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With September upon us and Dreamforce 2015 on the near horizon it’s time to dispel thoughts of sunshine and holidays and get focused on the upcoming Winter release. Whilst it’s undoubtedly depressing to be reading the word Winter in early September, there’s plenty in the new release to raise the spirits. It’s also clear that […]
This first video post provides a brief introduction to scripted Salesforce deployment with the Force.com Migration Tool and Ant.
Once again a new release is almost upon us – this time it’s Summer ’15 with its suitably summery ice cream van logo. The rollout starts on May 8th for sandbox instances, followed by NA production instances on May 22nd. EU instances will be upgraded on June 13th. If you can’t wait until then, Summer […]
With Christmas a distant memory (well almost) it’s time to turn our attention to the next big event on the calendar, and no not New Year, I mean the Spring ’15 release of course. The key dates for the Spring ’15 release are outlined here, the detailed rollout schedule can be found in the usual […]
Environment Hub was announced back in August 2012 and was initially made available as a Pilot feature of the Winter ’13 release. This post follows up (some 2 years later) on my initial interest in understanding the utility Environment Hub delivers in the context of environment/user management. Environment Hub – What is it? In simple […]
Once again the annual Dreamforce event has been and gone leaving most practitioners with an uncomfortable knowledge deficit in terms of the real detail of the wealth of new innovations announced. This autumn period, post-Dreamforce, is often a time for investigation; piecing together information gathered from press releases, blog post, social media and event session […]
This post provides some general best practices in regard to Apex Unit Tests. This isn’t a definitive list by any means, as such I’ll update the content over time. Top 10 Best Practices (in no order) 1. TDD. Follow Test Driven Development practice wherever possible. There is no excuse for writing unit tests after the […]
The biggest area of risk on any Salesforce implementation project is the data model. In my view this assertion is beyond question. The object data structures and relationships underpin everything. Design mistakes made in the declarative configuration or indeed technical components such as errant Apex Triggers, poorly executed Visualforce pages etc. are typically isolated and […]
This post presents a basic model for the control of change within a Salesforce development process. Best practice suggests that all non-trivial projects should implement some degree of governance around environment change, i.e. Change Control. This is perhaps obvious, what isn’t necessarily obvious is how to achieve effective change control without introducing friction to the […]
Once again it’s official the summer is over and winter is approaching – Winter ’15 that is. Sporting a nice Eskimo logo, the new release rolls out across the sandbox instances imminently, with the main production pod upgrades occurring in mid October. The detailed rollout schedule can be found here and the all important Winter […]
