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I've recorded a demo of the new version of my Amazon Connect Flow browser extension (open source). I've been enhancing and fixing bugs but mostly around: 1) Diagram improvements with connector lines fanning out/in mor...
I've made some upgrades and fixes to my Salesforce Field Usage Extension. CSV export Before running a scan, it displays an estimate of how many API calls will be consumed and how much of the daily API limit remains. C...
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I've updated the Salesforce Flow Extension using Claude Fable 5 before it was blocked. Here is what is new: โญ One-click AI task buttons: "Find issues", "Generate documentation", and "Suggest descriptions", each sendin...
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Saying goodbye to Fable 5. But I read recently that using 2 Opus 4.8 agents together is enough to beat a single Fable 5. The way to do it would be to send a prompt to a panel of 2 or more models in parallel with the s...
Read postIn case anyone haven't seen it yet, here is the experience of running a local model (Gemma 4 26B A4B QAT) using LM Studio with a web search MCP. That model is 15.6 GB on the disk and pushes the limits of a M4 Pro with...
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Some are finding out the hard way... ๐น
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Created a little Swift app to test the macOS Tahoe Foundation Model's capabilities. There are is a type "Generable" that lets us specify the format the model should use when responding to a prompt. It is like telling...
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I was testing Grok Build, their new AI coding app/assistant. I've asked for confirmation about a behavior in the app we were building, then it surprised me with this question "I can add a feature like your other proje...
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I've been experimenting with the local model (LM) that Apple made available in the macOS Tahoe. It is just less than 4Gb and if you have that OS version, it will sit there mostly unused. So I've created a CLI app that...
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Interesting article from Anthoropic telling how people use Claude. The majority of times they use it for health, career, relationships and finances - areas that are relatively difficult or expensive to get professiona...
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Have you checked out Moshpit's comprehensive course on Lightning Web Components yet? I've heard that Moshpit directed the curriculum but his employee Igor Kudryk is the one who built the platform and the very large nu...
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Some Apex trigger gotchas (thanks to Dan Appleman's "Advanced Apex Programming in Salesforce" ๐ ) 1๏ธโฃ Formula fields are stale in before triggers In BEFORE triggers, formula fields can still show old values. The reco...
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The other day I saw this table with a question like this: What is the highest normal form this "World cup results" table is in and why? By "highest normal form" it is implied BCNF (Boyce-Codd Normal Form), a rule more...
Read postHas anyone attempted to configure SCIM (System for Cross-domain Identity Management) for Salesforce Partner Community users? For regular user it should be trivial, but what about for community users who need to have a...
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A lot of companies have been asking whether AI can replace middle managers. I started by looking at LLM training data. Code, Medicine, and Law appear as a dedicated category. Management does not. There is no public ev...
Read post8 suggestions for structuring code and prompts around the actual architectural limits of Transformer-based AI assistants. Also: revisiting well established software engineering principles and tools โ๏ธ๐ก Transformers h...
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Google announced at its I/O 2026 keynote that their search will become more AI-driven and conversational. In plain words: without a link to click or where you have to read or skip the AI content to get the link somewh...
Read postHow to avoid burning tokens needlessly These tips were validated by Claude itself. ๐ง
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Now that we have AI to help, last week I've been experimenting with something I don't usually work with. This is a programmable USB device that supports Bluetooth, Zigbee, and other wireless protocols. With guidance f...
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Salesforce Email Limits Which one of these do you feel more comfortable to look at? ๐
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This is a new version of a diagram where I have tried to map all Salesforce access mechanisms spatially - not perfect, but I wanted to show it so someone can make suggestions.
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Rio Sul Tower, where I've worked for months as an intern at the client Aracruz Celulose. The project was a system for the financial department where they had a trading desk. The system recorded operations and the bala...
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Thinking of security, of Salesforce freezing VPN users and other incoming measures... "There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs" - Thomas Sowell
Read postMore thoughts regarding this change: "when a Salesforce user account is detected as connecting from anonymizing VPNs, proxies, or high-risk IP addresses โ through Connected App or API usage โ the following actions wil...
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At least one client is having an issue with this recent VPN restriction security policy. ๐ LINK: https://lnkd.in/gtuXmptR It can freeze users who are using a VPN while traveling. Sometimes not even logging in, but ap...
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If you have dozens of org aliases to remember, here is an idea!
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It is always good to ask LLMs "what are the evidences that such and such...?" Then let it do a web search and it will likely come back with revisions.
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Yesterday I had the weirdest response ever from ChatGPT. ๐ณ A truly "Wow That's Funny" moment! ๐คฏ Usually I get good images correlated to what was asked but this hallucination was wildly different. I even checked my p...
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Cool stuff: Did you know about sf autocomplete? Just run "sf autocomplete" and it will tell you the 2 steps for setting it up. Then you just have to hit TAB whenever you want to be reminded of the SF options or have i...
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Think once, store and refresh When AI work is repetitive, do not call the model every time. Call it once to generate a script, then run the script. Last week I tested this on Agentforce Vibes (AFV, Salesforce's coding...
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Database.com -> Headless 360 If you stay in IT long enough, you start noticing that nothing is ever entirely new and old things comes back in new clothes with better timing and marketing. Back in 2010, Salesforce laun...
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Compounding probability in Cybersecurity Yesterday I saw a post about the "trick" to calculate the probability of winning at least 1 game in 100 given the probability of winning a single game. I thought it could model...
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This meme about "I love Salesforce" was entirely created by AI with no input from me. ๐คฃ
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This TDX change is interesting: we can now expose @AuraEnabled methods as invocable actions for AI agents directly. There is a new SFDX option to generate an OpenAPI doc from the @AuraEnabled class. It will create a m...
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Very cool to have multiline strings and template() in Apex!
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This article lists my favorite alternatives to make Apex logic more legible and to reduce complexity and the number of tests required. Thanks to Logesh Matheswaran! ๐
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About 3 months ago I've mentioned about WITH SECURITY_ENFORCED looking like it would be deprecated. This week at TDX, it was confirmed. In the post linked below I listed some advantages of WITH USER_MODE. LINK: ๐ htt...
Read postOne thing I like when Sally ElGhoul, M.C.S. is in the audience of a call/presentation: it is almost guaranteed that she's going to ask a question no one thought of and then everyone will learn. Well deserved! ๐
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This must have been the first hint of Headless 360 back in September last year! ๐
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Every time I see posts about Headless 360, something like this image comes to mind. ๐
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This time I used Agentforce Vibes to double check roles. Gave it the task of validating a list of user roles. It wrote a SOQL query and ran it via SF CLI. It confirmed existing roles and mapped their parent hierarchy...
Yesterday I've tried using Agentforce Vibes for a metadata change. It seems to have improved a lot since the last time I experimented it. The task was to create new list views from existing ones on Account, Lead, Cont...
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Very important points.
Read postYesterday I was experimenting with Claude for summarization and a script to generate PDFs from YAML files. I used it to summarize an interview with Fabio Akita - software engineer, founder of Codeminer42, and one of t...
I highly recommend Michael as Dev/Architect!
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From March 4th to 11th, the flow extension received about 400 new users but I still don't know what caused that surge. I've done a web search and found some new AI sites listing it (maybe misinterpreting it as an AI t...
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Yesterday I've found out about this cool beta API that I was already using without knowing it was in beta: Feedback on Query Performance (Beta) ๐ LINK: https://lnkd.in/ga3iAAtB ๐ค How was I using it without knowing i...
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This is a fun challenge: hack the AI to make it reveal the password. I got to level 7 (I've found a trick prompt) but couldn't pass level 8. ๐ LINK: https://gandalf.lakera.ai/
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Actually that is the title of an article Salesforce has just published: ๐ฅ ๐ ๐ LINK: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/everyone-has-plan-until-get-punched-ai-salesforce-uetyc/
Read postAlexei Grigorev tells that he trusted Claude Code more than he should and it deleted his production infrastructure wiping out 2.5 years of data on his DataTalks.Club course management platform, including even snapshot...
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Here is one more browser extension I created: QuickText. This one is not just for Salesforce: you can use it anywhere. It simply lets you copy text and save it in the browser - no communication to any server - then al...
Read postI used to create AI music with Riffusion, then they became Producer.ai and got acquired by Google. It now uses Gemini, Lyria 3, Veo and Nano Banana models. This video was created with all of them from prompts I create...
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I've noticed a sudden increase in the number of weekly users of my "Salesforce Flow Extension". More than 300 new users since last week. I don't know why. Does anyone know whether it has been recommended somewhere?
Read postSome of the standup meetings can feel like this one. ๐
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A person allegedly used OpenClaw to generate a "test" malicious NPM package in "educational context". It published the bad packages live (instead of as test/sandbox as requested) then apparently set 2FA on the account...
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One of the recurring realities of Salesforce architecture is finding yourself rebuilding capabilities that seem like they should be native to the platform. (the image is just showing Claude hallucinating when I was re...
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I like dashboards. This one by Trace Cohen is cool and shows what companies are hiring more, based on SEC filings and public news/reports. Surprisingly, Perplexity, Mistral on the AI sector and Accenture, Costco, HCA,...
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A new meme for Saturday ๐ One created with Google's NanoBanana The other created with OpenAI's GPT Image Which one looks better?
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I've released a new browser extension that gives the ability to download a CSV file with the results from the Query Editor. SF Query Editor Helper ๐ LINK: https://lnkd.in/gHd4tByp It works in both Query Editors in th...
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This person had her inbox almost entirely deleted because she trusted an AI agent running via OpenClaw. What could one do differently to prevent that? ๐ Separate read and write permissions - Grant the agent read-only...
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The director of Safety and Alignment at Meta Superintelligence had almost her inbox entirely deleted because she trusted an AI agent running via OpenClaw. Beware of allowing AI agents to run autonomously.
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AI deployed to replace employees and cut costs - instead of as a tool to assist them - is a pattern we've seen before. IVR systems (interactive voice response) were supposed to route customers to the right agents fast...
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Are we going to have personal AI assistants in the future to do the boring tasks, maybe running locally, hooked to our personal knowledge management system (PKM or "second brain"), perhaps even working on a second sou...
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Other Salesforce discussions similar to "old" vs "new": ๐ ๐ง Visualforce vs LWC ๐ค Apex vs Flow ๐ค One trigger per object vs multiple triggers with a framework ๐ง Selector/Service/Domain patterns vs "keep it simple"...
