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105. Salesforce Inspector Reloaded Plugin | Thomas Prouvot May 27, 2024

Thomas Prouvot, who joins to share about Salesforce Inspector Reloaded, is the Salesforce Inspector Reloaded creator/maintainer and Senior Technical Consultant at Salesforce Main Points Links Video Teaser

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104. Salesforce & AI from the trenches | Robert Söesemann Apr 25, 2024

Robert Söesemann, who joins to share about Salesforce & AI from the trenches, is a Salesforce principle architect, and Salesforce MVP. Main Points Links Video Teaser

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103. Grow from the past and Blackthorn.io | Chris Federspiel Dec 19, 2023

Chris Federspiel, who joins to talk about Grow from the past and Blackthorn.io, is the founder of Blackthorn.io. Main Points Links Video Teaser The YouTube Video URL

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102. Sfdx-hardis | Nicolas Vuillamy Nov 20, 2023

Nicolas Vuillamy, who joins to talk about Sfdx-hardis, is an open-Sourcerer and CTO in Cloudity. Main Points Links Video Teaser The YouTube Video URL

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101. The Ops in Salesforce DevOps | Azlam Abdulsalam Oct 22, 2023

Azlam Abdulsalam, who joins to talk about The Ops in Salesforce DevOps, is A DevOps expert and OpenSource Project Flxbl main contributor. Main Points Links Video Teaser The YouTube Video URL

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100. DevOps is not the issue in Salesforce | Ramzi Akremi Sep 18, 2023

Ramzi Akremi is a senior Salesforce technologist, Modular Salesforce Evangelist, who applies software engineering to Salesforce & DevOps. Main Points Links Video Teaser The YouTube Video URL

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99. FormulaShare App | Lawrence Newcombe Aug 17, 2023

Lawrence Newcombe, who joins to talk about his app FormulaShare, is the Lead Technical Architect at Giveclarity.org and Salesforce CTA. Main Points Links Video Teaser The YouTube Video URL

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98. Nebula Logger Open Source | Jonathan Gillespie Jul 18, 2023

Jonathan Gillespie, who joins to talk about his Nebula Logger open-source project, is a Lead Software Engineer at Salesforce. Main Points Links Video Teaser The YouTube Video URL

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97. SSO in Salesforce | Lawrence Newcombe Oct 26, 2022

Lawrence Newcombe, who joins to talk about SSO in Salesforce, is the Lead Technical Architect at Giveclarity.org and Salesforce CTA. Main Points What is SSO The role of Salesforce in SSO The Salesforce certificate that covers the SSO topic Lawrence’s blog to share his Salesforce knowledge SAML SSO OpenID SSO Debug SSO Links Lawrence’s LinkedIn Lawrence’s Twitter Lawrence’s blog Blog: Service Provider initiated SSO Blog: OpenID Connect Video Teaser The YouTube Video URL

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96. Neo-Vim and CLI setup for Salesforce Development | Suraj Pillai Aug 25, 2022

Suraj Pillai, who joins to talk about Neo-Vim and CLI setup for Salesforce development, is a Salesforce Architect and Senior Developer at Vertex Computer Systems. This Episode is a ScreenCast The YouTube URL Links Suraj’s LinkedIn Suraj’s Twitter Suraj’s dotfiles Fzf fussy search Xi’s vlog video

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95. Salesforce Flow | Jeffrey Kranz May 18, 2022

Jeffrey Kranz, who joins to talk about Salesforce Flow, is a Product Manager at Riskonnect. Main Points The mindset of “building for flows” v.s. “Building with flows” Flow is the future The cool features of flows How to debug and test flows The fast evolvement of the flow Flow features: Apex-Defined Data Types, External Services, Custom Property Editors Links Jeff’s LinkedIn Video Teaser The YouTube Video URL

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94. Universal Mock | Suraj Pillai Apr 07, 2022

Suraj Pillai, who joins to talk about his open-source library Universal Mock, is a Salesforce Architect and Senior Developer at Vertex Computer Systems. Main Points What is mocking in test Salesforce Stub API Suraj’s universal mock open-source library Universal mock is a lightweight library The readability of Universal mock library Suraj’s Salesforce dev configuration in Vim Links Suraj’s LinkedIn Suraj’s Twitter Suraj’s Universal Mock open-source library Suraj’s dotfiles Fzf fussy search Vim fugitive git plugin Salesforce dev discord channel Video Teaser The YouTube Video URL

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93. Test Driven Development | James Simone Feb 24, 2022

James Simone, who joins to talk about Test Driven Development, is working at Salesforce. He was also in the show previously on #69 talking about DML Mocking for Apex Testing. Main Points Book: Test Driven Development By Example TDD Definition and its benefits How to learn and practice TDD Boundaries and Tests as documentation TDD for Salesforce developers Reading others’ code Mob programming Links James’ LinkedIn James’ Twitter Book: Test-Driven Development By Example Mob programming James’ other episode: DML Mocking for Apex Testing Video Teaser The YouTube Video URL

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92. Learning Rust Language | Scott Lee Dec 02, 2021

Scott Lee, who joins to talk about Rust Language, is CEO of Elega Corporation, Senior Salesforce Developer, Game Builder, and PluralSight Author. Main Points How did Scott start learning Rust Why is Rust fast How to learn Rust Is Rust a OO language Can Rust do things high-level languages do Expand knowledge and learn new languages Links Scott’s LinkedIn Scott’s Twitter Scott’s company site Scott’s PluralSight Author Profile Scott’s Steam Game – Kalling Kingdom Video Teaser The YouTube Video URL

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91. Diversify Your Skills | Scott Lee Nov 18, 2021

Scott Lee, who joins to talk about Diversify Your Skills, is CEO of Elega Corporation, Senior Salesforce Developer, Game Builder, and PluralSight Author. Main Points How did Scott get into coding at the beginning How did Scott learn Salesforce From learning python to creating the course for Python Spend time on your passion The steam game Scott is developing Salesforce developer future career Links Scott’s LinkedIn Scott’s Twitter Scott’s company site Scott’s PluralSight Author Profile Scott’s Steam Game – Kalling Kingdom Video Teaser The YouTube Video URL

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90. Trailhead Year One | Joshua Birk Nov 04, 2021

Joshua Birk, who joins to talk about Trailhead Year One, is a Senior Director, Developer evangelist, godfather of Trailhead, the host of the Salesforce Developer Podcast. Main Points What is Josh’s job in the Salesforce The story about the Medals tool Josh created The Learning Paths project that predated Trailhead Where did the name Trailhead come from When did Josh think the Trailhead project take off What is the future of the Trailhead Links Josh’s LinkedIn Josh’s Twitter The 100th episode (Trailhead Engineering with Jeff Douglas) in the Salesforce developer podcast Video Teaser The YouTube Video URL

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89. Object-Oriented Thinking | Aidan Harding Oct 21, 2021

Aidan Harding, who joins to talk about Object-Oriented Thinking, is a senior developer and Technology Director at Nebula Consulting Ltd. Main Points OO language in the 1990s SOLID principles Inheritance and composition Refactoring Talking about “reusing the code is not the reason to break things into objects” OO construction Related resources Links Aidan’s LinkedIn Aidan’s Twitter “Why every single element of SOLID is wrong” – Blog by Dan North “Semi-solid Principles” episode in the Two’s Complement Podcast Nebula Core – Apex Functional Programming episode Nebula Consulting Company that Aidan is working for

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88. Salesforce Quality Engineer | Julian Joseph Oct 09, 2021

