One of the questions that I like to ask interviewees is what drives you nuts about Salesforce. If you have been in the ecosystem for more than a few months, this should not be a difficult question to answer. I do ask the flip side of the question and ask what is that individual’s favorite READ MORE
Month: August 2019
An Accidental Developer?
Words I never thought I’d write in an email to my boss – “I like coding a little more than I want to admit”. Those words were actually typed by the same hands typing this post in the days following my attendance at WITness Success back in July. Did I just become an Accidental Developer?!?!? READ MORE
I’ve added a pride flag to my CV and here’s why.
“Can I be honest?” he says. “This guy… my gut’s telling me that’s not a good idea. Not that it’s not a good idea, just that it’s not a good idea with him. If you want the job. He’s a bit old school. You know how people are.” One of the first times I ever READ MORE
Transforming #AccidentalAdmin Problems Into Solutions
Karmel James and Kate Lessard are on a journey to transform the problems we face as Accidental Admins into solutions to help each and every Accidental feel empowered along their journey. Their hope is to provide a guide that includes gems we all wish we would have learned earlier. During their roundtable session at WITness READ MORE
Anatomy of a Deployment Failure (pt. 3) – Production Changes and the Flight of The Icarus
Deployment Failure (Pt. 3) Production Changes & The Flight of the Icarus Confession time: in the four or so years I’ve been working with Salesforce, I’ve never really ‘got’ Sandboxes and change sets. I suppose I’d tell a prospective employer that this demonstrates my ability to vision and action a modification without disrupting users. Then READ MORE