PMI into principal payments

13 Feb 2020 🔖 excel 💬 EN

Excited to see, with Excel, when your mortgage would be free of PMI? Let’s add a little more code showing how much you’d save if you kept paying your old “PMI bill” as “extra principal” payments every month for the rest of your loan.

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