Over the last few days, my attention has turned towards Lightning components. I have worked through some of the tutorials in the past – chiefly on Trailhead. I was a little rusty with it and thought why not create a simple app which makes a call out to an API and displays the results. I […]
Programming
The “FizzBuzz”interview question implemented in JavaScript
I wanted to take a brief departure from Salesforce related content. I do frequent some of the coding blogs and websites out there and many developers who also happen to be interviewers complain about the general poor quality of programmers who supposedly cannot solve basic coding problems. One of these coding problems is the “FizzBuzz” […]
Adding Google maps v3 to your Visualforce page
The Google maps API is perhaps the most famous and well known APIs out there. There could always be scenarios requiring a Google map to embedded inside a VisualForce page. This could either be a stand alone page or an inline VF page in a detail page layout! For example: In your Account detail page, […]
Writing your first APEX trigger (with a test class as well!)
If you are new to programming on the awesome Salesforce platform, you might have come across the need to write Triggers. Initially, most folks have trouble understanding how triggers work. So why don’t we write a simple APEX trigger and see how triggers work in Salesforce. A trigger is basically a piece of code that […]