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.
Azure Static Web Apps minimum viable build
06 Feb 2023
Below is work I did to figure out “what’s really going on” with Azure Static Web Apps and CI/CD pipelines.
The most surprising things I learned are:
Continue ReadingI'm a DevOp!
02 Feb 2023
Big news: I’ve left behind working with Salesforce and Oracle and have become a DevOp!
Continue ReadingWhat is Salesforce Flow?
02 Dec 2022
Salesforce’s Flow is, more or less, a programming language that lets you do things in Salesforce when you run the programs you wrote in it.
Rather than writing code, you program Flow by building flowcharts in a tool inside of Salesforce called Flow Builder.
Continue ReadingOur sales rep territories
01 Dec 2022
One of my favorite coding projects from work to use as a teaching tool has pertained to the way our sales representatives divide their territories.
Continue ReadingDevOps vs. ITSM Maturity
29 Nov 2022
DevOps maturity is important, but might it be secondary to other technology maturity models?
Continue ReadingShould CI testing always be automated?
28 Nov 2022
- Q: Should testing always be automated in continuous integration?
- A: Yes. Sorta. Huh?
Securing CI/CD pipelines
28 Nov 2022
Here are some considerations to keep in mind when deciding where to store sensitive information as you secure a CI/CD pipeline:
Continue ReadingUse Subflow EVERYWHERE
21 Nov 2022
Flownatic Salesforce admins! Have you ever let a Salesforce Developer (like the ones at UnofficialSF) write complicated Apex so you could call it in your Flow as an Action?
What if I told you that developers could depend on your flows instead when they need to do something complicated?
Continue ReadingSFDX and Git exercises for beginners
18 Nov 2022
Congratulations – you have a new job at Banana Stand Corporation!
The company’s primary production Salesforce org lives at https://bananastand.my.salesforce.com/, with important sandboxes at https://bananastand--staging.sandbox.my.salesforce.com/ and https://bananastand--dev.sandbox.my.salesforce.com/.
The most important shared Git repository corresponding to https://bananastand.my.salesforce.com/ lives at https://github.com/BananaStandCompany/salesforce_primary/.
- Q: How do you successfully enhance these live Salesforce orgs without irritating colleagues who also use
https://github.com/BananaStandCompany/salesforce_primary/? - A: Read on!
Git and GitHub exercises for beginners
18 Nov 2022
Congratulations – you have a new job at Banana Stand Corporation!
The corporate blog lives at https://bananastand.example.com/blog and it’s your job, as a new HTML and CSS expert, to make the blog even more beautiful than it already is.
The shared Git repository containing a codebase full of .html and .css files that drive the way https://bananastand.example.com/blog looks is hosted on the internet at https://github.com/BananaStandCompany/website_corporate_blog/.
- Q: How do you successfully make the blog more beautiful without irritating colleagues who also use
https://github.com/BananaStandCompany/website_corporate_blog/? - A: Read on!
