Saturday, November 9, 2019
Yay! It’s your first Dreamforce!
You’re pumped to finally be part of the magic. I bet you’ve already looked at a lot of other blogs to learn how to be ready before you landed here.
These are a few of my recommendations to make it a more memorable experience.
Sunday, July 29, 2018
One of my earliest childhood memories is traumatic. At least it would seem traumatic to a three-and-a-half-year-old little boy. Though it didn’t turn out to be the end of the world, it seemed like hell when it happened. I still carry the memory with me more than a half-century later, so it damaged me on some level.
Friday, July 27, 2018
Eventually you use up every excuse in your book for not doing the thing you keep saying you’re going to do. You’ve procrastinated yourself into a corner and realize it’s either time to just do it, or finally forget about it and move on.
Saturday, April 28, 2018
After nearly fifty years, I can still remember the first time I smoked a cigarette. It was early spring and my family lived on a farm in a semi-rural part of Colorado, a little north of Denver, at the foot of the Rocky Mountains.
Thursday, April 13, 2017
Life is so full of distractions. It seems everything is vying for our attention in one way or another these days, with most of it coming from our electronic gadgets.
Sunday, March 12, 2017
Saying no can be one of the hardest things to do.
Tuesday, March 7, 2017
I’ve been around long enough to know life moves in cycles.
Thursday, August 18, 2016
Most Salesforce admins have a list of favorite Google Chrome extensions they use to make their work just a little easier.
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
I passed the Salesforce ADM201 certification exam today. It’s been a five-year road to get here. From the first week I began working with Salesforce, I decided attaining certification was something I wanted to pursue.
Saturday, August 2, 2014
I had the need to select several folders at once in the Mac OS Finder and zip them up as individual archives. This AppleScript to compress files and folders was the solution I came up with.
Wednesday, July 23, 2014
I was asked to find a solution for our field reps that would simplify the process of adding a completed task to their activities when they visited one of our retail stores. We keep our retail locations in Salesforce.com as contacts under a master account, which is shared with all users using a special account sharing rule. The solution I came up with was a simple flow that limited users to a specific set of enterable information, pre-filling the date of the activity, and marking the task complete when the activity was committed.
Friday, October 19, 2012
I’ve been working on a force.com app with the requirement that a user must enter a valid email address on a Visualforce page before being able to save a record. But they must also be able to insert the related contact’s email address by clicking a button instead of having to leave the edit page to go find it. That seemed simple enough, but it wasn’t. This is my solution for making a field appear required on a Visualforce page.
Friday, August 12, 2011
Today I had the need to add a bunch of named text files to a folder in the Finder on my Mac.
Saturday, October 16, 2010
Here’s an AppleScript I use to quickly toggle desktop visibility for taking screenshots and recording screencasts that I thought might be useful for others.
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
To fix the issue of ghost emails in Apple Mail after removing a Gmail account, rename the “Envelope Index” file in the Library directory, relaunch Apple Mail to rebuild the index, and the phantom messages will disappear.