Julian Joseph, who joins to talk about Salesforce Quality Engineer topic, is a Salesforce Quality Architect, Senior Salesforce QA. Julian has tremendous experience in Quality Engineering, Test Automation, and the DevOps area. Main Points Julian’s self-introduction What does Julian do in Salesforce What does the quality team do in Salesforce The importance of naming convention and quality mindset The balance between speed and quality Don’t ignore the customer experience Prioritize testing tasks Test automation Quality engineer role in the project Tools Links Julian’s LinkedIn Julian’s Twitter

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87. LWC for VisualForce Developers | Alba Rivas Jun 24, 2021

Alba Rivas, who joins to talk about LWC for VisualForce Developers, is the Lead Developer Advocate at Salesforce, former Salesforce MVP and dreamOlé organizer, 9x Certified. Main Points The resource collection on this topic (a sample app, 3 trailhead modules, and the webinar series in English & Spanish) How to leverage Low-code tools in LEX to replace Visualforce The benefits of using LWC comparing to VF The architecture of LWC v.s VisualForce Coding LWC vs coding VisualForce The future roadmap Links Alba’s Twitter Alba’s LinkedIn The blog post on this topic created by Alba

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86. User Interface API – Christian Menzinger Apr 29, 2021

Christian Menzinger, who joins to talk about User Interface API, is a self-employed Germany-based Salesforce developer, trainer, Salesforce MVP, Community leader. Main Points What is the User Interface API? What problem does it solve? How is it in use before and in LWC? Examples of usage scenarios and sample code Links Christian’s Twitter Christian’s LinkedIn User Interface API in general Explore the Salesforce APIs with a Postman Collection Wire Adapters and Functions for UI-API Presentation and sample project how to leverage User Interface API hooks in Lightning Web Components

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85. Einstein Analytics Dashboard | Carl Brundage Apr 08, 2021

Carl Brundage, who joins to talk about Einstein Analytics Dashboards, is a Salesforce CTA, 30 x certified, and Data & Analytics expert. Main points In this conversation, Carl talked about the differences between Salesforce built-in dashboards and Einstein Analytics Dashboards (recently renamed to Tableau CRM), the various phases of utilizing data, and how to implement a successful data analytics solution. Links Carl’s Twitter Carl’s LinkedIn Carl’s personal blog

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84. Look Outside of Salesforce | Leo Alves Jan 22, 2021

Leo Alves, who joins to talk about Look outside of Salesforce, is a Software engineer and Salesforce developer based on Australia. Main Points In this conversation, Leo talked about his non-IT background and how he entered Salesforce and gradually became a Salesforce developer. He also shared why he considers it important to learn IT skills outside of Salesforce. Links Leo’s Twitter Leo’s LinkedIn

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83. Domain-Driven Design | David Felkel Dec 18, 2020

David Felkel, who joins to talk about Domain-Driven Design, is a Munich based Salesforce developer, software engineer, scrum master. He is also on his freelancer journey. Main points What is Domain-Driven Design (DDD)? Ubiqitous language and its natural synergy with Salesforce Technical DDD in Salesforce – how is it limited? DDD and Apex – what can be used in Salesforce? How to learn DDD Links David’s LinkedIn Video Teaser The YouTube Video URL

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82. Working effectively with legacy code | Michael Feathers Dec 03, 2020

Michael Feathers is a well-recognized programmer in the IT industry, the author of the famous programming book Working Effectively with Legacy Code, and the founder of R7K Research & Conveyance. Michael talked about the content of his book, what is his definition of legacy code, how to work with legacy code, Why tests are important, etc. Links Michael’s Twitter Michael’s Blog Working Effectively with Legacy Code The deep synergy between testability and good design R7K Research & Conveyance Video Teaser The YouTube Video URL

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81. From Theater Arts to Developer Evangelist | Peter Chittum Nov 19, 2020

Peter Chittum is Senior Director, Developer Evangelist at Salesforce. Peter grows from Theater Arts and French education to Developer Evangelist and Manager at Salesforce. He also shared how the Salesforce front-end evolved, how to learn functional programming, imposter syndrome challenges, etc. Links Peter’s Twitter Peter’s LinkedIn Elixir programming language Video Teaser The YouTube Video URL

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80. Blending Business and Technical Insights | Tina Wilburn Nov 05, 2020

Tina Wilburn joins to talk about the Blending Business and Technical Insights topic. Tina is a Senior Program Architect at Salesforce, with 25 years in the software engineering and consulting space. She has an MBA as well as a Master’s Degree in Project Management and has worked as a Salesforce architect since 2014. In addition to 15 Salesforce certifications, Tina is an expert in enterprise architecture, integrations, AI, and business consulting. Main points Overview of Tina’s career: from mainframes to MBA, to Salesforce program architect What helps her to interface with executive leaders Tips for career success The journey to

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79. Salesforce Mobile Development | Gaurav Kheterpal Oct 22, 2020

Gaurav Kheterpal, who joins to talk about Salesforce Mobile Development, is the CTO at MTX Group, Salesforce MVP, 31x Salesforce & Google Certified Enterprise Architect, Pluralsight Author, and Einstein Champion. Main points What are the various mobile development methodologies in Salesforce? What are the trade-offs of each mobile development approach? When should I use or not use Salesforce1 mobile app? What are some of the key things to keep in mind while building a Salesforce mobile app? What does Salesforce Mobile SDK contain? How can one start learning Salesforce mobile development? Links Gaurav’s LinkedIn Gaurav’s Twitter Salesforce Mobile SDK Gaurav’s

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78. Adding the XY problem to Your Solutioning Toolbelt | James Hou Oct 08, 2020

James Hou is a developer and architect with 10 years of experience in the ecosystem. He focuses on solving complex problems in highly custom enterprise orgs and is currently a Senior Salesforce Consultant working at Google. In this episode, James talked about how to break down a problem with the concept of XY problem from three different angles — daily tasks that affect your end-users, daily tasks that affect your own workflow, and problems that affect entire teams. Links Jame’s LinkedIn Jame’s LWC-Utils open source repo SFXD Discord community Video Teaser YouTube Video URL

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77. Clean Coder and Professionalism | Robert C. Martin (Uncle Bob) Oct 01, 2020

Robert C. Martin (Uncle Bob) is the co-founder of cleancoders.com, author of several very popular books including clean code, public speaker, idol of many programmers. Uncle Bob joins to talk about clean coder, programming professionalism, the future of programming, lisp and Clojure, and the recommended reading books, etc. Links Clean Coder Uncle Bob’s personal blog Clean Coder site with programming videos The future of programming Uncle Bob recommended books Teaching videos for SICP book Video Video format of this episode on YouTube Video Teaser The YouTube Video URL

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76. Clean Code | Robert C. Martin (Uncle Bob) Sep 24, 2020

Robert C. Martin (Uncle Bob) is the co-founder of cleancoders.com, author of several very popular books including clean code, public speaker, idol of many programmers. Uncle Bob joins to talk about clean code, such as its definition, guiding principles, best practices, test coverage, TDD, etc. Links Clean Code Uncle Bob’s personal blog Clean Coder site with programming videos Video Video format of this episode on YouTube Video Teaser The YouTube Video URL

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75. Data migration and integration | David Masri Sep 17, 2020

David Masri is Salesforce Architect, Data Architect, 9x Salesforce Certified, Certified Google Data Engineer, Director of Professional Services at Plative. David joins to talk about the difference between Salesforce data migration and integration, their best practices, record locking issue among many other points from his book. Links David’s LinkedIn David’s book – Developing Data Migrations and Integrations with Salesforce – Patterns and Best Practices David’s personal blog David’s data locking article 1 David’s data locking article 2 Best Practices for Deployments with Large Data Volumes Managing Lookup Skew in Salesforce to Avoid Record Lock Exceptions The Salesforce Bulk API: Maximizing