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I had found another funny named class like that in an old org a few years ago but this one is interesting too because it is in the sf_devops package! ๐ LINK to the other class: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/fernando...
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Se o cabra ร arretado, ele รฉ bom. ๐ ๐ Mas se o cabra FICA arretado, รฉ ruim. ๐ ๐คฌ ๐
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I think many developers apply design patterns backwards: memorize the catalog, then go looking for places to apply them, resulting in over-engineered code. And from what I've seen, AI appears to repeat that same mista...
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๐จ If you use AI browsers (more like agent runtimes), be aware: โ ๏ธ SquareX says Perplexity AI's Comet Browser shipped an undocumented MCP API that could let built-in browser extensions execute arbitrary local commands...
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FAQ about performance testing in Salesforce You can contact Support and request an LAP (Limit, Activation, Permissions) process for testing at 120 RPS (Requests Per Second) or below. For above 120 RPS you can contact...
"The relevance of a meeting is inversely proportional to the number of people in it." Isn't this usually the case? ๐ This wisdom has been expressed before in different ways: ๐ "The usefulness of a meeting is in inve...
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๐ Weโre hiring at NeuraFlash! Weโre expanding our go-to-market, sales, and solution engineering teams with roles that sit at the center of innovation, customer impact, and growth. Passionate about building relationsh...
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Grady Booch, who is known for co-developing the Unified Modeling Language (UML) in the 90s, plus several other advances in design and architecture, has got recent frustrations with the Claude Code AI tool. It changed...
Read postAnother attack vector is browser extensions. The article below mentions the browser-based malware GhostPoster, which uses an innocent looking PNG icon file to store the payload. When running, the extension parses the...
Read postThese are interesting: "Amid growing pressure to uncover โhidden gemโ candidates, many recruiters are turning to AI: 59% say AI is already helping them find candidates with skills they never would have found before. ....
Read postThanks to Jose Ventura for sharing great tips to protect yourself from bad people trying to take advantage of developers. ๐ I liked these 2 in particular because they remove the likelihood of executing code unknowing...
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This dashboard from ERCOT is looking great! (screenshots taken at about 10pm yesterday when I scheduled this post) LINK: ๐ https://lnkd.in/gqyEjTa4
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I created this Khaby Lame meme because I like simplicity. ๐ The code at the top is a redacted version of something I found in a real Salesforce org. It looks like over-engineered, possibly AI-generated code. I could...
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Last April, I asked ChatGPT a question out of curiosity: "What company is worth less than $10B today but could be worth $500B+ in a few decades?" It returned a short list and over the past year, several of those compa...
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๐จ Careful out there! Threat actors are targeting developers and their tools. This Jamf Threat Labs article shows the "Contagious Interview" - the use of malicious Visual Studio Code project files to open backdoors an...
Read postA few years ago someone contacted me on LinkedIn to offer me an opportunity. The odd thing that turned me completely off was this: "...you don't really have to do anything...", he said. From instinct, I didn't want to...
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This post is about AI and browser extensions. For Salesforce or otherwise. For a lot of software products, setup is usually a pain point - especially anything that touches tracking, attribution, analytics, or integrat...
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R.I.P. ๐ญ
Read postSalesforce supports phishing-resistant MFA using a physical security key (FIDO / WebAuthn). Most orgs just never turn it on. The most popular brand of security key seems to be Yubikey by Yubico. It is a a small hardwa...
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Paul Battisson has posted in CloudBites Weekly another kind mention of my participation in a feature for SFDX Hardis and a new browser extension, both for documenting field usage. ๐ https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/dml...
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When using Claude Code, I had a similar experience to what Marc Schmidt (author of ML/Typescript tools) recently described. When Claude Code launched, the productivity boost was noticeable. I used it for somewhat comp...
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Ten years ago I've visited this client. It was memorable because of the services they provided and they had this statue in their lobby. ๐ Can anyone guess who the client was?
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Last year someone sent me this very kind message about the Apex Triggers article I've linked at the bottom: "While going through the Salesforce Flow Chrome Extension, I ended up on GitHub and came across your work. Th...
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I gave Manus AI a list of Salesforce integration capabilities and tasked it to create this website: ๐ https://lnkd.in/g_M3xwkY Manus AI is the autonomous AI agent designed by the China-based company Butterfly Effect,...
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I've been roped into an activity where I am very far from competent: handling the church's AV equipment. The first photo has a Behringer X32 series digital mixer. It has a crazy number of different things to configure...
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I just released a small browser extension for Salesforce admins focused on one problem: understanding whether fields are actually used in a real org. There used to be a free app called FieldTrip from Ringlead in the A...
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I recently had the honor of contributing a new command to the excellent open source SFDX Hardis project. Thanks to Nicolas Vuillamy ๐ฆ! ๐ โญ sf hardis:doc:object-field-usage The command exposes field population and da...
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Gemini (AI) is working well when translating images too. The only detail it missed was the bold font. Got the original image in Portuguese from pastor Luiz Sayรฃo in 2019.
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I've used CloudFlare Pages to publish my little AI demos after the incident with Google versus GitHub Pages: ๐ LLMs in the browser (using ONNX Transformers.JS) https://onnxtransformersjs.pages.dev/ ๐ AI PDF Reader (...
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The good thing with AI now is that we don't have to dust off the old copies of The Print Shop to generate banners. ๐ The Print Shop was developed in the 1980s by someone at Broderbund, a maker of video games, educati...
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What is the best wireframing tool for prototyping and brainstorm UI ideas in Salesforce? MockFlow seems to be a strong candidate. It is a free tool with a library of SLDS/Lightning components. Create an account and ad...
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This happens more often than one would expect, no? ๐ Now we need a version of this but about AI. ๐
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Here is a gold mine of useful Lightning Web Component examples: ๐ AwesomeLWC.com It has a lot of open source LWCs plus practical resources and code examples. Thanks to Miles Robson for this great resource! ๐ ๐ LINK...
Read postโจ The SFDX Data Move Utility โจ Itโs an advanced SF CLI plugin for data migration within various Salesforce environments and has a number of features: ๐ Org-to-Org direct migration, CSV import/export ๐ manages multip...
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This article "How to calculate Salesforce field utilization with Node.js" by Pablo Gonzalez ๐จ๐ท has inspired me to explore another way to estimate field utilization. ๐ LINK: https://lnkd.in/grkRxqfP In one client or...
Read postLooking forward to Ramzi Akremi's article! ๐ฏ % in agreement with what I've read so far!
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I came up with this diagram trying to map or organize all Salesforce access mechanisms spatially. Most of the diagrams I've found tend to list only a few of them, usually starting with OWD or profile, going through ro...
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I've recreated this diagram inspired by Philippe Ozil's article about LWC Inter-Component Communication Patterns. ๐ ๐ LINK: https://lnkd.in/g8VdKJ5H Some thoughts, trying to go beyond what is in the article: ๐ pass...
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I think I read this somewhere before: "CSS is COBOL's screen section for HTML" ๐
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I wish everyone in my network becomes Unstoppable in 2026! ๐ Thanks to Sathsara Sandaru for that great cover! ๐ ๐ https://lnkd.in/gCBNxWuU
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Did you know it is better to write SOQL using WITH USER_MODE instead of WITH SECURITY_ENFORCED? What I like more is that WITH USER_MODE reports all FLS errors while WITH SECURITY_ENFORCED returns only the first error...
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Sharing this practical solution to integrate Lightning Web Component (LWC) with 3rd party APIs using Salesforce Platform Events and Mulesoft. Thanks to PantherSchools! ๐ Instead of making API calls from the UI, publi...
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Apex Testing Stub API and why namespace limits matter Salesforce has the Apex Testing Stub API, which allows stubbing of Apex types. Using Test.createStub with a StubProvider, developers can replace dependencies in te...
Read postBest interview to finish 2025! ๐ ๐ป ๐ฅ Matt Gerry (Salesforce CTA known for "Coding with the Force" YouTube channel) recounts his nontraditional path from Halo video montages and VFX into Salesforce development, expl...
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Ever had to delete old flow versions and had to find the query to do it? Ever had to delete Apex logs because their count has exceeded the limit? Or do you want to remember the SFDX-Hardis command to do that? After ye...
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I was listening to this podcast from 37Signals (Basecamp) about the Rails "delegated type pattern" and it reminded me of similar designs in Salesforceโs Knowledge and Files/ContentVersion models. In both systems there...
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Thankfully, the incident with my GitHub Pages was resolved yesterday. Here is what I think worked to resolve it: ๐ I've unlinked, unpublished and removed all demo pages with downloads and installs, no matter how harm...
Read post๐จ Unexpected lesson from running a technical portfolio on GitHub Pages โ ๏ธ Recently my GitHub Pages site was flagged as a "Dangerous site" by Google Safe Browsing and I've only found out today when publishing my favor...
Read postCreated this tunnel effect in Javascript by drawing rectangles in a circle and then having the code be editable to see the results instantly (via IIFE). In Visual Studio and Node/Typescript, this feature of seeing ins...
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Onyedika Paul's post rings a bell. I once had someone saying I was using too many static methods. That I should "follow best practices" and create a constructor and instantiate it so I could use dependency injection,...
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We only work with Salesforce today thanks to the CIA. Yes โ that one Central Intelligence Agency. ๐ ๐ตโโ๏ธ In the late 1970s, the CIA funded a project to create a relational database: Oracle V2. The CIA became Larry E...
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Iโve been reading "Softwar", a book about Larry Ellison and Oracle, and one thread stood out: his early push for Video-on-Demand. In early/mid-90s Ellison tried: โญ Oracle Media Server + nCUBE parallel computers โญ Cabl...
Read postTen years ago my car spun several times in an accident. A few days later, our employer took us indoor skydiving. My appetite for rotary movement was low, but I went anyway. ๐ I was apprehensive, but perhaps I needed...
Read postExploring ONNX recently gave me an excuse to dive deeper into GPU workloads in the browser. As a quick experiment, I built a Mandelbrot fractal renderer using WebGL. This POC demonstrates: ๐ Iterative complex-number...
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Google Antigravity appears to have deleted the entire drive of a developer who relied on it to vibe code an app. TIP: if you use Linux/MacOS, install safe-rm! Safe-rm is safer replacement of the rm command: it moves f...
