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Paris 13-12-2015

Posted on November 17, 2015 by Tony Scott

My girlfriend and I were lucky to escape from Le Bataclan on Friday night in Paris while watching The Eagles of Death Metal. We survived thanks to the love and compassion of the people of Paris and we thank them…

Posted in travel, Uncategorized

Salesforce Lightning Lookup Component : Version 2

Posted on October 31, 2015 by Tony Scott

Version 2 This is Version 2 of the Salesforce Lightning Lookup Component. I had one of those, ‘Why didn’t I do it like that instead?‘ moments in the shower this morning. Essentially, it’s less code as I’ve done away with the rendering…

Tagged with: apex, force.com, javascript, lightning, salesforce
Posted in apex, code, force.com, lightning, salesforce

Salesforce Lightning Lookup Component

Posted on October 27, 2015 by Tony Scott

Note: This article has been superceded by: Version 2. I’ve been playing around with Salesforce Lightning components and one of the obvious things that seems to be missing is a UI component to lookup a record in a Salesforce custom object…

Tagged with: apex, force.com, javascript, lightning, salesforce
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Salesforce Lightning support in Sublime Text 3 for Mac OSX

Posted on October 22, 2015 by Tony Scott

If you’re developing Salesforce Lightning components you’ll probably reach a stage where you get fed up of using the Dev Console. Right now the Eclipse based IDE doesn’t support lightning and Joe Ferraro is still working on the latest updates…

Tagged with: force.com, ide, productivity, salesforce, sublime, tools
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Managing the heap using SOQL For Loops (with a little code seperation)

Posted on August 25, 2015 by Tony Scott

I’m a big fan of code separation and code reuse. When I’m coding I like to keep my SOQL out of the business logic and in a gateway class of its own. That way I can reuse common queries in…

Tagged with: apex, force.com, governor limits, salesforce, SOQL
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Pebble Watch: Salesforce Approvals – Part 2

Posted on January 27, 2015 by Tony Scott

In Part 1, we looked at creating the Salesforce server application to expose the Approvals and the target objects via some REST based web services. In the second part of this article we look at creating the Pebble watch app…

Tagged with: apex, dropbox, force.com, pebble, salesforce, watch
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Pebble Watch: Salesforce Approvals – Part 1

Posted on January 25, 2015 by Tony Scott

I recently bought a Pebble ‘smart’ watch and I have to say I’m pretty impressed with it. Rather than try and replace the phone in your pocket, it works to extend it by providing you with notifications and an app…

Tagged with: apex, force.com, pebble, salesforce, watch
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