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74. Consulting on an Existing Org | Brian Shea Sep 10, 2020

Brian Shea, who joins to talk about consulting on an existing org, is 8x Certified, Salesforce Architect at Shea Consulting LLC. Main Points Working in a brand new v.s. Old Salesforce environment Brian’s definition of legacy code Risk of working in an old environment Regression test Project scope Get familiar with the legacy code Communication on the existing issues House cleaning job – consultant or internal staff? Links Brian’s LinkedIn Shea Consulting LLC Video Teaser The YouTube Video URL

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73. Reusable Web Component | Matt Kaufman Sep 03, 2020

Matt Kaufman, who joins to talk about reusable web component, is 19x Certified, 3x Trailhead Ranger, Dreamforce Speaker, Book author, GDG Community Organizer, Chief Innovation Officer in MK Partners. Main Points Matt’s Salesforce journey Why are reusability and extensibility important when working with front-end code? Component-driven mindset The inputs of custom web components – @api and targetConfig Between component communication The new lightning message service Building our own reusable component repositories Sell components in AppExchange LWC, Aura, VisualForce components Links Matt’s LinkedIn Matt’s Twitter Matt’s Github The free Mambo Merge App in AppExchange Video Teaser The YouTube Video URL

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72. Functional Programming and Haskell | Mark Seemann Aug 27, 2020

Mark Seemann, who joins to talk about Functional Programming and Haskell, is a self-employed programmer and software architect, book author, PluralSight author, public conference speaker, Humane Code Video author in Cleancoders.com. Main points Why does Mark move from C# to F# and Haskell? What is a pure function? Why is pure function friendly? Why is Haskell suitable for learning Functional Programming? The importance of Immutability Dynamic v.s. Static typed functional programming languages Links Haskell language Mark’s Twitter Mark’s PluralSight courses Mark’s personal blog Mark’s Humane Code Videos Book – Dependency Injection Principles, Practices, and Patterns Video Teaser The YouTube Video

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71. SOLID Principles | Mark Seemann Aug 20, 2020

Mark Seemann, who joins to talk about SOLID principles, is a self-employed programmer and software architect, book author, PluralSight author, public conference speaker, Humane Code Video author in Cleancoders.com. Main points What coding problems does SOLID solve? Single Responsibility Principle (SRP) Open-Closed Principle (OCP) Liskov Substitution Principle (LSP) Interface Segregation Principle (ISP) Dependency Inversion Principle (DIP) Links Mark’s Twitter Mark’s SOLID course (PluralSight) Mark’s PluralSight courses Mark’s personal blog Mark’s Humane Code Videos Book – Dependency Injection Principles, Practices, and Patterns Video Teaser The YouTube Video URL

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70. Salesforce Integration Best Practices | Scott Lee Aug 13, 2020

Scott Lee, who joins to talk about Salesforce Integration Best Practices, is CEO of Elega Corporation, Senior Salesforce Developer, Game Builder, and PluralSight Author. Main Points Scott is a Pluralsight author producing Salesforce courses When shall we consider Salesforce integration? The options to integrate a large volume of data Discussion on Mulesoft and Heroku for Integration Various Salesforce APIs involved in the Salesforce Integration Links Scott’s LinkedIn Scott’s Twitter Scott’s company site Scott’s PluralSight Author Profile Video Teaser The YouTube Video URL

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69. DML Mocking for Apex Test | James Simone Aug 06, 2020

James Simone, who joins to talk about DML Mocking, is the lead Software Engineer at James Simone LLC. He is also a climber, runner, sourdough bread baker, oats enthusiast, and software developer. He’s the self-published author of the sci-fi / fantasy novel A Good Thing Never Stops. Main Points James’ the Joys of Apex blog series What is DML mocking? Is DML mocking important to implement? How to switch to using DML mocking? Is test speed also important for development? How DML mocking is created in a high-level picture? What challenges have James encountered when implementing the DML mocking lib?

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68. ApexLink – Salesforce offline package linker (2) | Kevin Jones Jul 30, 2020

Kevin Jones, who joins to talk about his open-source project ApexLink, is a Senior Architect in FinancialForce. Main Points How does ApexLink work? What is ApexAssist VSCode extension? Future roadmap for ApexLink and ApexAssist – the local execution Kevin’s daily work in FinancialForce Links Kevin’s Twitter Kevin’s personal blog ApexLink Github Repo ApexAssist VSCode extension Video Teaser The YouTube Video URL

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67. ApexLink – Salesforce offline package linker (1) | Kevin Jones Jul 23, 2020

Kevin Jones, who joins to talk about his open-source project ApexLink, is a Senior Architect in FinancialForce. Main Points Kevin’s self-introduction What is ApexLink, Kevin’s open source project? Is ApexLink similar to the PMD? Is ApexLink similar to the Illuminated Cloud? Why does Kevin use Scala language to create ApexLink? How does ApexLink work? Links Kevin’s Twitter Kevin’s personal blog ApexLink Github Repo ApexAssist VSCode extension Video Teaser The YouTube Video URL

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66. Cloud Specialized Developer Career Path | Buyan Thyagarajan Jul 16, 2020

Buyan Thyagarajan, who joins to talk about Cloud Specialized Developer Career Path, is Salesforce MVP, specializing in Higher Education and Manufacturing. He is passionate about helping people start a Salesforce career. Main points Buyan’s self-introduction Buyan’s career advice to all developers Buyan uses EDA/HEDA education cloud as an example Buyan uses manufacturing cloud as an example Why should Salesforce developers know the business side? Buyan uses the non-profit cloud as an example Links Buyan’s Twitter Buyan’s LinkedIn Buyan’s personal blog EDA Manufacturing cloud Non-profit cloud Video Teaser The YouTube Video URL

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65. Future of Development on Salesforce 360 Platform | Abhinav Gupta Jul 09, 2020

Abhinav Gupta, who joins to talk about Future of Development on Salesforce 360 Platform, is a Salesforce Architect and Salesforce MVP, the Founder of Concretio Apps Company. Main Points Abhinav’s self-introduction The first-ever Virtual Dreamin’ event Discuss the Salesforce platform megatrend – low code The growing Salesforce marketplace for declarative tools, such as flows Salesforce customer 360 platform – more new Salesforce clouds are launching Discussion on the developer’s career path How do developers learn declarative tools? Developer’s business mindset Code v.s. Low code balance challenge Links Abhinav’s Twitter Concretio Apps company site Flow solutions section in AppExchange Marketplace Keir

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64. Salesforce Dependency API | Vladimir Gerasimov Jul 02, 2020

Vladimir Gerasimov, who joins to talk about the Salesforce Dependency API, is the Director of Product Management at Salesforce. Main Points Vladimir’s self-introduction Salesforce Dependency API is already in Open Beta as of the recording What is the Dependency API and what is the “where is it used” button? What meta-data types are supported in the Dependency API? How to use and query the dependency API? The open-source Dependencies-CLI plugin repository The dependency API Future roadmap Links Vladimir’s Twitter Dependency API Meta-data coverage report Learn MOAR – Dependency API SFDX Dependencies-cli plugin Vladimir’s Dependency API Webinar Video Teaser on Salesforce

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63. From Non-tech to Salesforce Architect | Susannah St-Germain Jun 25, 2020

Susannah St-Germain, who joins to talk about becoming a Salesforce Architect without IT background, is a Salesforce MVP, Salesforce Architect, 20 x certified, BostonSFDC Co-Lead, and RADWomenCode Coach. Sponsors: Main Points Susannah’s self-introduction, her role in the company and the CTA exam journey Why and how did Susannah slowly transition from the music to the IT field? How did Susannah make the switch from the admin role to the developer role? What is the right mindset to shift to a Salesforce technical role? Susannah also shares her experience on this point. How did Susannah change to a Salesforce technical architecture

