A lot of business processes have been developed in-house to stream line employee’s daily activities. One such application is One Time Payments (OTP) – a system that makes it easy for employees to submit – well, payments. These payments can vary from bonuses, awards, tuition reimbursements and so forth. My involvement on this project was […]
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Virtual World
Our Enterprise marketing group had come up with an idea of having a presentation tool to use in conferences and meetups. They were thinking of an interface that shows the company projects and installments throughout the globe. An interactive map, that have pins and markers that when clicked, shows more information about that project. They […]
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Every employee needs hardware. At Parsons, we needed an easy way for employees to order them. The old process was for each employee submit an online form, where they first they have to refer to a an approved list of items. When they find what they need from this list, they have to copy and […]
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Let’s build a Shopping Cart website with SolidJS and Bootstrap – Part 1
So it’s been a while since I’ve posted a tutorial. I have been stagnant for a while, just using the same technologies for work and personal projects. Although recently, one framework caught my eye – SolidJS. It claims to have “true” reactivity and addresses many of the things I don’t like about React (such as […]
Continue readingCommon JavaScript snippets for data manipulation
I find myself having to look up how to do things in JavaScript. After years of doing so, I’ve realized that its pretty much a common set of techniques that look for when manipulating data. So I’ve decided to create this list. Note that this is by far not a complete list – and is […]
Continue readingEnvironment Variables in Custom Metadata Types
Developing custom solutions for Salesforce has some challenges. One of them is having Environment Variables for your application, that can be deployed from org to org without having to change them. We’ve been using Custom Metadata Types (CMT), but once it get to another environment such as production, we end up having to change it. […]
Continue readingA few Apex tips that I’ve picked up along the way
Salesforce’s server side language is called Apex. Apex is a strongly typed, object-oriented language that many say looks like Java. The language is strongly tied to the database and other objects in Salesforce, as well as its front end counterpart – Lightning. As a side note, having written loosely typed languages all my life, Apex […]
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