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Earlier this month I blogged about some of the reasons people have given for not upgrading core language libraries.  One of the most common I heard, and …More...

I received an email from a colleague who recently changed jobs, and I wanted to share select parts of it for today’s blog. “… One of the …More...

Every once in a while every software engineer finds themselves bouncing between several projects in a short amount of time.  Sometimes it can’t be avoided due to …More...

Dynamic Apex, introduced in the Summer 08 release of Salesforce‘s Apex programming language, allows developers to create more flexible applications by providing them with the ability to …More...

In 2004, Sun Microsystems released Java version 1.5, which represented one of the biggest core upgrades in the programming language’s lifetime.  Because of the severity of the …More...

SD West 2009, one of the country’s premier platform independent software development conferences, is once again offering a track that is near and dear to my heart.  …More...

One of my all time favorite quotes comes from Kathy Sierra and Bert Bates.  “Code as if the next guy to maintain your code is a homicidal …More...

Just a quick blog today to address an issue that I have been encountered several times since I began programming in Apex, the proprietary language for Salesforce.com.  …More...

One of the relatively recent additions to the Force.com platform was the ability to make calls to asynchronous methods from Apex classes.  By using the @future (callout=true) …More...

Everyone takes a shortcut now and then when developing code.  We shouldn’t, and we know it, but sometimes we do anyways.  I am guilty of it as …More...

Software As A Service (SAAS) is a form of Cloud Computing that delivers a single application through the browser to thousands of customers using a multitenant architecture.  …More...

One of the benefits of working in a company that embraces the cutting edge of technology is the opportunity to work with the very latest in programming …More...