Apex Code Working with Apex Code Maps Maps are a critical data type to get to know when developing on the Force.com platform. You can use them in a lot of creative ways to make your code more readable,
Apex Code Friends don't let Friends Troubleshoot Alone I recently had the opportunity to help a buddy of mine troubleshoot an issue that concerned Salesforce.com account shares. The error showed up on the developer message boards from years past but
Apex Code Multi-currency Support for Rollups I recently came across a requirement to support multi-currency for a rollup trigger where the parent object and child object each maintained their own currencies. The objects where not part of a master-detail
Apex Code Trigger Best Practices Part 2 - Unit Testing It is worth mentioning that in most other development environments there isn't anything enforcing the use of unit testing other than internal policies or personal preference. However, Salesforce requires unit testing before code
Apex Code Enabling Custom Paging using Apex and Visualforce It’s a common request these days for me - which is the need to not only provide column level sorting but paging as well. While, a reusable sorting class is still a
Apex Code Cool tools @ Dreamforce – New IDE’s!! Guest Post by Mike Eaton If there was anything I could honestly say I truly missed from my days of building Microsoft solutions, it was Visual Studio. From the early days of annoying
Apex Code Create your own History Related List in Visualforce The story starts with getting a requirement to customize the detail view of an existing page. Nothing really extreme just need to be able to display a few sections dynamically based on information
Apex Code Bug: StandardController addFields Method I recently came upon a bug when attempting to implement the new addFields method on an Apex Standard Controller class. The purpose of the add fields method is to allow a developer to
Apex Code Salesforce Custom Labels Custom labels can be a powerful ally for your code. I have only recently started incorporating them into my code as a best practice. When custom labels were first released they provided a