Chennai October meetup went well yesterday with sessions on topics ranging from Apex, Heroku etc. I enjoyed delivering my session over Google hangout a lot, it for sure saved the traveling time and cost ac…

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Noida meetup was great opportunity to connect with force.com peers. We had good presentations and knowledge exchange, here is the briefing of those presentations…

This post shares small code snippet to generate base-64 SHA1 Hash, which is typically used in passing as signature header to some APIs. We tested this snippet with Rackspace API Signature Header, which…

Yes, this is true Force.com team is coming to Noida and many other cities in India this July’12. We always saw force.com team doing lots of dev meetups and events all around the globe, India only got limi…

With force.com summer’12 release, I was very happy to see the ability to sort Non-primitive data types in apex with availability of List.sort() and Comparable fixture. Having native or system sorting sup…

I recently came across a problem, where I need to query the fields to be shown via FieldSet via Apex Code (No Standard Controller Love). After struggling for a while with Apex docs, I googled for the same…

You can easily run into this error if you are trying to perform DML on setup and non-setup objects in the same transaction. Non-Setup objects can be any one of the standard objects, like Account or any custom object.

Here are a few examples of the Setup Objects:

Today I came across an interesting problem that reminded me of my Java days. A piece of Apex code written by some other developer was broken, when I did my fixes.

Here is some background about the broken…

I never thought that working in browser can be more fun than Eclipse IDE. But my thinking is changing these days, first http://jsfiddle.net/ became my favorite playground for any HTML/Javascript research…

This post is about an issue that comes with Apex-managed sharing, i.e. System.SObjectException: Field is not writeable: Sobject__Share.RowCause. We faced this problem recently and tried searching…

I know Trigger templates are previously discussed also in great detail. We have excellent posts available by Steve Andersen(Gokubi) and Mike Leach on the same. Here is my small journey on Triggers…

To merge these Apex-CRUD-FLS-Validator APIs with Force.com ESAPI, I discussed with Yoel Gluck. Yoel maintains the Google Code project for ESAPI and is “Salesforce's Lead Product Security Engineer”. In our discussions about adding these new APIs to the Force.com ESAPI project, we devised a plan to merge the APIs…

We all miss content assist support in Force.com IDE Visualforce editor. My previous attempt of using eclipse code templates was a patch to fill this gap. Good news now is, my colleague @AjayHada is creating a Visualforce editor, that will give decent code assistance support on…

Force.com IDE is already doing a decent job on top of Eclipse. It provides a nice Visualforce editor with syntax highlighting and code indentation based on the standard Eclipse HTML Editor. I recently tried to create a couple of Visualforce code templates/snippets to quickly assist in creating the pages and was successful in that attempt. The rest of the post describes how.

Today I stumbled upon a requirement to parse JSON in Apex. I was happy about the fact that I know there is a cool open source library calledJSONObject, that will do all the heavy lifting of JSON parsing and another more cooler native JSON parser is lined up in coming winter'12 release…

Dear Apex developers, who are using HTTP Restful Classes know that testing the callouts is not allowed in Apex. People came up with their own smart ways to handle this restriction.

n my recent project, I came across a requirement to create a base class in a managed package with child extension packages would extend to add their value to it…