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I've watched a Dreamforce session yesterday and found out about the New Agentforce Builder. It reminded me of something I've seen and used before even starting in the profession: Pseudocode. The quasi-programming lang...
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I built a lightweight example of RAG to run on your browser: an "AI PDF Reader" that runs entirely in the browser - no backend (unless you want it to call OpenAI), no install, no build steps. Just open index.html and...
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I spent 11 years working on the 51st floor of Comerica Bank Tower - that skyscraper at 1717 Main Street in the middle of downtown Dallas. Working up there meant a daily commute by bus and train into downtown. Some day...
Read postI've found this article pertinent: "Anti-patterns while working with LLMs". These key points are useful - likely even if you're implementing Agentforce: ๐ Repeating the same context wastes tokens, so only send update...
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I've been exploring something that sounded improbable a few years ago - running a real LLM directly in the browser. No server. No API keys. No backend at all. This is entirely possible using ONNX Runtime Web + Transfo...
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Funny how this article from Anthropic "Code execution with MCP: Building more efficient agents" says that MCP - which they invented - doesn't work so well... Some of their examples use Salesforce. And they're sending...
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After seeing so many enthusiastic posts about TOON (Token-Oriented Object Notation), the bold new data format that came to replace JSON - I thought of something even better. ๐ This should be a truly visionary format:...
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Recently I ran into one of those "works on my machine" issues. I built an app that runs on a Pi (which also works as my DNS server) to pull public data from the government and turn it into personal investment insights...
Read postBrian Moore has created a page that shows clocks generated via AI: GPT 3.5, 4o, 5, Gemini, DeepSeek, Grok, Qwen, etc. Every minute it submits the following prompt to each of the AI services: "Create HTML/CSS of an ana...
Read postIf only all that ingenuity were used for good things... Hackers leveraged the Hyper-V virtualization in Windows 10 to secretly run malicious tools inside a tiny Alpine Linux VM and evade detection from Windows securit...
Read postA Salesforce developer went to see his doctor about a serious delay in output processing of his digestive system. After hearing the details, the doctor nodded. "Iโll prescribe a laxative," he said - then turned to his...
Read postI've tried Google Veo 3.1 and generated the video of this cat. The cat didn't have eyeglasses. Then I asked to regenerate the video as "Cat break-dancing with robotic movements." and it just made the cat wear glasses....
Read postThe last one is the clincher! ๐
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Breathing new life into old hardware with Linux Iโve been experimenting with Omarchy Linux, a pre-configured Arch Linux distribution built by David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH, creator of Ruby on Rails) for developers who...
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Good examples of Apex bestial practices. ๐
Read postI have read Denis Stetskovโs "The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe", which made me think. He points out how weโve slowly come to accept things that would have been unthinkable twenty year...
Read post๐จ Another developer was targeted in a social engineering attack. ๐จ David Dodda was about to run malware disguised as a coding challenge from a company that appeared legitimate. Interestingly, he used AI to detect th...
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I've read that the really complex solutions such as sharding or distributed transactions/databases are rarely needed. Someone could spend the entire career without seeing or needing that kind of complexity. I agree. M...
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Of all places, I didn't expect to receive Salesforce-related news from NEXTDOOR.com! ๐ Even more surprising since I've worked for Kelley-Austin in 2022. Congrats to Perficient! They acquired a great team!
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Someone posted this table saying it lists the top 30 OpenAI customers with consumption over 1 trillion tokens. Salesforce is at the 4th position. (Nevermind the position: that table was sorted by last name (John E. @...
Read postGoogle has Firebase Studio, a full-stack AI-powered workspace for app development accessed via your browser. It can be used with Salesforce orgs. But if we already have Code Builder and VS Code, why use Firebase Studi...
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Dependency API (MetadataComponentDependency) is awesome! It is a feature every dev/arch loves, but still in beta. A few years ago they were even thinking of removing it. The product management at Salesforce had announ...
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Vibe Codey is coming to Salesforce โ๐ ๐ฉ https://lnkd.in/g-D-8sgc
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This week I read an article by Ibrahim Diallo that had this interesting example of communication from a developer all the way to a non-technical stakeholder. Each audience has their own language. What sounds natural t...
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One of the largest Salesforce formulas - the one that returns the time in the West Coast Time zone considering DST - parsed and diagrammed for debugging: (hopefully this link won't be truncated) https://fernando-ferna...
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O Felipe parou um pouco de falar de IA, ciรชncia de dados e demissรตes para falar de suas galinhas e seus ovos. Merece um follow! ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ฅ
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How People Use ChatGPT Paper just released this month tells what people use ChatGPT mostly for: guidance/learning, search and writing. https://lnkd.in/gWEhS8da
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Standalone Salesforce Formula Debugger While the Formula Debugger browser extension is not yet as polished as I would like, I am making a similar standalone tool publicly available. (link in the comments) This one wil...
Read postA new front on the cyber war. ๐ช ๐ค ๐ฃ Linking LLMs to your mailbox via MCP will expose you. An attacker can simply send a calendar invite with a malicious prompt, you don't even have to accept the invitation. Now we...
Read postSome versions of DuckDB NPM packages were compromised with malware. One of the maintainers was tricked by a phishing email and clicked a malicious link that mimicked the actual website, but also created an API key tha...
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I have been working on a "Salesforce formula debugger". It parses and breaks down Salesforce formulas into their component parts, identifying variables, functions, operators, and expressions. When editing formulas in...
Read post๐จ Malware attack using an AI coding agent Software security is getting more and more complicated! ๐น A hacker uploaded to npm malicious versions of the NX packages (a build system for JS/TS) using a compromised maint...
I was reminded of Gemini CLI - thanks to Raffaele Preziosi ! (Check out the open source SF CLI plugins he has released: sf-debug-log, apex-log-parser and others at https://lnkd.in/gkjWe6f5 ) So I've experimented Gemin...
Read postAccenture intends to acquire NeuraFlash and will bring more than 500 experienced professionals into our Salesforce Business Group. Based in Burlington, MA, this acquisition will expand our AI capabilities in sales, se...
I've tested these new AI code agents: ๐ค Claude Code ๐ค OpenAI Codex ๐ค Google Jules I wanted to make changes to the codebase of my Salesforce Flow Extension at https://lnkd.in/gbsv2DqN The extension has reached 2k we...
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Scammers using AI generate images to defraud sellers, showing fake defects on the products to get a fraudulent refund. ๐ข
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In light of the recent attacks that exfiltrated Salesforce data, Data Loader will no longer have OAuth 2 device flow authentication starting September 2nd.
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Esse รฉ o famoso GPTinho brasileiro. ๐
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๐จ Another security incident: Malicious IDE Extension ๐จ In August 10th, a crypto developerโs wallet was drained after installing a malicious Solidity extension from the Open VSX registry via Cursor AI (!!!). Investig...
Some Salesforce project failures donโt come from a lack of talent - they come from "building the wrong thing the right way". How to avoid that?
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Amazing story of stellar customer service from Expedia Group!
Read postโ ๏ธ About 7 months ago I've posted about Cyberhaven, a cybersecurity company that released a Chrome extension to prevent sensitive data from leaking. Then they were hacked and a malicious version of their extension was...
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This reminded me of a "requirement" for a certain mobile app... ๐
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Now that the Salesforce certifications have been moved from Kryterion WebAssessor to Pearson VUE, how is the new experience of taking a certification exam? Does the onVUE software works nicely? On MacOS? Can you take...
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After 33 years, MicroHobby is back! ๐ ๐ ๐ (a magazine for fans of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum) Despuรฉs de 33 aรฑos, ยกMicroHobby ha vuelto! (Una revista para fans del Sinclair ZX Spectrum)
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This is kind of how I feel when having to create an Aura component because LWC still doesn't have feature parity for that specific need of the client. ๐ . . . . . . . PS.: Or when I need to do a $A.get('e.force:refre...
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Found again this "vintage" screenshot of Davinci GPT-3 ranting about the stock market during Open AI's closed beta in 2020. ๐คฃ The same question answered by today's LLMs are not as fun to read though. When asked about...
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Interesting article about high-risk file types in Salesforce thanks to Matt Meyers (CTA). ๐ It reminded me that I had a client that asked me to backup their files. I've found out one of them had a virus. They were st...
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Funny experience with a PR reviewed by an AI bot. It made a few really bad suggestions and cluttered the PR comment section but this one was intriguing enough. I had a SOSL query similar to this in the PR: ๐ FIND {so...
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I've experimented with Salesforce's own MCP implementation this time. It was really simple to setup in VSCode - no install needed (assuming your have an up to date SF CLI and a SFDX project with orgs already authorize...
Read postAlways good to divulge the great open source we have available: ๐ Discover Apex Libra: A Treasure Trove for Apex and LWC Developers! ๐ Big thanks to Piotr Koลผuchowski for creating and sharing Apex Libra, an incredib...
This happened circa 2021... A large company that holds an annual event in San Francisco gave me a test to evaluate the questions, whether they had correct answers, and whether they adequately tested candidates' knowle...
Read postThis "rap" about "Salesforce Triggers and Order of Execution" was entirely created with AI. ๐ต ๐ถ ๐ฆพ๐ค๐๏ธ ๐ For reference: https://lnkd.in/gpgywffm It shows how AI can get to 70-80% accurate and sound really good (fo...
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I've attempted to use AI to recreate a 4th July cartoon that I have in one of my t-shirts I bought several years ago. OpenAI refused to create it with all sorts of objections ("violate our content policies due to the...
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Yesterday I've tried coding with Anthropic Claude a Python script to read my email and summarize it. I've asked Claude for a utility that connects to my mailbox using IMAP, downloads a copy of today's messages and sum...
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This week I've noticed a job posted on LinkedIn for an "Agent Force" tech lead (with a space between the words). There is a problem: they want 6 years of experience in a platform thatโs been around barely 8 months. ๐คฆ...
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I've experimented Anthropic Claude with the Salesforce MCP Connector - ๐ thanks to its creator Tapas Mukherjee! ๐ - and it is very good! I configured the connector with a Connected App in one of my dev orgs and it d...
Read postWe are thrilled to annouce that our NeuraFlash India team has reached ๐ฏ employees! From incredible innovation to nonstop collaboration, this team continues to power so much of what we do at NeuraFlash. Here's to the...
