Passing Your Salesforce ADM201 Certification Exam

This is how I successfully passed the Salesforce ADM201 certification on the first try.

AppleScript to Compress Files and Folders

I had the need to select several folders at once in the Mac OS Finder and zip them up as individual archives.

Salesforce Flows, Visualforce and Context

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.

Making a Field Appear Required on a Visualforce Page

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.

AppleScript to Add Files in the macOS Finder

An AppleScript for quickly creating named files in the Finder without the hassle of opening a text editor and manually saving each one.

AppleScript to Toggle the Mac Desktop

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. Copy the source and paste the code into…

Rebuilding the Apple Mail Envelope Index

I set up my Gmail account in Apple Mail to copy over messages which were not originally sent to my jimmitchell.org account but found I needed to rebuild the envelope index after some strange behavior.