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62. CumulusCI Portable Automation| Jason Lantz Jun 18, 2020

Jason Lantz, who joins to talk about CumulusCI – A Salesforce automation tool, is the Sr. Director, Release Engineering at Salesforce.org. Main Points Jason’s self-introduction Jason talks about what is CumulusCI What is the configuration layer in CumulusCI? The other three layers: key-chain, task, and flow layers How to understand CumulusCI from a beginner point of view? Does CumulusCI work for enterprise developers with repositories other than Github? Links Jason’s Twitter CumulusCI Github Repo CumulusCI document CumulusCI Trailhead Modules Video Teaser on CumulusCI The YouTube Video URL

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61. All About Apex Language(2) | Chris Peterson Jun 11, 2020

Chris Peterson, who joins to talk about Apex language, is the Director of Product Management for Apex in Salesforce. Sponsors Main Points Is the Apex team currently working on the language expressiveness? Is it a good idea that Salesforce supports some good open-source libraries in the ecosystem? Is it valuable to build an Apex package management tool like npm for javascript? Shall Apex add features to distinguish various types of Apex tests, such as unit test, integration test, large volume data test, bulkification test, etc.? Apex team’s working effort to have better meta-data coverage Chris’ tips on writing good Apex

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60. All About Apex Language(1) | Chris Peterson Jun 04, 2020

Chris Peterson, who joins to talk about Apex language, is the Director of Product Management for Apex in Salesforce. Main Points What is the responsibility of Chris’ team? How does Chris and the team collect working items? Is the idea exchange a good channel for developers to submit wishes? How does the team implement, test, rollback new features? The internal hammer tool We talk about the story before and after the new Apex compiler, and what new features the new compiler brings to developers. What is the language server and how does it support LWC and Apex? Is a local

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59. Salesforce Analytics | David Dixon May 28, 2020

David Dixon, who joins to talk about the world of Salesforce Analytics, is Director of Analytics at Atrium.ai. David has 20 years of experience with every aspect of data, from database administration to data migration, integration, and analytics including Einstein AI. Main Points What’s new in the analytics and AI space on Salesforce these days? How does Einstein Analytics fit together with Tableau? What are the basic skills you’ll need to get started with AI and data science? What can we expect for the future of analytics on Salesforce? Links David’s LinkedIn Profile Atrium.ai David’s Dreamforce Session on Tips and Tricks

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58. Create AppExchange Solution From True Zero | Pat McClellan May 21, 2020

Pat McClellan, who joins to talk about AppExchange Solution, is a 4x Salesforce Certified Salesforce Developer, 2x Dreamforce Speaker, Lightning Champion, author of Proton Text App. Main Points Pat’s self-introduction and brief journey of creating the Proton Text App Why did Pat change his career path and now have a good motivation to be a Salesforce developer? Pat goes through the technical design and how the app was built 3 typical use cases that Salesforce users use text messages on the platform The text messaging app competition on AppExchange How did Pat collect requirements? How big revenue does Pat have

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57. Prepare for Salesforce CTA | Kid Jansen May 14, 2020

Kid Jansen, who joins to talk about how to prepare for Salesforce CTA, is 20x certified, Technical Architect, PluralSight Author, and active community contributor. Main Points Kid’s self-introduction Kid’s video presentation – Salesforce certifications What are CTA prerequisites in terms of certifications? When shall people start to prepare for CTA when prerequisites are done? What are the differences between growing into architect from admin, consultant or developer? The difference among types of working companies: small or big; consulting, ISV or customer. The process and the content of the CTA exam Once I decided to start, what are the tools to

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56. Surviving As a Remote Tech Employee | Gloria Ramchandani May 07, 2020

Gloria Ramchandani, who joins to talk about Surviving As a Remote Tech Employee, is Atlanta WIT UG Leader, Dreamforce Speaker, Product Manager at Copado. Main Points How long has Gloria been remote working for? Is there a difference between remote working and pandemic lockdown? How to keep working routines? Gloria’s tip to have kids involved in the working time The importance of physical boundaries The challenge of working overtime The importance of small breaks How to keep and maintain the working energy? The requirements for hardware devices The social desire in remote working How does a company maintain the culture?

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55. Unit Of Work Design Pattern | John Daniel Apr 30, 2020

John Daniel, who joins to talk about Unit Of Work, is a Salesforce MVP, Technical Architecture, Open-source active contributor. John was on show #13, talked about Monolithic to Modular. Main Points John’s self-introduction The definition of UoW How does UoW handle DMLs in a transaction? What would happen if the DMLs in UoW fail partially? How does UoW make the code cleaner and more business-oriented? What to do when we find bugs when using the open-source libraries? What is the benefit to convince the team to use Apex Common library where UoW is included? Are there situations where multiple UoW

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54. All About Trigger Framework | Adam Olshansky Apr 23, 2020

Adam Olshansky, who joins to talk about trigger framework, is Salesforce MVP, Salesforce Engineer at Google, 14X Certified and Pluralsight Author. Main Points Adam’s self-introduction Adam’s Apex hours session – trigger framework Why do we need a trigger framework? How do we choose a suitable trigger framework? Why would we choose a sophisticated object-oriented complex trigger framework? Difference between teams working in one single org and teams from consulting firms in terms of choosing a trigger framework The feature that helps avoid recursion The importance of communication between admins and developers Create your own tailored trigger framework Using custom metadata

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53. Declarative For Salesforce Developers | Fabrice Cathala Apr 16, 2020

Fabrice Cathala joins to talk about declarative for Salesforce developers. Fabrice is a Salesforce MVP, SF Dev Group leader, SaaS evangelist. Main Points Fabrice’s self-introduction Two types of solutions in Salesforces – enterprise solution and ISV managed package Using declaratives in managed packages Take into consideration that the platform is all the time evolving when building a solution Design a solution with declarative or coding Links Fabrice’s Twitter Fabrice’s LinkedIn Video Teaser The YouTube Video URL

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52. Apex Parallel Unit Testing | Daniel Ballinger Apr 09, 2020

Daniel Ballinger joins to talk about his Parallel Unit Testing diagnosing story. Daniel is a Salesforce MVP, Senior Salesforce and .NET Developer and the author of tool SFDC Explorer. Main Points What is parallel unit testing? What is the default running mode in the Salesforce Platform? The troubleshooting story Daniel is telling about the parallel unit testing Links on Parallel Unit Testing Daniel’s Twitter Daniel’s LinkedIn Daniel’s blog post on Parallel Unit Testing Debug log parser and visualizer Daniel’s blog

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51. Start A Salesforce Consultancy Firm | Ben McCarthy Apr 02, 2020

Ben McCarthy joins to talk about how to start a Salesforce consultancy. Ben is Founder & Co-Editor at SalesforceBen.com, and Co-founder & Chier Revenue Officer at Nymble. Main Points Ben’s self-introduction Ben’s prior working experience before How and when did Ben receive the managing director role of the UK in the company? The importance of industry focus The importance of engaging with Salesforce How to hire and keep talent in the company? Why does Ben think the company culture is the most important point for a successful consultancy? The difference between Intrapreneurs and building up a company from scratch? Links Ben’s Twitter

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50. Contribute To The Salesforce Community | Joey Chan Mar 26, 2020