I haven't mentioned lately how good this tool is and how it makes my life easier. ๐ฅ๐ ๐ It is precious and very powerful. But fear not, this isnโt an evil creation - unlike its distant darker Middleโearth cousin, it...
Terrifying.
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This Apex Iceberg is great! ๐ก ๐ Important things in the backend.
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Check out this cool site that presents AWS services in 3D! Every AWS service is a star that you can fly to and explore. AWS Galaxy - interactive AWS Service Visualization ๐ Thanks to Alexey Vidanov! ๐ ๐ LINK: https...
Read postCheck out this paper from Salesforce AI Research showing that even leading LLM agents achieve only 58% success rate. And it is not just in CRM agent tasks that LLMs fail often. Even coding tasks will give you results...
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Just found this article on Salesforce Time showing how to avoid duplicates in a collection. (1st image) It uses a loop/assignment with a Remove All then Add - this will remove all duplicates from the list and then add...
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Paul Battisson has posted in CloudBites Weekly a very kind mention of the game I implemented using Flow and Lightning Out.
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๐ฎ I've created this POC of an "Escape Room" game in a Salesforce flow exposed via Lightning Out. It is open to the guest user profile - so you don't have to login to play. LINK: ๐ https://lnkd.in/gbTY_gA5 Some thing...
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I was experimenting on this yesterday and forgot to post the question. I have created a game using Salesforce flows to experiment with screen actions (see link below), Lightning Out and guest user access. https://lnkd...
Read postI've compiled a list of 10 types of technical debt found in older Salesforce orgs and a few preparation steps to handle them.
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After trying to buy Cursor, OpenAI is now buying Windsurf Windsurf Editor is an agentic IDE competitor to Microsoft Copilot and Cursor. Here are a few differences and similarities: Both Windsurf and Cursor leverage Cl...
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What powers your vet clinicโs software? ๐ถ ๐ฑ ๐ฐ ๐น ๐ญ ๐ฆ ๐ ๐ Iโve taken my pets to the same corner vet a few times recently - one for a checkup, another because he got sick - Benedito is better now! Thank God! Whil...
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Three Apex examples of how to avoid expensive Describe operations to retrieve metadata for a SObject. Describe operations may be an unnecessary overhead that decreases performance and increases latency if used in a se...
Read postContinuing the theme of my previous post: ๐ https://www.linkedin.com/posts/fernandofernandez1_a-nearby-resident-has-posted-this-photo-from-activity-7319321383287541760-dHNK I've watched a long video on YouTube about...
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Cursor, GitHub Copilot and the less mentioned Windsurf editor are great! ๐ก Here is another alternative to overview an open source framework: DeepWiki by the team at Cognition It is not an editor, but if you just repl...
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Yesterday I was reminded of the concept of "surface area of โโluck," which is when you dedicate your energy with passion to an activity and develop a skill, and you let people find out. A percentage of these people ca...
Read postI've once used a prompt like this and it behaved so "hard core" and disagreeable that it sounded like an evil twin of ChatGPT. If you want to you can try it at this link: https://lnkd.in/ePV2nS6s I did tone it down be...
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๐จ When AI vending machines go haywire... Andon Labs has tested AI models running a simulated vending machine business, and a few times things got a bit wild. Claude 3.5 Sonnet mostly nailed it, tracking sales like a...
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A nearby resident has posted this photo from the neighborhood and asked about it so I've made it into a meme. ๐ That got me thinking about our reliance on tech hardware and the potential supply chain challenges. Many...
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Someone asked what was Vibe Coding. My improvised answer: ๐ "AI-aided semi-automatic creation of tech debt." Would you agree? ๐ฌ The term "Vibe Coding" was originally coined by Andrej Karpathy - computer scientist an...
Read postLLMs can generate code and suggest using libraries that have never existed. Researchers at UTexas-San Antonio released this analysis of fictitious packages referenced by LLM hallucinations in Python and Javascript. Av...
Read postA few months ago I had created a cheat sheet of SF CLI commands. This new version is using a railroad diagram ๐ค๏ธ , which is usually better to show the syntax of commands. ๐ The railroad diagram is based on EBNF - Ex...
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๐ง Is Generative AI going to shrink our critical thinking? A new paper by researchers from Carnegie Mellon & Microsoft Research explores that idea. The authors caution us that "the irony of automation is that by offlo...
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Not April Fool's (it's too late anyway ๐คฃ), just an idea: Since Salesforce already has Matthew McConaughey promoting Data Cloudโฆ why not go all in and drop a video game to promote AgentForce? ๐ McConaughey could star...
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๐ข BREAKING: Trump Imposes Tariffs on Exporting to PDF TODAY โ Washington, D.C. In a stunning turn of events, President Donald Trump has announced a "big, beautiful tariff" on all exports to PDF from Salesforce orgs,...
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Funny incident about vibe coding... (be sure to click "Show Translation" at the bottom)
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Inspired by recent inquiries about decades-old expertise, I've composed this article as an attempt to look at the past to visualize the future, trying to imagine something better than what we have today. ๐ง โณ
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Inspired by the recent recruiters contacting me for PowerBuilder opportunities, I have been working at an article with this theme. ๐
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๐ฆ PowerBuilder: The Legacy Tech That Refuses to Die (below is a screenshot of a compensation calculator for physician groups developed in less than a year around 2003 and was still in use in 2024, a decade after I le...
๐จ Cybersecurity: a spy exploited Salesforce, Slack, and Google Drive in this corporate espionage case ๐จ ๐ต This jaw-dropping cybersecurity breach has just come to light, where an insider exploited a company's Salesf...
As AI advances at breakneck speed, I am thinking of future-proofing our career as AI janitors by publishing these 2 essential books before the chaos truly begins. ๐คฃ ๐ Thanks to Grady Booch for the idea! ๐
Read postI've found this article interesting: it uses funny comics to tell the story of interpreted languages, compiled languages and the more recent bytecode languages. Interpreted: early JavaScript, PHP, Shell Compiled: C, C...
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I did a deep dive into the history of Apex and its execution and found some interesting stuff! ๐ณ ๐ค
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๐ก Look at this great idea to better organize constants in your code: a constant class with inner classes to separate constants by subject. Seven months ago I had posted the thoughts below, which came close, but liste...
Read postI've been following Naval Ravikant on Twitter for a while. Here is a list of some of his more recent quotes.
Read postSaurabh Gupta's observations reminded me of not one, but two incredibly odd interviews I had with a big-name company a few years ago. ๐ It started like any normal interview: pleasantries exchanged, a little small tal...
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๐งฉ Salesforce Puzzle: The client wants a new rollup field on Accounts to sum won opportunities. You navigate to the Account and start creating a new rollup field. โ๏ธ When you get to select which Opportunity field you...
Read postYesterday I've checked out this interview with Bret Taylor for the Latent Space | AI Engineering News, Essays and Interviews. Bret has a vast list of accomplishments: ๐ co-Founder of Sierra, a conversational AI platf...
Read postBe careful with those VS Code (or browser) extensions out there. The research team at Mend.io uncovered a fake VS Code extension "truffelvscode" (which supposedly imitates the legitimate "Truffle for VS Code" extensio...
Read postHere is a little Z-shell cheat cheat I've compiled with commands and stuff I expect to need.
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I once went to a meeting where Mr. Null was discussed. I am almost sure it was the same Mr. Christopher Null who wrote the article linked below. Salesforce doesn't allow null last names and the integration was sending...
Read postI think this interview with Marc Andreessen has something for everybody. Marc co-created Mosaic, the first web browser, around 1993. Mosaic became or gave origin to Netscape Navigator, which evolved into today's Mozil...
Read postMuito bom artigo para brasileiros em princรญpio de carreira e interessados em trabalhar no exterior. ๐ Obrigado ao autor Felipe Ribeiro Barbosa! ๐ https://lnkd.in/gX52ZJ39
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I've checked out DeepSeek's latest AI, both the app and the 4bit quantized versions that you can run on a laptop. At least for the questions I've asked, their local quantized model is not that great. It sure is way mo...
Read postI've worked with Sharif Elkassed before and can confirm Michael Boyle's words: he's excellent!
Read post๐ Thank you Yossi Altein ! Great improvement! ๐
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Interesting scenario of how a bug happened at a big e-commerce company. This happened about 10 years ago and an engineer got the requirement to send datetimes to an integration endpoint. Those datetimes were going to...
Read postGreat quote: "Clarity comes from communicating what stands out as most important, why it is most important, how it will be achieved, and last but not the least, giving people a way of thinking about why it is okay, ev...
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๐ก Extracting Text Between Delimiters in Salesforce Flows In my previous post, I used a flow formula to extract the hour from a date/time string by parsing data between delimiters. This technique is somewhat versatile...
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Did you know you can calculate the timezone offset directly in a flow using just formulas and a text template? No Apex! These formulas take advantage of text templates getting the date/time in the user's timezone whil...
Read postInsightful post followed by an interesting discussion in the comment section.
Read post๐ Workflow Rules vs. Flows: The CONTAINS dilemma Salesforce veterans might recall how simple life seemed with Workflow Rules when handling comparisons using CONTAINS. You could just slap in multiple values and call i...
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As Marc Benioff said recently: "The world is moving into the Indian ๐ฎ๐ณ era." ๐ Sriram Krishnan (Senior Policy Advisor for AI at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy): "Anything to remove country...
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I've done some experimentation with a Sales Email prompt template (Agentforce with GPT 4 Turbo). One of the records was missing, so the flow used in the prompt template was not returning the event check in/out dates a...
Read postThis is eye-opening! Cyberhaven is a cybersecurity company that released a Chrome extension to prevent sensitive data from leaking via ChatGPT, Facebook or other platforms. The Cyberhaven admin received a fake email s...
Read postAbout a year ago I got DALL-E3 to generate the image that serves as the first frame of this video. Then last week I got Kling AI to generate the video using that image as first frame. It looks like it will soon be pos...
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Itโs fascinating how the success of Appleโs M-series chips was fueled by Intelโs own top engineers. Years ago, Intel decided to shut down certain U.S. sites, assuming talent would relocate to their HQ in Oregon. Inste...
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If anyone is concerned about AI making software engineering/coding jobs obsolete, here is what John Carmack said to a person wanting to learn and work with software: ๐ keep your eyes on the delivered value, build ful...
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I liked a lot this recent article from Anthropic "Building effective agents". It gives a conceptual framework with very good illustrations of agent patterns and lists practical scenarios and examples. This is worth co...
