John De Santiago

Coppell, TX
May
15

Using JQuery with Visualforce Pages

Lately I have been working to improve our user interfaces for areas of the application that we have customized heavily,
3 min read
Feb
24

My Experience with integrating large datasets with Salesforce.com

Integrating large data sets with Salesforce.com has always been a challenge that often requires a lot of trial and
4 min read
Feb
22

Guarding Against Null Reference Errors in Apex Code

The joy of debugging and troubleshooting a null-reference error is enough to make you want to toss your notebook (or
3 min read
Dec
04

Dreamforce 2010

It's conference time! Sunday morning I am heading out to the Dreamforce conference. Looking forward to the event.
1 min read
Nov
17

Salesforce Custom Labels

Custom labels can be a powerful ally for your code. I have only recently started incorporating them into my code
3 min read
Nov
15

Unit Test Callouts in Apex Code - Part 2

I recently wrote about a technique for using a singleton pattern to create a unit test class that could pass
1 min read
Oct
14

A better way to Unit Test Callouts in Apex Code

> Update: In this article I describe using a singleton class to set a property that can be checked by
5 min read
Sep
27

Unit Testing: Don't forget about custom settings

I ran in to a nightmare of an issue with custom settings. I had created my custom settings objects and
1 min read
Sep
23

Visualforce PDF Repeating Headers and Footers

> Updated 04-21-2013: Article modified to point download link to GitHub repository. Format was cleaned up to match new site
3 min read
Sep
21

Managing Web Service Settings in Salesforce

I have tried a couple of different ways to manage configuration settings for web services that I have integrated with
2 min read