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The Summer ’13 release brought an interesting new feature in the area of identity management – Multi-Provider Single Sign-On. The general principle being (to my initial reading of the release notes) that a single Salesforce org can perform federated authentication to multiple identity providers. Useful indeed where SSO is desirable but the Salesforce implementation spans […]
Understanding how the Salesforce Query Optimiser (SQO) works is fundamental to delivering performance at the data layer. Good practice in this regard, as part of an optimised physical data model implementation, is key to delivering efficient data access at the application layer. In short, certain fields are indexed by default, custom indexes can be added […]
This post outlines my preferred approach to managing parallel developments on the Salesforce platform in what I refer to as the Converged Programme Model. I readily acknowledge that there’s a multitude of ways to accomplish this each with it’s own subjective merits. Before adopting a parallel work-stream model take the time to understand the technical […]
Quick post highlighting some Summer ’13 goodness for metadata deployment. 1. Abort a running deployment – This is a massive improvement enabling failed or inadvertent deployments to be cancelled whilst in progress. Anyone working on large deployments will bear witness how frustrating it can be to watch a 30 minute deployment run to completion with […]
The Summer ’13 release notes are now available, find below a brief introduction to 10 Force.com highlights (in no order of significance). 1. New Setup interface. Clean new interface for the Setup area, with a top-level “Setup” link in the header region. Administration and Personal settings are now separate, the latter is accessed from a […]
My first post on this blog back in March 2012 related to Simulated Breakpoints, a developer console feature enabling a head dump to be captured when code execution hit a specified line(s) of Apex script. Whilst not comparable to the power of breakpoints in debugging with other languages, Simulated Breakpoints was a definitely step forward […]
In the first of a series of short posts looking at interesting aspects of the forthcoming Summer 13 release, this posts explores a new capability to add custom publisher actions to the Chatter UI. In the screenshot below we see the end-result, i.e. a custom publisher action “Create Account” and the UI displayed when invoked. […]
On occasion when deploying components between orgs you may encounter a database-level category of deployment error, bubbling up from the underlying Oracle RDBMS with limited information to support any diagnostic process. The example below is one such case I’ve seen in practice recently. Most concerning about this type of error is that the deployment appears […]
Experienced Salesforce technical architects will always look to declarative solution options before considering technical alternatives. This type of thinking is best practice and indicative of an architect considerate of TCO (total cost of ownership), future maintenance etc.. In my case I’ll go as far as to challenge requirements such that I can deliver a fit […]
I think it’s fair to say that consideration of reporting and analytics is not traditionally a technical architect’s direct concern. In the Salesforce context I always challenge this presumption and promote the idea that a project architect should absolutely be looking at the high-level analytical requirements during the foundation stage of the project. Why you […]