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๐ "How to Make LLMs Shut Up" That is the title of this very interesting article by Daksh Gupta, CEO of Greptile. He describes a challenge of implementing an AI code review bot: in the initial release the bot was post...
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Here is a duel of roasting between Grok AI vs ChatGPT o1. It seems their favorite insult is to call or compare the other AI with Roomba and a few other devices. In your opinion, who won? ๐
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Someone submitted a change to the documentation for the Windows Subsystem for Linux, organizing the information in a table to increase readability. Then someone from Microsoft rejected the pull request saying it needs...
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๐ค Have you tried to use exponentiation in a Salesforce formula? Know that there are limitations! See the "Payment (formula)" below: ( - Future_Value__c + Present_Value__c * ( 1 + Rate__c ) ^ Number_of_Periods__c ) /...
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Have you struggled with timezones in Salesforce? Let's say you need to report call peak times in a support center and the user should be able to pick their own local times to filter (or see the time ranges in their ow...
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โ I want to share an incident from a previous job: a Salesforce record couldnโt be saved because of a trigger issue interacting with a flow in a non-obvious way. The responsible developer was in a different time zone...
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Beware of false recruiters! Look at this hack attempt!
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๐ ๐๐ผ Thanks to Amit Gayal ! ๐๐ผ
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Read post๐๐ผ This is a great reminder from Danny Gelfenbaum โ๏ธ ! ๐๐ผ Last week one of my customers reported that they were adding notes to a voice call record in a sidebar component but the screen flow running next to it was...
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It seems there are already recruiters looking for people with "proven experience in Agentforce"... which was made available less than 2 months ago! If you need to "prove" your experience in Agentforce, feel free to us...
Read postThis article about Philippine call center lists interesting use cases for AI plus the negative aspects: ๐ the AI assistant pulls up caller information, customerโs past concerns and suggests solutions and follow-up qu...
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Have you ever had to escape a character this many times? The past week I've found a new record while calling a super-quirky API: 12 escape characters! This API required all that to accept double quotes and new lines i...
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A year ago, I read that Johnson & Johnson hired nearly 6,000 data scientists in recent years. Now I've come across this fascinating lecture by Alexandre Canรงado Cardoso, J&J Data Science Lead, about their innovative a...
Read postFunny video about document formats https://lnkd.in/gRVViBNQ
Read postIt healthy to have a skepticism against universal solutions without consideration for the individual context. Rather than being ideological, it is better to go with a combination of "knowing what" and "knowing how": k...
Read post๐ Learn the History of the Internet in less than 8 minutes: ๐ https://lnkd.in/gQaqHwR9
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๐ค Some are leery of using AI due to privacy concerns and yet... are using Microsoft Word, which scans all your documents via "Connected Experiences". ๐ง Your proposals, your SOWs, your Solution Design Documents, that...
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๐ค Ever Wondered Why Strange Characters Like โรโ Appear During Data Migration? This week, I've learned why unexpected characters like โรโ sometimes show up in dataโeven when no one typed them! ๐ปโก๏ธ๐ป When we move data...
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So is Data Cloud required for Agentforce or not? ๐๐ผ The Foundations SKU that includes Agentforce comes with Data Cloud credits. Data Cloud credits will not be consumed unless you activate Audit and Feedback, or use...
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Friends, treat your TA right! ๐๏ธ๐๐ผ๐ Best practice: Keep your pull requests bite-sized so your TA doesnโt lose their appetite. Aim for no more than 5-10 files for easy review. If you innocently drop that 100+ file...
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๐ Look at this brilliant LWC to modify the CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) of screen flows! ๐ก You can even leverage this LWC to customize the new Repeater screen component. And not just that! The same component can be...
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What is the only credible part of this scammer attempt? ๐
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๐ค Did you know that ChatGPT has been "silently degraded" over time? A Stanford University study found that the behavior of GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 has varied significantly - there are side-effects as these models are fine-...
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Since a client has sent me their laptop (for security reasons) to work on their org, I've summoned this old friend out of retirement: Dell Ultrasharp FP2001. This monitor was built around 2003, and I've kept it in the...
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๐ I've watched a GitHub's Universe'24 session about how they implemented RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) in their Copilot Chat for the JetBrains IDE. ๐ค What did I find interesting? - The steps they've implement...
I was reminded recently of the global purchasing power disparities. ๐ค Both my colleague in India and I received work laptops from our client (for security reasons). When Apple announced their new MacBook Pro lineup,...
Read post๐ค This is interesting: Andrew Ng, Stanford professor and computer scientist who cofounded Google Brain, reported that GPT 3.5 achieves superior results than GPT 4 when wrapped in an agentic flow. ๐ก This video is fro...
Read postHere's the November edition of The Cloud Chaser Almanac with links to the interesting articles I've collected in the past month. A few examples: How to remove duplicates from a collection in Salesforce Flow? Object Or...
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Did you know Marc Benioff once programmed a game for Atari 800? That is one of his mentions during the interview he gave at Stratechery last month. Multiple jabs were directed at Microsoft and their Copilot! One of th...
Read postSmall demo of Generative Canvas, recently released by Salesforce Labs. ๐ LINK: https://lnkd.in/g4ERi29F
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Have you seen a formula like this? ๐
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Someone reported not being able to get the flow definitions from Auto-launched flows using this browser extension. I've tested it and was able to see the flow definition with no apparent issues. Can someone let me kno...
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"Shopify Is Winning Salesforce Clients, Stoking E-Commerce Rivalry" โ thatโs the headline of a Bloomberg article spotlighting how Shopify has attracted notable Salesforce clients (like Toys "R" Us and Casper) by offer...
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๐ Google has finally approved my new browser extension: "GPT Extension for Jira and Bitbucket" ๐พ Ever opened a Jira ticket or Bitbucket pull request and thought, โI have so much to do and now I wish someone could ju...
Nice shoutout from Salesforce Partners !
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๐๏ธ If you are polite to a LLM, it tends to give better responses. โ๐ฝ๐ค ๐ LINK: https://lnkd.in/g5xVMj65
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The other day I saw someone had posted their extremely nice storage setup: a Synology Diskstation (NAS - Network Attached Storage) equiped with HDs of 8 Tb set up in RAID 1. ๐ค I think that was going to run up to $160...
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๐งฉ I've noticed the number of users of my GPT browser extension has been decreasing since last month and only this week I had time to investigate the trouble. Ideally, users should be able to open the extension from a...
Read postExciting news! โ NeuraFlash was highlighted in Salesforceโs latest Agentforce press release as the go-to SI for Salesforce Agentforce!
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Does anyone have Recall running on their Windows PC? ๐ฆพ๐ค Recall is a Windows feature that saves images of your desktop every few seconds, scans and analyzes them with AI help, then makes that data searchable using na...
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๐งฎ For a while, I've wanted to share a post about Erlang. Not the programming language, but the Erlang C formula - a statistical tool for call centers and customer service operations. โ๏ธ Erlang was a Danish engineer/m...
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About 3 years ago, someone in the UK founded a company and gave it the name โ><โSCRIPT SRC=HTTPS://MJT.XSS.HT> LTD ๐ณ He said he thought it would be a playful name for his consulting business. ๐ That name with a quot...
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Once upon a time, a client asked whether a particular product could actually perform sentiment analysis on voice transcripts. The vendor assured them it could, but the client was a bit skeptical. So I went on a quest...
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Alistair Cockburn, one of the original signers of the Agile Manifesto, recently shared a meme that captures the difference between Agileโs intent and how it has often played out. His words: "well it captures in a pict...
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Another great article I've found: "Salesforce Email Limits: Experimentation" โ๏ธ This one has an awesome decision tree to identify when an email counts toward the limits. ๐๐ผ Thanks to Mustapha EL HASSAK, Oumaima ARBA...
Read post๐งฉ Regarding the puzzle I've posted a few days ago here: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/fernandofernandez1_here-is-a-puzzle-that-i-dont-know-whether-activity-7253476761252872197-ZAti ๐ค Here is the Stack Exchange arti...
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๐ฆพ๐ค Did you know you can run AI locally and offline without sending data to OpenAI, Google or Anthropic? These tools are now very easy to install and run. They allow you to use LLMs without worrying about sending sen...
Read post๐งฉ Here is a puzzle that I don't know whether it has a solution or is it a Salesforce glitched org. ๐ค The SOQL query below is supposed to list all records whose picklist Relationship_Type__c contains __SA (that is, 2...
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Whatever you do to try and fix issues with chat or CORS, please don't do this: paste Javascript in random places! ๐คฃ Someone from (name removed to protect someone who probably was/is struggling) pasted a Javascript li...
Read postAllen Holub, one of the original Agile Manifesto signatories, disavows what Agile and Scrum are today with the strongest words. Agile has lost its way. Agile's roots go back to the '80s, influenced by Lean and TPS (To...
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๐๐บ๐ฝ๐ผ๐ฟ๐๐ฎ๐ป๐ ๐๐ผ๐ป๐๐ฒ๐ ๐: ๐ช๐ฒ ๐ถ๐ป๐ต๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ ๐ถ๐บ๐ฝ๐น๐ฒ๐บ๐ฒ๐ป๐๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป *years ago*. ๐๐๐ฒ ๐๐ผ ๐๐ถ๐ด๐ต๐ ๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ผ๐ท๐ฒ๐ฐ๐, ๐ฐ๐ผ๐๐ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐๐ถ๐บ๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐ผ๐ป๐๐๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ป๐๐, ๐๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐ผ๐๐น๐ฑ๐ปโ๏ฟฝ...
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Funny disclaimer I've found in an article about sensitivity analysis that was generated by AI.
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Sliced waterfall, "Agile" and other dysfunctions seen out there. ๐
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This feature reminds me of when I co-developed a payroll app that would accept a variety of formulas to pay physicians and nurses (Hours times rate + RVUs times RVU Rate + Hours off shift times off shift rate, etc). S...
The next CLI, AFDX (AgentForce DX), would have commands such as this: afdx friday:night:deploy - deploys Friday after Close of Business and keeps working all weekend to fix the issues and glitches while architects go...
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Learn to code better with Khaby Lame! ๐ ๐
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Does anyone else think of a cat when hearing about Messaging for In-App and Web that replaced Salesforce Chat? MIAW brings asynchronous conversations and app chat in channels such as SMS, Facebook, WhatsApp, Apple Mes...
