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I must speak and teach until I hear 10 people say, "That thing you taught me? I used it! And it saved me time!"
(Ahem ... although maybe blogging slower than I'd hoped. Ugh, coders' repetitive stress injury.)
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Boolean 'OR' in DemandTools MassImpact formulas
07 May 2020
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.
Continue ReadingLe 'ou' booléen aux formules MassImpact de DemandTools
07 May 2020
Sur le Reddit de Salesforce, on a demandé comment combiner des conditions avec une logique de « ou » dans une formule du logiciel DemandTools.
Lire plusRecompile dependent PL/SQL code after changes
27 Apr 2020
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.
Continue ReadingWriting & graphics for scheduled Facebook Live videos
21 Apr 2020
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.
Continue ReadingLivestreaming Music Diary - Facebook Live
20 Apr 2020
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.
Continue ReadingJitterbit Hosted API Tutorial: 302 Redirect with Cloud Studio
02 Apr 2020
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.
Jitterbit Hosted APIs: Hello World tutorials
02 Apr 2020
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.
Continue ReadingWhat is #FlattenTheCurve? Why is everything cancelled?
13 Mar 2020
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?
Continue ReadingNetlify CMS Jekyll Minimum Viable Build
21 Feb 2020
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.
Continue ReadingDoor Prize: Excel VBA code for turning your ex-PMI into principal payments
13 Feb 2020
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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