February is NaHaiWriMo (National Haiku Writing Month) which means it is time for the Accidental Admins’ 2nd Annual Salesforce Haiku writing contest!
The Accidental
Admin crew really enjoys
using the haiku
Last year’s response showed
Our Ohana really does too
So Contest is back
We accept entries
Until the end of the month
when judging begins
Top prize as usual
Is a Trailblazer hoodie
Show and you win too
To enter our contest to win a free Trailblazer Hoodie or Salesforce Character Mug, leave your Salesforce related Haiku in the comments on this post, and we’ll pick our winners the first week of March!
Here is some inspiration from last years top entries!
1st Place – John Thompson @latentfuss
A baby seal dies
when multi-select picklists
are used said Steve Mo
2nd-5th Place & Honorable Mentions
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2ND Place: Yad Jayanth, T-Shirt Winner This long-form haiku from @YadCloud had the most 1st place votes & was tied for the win heading into our final voter. Congrats Yad! “salesforce, who are you? then who aren’t you? are you licenses? you are our zeitgeist; you give back and grow – like a ray of sun – |
3rd Place: Cassie Supilowski @csupilow
Apparently the Accidental team hates vague error message emails from Process Builder. “Oh, Process Builder |
4th Place: Pat Solum @sodakforce
We’ll dedicate this effort to Timothy Treadwell aka Grizzly Man. “Caution trailblazers! |
5th Place: Gemma Emmet, @gemziebeth
This one really connected with one of the Admins, gaining a first place vote. “a deep gloom is nigh |
| Honorable Mention: Pat Solum, @Sodakforce
“Certification |
Honorable Mention: Meg McLees, @MegMcLees
How I Became an Admin: Boss tells me ‘Do this.’ |
Honorable Mention: Barrie Robertson, @ittookten
“Part innovator, |
Honorable Mention: Yad Jayanth @yadcloud “intern deploys code |
| Honorable Mention: Benjamin Bolopue, @sfdcgeek
“Sandboxes are safe |
Honorable Mention:Barrie Robertson, @ittookten
“Be you an Admin |
Honorable Mention: Amy Oplinger, @salesforceamy
“reading release notes |
Honorable Mention: Barrie Robertson, @ittookten “Leader who leaves a |
| Honorable Mention: Yancy Whitaker @RangerYancy
“Admin two o one |
Honorable Mention: Yad Jayanth @yadcloud
“what did the callout |
Honorable Mention: Yad Jayanth @yadcloud
“i loved using ant |
Honorable Mention: Yad Jayanth @yadcloud “Salesforce, oh Salesforce |
Lightning passengers
Doors are closing for takeoff!
(Bye, Recycle Bin)
My dear Ohana
Blazing new trails through the Cloud
Switch to Lightning, Now!
It says here you know Lightning Web Components
Said the interviewer
Yes, been developing with LWC for the last 3 years.
Oh boy!
So you don’t Salesforce?
Let me show you some mad skills
You love it? Job done
Setup Quick Find lost
the cursor, again, re-click;
Always, it falls out.
Classic, I loved you
I’ve found someone new. Their name?
Lightning, moving on
Mascot of the trails
Astro will show you the way
Oh! The things you’ll learn!
https://twitter.com/AndySchmiechen/status/768908281662189568
See ya never Flash
I won’t miss you, not at all
Flow Builder for life
Lightning is the path
Say goodbye to Classic now
You’ll figure it out.
I do my best work
at Trailhead Tuesday with
coffee, bacon, eggs
paths lay in darkness
an unexpected journey
begins with Trailhead
Glorious lightning
why a perfect, good blaze wolf wonders
above the classic
Changing api name / label name of picklist is as harmful as poison 🤣
Dev : Apex trigger is awesome,
Admin : Then you haven’t explored the New Lightning flow builder.
Dev: 😇
No Recycle Bin, No Sharing button…
But, they are not stopping me moving to Lightning
Lightning is the future and Classic is past
Thanks to Classic that has served me well
What is this Lightning?
If we migrate from Salesforce
Will we lose data?
Having a massage
Telling Dom about Salesforce
He thinks it’s boring
😂😂👍🏻
You should have explained
What makes a poem a haiku
Not everyone knows
Let’s be inclusive and make sure we explain things! Not everyone knows the rules for haiku (as evidenced by submissions).
Here is a primer: http://teacher.scholastic.com/lessonplans/pdf/dec05_unit/whatishaiku.pdf
They may have a deeper understanding of haiku, realize 5-7-5 is not required, that the kire is more important to the form than syllable counting, the primary point of the form is to create emotion, and understand morae (not all syllables are created equal).
Naysayers into
Believers and advocates
Admin alchemy!
Having a massage
Telling Dom about Salesforce
He thinks it’s boring
Large data volumes
Record locking contention
You must chunk your keys
You logged in badly
Then asked me for a reset
No stickers for you.
I can pin list views!
Oh Spring 19, you are rad!
Please make Lightning work.
SSO switched on
Floods of Login errors raining down
Ohana rescue
SSO switched on
Floods of login errors rain
Ohana rescue
I wish we could edit … hit post accidentally. Please ignore the first one, too many syllables in line 2!
ITS OK! Haiku does not have to be 5-7-5 – thats an over simplification of the form.
Sun goes down
every day
never lookup back
what you have
done
Lightning Flow Builder
Is the bees knees, ya get me?
More like this, Salesforce
Multiply I Must
Advocate for change I will
Awesome Admins Fly
Process change is hard
Let’s keep working step by step
Salesforce leads the way!
yesterday, lightning.
web components for today.
..and tomorrow’s cloud?
a taste of summer!
in the frigid depths of winter;
my client’s happy.
when fine arts meet competition, contention can often ensue. our interpretation of arts must be more fluid than to espouse rigid notions such as syllabic requirements. on the other hand, in my own writings I have found that adhering to an artificial constraint (5-7-5) has brought out very interesting word choice and sentence structure. And so when I read a “haiku” that has this pattern (and is also not simply a sentence broken up in to three lines), it pleases me because I respect the skill in working towards that. Similarly, as other users above have pointed out, haiku historically in Japan has meant something well beyond our syllabic interpretation, so there absolutely should be room for haikus here that capture the spirit of elegantly juxtaposed ideas but were more liberal in their word choice. Keep it coming all!
Validation Rules,
I love you so very much.
Check Syntax…damn it!
Classic fights to stay.
Sweet Lightning wins her way.
New Flow Builder bloomed today!
Be the man,
say the truth,
no one cares,
only validation rules!
as aura’s sun sets
a new brightness meets the eye –
lightning born again
my, web components..
how strangers meet as old friends!
A new day begins
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Comments in English
What did you build in your code
Help you remember
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Admin Accident
Fell in love with the platform
Accident no more
IT let me down
I’ll have to build it myself
Hello, Salesforce world!
Ohana saved me
It sounds cheesy, but it’s true
Community Rocks
Automation time.
Workflow or Process Builder?
No – Flows will save us.
The noodles in my
Orgs “happy soup” have become
A Gordian knot!