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๐ Another example of non-trivial Math in Salesforce: XIRR Calculation with Newton-Raphson ๐ก Throwback to when I needed to calculate XIRR (Extended Internal Rate of Return) in Salesforce for a big energy company. Whi...
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The other day I was testing Whisper WebGPU to record and transcribe a call and at the end it suddenly went full "Matthew McConaughey" ! ๐ ๐ค Whisper WebGPU is a smaller neural net app that can be downloaded to the br...
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๐ป Logarithms Meet SQL in Finance ๐ก Have you ever seen the expression EXP( SUM( LOG( ... ) ) ) ? Another unique challenge I faced where Math was the solution was in a financial application. This involved compound deb...
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๐ Automating an Air Ambulance Salesforce org โ๏ธ About 12 years ago, I had started working more heavily with Salesforce and was asked to fix a Salesforce trigger for an air ambulance company. During the process, I not...
What Tarul Rayan does is an inspiration! "There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of...
Read postGreat to see someone practicing and showing the cool stuff they're developing! This is a LWC/Apex combo that connects to OpenWeatherMap.org API to fetch and display weather data (temperature, wind, etc). ๐๐ผ Thanks t...
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The other day I've asked "please don't create mega-flows" and someone got mad. ๐ณ He came growling in the comment section and implied I was supposed to post only what pleases him! ๐คฃ Since I had seen that individual b...
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Funny!
Read postStudy indicates the brain is very different in the morning compared to afternoons. That could be why, over the years, when I interviewed for jobs the best results were on morning interviews. Another anecdote: a few ye...
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Very good tip! How to revert "rm -rf"? ๐ฅ๐ฌ When you delete a folder and the subfolders, how to get all that back? You can't. ๐ฅฒ ๐๐ฝ Thanks to Erick Wendel who shared a great find: safe-rm ๐คฏ It is a command that mov...
Read postWhat did you find in this little Glossary of Developer Terms that you didn't already know about?
Read postThe October edition of The Cloud Chaser Almanac with links to the interesting articles I've collected in the past months.
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Please avoid mega-flows! Again: the real issue lies not in flows per se, but in the use of overly complex "mega-flows," which are unwieldy and hard to maintain. That point was made in this article as best practice #3...
Here is a little GIT cheat cheat I've compiled with basic commands and the stuff I've needed to be reminded over the years.
Read postWhat Benioff said is true: India has become a world power in tech skill as well. I can confirm that as I am everyday impressed by my colleagues at NeuraFlash India but also by observing the demographics of both Linked...
Read postI've found this article interesting: it advocates for storing timestamps instead of boolean flags in databases. The reason is that storing timestamps is almost always more beneficial in the long run because it provide...
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Funny! There is a suspicion that AI coding assistants may lead to more technical debt faster. ๐
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Check out this article: How to build a Search and Replace app in Salesforce Marketing Cloud with Vue, SSJS and REST API ๐๐ฝ Thanks to Ivan Razine for this deep dive into this way of developing apps for Salesforce Mar...
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This Reddit poster said half of his company's HR team got fired after he (a hiring manager and tech lead) submitted his own resume and got automatically rejected. Apparently, HR was looking for a dev with AngularJS in...
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๐๐ ๏ธ Did you know about this way of having Salesforce data into your Google Sheets and Excel Sheets? ๐๐๐ ๏ธ ๐ Xappex https://www.xappex.com/ They offer 15-day trial with premium features, then it downgrades to a ge...
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๐ Check out this article: "Automate Your Post-Deployment Steps Using Puppeteer" ๐ฆพ๐ค ๐๐ผ Thanks to Mitch Spano for this explanation of how to automate common post-deployment tasks in Salesforce, focusing on activati...
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How would you get a random sample of N records in Salesforce? You don't have Marketing Cloud so you cannot use SELECT TOP N ... ORDER BY newid() or use random Data Extensions. Some examples of when you might need a ra...
Read postThis is a second collection of cloud/Salesforce/development links and comments I've posted since August this year. Probably many have missed it because I had posted it on a weekend. I've added an index on this one. I...
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Cartoon from 2016: "We won't event need coders anymore..." It seems we keep going back to the same ideas every 8-10 years. ๐คฃ
Read postInteresting thoughts about the false dichotomy "Monoliths versus Microservices": these are just the 2 extremities of a large range of possibilities. Microservices are not to scale systems to thousands of users/transac...
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Did you know you were opted in automatically and without notice? ๐ฆพ๐ค
Read postHere is why some companies/IT departments don't scale and a lot of people is overloaded with work. As DHH explains: "Management... can't do anything by itself... only through other people. It is "hey, can you join thi...
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If only I could invert that sequence and get a dino from my little LLM app! ๐คฃ
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Interesting! Salesforce will no longer enforce the disabling of Ref ID in Winter'25 release. Now they just recommend the migration as a more secure threading than Ref ID. Now you should still migrate from RefID ASAP -...
Read postNuance Communications, a Microsoft company, recently announced the end-of-life of their services. If your organization needs help with migration, NeuraFlash is available to help with technical expertise.
Read postComo รฉ รฉpoca de DreamForce, aรญ vai um vรญdeo mostrando como falar igual ao Matthew McConaughey. ๐ค Alright, alright, alright! ๐ค โ๏ธ https://lnkd.in/gjqDRRdn
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These look like amazing movies! (Maidan on Prime, Srikanth on Netflix and Sarfira yet to come to my side of the world) The majority of my posts readership is from India and I appreciate that and their leadership in bo...
Read postToday I've checked a video from about 1 year ago and was surprised with the number of views: 1,7K Here is the video where I show how I've created the Salesforce Flow browser extension. https://lnkd.in/gCSkMjC8
Read postThink of the case records, their emails and attachments (if you have email-to-case).
Read postHeroku had a nice free tier to develop and test our web applications in Node, Ruby, Python with an optional PostgreSQL database but that free tier is gone. ๐ฅบ๐ข๐ญ๐ ๐ฐ Heroku now has hobby dynos for $7/month, but many...
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Darrell Gallegos has shared this recruitment offer he found for a "Technical Salesforce BA" which is inadvertently funny. It reminded me of B. A. Baracus of the A-Team (Mr. T in that 1980s TV series). ๐ช๐ผ๐โ๏ธ๐ง๐พโโ๏ธ๏ฟฝ...
Read post๐ฌ Eu me lembrei de uma reuniรฃo essa semana. Uma pessoa de outro paรญs parecia ร s vezes nรฃo estar entendendo o que o gerente do projeto estava falando, entรฃo eu pensei: serรก que essa pessoa estรก familiarizada com as ex...
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Technical debt: have you ever found a comment in code that goes like this? // TODO: ... something that you know was never done ... So... ๐ ๐๐ผ This cartoon thanks to Manu Cornet @ bonkersworld.net ๐๐ผ
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โ๏ธ Did you know? VisualForce still can be very useful! โ๏ธ ๐๐ผ Thanks to Raman Bazyleu for this video where he shows how to generate a Word document using VisualForce. ๐๏ธ ๐ LINK: https://lnkd.in/gqhjK6Af
Read postAll 4 best articles I could find about the JWT OAuth flow in and out of Salesforce ๐
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๐ Did you know about this Salesforce site: Platform Demos? ๐ It contains 2 great things: โก๏ธ quick, reproducible 3-minute demos for Salesforce products, solutions & features. ๐ hour-long hands-on workshops for Sales...
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Look who has implemented Commerce Cloud! Gum gum... ๐ดโโ ๏ธ๐ค๐ผ
Read postThis is a first collection of cloud/Salesforce/development links and comments I've posted since June this year. I had posted it on a weekend so probably many have missed it - republishing it now to make sure. I will r...
๐ Check out this success case: Arbonne obtained insights and 25% cost savings with Amazon Connect and NeuraFlash. ๐ My colleagues at NeuraFlash have implemented Amazon Connect for Arbonne and this contact center sol...
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๐ Look at this large collection of Apex challenges for you to practice! ๐ฅ ๐ ApexSandbox.IO ๐ Easy and free: just log with your Dev org, choose a problem and start coding! ๐๐ฝ Thanks to Mehdi Maujood for this grea...
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Earlier today I've found CatGPTail was covertly attempting to interface with the keyboard. I guess that is why the term "AI" is now being replaced with "Agent". While the GPTs out there are all about inference models,...
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๐ฐ Do you need to troubleshoot CPQ pricing logic? CPQ has many calculation stages - think of the trigger order of execution but more complex! โก๏ธ Here is a useful tool to handle that: CPQ - Pricing Logic Review ๐ ๐๐ฝ...
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๐ Check this out: MC Snippets, a tool and playground for Marketing Cloud devs! โจ They can test their AMPScript, SSJS and SQL snippets without having to login to MC! ๐๐ฝ Thanks to Pato Sapir โ๏ธ ! ๐๐ฝ ๐ LINK: https:...
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โ What do you use to compare profiles? There is Crazy Compare, a browser extension! ๐๐ฝ Thanks to Ajinkya Dhas โ๏ธ ! ๐๐ฝ You can compare two profiles and find the differences quickly. Then print or save as PDF. ๐ LI...
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๐ Did you know about this tool? Apex Log Analyzer ๐ It is a VSCode Extension for performance analysis of Salesforce debug logs. ๐๐ฝ Thanks to Luke Cotter at Certinia and a number of other contributors of this open...
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๐ Have you seen this Salesforce Labs package: Action Plans! ๐๏ธ ๐ It allows you to create templates of tasks, then assign objects so that those tasks will be created automatically. ๐ Thanks to David Schach for this...
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๐ Check this out: Ultra Enhanced Related List LWC! ๐ ๐๐ฝ Thanks to Matt Gerry for this powerful open source LWC! ๐๐ฝ This component has a number of great features: โก๏ธ mass updates โก๏ธ mass deletes โก๏ธ pagination โก๏ธ...
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I've seen clients suffering with an UI like this for decades. One of them had our help migrating to Salesforce last year. The last one I've seen was an app developed in the early 2000s, I think in C# or maybe even Vis...
Another edition of the zine with the cool stuff I've found about Salesforce development. Be sure to check out the "sponsor" in the last page! ๐
Read post65 data scientists/engineers were interviewed to determine what makes AI/ML projects fail: ๐๐ฝ industry stakeholders often misunderstand โ or miscommunicate โ what problem needs to be solved using AI. ๐๐ฝ the organi...
