Instead of doing the work I’m supposed to be doing, which is to finally turn the tide against MEGA PROJECT that has been consuming my life for weeks, I spent 3 hours (and counting) backing up all the important data on my computer. I’ve learned some interesting (ahem… interesting to me) things. I have pretty [...]
Normally I wouldn’t post a code sample regarding something (seemingly) so straightforward, but this took myself and a contractor too much time to figure out. Multi-picklist fields in SalesForce.com are many-to-many relationships between a record and a set of strings. You can define what options are available in the object definition, and then select which [...]
While on my way home from Thanksgiving and my 10 year high school reunion, I had plenty of time to read through this report by the Hewlett Foundation and McKinsey & Company. Why? We sat on the tarmac for 2 hours due to a snowstorm, but I was planning on reading it anyway, I promise. [...]
It took me way too long to figure out how to get SalesForce to export schema information on an object. It seemed so tantalizingly easy – the salesforce.schema file is right there in the IDE but it’s a placeholder for a dynamically updated widget…that won’t export the XML it clearly contains. So, I learned about [...]
This past month has been the first time that I’ve been in a position to use contractors to help with projects. It has been an illuminating experience. First and most blindsided-by-hindsight, it’s harder than I thought it would be. It’s hard to give up control. It’s hard to write good specifications. It’s hard to align [...]