Joey Chan, who joins to talk about contributing back to the Salesforce community, is ranking #1 in AppExchange developers, Philippines User Group Leader, Founder and Solutions Architect of Cloud Jedi Solutions Limited. Main Points Joey ranks 1st in AppExchange developer community Is Joey paid to contribute to the community? Why does Joey contribute while knowing it is unpaid work? What benefit did Joey receive in the first couple of years? Joey’s 5-year goal after college graduation and how did he achieved the goal How did Joey attract his first customer? How do Joey and his team work for the customers

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49. Agile Software Development | Ines Garcia Mar 19, 2020

Ines Garcia joins to talk about Agile Software Development. Ines is a London-based Salesforce MVP, Agile Coach, Scrum Professional. Main Points Agile has the concept of continuous improvement and Kaizen, why is this so similar to DevOps? Is agile here to replace the waterfall model? What is agile, how to define it? Introduction about the agile card game developed by Ines Explanation about the four principles from Agile Manifestos Typical frameworks used in Agile Links Ines’ LinkedIn Ines’ Twitter Agile card game developed by Ines Agile Manifesto Video Teaser On Agile Software Development The YouTube Video URL Outro Music Dream

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48. Salesforce Technical Debt | Lorenzo Frattini Mar 12, 2020

Lorenzo Frattini, who joins to talk about Salesforce technical debt, is a London-based Salesforce CTA and the founder of Clayton, a code analysis SaaS that specializes in vulnerability scanning and code quality for Salesforce. Main Points Lorenzo’s self-introduction and his play-by-play video What is the content of the technical debt handbook released by Clayton? Why is it difficult to have technical debt under full control and what shall we developers do about it? Number 1 cause of technical debt – Test data factory – according to the handbook Number 2 cause – dummy tests The risk factors for accumulating technical

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47. Salesforce Freelancing | Ankit Taneja Mar 05, 2020

Ankit Taneja, who joins to talk about Salesforce freelancing, is the content producer at Forcepreneur.com, founder of BlazeNewTrail.com, an active trailblazer in the Ohana, and of course a Salesforce freelancer. Main Points Ankit’s self-introduction Ankit shares What freelancers actually do in their jobs How to start as a freelancer job? What Skillsets are required for freelancers? Why would Ankit want to be a full-stack freelancer? When is it a good time to be a freelancer? How to acquire clients at the beginning? How to excel and stand out in the freelancing competition? What are the pros and cons of a

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46. Nebula Core – Apex Functional Programming | Aidan Harding Feb 27, 2020

Aidan Harding joins to talk about Nebula Core, a Salesforce Apex functional programming Library, an open-source project published by Nebula Consulting company. Aidan is a senior Salesforce consultant and developer. Main Points Aidan’s self-introduction and the Nebula core open-source library including Salesforce functional programming feature Feature 1 – Cached way to retrieve record type information Feature 2 – the functional programming part in the lazy iterator Feature 3 – the lazy part in the lazy iterator Feature 4 – Sobject index Feature 5 – Custom metadata type-driven logger Links Aidan’s Twitter Aidan’s LinkedIn Nebula Core repository Blog thread about Feature

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45. Create Salesforce Managed Package | Mohith Shrivastava Feb 20, 2020

Mohith Shrivastava, who shares Salesforce managed package challenges, is a Salesforce MVP, 3-Salesforce-book Author, Lightning Champion, Trailhead TrailBlazer,20X Salesforce Certified, active contributor at stack overflow Main Points Mohith’s self-introduction Comparing developing solution for one org and creating Salesforce manage package How does the CPU governor limits impact ISV packages? How do other governor limits impact ISV packages? How do ISVs debug issues in the customer’s environment? What are the several fundamental ISV design principles according to Mohith? Namespace challenges 2nd Generation Packaging for both consulting firms and ISVs Links Mohith’s Twitter Mohith’s LinkedIn Mohith authored three Salesforce books! Video Teaser

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44. Salesforce Governance and Change management | Anup Jadhav Feb 13, 2020

Anup Jadhav joins to talk about Salesforce governance and change management in Salesforce. Anup is a Salesforce Developer MVP, Co-founder of London Salesforce Developer User Group, Technical Architect. Main Points Anup’s self-introduction Anup and Francis hosting podcast – Salesforce Posse Governance and change management in Salesforce is critical What is governance and what is change management Technical process part The non-technical business process part In Anup’s opinion, the key is alignment and autonomy Links Anup’s LinkedIn Anup’s Twitter Anup’s blog Salesforce Posse Podcast Video Teaser on Salesforce Governance The YouTube Video URL

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43. Pet Project – Enhance Your Coding Skill | Johan Karlsteen Feb 06, 2020

Johan Karlsteen, joins to talk about the pet project. Johan, running top trailblazer site, is a Software Engineer living and working in Stockholm, Sweden. Johan has been working with Salesforce since 2012 and is currently a Salesforce consultant. Main Points Johan’s introduction We talked a little bit about Computer Bible Books – TAOCP and SICP How did Johan start his pet project – top trailblazers? How was top trailblazers technically implemented? Who are using top trailblazers? What is the purpose for Johan of having this pet project? What advice would Johan give to listeners in terms of pet projects? Why

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42. Salesforce Community-Led Events | Eric Dreshfield Jan 30, 2020

Eric Dreshfield, who guests to talk about Salesforce Community-Led Events, is a Salesforce MVP, the founder of Midwest Dreamin’, the leader of Southern Indiana Salesforce Administrators Group Work-wise, Eric is the VP-Delivery at ITequality. Main Points Eric’s introduction, which I did on his behalf 🙂 How did Eric come up with the idea of hosting Midwest Dreamin’ What has Eric experienced by arranging the first event What is the difference between Salesforce running and community-let events? What is Salesforce company’s role in the community-led events? The detailed schedule of the recent Midwest Dreamin’ event The effort Eric is spending on

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41. Salesforce Performance Optimization | Paul Battison Jan 23, 2020

Paul Battison, Salesforce MVP, the COO at Cloudgalacticos, joins to talk about Salesforce Performance. Paul is a Certified Platform Developer I, II, and all-around geek (Ruby, iOS, Android, Java, Node, etc.). Paul has a passion for technology and mathematics and applying them to help improve lives Main Points Paul and I start to talk a bit about performance in B2B and B2C platform Paul’s self-introduction and multiple roles The impact of governor limits on performance in Salesforce comparing to other platforms How did Paul use the Salesforce platform to process heavy AI modeling? Why do senior developers love governor limits?

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40. How To Stand Out In Your Career? | Christopher Hopper Jan 16, 2020

Christopher Hopper, who joins to talk about how to stand out in your career, is a CRM Recruiter (Salesforce Industry) based on Houston, Texas Area. Chris is using his direct CRM analysis, development, integration, managerial and delivery experience to help clients achieve the best outcomes they can in their Salesforce projects by adequately locating and qualifying resources. Main Points Chris’ self-introduction Why is Chris actively creating articles and posts on LinkedIn and why he considers it is important to practice writing. How did Chris come up with this topic about how to stand out in the Salesforce professional career. Why

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39. Salesforce CLI | Keir Bowden Jan 09, 2020

Keir Bowden, one of the first Salesforce CTAs, joins to talk about Salesforce CLI. Keir is also the author of the Visualforce Development Cookbook, five-time Salesforce Developer MVPs, and the CTO at BrightGen. Main Points on Salesforce CLI Discussion about Keir’s Visualforce book Introduction about Keir’s play-by-play on the same topic How did Keir learn Salesforce CLI? What was the developer experience preceding CLI? Can we use CLI with regular static orgs? Extending CLI with scripts and plugins Keir shares two typical challenges of using scratch org Keir’s Mentz program to help people learn better coding Discussion about how to

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38. Dreamforce 2019 News For Developers | Daniel Peter Jan 02, 2020