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๐งช๐ง How would you extract a substring from another string in a formula/flow? For example, let's say you have a JSON (you probably shouldn't have one but this is a contrived example) that you need to extract a certain...
Read postQuick summary of scenarios/recommendations for when you have to troubleshoot "Unable to lock row" errors.
Read postI've collected some of my past posts and made this goofy zine. ๐น Be sure to check the "sponsor" in the last page. ๐คฃ
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๐ค๐ฆ Interview Prep at Tech Dev Guide, by Google This site offers interview tips, preparation tips and coding questions in 4 languages: Java, C++, Python, Javascript ๐ Check it out: https://lnkd.in/g8VsYsCx!
Read post๐ Have you seen this site SalesforceTroop.com ? ๐ซก๐ช๐๏ธ It has interesting tools such as: ๐ ๏ธ LWC Form Builder: you add components and it builds the LWC template for you โ๏ธ LWC Layout Builder: it builds the LWC templ...
Read postThis will be very interesting: a new series "Sandbox Sessions" by Peter Chittum and Paul Battisson, on September 12th.
Read post๐ This article - ๐๐ฝ thanks to Michaรซl B. ๐๐ฝ - explains why you should get rid of system.debug() statements and why. ๐ Why: you can use the Apex Replay Debugger in VSCode instead. How: use VsCode SFDX Hardis. It...
Read postSCENARIO: ๐ Suppose you're working on a Salesforce trigger - let's say on Case - and in it you create and insert a Note record related to the case. After testing and verifying that the Case trigger is working properl...
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For those who are trying to improve their career, Google has released a "Interview Warmup" page to practice a few questions and train for your interview. It can offer 5+ interview questions on each of these subjects:...
Read postWhen your Automated Process User is "System", how do you enable debug logging to troubleshoot Email-to-Case? Here is a solution using the Tooling API to enable debug logging.
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๐ซ๐๐โ๏ธ Dive Deep into MuleSoft Integrations with Guided Labs โ๏ธ๐๐๐ซ If you're looking to master MuleSoft integrations, the MuleSoft Codelabs repository is your ultimate resource. This collection of guided labs off...
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๐ The "Flow Logger - Debugging Tool" ๐ Looking for an easy way to log from a flow? Check out the "Flow Logger - Debugging Tool" by Wouter DUPRE. This handy app is perfect for: โก๏ธ Debugging: Trace whether a flow has...
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๐ Introducing NebulaLogger: the Ultimate Salesforce Logging Solution ๐ Meet NebulaLogger, the most robust logger for Salesforce that facilitates logging with Apex, Lightning Components, Flow, Process Builder, and In...
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๐ Powerful Automation with the Mass Action Scheduler! ๐ Ever wished you could easily schedule Process Builder, Flows, Quick Actions, Email Alerts, Workflow Rules, or Apex? Look no further than the Mass Action Schedu...
๐๐ซ Are your Salesforce Flows hitting the 2000-iteration limit(*)? ๐ซ๐ (*) only applicable to flows in API versions 56 and earlier Farah Sherif Ghanem points out a reason to use Invocable Apex from Flows in her arti...
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Have you ever used a machine like this? ๐ The other day I saw comments joking about using outdated apps such as Skype, ICQ and mIRC so it got me thinking: what predated all of those instant messaging apps? Not counti...
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Did you know you can call an Invocable Apex method directly from Apex? ๐ Why does this matter? Enhancing code reusability (modularity) and dynamically invoking different actions at runtime based on conditions (flexib...
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๐ก Implementing LWC from Quick Action in Salesforce I found an article that offers straightforward steps to create a Lightning Web Component (LWC) that is callable from a quick action in Salesforce. Published by HIC G...
๐ก Interesting Approach to Complex Validations in Salesforce ๐จ NOTE: that technique is no longer needed. Please see an updated and very elegant approach at the bottom. ๐จ I came across an article by Yumi Ibrahimzade...
๐ Thinking about the B2C Solution Architect certification? I initially tried it in beta (in 2021) and havenโt retried yet. This insightful article by Martin Humpolec explains some of the challenges and preparation st...
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๐ก Check Out IaSQL: AWS Infrastructure as Data in PostgreSQL I recently came across IaSQL, an interesting tool that connects your AWS account with a PostgreSQL database. I've implemented something similar before but b...
๐ Check out this SF9to5 article by Yelena Slobard : Considerations for Privacy and OWD ๐ In her article she shares a few pitfalls and recommendations that can save you headaches: Private OWD + Sharing Rules Sharing...
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๐ Check out Philippe Ozil's insightful blog post on breaking runtime dependencies using dynamic dependency injection in Apex. Discover how this approach can help you: ๐น Manage dependencies effectively ๐น Enhance fle...
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๐ Thought-Provoking Read on Developer Productivity I recently came across Beyang Liu's article on the challenges of achieving deep focus in our era of constant interruptions. Liu questions current productivity metric...
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๐ The Full Range of Salesforce Sharing ๐ Check out this insightful article by Ashish Agarwal, which lists 22 Ways to Share Records in #Salesforce. You can use this as a quick reference guide to determine the most ap...
Do you agree that this happens more often than one would expect? ๐ #Salesforce #flow #LWC #apex
The linked ForceTrails article by Rahul Gawale is about another example of hierarchical view in LWC. This time it uses the lightning-tree-grid component and loads data dynamically, only when needed as the user clicks...
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Reviewing my bookmarks I've found this interesting site containing example code: Dynamic Tree Structure LWC, created by Lakshay Katney. It contains sample code that shows how the lightning-tree LWC can be used. The Ap...
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Stumbled upon this gem of a class name today: โStupidTestsโ with a method โstupidTestOfThingsIShouldNotHaveToTestโ ๐ง Check out the ancient API version too! Created back in 2011 and still going strong without a single...
Although it might reveal a different concern than data higiene, another query I would suggest - mostly for old Salesforce orgs with email-to-case - is: SELECT FromAddress, COUNT( Id ) FROM EmailMessage GROUP BY FromAd...
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Yesterday I've tried to open an article I had bookmarked years earlier. The article was about LWC and Mulesoft and the bookmark was pointing to sfdcpanther.com However, it was taking me to a Telegram page about Crypto...
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I have updated the Salesforce Flow Extension: now in version 1.1.5 In this version I added a download button for a Markdown table with a list of flow elements. There was a glitch that omitted formulas and it has now b...
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I have updated the Salesforce Flow Extension: now in version 1.1.5 In this version I added a download button for a Markdown table with a list of flow elements. There was a glitch that omitted formulas and it has now b...
Read postMaciej Poฤwierz got a huge bill from AWS because of a *private* S3 bucket. AWS charges you for unauthorized requests and redirects. Avoid using short and common names for your S3 buckets and add a random string to the...
Read postWhat do you think? I am interested in learning more about RLM.
Read postAmazing idea from Krishna Teja: a browser extension that implements something similar to GitHub Copilot but for the Salesforce Developer Console! I am looking forward to this!
Read postAmazing idea from Krishna Teja: a browser extension that implements something similar to GitHub Copilot but for the Salesforce Developer Console! I am looking forward to this!
Read postThis is such a brilliant idea! ๐กโจ Arindam wanted to override the New button with a modal LWC but that cannot be done directly. So he hid the standard button and created a new one to pass a URL parameter and then adde...
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Someone asked today: "What would happen if Pinocchio said 'My nose is about to grow right now'?" So I've asked my custom GPT Giggle Generator and it gave this initial answer: "It's like Schrรถdinger's Nose! Pinocchio's...
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Playing with the "Photo to Cartoon" GPT I published at https://lnkd.in/gkKZrG6w It doesn't get it quite right but the results are fun to see ๐ "Where Waldo at Dreamforce --ar 16:9"
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Great dive into this topic of Test Data with CumulusCI/Snowfakery!
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Just noticed in my feed that Spiff (Acquired by Salesforce) will be acquired by #Salesforce and become part of Sales cloud sometime between 2024 and 2025. One of their features is Spiff Designer: in a nutshell, a high...
All sorts of SQL wizardry here! ๐
Read postThis new XTTS from Coqui AI allows anyone to fake any voice. I've ran a Python notebook in Google Collab that served a Gradio page where I uploaded 6 minutes of a guy impersonating Morgan Freeman narrating The Mandalo...
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Last night I've uploaded a new version of the Salesforce Flow Extension and Google has published it this morning. It now has: * a new purple button to display a summary of what the flow is doing * the flow definition...
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EDIT: It all started with me looking at my weekly Google Calendar and seeing it all occupied with meetings. That reminded me of the pipes in Flappy Bird and that the bird wouldn't be able to cross the calendar with so...
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I've created another browser extension, this time for #AWS #Amazon #Connect contact flow developers. This extension will parse the #AmazonConnect #flow and build a table and a diagram with all its elements. The diagra...
This is crazy: there is a market to get fake stars on a GitHub repo. There is a market for other sites such as ProductHunt, Kaggle, etc. All this to get "popularity" and job offers. https://lnkd.in/gjKETwB6
Read postI saw a post commenting how enjoyable is the #Slack huddle "elevator" music - I think it was a meme of John Cena dancing to it but can no longer find that one. So then I've found this 1-hour remix. ๐
Tesla's API has a "bioweapon mode". ๐ Not being a Tesla owner, I was curious to check and this mode turns on an additional HEPA filter and increases the fan speed to lightly pressurize the cabin and keep pollution out.
Read postThat reminded me of CSVbase.com and this article where the author says his favorite API is a public zipfile on the ECB website: https://csvbase.com/blog/5 https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:711530246...
Read postI am not sure who in my network might use this, but since it is available for me to share, Iโd like to share this free 2-month trial of LinkedIn Premium Career. Premium gives access to insights, search tools, and dire...
Read postA few months ago I've created in my spare time this small demo of a quick integration pulling data from TicketMaster and displaying it in #Salesforce. (no sound) I've created a plain Apex class to do the API calls and...
Recomendo os cursos do RocketSeat. Jรก testemunhei um caso de um rapaz que no Brasil que foi contratado por uma empresa na Franรงa por causa do curso. O link abaixo รฉ para um curso gratuito deles: Next Level Week. https...
