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  • How to pass the Pardot Specialist exam first time

    August 5, 2016 Chris AldridgePardot
    Salesforce Certified Pardot Specialist_RGB

    I became a Salesforce Certified Pardot Specialist earlier this week, which was nice… I didn’t really have much in the way of Pardot experience so I wasn’t sure how successful I’d be with the exam. There seems to be a lot of demand for Pardot recently, and at Silver Softworks we’ve had several customers ask […]

  • My TDD talk from London’s Calling is now available on YouTube

    February 15, 2016 Chris AldridgeTDD
    London's Calling

    For those of you who were unable to witness me nervously stumbling through my talk on Test Driven Development a couple of weeks ago, a video of my (and everyone else’s) talks is now available on YouTube. As I mention at the beginning of the talk, London’s Calling was my first time really standing up […]

  • London’s Calling – How did it go?

    February 8, 2016 Chris AldridgeEvents
    London's Calling

    As I’m sure many of you are aware, London’s Calling finally came around last Friday. Leading up to the day, I really had no idea what to expect. The organisers had never (as far as I’m aware) organised an event like this before. Brave? Yes. Crazy? Possibly… The organisers never let on how many tickets […]

  • I’m speaking at London’s Calling next week

    January 26, 2016 Chris AldridgeTDD
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    I’ve kept this fairly quiet until now, but I’m excited to let you all know I will be doing a talk on Test Driven Development (TDD) at London’s Calling on February 5th 2016. There are a lot of good talks on the day, by a lot of Salesforce geniuses (as well as some other geniuses). […]

  • Cloud9 IDE for Salesforce review

    January 18, 2016 Chris AldridgeIDE
    Shut-up-and-take-my-money

    I decided to give the Cloud9 IDE for Salesforce a try last week. My interest was piqued during a talk by Diego Ferreiro Val from Salesforce on Lightning a couple of weeks ago. When I asked him which IDE he used, he mentioned the usual suspects but also recommended I check out Cloud 9. I’ve […]

  • Lightweight Apex Trigger Framework

    December 31, 2015 Chris AldridgeTriggers

    Pssst… Just want to head straight to the trigger framework code? Get it on Github. Trigger frameworks in Apex are a funny thing. We all know we need them, we all know that it is best practice to remove logic from the triggers themselves for several reasons (discussed below), and we all know what a […]

  • Introduction To Test Driven Development in Apex

    December 1, 2015 Chris AldridgeApex

    I’m going to talk about test driven development.  Specifically, how you can use it on the force.com platform to improve the quality of your code. I’m a massive fan of using TDD with Apex.  To be frank, I don’t understand how people write Apex code without TDD. Debugging is a slow, painful process on the […]

  • Checkboxes – Ensuring a user can only select one checkbox in a VisualForce page

    November 21, 2015 Chris AldridgeVisualForce

    I had an interesting problem with checkboxes on a VisualForce page this week. Users needed to be able to select one item in a list as the “Main” record. Only one record can be the main, so when a box was ticked, the other boxes needed to be unticked. I couldn’t really find a complete […]

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