Daniel Peter joins to talk about Dreamforce 2019 news for developers. Daniel is 27 x certified, Salesforce MVP, Salesforce Developer Group Leader in the Bay Area, Salesforce Practice Lead at Robots and Pencils. Main Points Daniel’s self-introduction The reason to have Daniel on the show to talk about Dreamforce developer-related announcements Lightning Base Components have been open-sourced The evergreen platform announcement WITH SECURITY_ENFORCED and Security.stripInaccessible Enterprise blockchain announcement Einstein AI announcement Links Daniel’s Twitter Daniel’s LinkedIn Salesforce Evergreen Video Teaser on Dreamforce 2019 The YouTube Video URL Outro Music Let the Battles Begin! – FINAL FANTASY VII Remake

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37. Solo Review December 2019 Dec 26, 2019

Main Points On Solo Review 12.2019 Thanks to iTunes review from jayholt23 Help needed on inviting guests and coming up with topics Book Salesforce Lightning Platform Enterprise Architecture 3rd edition Podcast Episode 15 – Separation of Concerns Apex Insert/update empty list Data setup options on Apex test Design and code review Outro Music 『夜曲』悪魔城ドラキュラX~月下の夜想曲~

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36. The Power of Salesforce Asynchronous(2) | Jitendra Zaa Dec 19, 2019

Jitendra Zaa shares a story of using Salesforce Asynchronous to fulfill the customer requirements. Jitendra is Salesforce MVP, Evangelist, famous Salesforce blogger, Sr. Technical Architect at Bluewolf, 23x Salesforce Certificates. Main Points on Salesforce Asynchronous This is the 2nd part of the storytelling from the guest Jitendra Zaa. He shares a super exciting Salesforce implementation journey, where he and his team attempted to obtain as much as possible Salesforce platform potential by using asynchronous methods to fulfill customer requirements. The story covers this and the previous episodes. Links Jitendra’s twitter Jitendra’s home page Jitendra’s blog Virtual Dreamin’ Video Teaser The

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35. The Power of Salesforce Asynchronous(1) | Jitendra Zaa Dec 12, 2019

Jitendra Zaa shares a story of using Salesforce Asynchronous to fulfill the customer requirements. Jitendra is Salesforce MVP, Evangelist, famous Salesforce blogger, Sr. Technical Architect at Bluewolf, 23x Salesforce Certificates. Main Points on Salesforce Asynchronous The guest Jitendra shares a super exciting Salesforce implementation journey, where he and his team attempted to obtain as much as possible Salesforce platform potential by using asynchronous methods to fulfill customer requirements. The story covers this and the following episodes. Links Jitendra’s twitter Jitendra’s home page Jitendra’s blog Jitendra’s blog article relating to the story in this episode Video Teaser The YouTube Video URL

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34. Career Tips From Salesforce Recruiters | Ben Duncombe Dec 05, 2019

Ben Duncombe is the director of Talent Hub – The Salesforce recruitment experts. Talent Hub is the host of Trailhead Tuesday in Sydney and Melbourne, as well as the sponsors of the Brisbane event. Main Points We start with Ben’s self-introduction and how we connected in LinkedIn We talk about why it is a good idea that Salesforce developers have a good relationship with Salesforce recruiters? Ben considers it is important for Salesforce developers to talk to a trustful Salesforce recruiter about the salary requirement based on skills, and there are many other factors in addition to the salary. Ben

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33. MyTriggers Trigger Framework | Christian Szandor Knapp Nov 28, 2019

Christian Szandor Knapp is the head of Salesforce Development at Appero, Salesforce MVP, Co-Leader of the Munich Developer User Group. Szandor is very passionate about Salesforce technology. Main Points Why does Appero release yet another new trigger framework? What benefits does MyTriggers trigger framework offer? How does MyTriggers leverage Custom Metadata Type to control the trigger logic flow? Discussion on existing trigger frameworks and their pros and cons comparing to MyTriggers. Discussion on how to select a proper trigger framework according to time investment and current programming skills MyTriggers also supports platform event Links MyTriggers GitHub repo Szandor’s blog

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32. Soft Skills | Andrew Murphy Nov 21, 2019

Andrew Murphy, soft skill expert, with a combination of over 13 years of professional software engineering experience and a passion for leadership and communication skills. Andrew, originally from the UK, is Australia based and has a consulting business on communication and leadership skills. Main Points Andrew and I start with a brief definition of soft skills and the benefit of honing soft skills Then we follow by Andrew’s self-introduction and his career history with both IT hard skills and soft skills We talked about step 1 of learning soft skills – acknowledge that we all need to learn it and

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31. Wisdom in Salesforce Play-by-Play(2) | Don Robins Nov 14, 2019

Don Robins, Pluralsight Salesforce Play-by-play Producer, Salesforce MVP 7x, Technical Educator, Certified Instructor, PD2, Author, Training Partner, Team Lead – mentoring worldwide in the cloud. Main Points How does the PluralSight platform lift up Don’s content? Don’s arguments on most of his video series are paid content on PluralSight. Several ways Don mentions that can grant a free 30-day trial. Don’s opinion on different learning methods fit different people How much time does Don currently spend on producing his video series Don’s understanding of how to learn and gain wisdom Links Don’s twitter 30-day PluralSight free trial offered by Don

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30. Wisdom in Salesforce Play-by-Play(1) | Don Robins Nov 07, 2019

Don Robins, Pluralsight Salesforce Play-by-play Producer, Salesforce MVP 7x, Technical Educator, Certified Instructor, PD2, Author, Training Partner, Team Lead – mentoring worldwide in the cloud. Main Points Why does Don create the famous play-by-play video series in PluralSight? Where does the play-by-play idea come from? What is the behind-the-scene story for Don’s play-by-play? Don explains What is the play-by-play model for topic preparation What value does Don’s play-by-play bring to the Ohana? What did Don do in the Ohana before? Why did he shift to focus on the play-by-play? Links Don’s twitter 30-day PluralSight free trial offered by Don Don’s

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29. Salesforce Lightning Locker Service | Matt Goldspink Oct 31, 2019

Matt Goldspink is a UI Architect in Vlocity, Dreamforce speaker. Matt is with strong experience in server-side Java, frontend development in HTML, CSS and JavaScript (Web Components, Angular, React, Sencha ExtJs) and mobile application development on iOS and Android (Native and hybrid). Main Points Matt’s blog thread on the Salesforce developer site and his locker service experience Why does Salesforce create the locker service and what problem does it tackle? What are the challenges for Salesforce to create the locker service? What is the locker service implementation from a user or developer’s point of view? Explanation of Third-party JavaScript library

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28. Salesforce Architecture and Developer | Steven Herod Oct 24, 2019

Steven Herod, Salesforce CTA, Managing Director for Salesforce Platform at Accenture, shares what Salesforce architecture and Salesforce developer roles are. Main Points The main points Steven talks about: Steven’s current role, past working experience, CTA journey What does it mean as an architecture role How to tell between good and bad programmers Why is programming difficult Find a team and company that shares the same value as you do Links Steven’s twitter handle Book – The Mythical Man-Month Steven’s video – Perspectives on Architecture Video Teaser The YouTube Video URL My Takeaways on Salesforce Architecture and Salesforce Developer Roles The

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27. Salesforce DevOps | Andrew Davis Oct 17, 2019