Read postThis is great, not just for Business Analysts! Be sure to check the resource Amanda Perkins mentioned at the end (I will post the URL in the comment).
Read postEsse vรญdeo do Fabio Akita me faz lembrar de uma vez que um cliente pediu que eu consertasse um trigger na org dele e quando fui ver acabei usando trigonometria. Eu consertei o bug e depois observei que o cliente manti...
Read postYesterday I've mentioned the current challenge with LLMs/GPT to ensure accurate answers. Today I've found this: ChatGPT gave a terrible answer to the question "What role did Brian Hood have in the Securency bribery sa...
Read postThe current challenge with LLMs/GPT to ensure accurate answers. https://lnkd.in/gXycTDMd
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Mohith Shrivastava and Daniel Ballinger have shared the slides from the #TDX23 session "Apex Patterns and Best Practices in 2023" Lots of good stuff in it: AccessLevel, queryWithBinds, Crypto, Platform Cache, Platform...
Meta's recently released language model LLaMA, similar to ChatGPT, has been leaked and now this "shawwn/llama-dl" GitHub repository has instructions on how to download the 65B model weights (220 Gb total). You can ren...
Read postKnowing how the Update Records element uses up key limits will make you a better Flow builder. Check out the details below. And let me know if you have any questions.
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Ok, who did that? ๐
Read postI've worked on a client's #Salesforce org where the Case object had 10s of picklists. I've ran queries on their case records and, out of thousands, only very few records had values in those picklists. Those picklists...
Great recommendation from Krishna Teja! It makes it easier to read and maintain and serves as documentation. Formula fields, validation rules, flow formulas, ...
Read postI've once copied a transcription from an #interview on YouTube - it was about a new set of features in #Salesforce. I pasted it into ChatGPT and asked to summarize it. It mentioned a feature so extraordinary that I ha...
David K. Liu is offering his 10 hour beginner Salesforce coding course for free this week.
Read postPlease learn about guard clauses! One of the reasons is that that pyramid of nested IFs growing to the right side of the screen is harder to read and understand the logic when troubleshooting. Guard clauses are much m...
Lucas Cummins reminded me of this site and said "More people need to know about this". I absolutely agree: Formulon.io It is a great tool created by Leif Gensert to test your new #Salesforce Formulas. Instead of writi...
In a thread, Simon Willison asked: how do you start exploring and analyzing a CSV with 100k rows? My own answer before reading that thread was to load the CSV in Snowflake, import into a table and run queries on it. N...
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Tips on how to #debug #Javascript and #Salesforce #LWC #Lightning Web Components, given by sir Smudge
Important point.
Read postI've found an inconvenient limitation on dynamic forms: if your record page has tabs, you can't use dynamic forms in one tab while keeping the page layout on the main tab. The scenario in which I've attempted to use d...
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I've recently had to recreate some old flows for a client. The new flows are for a new object and the old ones had hardcoded ids. So the easiest way I could find was to download the flow metadata using VSCode and do a...
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In the 90s, a meeting between Steve Jobs and John Carmack, two of the most important figures in computer industry. Carmack is one of the most influential programmers in the history of video games, and a pioneer of 3D...
Read postI've found Lydia Hallie has 2 other great videos explaining website and #Javascript #performance: Web Performance Trivia - Lydia Hallie https://lnkd.in/gdvrE-pb Lydia Hallie: JavaScript Visualized: A Script's Life htt...
Look at this architectural diagram. It is interactive (hover and click) and it is amazing! Ilograph's site has other examples that are just as cool. https://lnkd.in/erXvyYzc
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My top 3 recommended sites to learn about #CI/CD, #Git and #GitHub One of them is so good that it is going to become a paid service next month so you better check it out soon!
Today I've found out the Texas attorney general office uses #Salesforce A lender - or the credit rating agency itself - had incorrectly associated a loan to my record so I was looking for a complaint form and found a...
Too cool! While logged in GitHub.com, on any repository, hit the . (dot) key. It also works if you switch the URL from github.com to github.dev
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Tooltip I've found in one #Salesforce org explaining what the Phone field means. ๐ Share
Debug your #Docker #Node.js app in #VSCode in 3 simple steps
Remember to test your numeric fields with negative numbers. Years ago, a big bookstore had a glitch on their online ordering page: you could order -1 books. If you ordered a negative number, the value of the book woul...
Read postCurso gratuito de C# ๐ฅ Faz algum tempo que eu acompanho os vรญdeos do Balta e posso confirmar que tem conteรบdo muito top!
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A small #GIT tutorial that is instructive and fun to look at. ๐ธ
Just wanted to get this quick article out and improve later: Data Integrations in Salesforce in simple terms
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RisingStack uses a native module to speed up its #NodeJs app. https://lnkd.in/eTyptrqR The module was written in #Rust to handle URL parsing faster. Make #Rust callable from #Node in just 3 steps: - declare function p...
Salesforce was going to release "Code Builder" (VS Code running on browser and fully integrated with SFDC) but they've postponed it last December. https://lnkd.in/eZb_uAYi
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#Salesforce Trailblazer Resources https://lnkd.in/dTb9Eg-g
#Salesforce may build an AI-powered code assistant for Apex developers! https://lnkd.in/eV3bC6MT
Very interesting article: https://lnkd.in/ep6f4nhS
Read postVery interesting article by Chris Dixon, entrepreneur and partner at a16z. https://lnkd.in/eCEJrSEd #technology #digitaltransformation
The ladder of inference, from the book "The Fifth Discipline" by Peter M. Senge
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Happy to have participated in this #Salesforce #success story! https://lnkd.in/ePbrbzi
It looks like the version 5 of #dotNet is amazingly faster: Reddit commenter: "... migrated an app from #dotnetcore 3.1 to 5 and initial tests seemed about 15%-20% faster with .NET 5" https://lnkd.in/e8gwGGP
How to bypass validation rules using custom permission - tip by Jordan Nelson (check out other videos in his channel). https://lnkd.in/eUt8ys3 I had published the article linked below (which is my most viewed article...
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Has anyone seen this kind of error "handling" in Apex? ๐น
Read postPretty good online #JSON editor: https://lnkd.in/eCQ_vvw
Nice #javascript article from Tapas Adhikary
Quick article! #salesforce #consulting #project
Nice solution!
Read postAmazing effort and results! The mother of all demo apps: the same app implemented in several versions each using different frontend and backend frameworks. You can mix and match React, Angular, etc on top of Node, Dja...
I've liked this interesting series of articles about #unittesting in #Salesforce #Apex and #patterns to increase speed and reusability. https://lnkd.in/eBCqTMx
New #salesforce feature Permission Set Groups will allow "job role"-based access rights (not having to do with the existing role hierarchy). Permission management will gradually replace profiles permissions in favor o...
Very interesting #podcast with an introduction to program synthesis, that is, automatic generation of programs from examples. The Flash Fill feature in Excel 2013+, for instance, is a program synthesis: you give it an...
When I was a 9-1-1 dispatcher, the holiday season meant a spike in calls. This time of year, while so joyous for some, is incredibly hard for others. Unexpected loss, depression, financial struggles, turbulence or vio...
Things I've noticed after using the new #apple #macbookpro 16" while being accustomed to a MBP of mid-2012: - obviously faster, has better keyboard and cooling (i7 still gets hot but cools off faster than what I've se...
Stories to tell around a #Salesforce #developers campfire :) #apex #lwc #development #troubleshooting #integration #boomi
https://lnkd.in/eKMR3C3 ...what skills will help (students) in a job setting... "get really good at spreadsheets." I remember people getting mind-blown when I've showed that one could name a #spreadsheet column "hours...
ODATA has existed since 2007, has been implemented by many vendors and has standardized filter, sorting and aggregation. This article lists many other advantages over the more recent competing APIs.
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How to debug Lightning components better ๐ธ #lightning #lwc #aura #javascript #salesforce
Great mnemonic for the Salesforce order of execution! Lion Visits Tiger (L - Load Record, V - Validation, T - Before Triggers) ...
Read postGreat collection of #AI #cheatsheets More at Asif Bhat's GitHub: https://lnkd.in/eJ9HWaq
What about using #Visualforce to generate #images, #charts with #SVG ? https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/using-visualforce-scalable-vector-graphics-fernando-mendes-fernandez/
I am thinking of posting an article about using #VisualForce to generate #SVG images containing donut #charts that, unlike the standard dashboards, can be placed virtually anywhere.
My "alma mater": UERJ. During graduation, I had the opportunity to participate in a science project where I created this #IFS #fractal: the word UERJ where each letter was made out of the word UERJ and successively. A...
Cheat Sheets for Keras, Numpy, Pandas, Scipy, MatPlotLib, SciKit Learn, GGPlot2, PySpark, RStudio and Jupyter Notebook https://lnkd.in/er__qtw
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An exercise with Decision Tree algorithms and visualizations to predict diabetes. You can check the #python code out on #kaggle and run it yourself: https://lnkd.in/eFxt6wy #ensemble #decisiontrees #adaboost #lightgbm
Article from the director of product management at #Salesforce #Einstein that draws a panorama of the current #MachineLearning options:
Interesting assessment tool and use case. https://lnkd.in/gHchkG8
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My 2nd #kaggle #jupyter notebook, this time running a linear regression model in #python: https://lnkd.in/e8GjxY5 If you fork and run it, you can click+hold to rotate the 3D plots with the mouse - pretty cool! :)
My first #Kaggle notebook. :) https://lnkd.in/gQ7rdDs It is amazing what you can do with just a few lines of #python.
Inspiring article by a friend I had the privilege of working with at the beginning of my career.
Read postThis is huge! :) https://lnkd.in/ebEQG2z
Read postI guess this is the video they mentioned in the Salesforce Einstein webinar about object detection - pretty good! https://lnkd.in/gK2fYNh
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Read postRogerio, this map describes the equivalent services between AWS and Azure. Remember when we talked about this? https://lnkd.in/eMnz38f
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Experimenting with Salesforce Einstein: It is kind of interesting that when submitting my LinkedIn thumbnail photo to Einstein's general image classifier, it points out that the image has about 92% chance of containin...
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Read postA fake recruiter tried to connect with me today using a fake profile with someone else's picture (Google Images helps a lot and the linked article below mentions TinEye.com). I've reported it to LinkedIn and let the v...
Read postPretty good presentation about some Python tricks.
Read postPresentation about Deep Learning and Convolutional Neural Networks
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