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Salesforce Surveys

It’s been a while I had wrote the last post. Now this time it’s about Salesforce Survey. The number of features are growing day by day in salesforce. Assuming no other competitor will be able to match that for some time. Salesforce Survey is one of such feature. I remember the old days when we had to code the survey piece entirely for clients or have setup other survey apps such as Survey Monkey…

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Unreachable statement error

I was working on something and it was an old apex class. It was working fine as of now after the Sprint 18 upgrade. But, for some reason I created a new class with the same content. I started getting “Unreachable statement error”. I checked both the classes and they are exactly same, of course the name of the class was different. So, I was expecting this to be saved without any error.

Error

The…

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Salesforce is changing the URL format

Following the Spring ’18 release, Salesforce is changing the URL format, which is used by Lightning Experience standard apps, console apps, and the Salesforce mobile app. This change is for good actually. If you had issues while working on lightning experience when redirecting to an url, this will help solving those kind of issues. This change will improve URL readability and address the issue of…

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Deliver Custom Notifications with Platform Events

Deliver Custom Notifications with Platform Events

Hello all, It’s been a long time I have written anything. I was busy, too much of research and work :). I have some breathing time so, thought to utilize the time with a simple post. This time I am going to talk about “Deliver Custom Notifications with Platform Events”. It’s Generally available now and anyone with a proper platform can use it. Salesforce’s enterprise messaging platform provides…

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Why I don't like Salesforce Lightning

Why I don’t like Salesforce Lightning

This is an Anti Salesforce post. But I am not a fan of a single technology to be honest. No technology is full proof and stable. If that was the case, then there would be only one technology and not so many. Every now and then we get to know something new came up as existing things get obsolete. This post is about why I don’t like salesforce lightning. It’s my personal opinion and may differ from…

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AWS CloudFormation Template for creating EMR Cluster with Autoscaling, Cloudwatch metrics and Lambda

AWS CloudFormation Template for creating EMR Cluster with Autoscaling, Cloudwatch metrics and Lambda

There are various ways we can spin up an EMR cluster such as

Manual approach:

AWS console,

using CLI command,

e.g.

as simple as :

aws emr create-cluster —name “Test Spark cluster” \

–release-label emr-5.7.0 —applications Name=Spark —ec2-attributes KeyName=test1_Ec2_keypair – – instance-type m4.xlarge —instance-count 3 —use-default-roles

  with Advanced options:

aws emr create-cluster…

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Visual Studio Code with salesforce

Visual Studio Code with salesforce

A new code editor by Microsoft: Visual Studio Code. Will see how we can use it with Salesforce : Visual Studio Code with salesforce. There are tons of code editors out there, which can be used for Salesforce coding. They support various features and keep on improving from time to time. But which one you should really use ? Really ? I cannot answer that. That’s your personal choice and need of the…

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Verifying HDFS in-transit encryption Using tcpdump and Wireshark

Verifying HDFS in-transit encryption Using tcpdump and Wireshark

Verifying HDFS in-transit encryption Using tcpdump and Wireshark

  In this document we will show, how we can verify if the data being transferred to a Hadoop cluster with HDFS in-transit encryption enabled is actually getting encrypted or not.

Note: here we are discussing about Data in transit encryption only. We will discuss about Data in rest encryption in another document.

HDFS in-transit…

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Snap-ins Chat by Salesforce

Snap-ins Chat by Salesforce

After a long time, had a chance to write about something, I was really looking forward to : Snap-ins Chat by Salesforce. There are a tons of chat applications that you can plug-in with your website, so that your users can get in touch with you via chat. If you are a salesforce organization, who is using Live-agent by Salesforce for your chat interaction, you might already know how time consuming…

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Setting up your Raspberry Pi 3

Setting up your Raspberry Pi 3

Recently got hold of a Raspberry PI 3 (If you do not know it already, this is a credit card sized computer, which can run almost all computing things we do on our laptop/desktops). It’s just about CAD $30. But powerful enough for all kinds of research work and POC. So once you have the hardware, let’s see how we can start with the Setting up your Raspberry Pi 3. The below is an image of the…

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Salesforce,NodeJS and Heroku

Hello, there! Today, I have a quick and interesting stuff for you to read. It’ about Salesforce,NodeJS and Heroku together. How these can be used for interesting projects and with a quick development time. These days a new JavaScript frameworks are being released every now and then. There are a lot of them and it’s hard to keep a count of them as well. Any ways will jump on to the topic,…

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Updating the Web-to-Case and Web-to-Lead Endpoint URL

Updating the Web-to-Case and Web-to-Lead Endpoint URL

Here is a quick update if you have not heard about it. If you miss it and using web-to-case or web-to-lead, you may be affected by this change. You might loose some leads or cases. Recently salesforce is Updating the Web-to-Case and Web-to-Lead Endpoint URL. This is of course a good move towards the security/performance of the system, but it needs your help. You or admin, who is maintaining the…

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Field is not writeable LastModifiedDate

Field is not writeable LastModifiedDate

Here is a error you might get while updating a system field. Mostly the lastmodified field. There might be situations when you wanted to update the lastmodifieddate for your test class or some other reason. You will get error : Field is not writeable LastModifiedDate . But there is a workaround for this. I had a post written about how to enable the “Set…

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automation using ifttt in salesforce

automation using ifttt in salesforce

This post is about automation using ifttt in salesforce. Yes not using workflow. It’s more than that. I keep playing around with technologies and got to work on IFTTT about 5 years back. It was a growing kit and we did not have anything directly connecting salesforce with this platform. Recently I was looking at it and saw salesforce applets there. So thought to share something about this. Here…

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Salesforce with SourceTree

In my previous post about Git, we talked about handling metadata in a local copy using git CLI and GUI. Today, I am going to talk about Salesforce with SourceTree. SourceTree is a free tool.SourceTree simplifies how you interact with your Git and Mercurial repositories so you can focus on coding. If you have not gone through the previous post related to this have a look at the below post:

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Salesforce Certification Update

If you have many Salesforce certifications and are worried about the maintenance cost (Salesforce release exam) . Here is a salesforce certification update news for  you if you already don’t know it.

Go to theSalesforce certification update page for more info.

In short if your certification cost is more than, it will be a very good news for you. As of now if you are spending more than USD $300…

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Git with salesforce locally - Get The KT- Get the knowledge

Sometimes Salesforce developers are afraid of the term SCM As a developer should we be caring about it At least you can use git with salesforce locally.