Andrew Davis is an 18 x Salesforce Certified trailblazer. He is a Salesforce DevOps specialist who’s passionate about helping teams deliver innovation, build trust, and improve their performance Main Points The main points Andrew talks about: Understand DevOps in general How does DevOps progress in Salesforce Principle 1 is about the left-to-right flow The following Principle 2: the right-to-left feedback loop The last Principle 3: learning culture Andrew’s Salesforce DevOps book — publishing on DreamForce 19 Links Andrew’s Twitter handle Andrew’s homepage Andrew’s book – Mastering Salesforce DevOps: A Practical Guide to Building Trust While Delivering Innovation Book – The

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26. Salesforce TrailheaDX – Everything you wanna know (Solo) Oct 10, 2019

In episode 16, I talked about my Salesforce TrailheaDX attending experience. It received an unexpectedly large number of listening times. I feel there is a need to share more to give listeners a holistic 360 overview of it, so here we go! What is Salesforce TrailheaDX? TrailheaDX is the Salesforce hosted a yearly conference for people who want to learn the technical platform. In the past, it was always hosted in San Francisco, close to the Salesforce headquarters. Since the year 2019, it starts to take place in India as well. In short, you can perceive TrailheaDX as a DreamForce

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25. Invocable Method | Amnon Kruvi Oct 03, 2019

Amnon Kruvi joins to talk about the invocable method. Amnon is an entrepreneur, Salesforce architect and developer, Salesforce MVP, and 14 x Certified. Main Points We start our conversation with what is invocable method in Apex, and how to define it Then we chat about what is the benefit of using it and in what circumstances it fit better the business needs comparing to Apex trigger Finally, we go through what are the restrictions Links Amnon’s twitter handle Article – Why Invocable Methods Could Spell the End for Apex Triggers Video – Invocable Methods: The Musical Video Teaser – Musical

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24. JSforce Open Source Project | Shinichi Tomita Sep 26, 2019

Shinichi Tomita is the Founder & CEO of mashmatrix, Inc., the honorable creator of JSforce among many of his popular open-source repositories. Main Points What is JSforce, and what is the brief history (how/when/why did it start, how did it grow, etc)? How do we use JSforce from a developer’s point of view? What are the major challenges when developing JSforce? What has Shinich learned during this journey? What is the future roadmap? What new feature is coming? What does Shinich think about NodeJS development and Lighting Web Component? Links JSforce homepage Shinichi’s GitHub profile Mashmatrix company Homepage Thoughts –

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23. Most Developers Don’t Get This Big Picture (Solo) Sep 19, 2019

IMHO, most Salesforce developers don’t get the big picture, the changes that are taking place at the moment in the Salesforce Ohana. As of today (17th September 2019), I have joined the Salesforce ecosystem for ~2 years. During this time period, I have seen many drastic improvements in terms of developers’ experience. Salesforce is a low code cloud service. This feature was one of the reasons that made the remarkable success it has today. On the flipping side, developers were considered to be outliers or second class citizenship. Indeed, why would people care about developers if the platform aims to

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22. Understand Lightning Web Component | Philippe Ozil Sep 12, 2019

Philippe Ozil joins to talk about the Lightning Web Component at a high level. Philippe, France based, is a Lead Developer Evangelist at Salesforce. Main Points What is the developer evangelist role in Salesforce? What is the Lightning Web Component (LWC)? What are web standards and how browser vendors follow web standards? What is the difference between LWC and the popular JS frameworks such as Angular and React? What components does LWC contain? LWC engine, data binding, and base component The shadow DOM feature in LWC What does the LWC repository in Github contain? What are the upcoming features in

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21. Personal Branding | David Liu Aug 29, 2019

David Liu joins to talk about the personal branding. He is a six-time Salesforce MVP, the inaugural Salesforce Developer “Golden Hoodie” award winner, 20x Dreamforce, Salesforce webinar, and Salesforce user group speaker, 16x Salesforce certified Main Points Intro to David and SFDC99 01:20 – About Me02:31 – Why did you start SFDC99?03:20 – What are the most popular pages on SFDC99?04:32 – Why do you not like your two most popular pages?05:52 – Looking back at SFDC99’s success06:07 – What is David Liu’s brand?07:24 – What do you NOT like about some blogs?07:55 – Are certifications being abused in the industry?09:54 –

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20. Live Your Career Passion (Solo) Aug 22, 2019

By the time I reached my thirty years old, I, all of a sudden, realize that “Live your passion” is the most important thing missing in my entire career journey. It was not easy to face this truth, not at all. In this episode, I talked about how I started my working career without any plan, how I continued blindly for ten years, and how I finally climbed out the hole and started to live my very own passion. The message and the only message I want to beat into your mind in this entire article is, to find your

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19. Salesforce IDE – Illuminated Cloud | Scott Wells Aug 15, 2019

Scott Wells, the author of Salesforce IDE, Illuminated Cloud, is an accomplished software architect and developer with over two decades of experience in all aspects of the software development process. Main Points Scott Wells joins to talk about: why and how he created Salesforce IDE, Illuminated Cloud what unique challenges he has faced along the journey and what it takes to build, support, and stand behind it In his talk, Scott mentioned that the very first step he did is to create an Apex parser. I have had a chat with Robert Sösemann about what it takes to build an

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18. Control Code Quality for Teams | Jim Bartek Jul 30, 2019

Jim Bartek is the CEO of Growth Heroes. Control code quality is the topic. He has been a sales, marketing and communication consultant for over 10 years and has worked with dozens of startups as well as major corporations. Main Points Jim Bartek joins me to talk about his DX’19 presentation — Easy Clean Code. I was at the DX’19 conference listening to Jim’s talk and immediately wanted to have him onto the show. It is not an easy task to control code quality for teams. What tools to select, how to build Continous Integration (CI), how to integrate seamlessly

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17. Unlocked Packages | Fabien Taillon Jun 29, 2019

Fabien Taillon is an unlocked packages early adapter, Salesforce MVP, the CTO at TexeiFrance, the ParisDUG Co-organizer, also part of FTDreamin Team. Main Points As developers, we need to learn new technologies fast and often. Xi talks to Fabien about Unlocked Packages, the new way to manage Salesforce solutions. What is Unlocked Packages, how to start to use it, what new challenges do we face when using it as well as the Texei sfdx plugin open-sourced by Fabien’s company. Hands-on Video on unlocked packages *Hands-on video refers to the screencasting I record to practice the things I learned from the

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16. Shall I go to TrailheaDX? (Solo) Jun 02, 2019

Special episode without guest. I quickly talk about my TrailheaDx 19 trip. Main Points What is DX conference? Shall you also join the conference? How to set a reasonable goal from joining the conference? Links TrailHeaDX Homepage

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15. Separation of Concerns | Andy Fawcett May 02, 2019

Separation of Concerns is a principle that all software engineer needs to learn. In his book, Force.com Enterprise Architecture, Andy Fawcett talks a lot about this principle and illustrates how to use it in the Salesforce solution. Hopefully it is useful for you to listen to our discussion :). Main Points 2:40 – Andy’s introduction 4:02 – When to and when not to use SoC 8:38 – What is SoC and examples in the physical world 16:04 – SoC original pattern from Martin Fowler and SoC ported into Salesforce 26:14 – Fflib open source project and Andy’s book – Force.com

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14. Unit Testing | David Reed Apr 08, 2019

Unit testing is an important programming skill but often times underestimated by programmers. David Reed shares what unit tests are and how to create good unit tests in Apex to guarantee production code quality. Main Points 75% code coverage in Salesforce Apex Unit testing definition Unit test v.s. Integration test Mocking in unit test 5 Unit test scenarios to create good unit tests: 1) positive 2) single record 3) bulkified records 4) negative 5) no action Unit tests as the documentation Lines of unit test should be more than production code How to create good unit tests in Salesforce Test

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13. Monolithic to Modular | John Daniel Mar 04, 2019

