Bienvenue! Welcome!
My goal is to help you work faster.
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.)
So check out the tutorials. Play with code. Tell me about your triumphs.
No-Permissions Salesforce Profile w/ Python and Selenium
23 Aug 2019
I needed a fresh “no permissions” Salesforce profile in a mature org.
I couldn’t get the Metadata API working fast enough to my liking, so I gave up and built a “robot version” of myself with Python and Selenium, hijacked my own browser, and watched fake-me click thousands of buttons at computer speed.
(Does that make my computer itself the #AwesomeAdmin?)
Here’s how I did it.
Python Pandas For Excel on vBrownBag - show notes
21 Aug 2019
Here are show notes from my Python Pandas for Excel webinar episode on Chris Williams’s marvelous Python for DevOps series on the vBrownBag channel:
Continue ReadingForcelandia 2019 XML & JSON Conference Talk Resources
31 Jul 2019
Slides (PDF), links, etc. from my “Forcelandia” Salesforce community conference talk
XML & JSON For Total Beginners
Salesforce Apex Performance: new ID map vs. for loop
08 Jul 2019
Salesforce developers: Have you ever hand-built a Map of SObjects by ID with a for loop? Are you sure you should?
Don’t forget about the magic of Apex’s keyword “new.”
It runs faster and can help reduce your CPU limit consumption.
Tutoriel : types de données définis par Apex pour admins Salesforce
12 Jun 2019
Depuis l’édition été 2019, Salesforce facilite la collaboration entre administrateurs et développeurs Salesforce pour augmenter des flux (Flow Builder) avec le code Apex à travers les «types de données définis par Apex».
Lire plusIntro to HTTP
03 Jun 2019
HTTP is easy to learn in five minutes, and familiarity is essential if you’d like to use “APIs” to integrate data between systems over the internet.
This post will give you a beginner-level foundation in HTTP.
Tutorial: Flow Apex-Defined Data Types for Salesforce Admins
29 May 2019
This post is for Salesforce admins and developers, showing you how you can more easily work together to combine Flows and Apex with a new Summer ‘19 release called “Apex-Defined Data Types.”
Continue ReadingXML for Salesforce Administrators: DemandTools Configuration
08 May 2019
As we saw with flows, copying and pasting configuration settings within typically point-and-click “business logic tools” is a great reason to be able to read and write XML.
Let’s look at another handy “copy-paste” task for Salesforce admins: ensuring that DemandTools scenarios which should have identical components actually do.
Intro to XML and JSON #7: Recap & Real World Use
26 Apr 2019
That’s a wrap! Let’s recap the battle of “XML vs. JSON,” discuss how they’re used in the real world, and take a final glance at the big picture.
Continue ReadingIntro to XML and JSON #6: JSON
26 Apr 2019
We’ve seen JSON from a “30,000-foot view.”
We understand what kind of data JSON can help us with.
Let’s learn how to write JSON!
