AI, IDEs and Salesforce
Everyone's talking about vibe coding Salesforce, but few explain how to set it up. Here's how to connect Cursor to your sandbox and production orgs, pull down your metadata and prove it all works with a first deployment.
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salesforce, raspberry pi, and hacks
Get a "time of day greeting" for email templates
Sometimes you need to send emails from your CRM that include a greeting such as "Good morning" or "Good evening"
Victron Solar EV charging on a budget
I recently got a lovely BMW i3 - its a 70 mile petrol + 70 mile electric range extender 2015 model. I immediately started looking at
DIY Home Solar (Victron ESS)
I've been waiting a while to write this post. As per almost everyone in the western world energy prices have gone up
Dynamically show ANY Accounts Data on a Universal Dashboard! 📈📊
That's a bit vague, so let me explain what I mean by that... In Salesforce Classic we used to be able to
Creating and Updating records from Multi Select Pick-lists
Possibly frowned upon, right!? I hear you. But as we know in the real world, we often need to preserve the client's
Industry/Sector Based Record Assignment via Round Robin 🃏
I made this recently for a client - I remember when something like this was an application on the app store, and certainly not something
Default and NULL Pick-list Values in Flow Screen Elements
When creating flow screens its often preferred to show a value from the record for a field in your screen if the record in
Covid-19 Tracking App 🦠🧭
I put this basic model together quite quickly in salesforce. To me Salesforce is a natural choice of application for this sort of work
Custom Email Templates 📝
Emails and email signatures (and generally things we send out from salesforce) don't always get a lot of thought. They tend to
Time Sheet Logging Tool 🗓️👀👍
I built this after freelancing for a while and finding spreadsheets super annoying. Also, because a few of my clients track their staffs time
Updating Ghost on Digital Ocean
I've written before that I host this blog on the Ghost blogging platform and I run that on a Digital Ocean Droplet