DX, Scratch org, and 2nd generation packaging form the new paradigm of Salesforce development. John Daniel shares how he helps large firms transfer the existing codebase from monolithic to the new modular way. Main Points Quickly recap what John shared in his video: Architecting Unlocked Packages in Your Salesforce Org What values do both DX and unlocked package features bring to John’s splitting solution journey What values do scratch org feature bring to John’s splitting solution journey Discuss how to transition to using scratch org Manage package dependencies by DX plugins How did John’s journey start? How was the team

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12. Create Salesforce DX Plugins | Shane McLaughlin Feb 01, 2019

In this talk, Shane shares what Salesforce DX plugins can do and how to create it to facilitate developers’ work. Main points Why did Shane create the shane-sfdx-plugins open source project? Two groups of plugin commands in the plugin Why not incorporate the dx plugin into the core DX Oclif framework that shane-sfdx-plugins is built upon Discuss how the two groups of plugin commands work under the hood How to use this plugin to install both 1st and 2nd generation packages Using 2nd generation package in customer projects What Shane has learned from creating this plugin Should Salesforce developers create

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11. Salesforce Sales Business | Lauri Kurki Nov 28, 2018

Lauri Kurki is here to talk about what sales is and how Salesforce aids sales business. Why we developers might wanna learn sales? Let’s tune in! Main Points Lauri’s introduction The gap between sales and solutions built in Salesforce platform Break down sales into various layers of knowledge What to discuss with customers even before building the solutions Understand customer’s business and propose for improvement Dealing with four different types of customers, using iPhone selling as an example Upsell skill Developers’ selling advantage Links Book: Cracking Sales management Codee Performance by Jason Jordan

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10. Salesforce Open Source | Ruslan Kurchenko Oct 22, 2018

Ruslan Kurchenko, Sfdc-Lax project author, joins us to talk about Salesforce open source and development environment setup. Main Points Ruslan’s self-introduction The big picture of open source in the Salesforce community Popular Salesforce open source projects Lightning Component development Ruslan’s popular SFDC-Lax project Async and Await in JavaScript Using open-source code in Salesforce production orgs Several cool open source projects under our radar Difference development environment comparison Links Ruslan’s Twitter handler Lax article series by Ruslan React-Lightning mocking-lib ng-lightning force-di Awesome-salesforce jetforcer plugin for Salesforce development

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9. Quality Engineering | Ari Luokkala Sep 16, 2018

Our guest Ari is an experienced quality and automation engineer. He spent time sitting with me on educating how quality engineering can contribute in our Salesforce development, and what specific challenges are exposed in the context of Salesforce environment. Main Points Ari’s introduction and job What Does a QE do in a project? A typical setup in a Salesforce development project? What are the benefits QA brings to the project? Discussions on interesting tools such as Jenkins, CCI, Atlassian tools, Robot framework… What challenges does Salesforce development introduce? (unstable Scratch org, creating UI testing for lightning UI…) Links Jenkins AtLassian

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8. PMD for Apex Static Code Analysis | Robert Söesemann Jun 28, 2018

Robert Söesemann ported PMD, a static code analyzer, to the Salesforce world. He teaches me what this is all about. This talk is a continuation from the last episode. Main Points How PMD works What is PMD for Apex Out-of-the-box rules Code formatting check in PMD for Apex Integration of PMD into various IDEs and CI-platforms How to get started Ways to customize and create new rules Contribute to the PMD open source repo Clean code with PMD as a Trailhead topic Links Robert’s Dreamforce talk about PMD in the year 2016 PMD main page Robert’s Twitter handle

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7. Clean code and Code Agility | Robert Sösemann Jun 28, 2018

Robert Sösemann from Up2go guests in the show to talk about Clean code and Code Agility. Every salesforce programmer needs to pick these up, it is simply THAT important! Main Points What is Clean Code What is Code Agility Why should developers care about both Robert’s planned Dreamforce session about Code Agility Links Book: Clean code Book: Clean Coder Robert’s Twitter handle Robert on GitHub Robert on StackExchange

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6. Trailhead and Lightning Component Development | Sara Morgan Nettles Jun 19, 2018

Sara Morgan Nettles from Trailhead team joins the show to talk about Trailhead platform and Lightning Component development. I am especially inspired by Sara’s diligence and the amount of great achievement she has done in the professional career. Check out her ‘about me’ page linked in the show notes for more information! Main Points The guest’s role and working tasks in Salesforce Trailhead team What is Trailhead, its history, and new features The current progress of My Trailhead feature The Trailhead team How did the guest originally join the Trailhead team Remote work and self-disciplined Lightning Component development and the

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5. Finland Salesforce Academy | Elli Pennanen May 30, 2018

Elli Pennanen, Salesforce consultant, joins to talk about how Salesforce Academy trains unemployed people to skill up and join Salesforce ecosystem. Main Points Guest’s quick review about her journey in Salesforce Academy What is Salesforce Academy and what service does it offer Salesforce Academy from Finland Talk more about her Salesforce Academy journey end to end Official languages in Salesforce Academy Work and assignments in Salesforce Academy Salesforce Academy supports unemployed eager learners to join the ecosystem Smooth entering experience in Salesforce Academy for beginners Attend Salesforce local user group events How Salesforce Academy and local user group host experience

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4. Advanced Apex and PluralSight | Dan Appleman May 04, 2018

Dan Appleman, multi-hat wearing Salesforce MVP, Advanced Apex book author, shares his splendid knowledge and experience on various topics. Main Points The scope of Salesforce expert Information v.s. Curation, learn efficiently by books and Pluralsight courses What is Pluralsight? What types of courses are available in Pluralsight. Guest’s Pluralsight courses and course author experience Guest’s Pluralsight course: Building an Enterprise Private Blockchain on Salesforce Using the Salesforce platform and Apex to learn other technologies Guest’s insights on Lightning Component and Lightning Experience Design patterns for creating managed packages Salesforce MVP title Links Advanced Apex Programming book Dan’s Pluralsight Profile and

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3. Third Party Frameworks | Nikita Verkhoshintcev Apr 19, 2018

Nikita Verkhoshintcev drops by to share his invaluable experience of using popular 3rd party frameworks in Salesforce. Main Points Why Guest’s company uses 3rd party ones, like Angular and React, in Salesforce app development Pros & cons between Lightning Component and popular 3rd party frameworks Simple introduction of Angular and React framework How to use other frameworks and pass on data technically Using the Soap and REST APIs in Guest’s Salesforce projects Risk analysis of 3rd party framework compatibility Angular v.s. React Simple scenario walk-through: using Angular in Salesforce project What Salesforce native code is needed in the 3rd party

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2. Finland local user group | Juho Kilkku Mar 06, 2018

Juho Kilkku joins us to talk about creating and hosting Finland local user group story as well as his certified instructor role. Main Points Why and how did the guest found and run Finland Salesforce Local User Group back in the year 2014 What experience and benefit does the guest have from Finland Salesforce User Group? Announcement for next event on 6th April 2018 Topic: General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Helsinki Salesforce Developer Group event on April 25th Topic: TrailHeaDX How does the guest become a Salesforce Certified Instructor The guest’s current working focus – Welcoming everybody to come and

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1. Salesforce Certificates | Olli Timperi Feb 20, 2018

Olli Timperi joins to talk about Salesforce Certificates. Main Points Salesforce Certificate paths for four different roles Guest’s goal to achieve technical architecture certificate The recommended way to prepare for Salesforce certificates from the guest How to learn Salesforce from zero knowledge Trailhead Typical mistakes of customers using Salesforce How to build and document customization – Some best practices of using the platform Links Olli’s Linkedin account

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