Today I came across an interesting problem that reminded me of my Java days. A piece of Apex code written by some other developer was broken when I did my fixes.

I never thought that working in a browser could be more fun than Eclipse IDE. But my thinking is changing these days. First, https://jsfiddle.net/ became my favorite playground for any HTML/JavaScript research.

This post is about an issue that comes with Apex-managed sharing, i.e. System.SObjectException: Field is not writeable: Sobject__Share.RowCause. We faced this problem recently and tried searching…

I know Trigger templates are previously discussed also in great detail. We have excellent posts available by Steve Andersen(Gokubi) and Mike Leach on the same. Here is my small journey on Triggers…

To merge these Apex-CRUD-FLS-Validator APIs with Force.com ESAPI, I discussed with Yoel Gluck. Yoel maintains the Google Code project for ESAPI and is “Salesforce's Lead Product Security Engineer”. In our discussions about adding these new APIs to the Force.com ESAPI project, we devised a plan to merge the APIs…

Force.com IDE is already doing a decent job on top of Eclipse. It provides a nice Visualforce editor with syntax highlighting and code indentation based on the standard Eclipse HTML Editor. I recently tried to create a couple of Visualforce code templates/snippets to quickly assist in creating the pages and was successful in that attempt. The rest of the post describes how.

Today I stumbled upon a requirement to parse JSON in Apex. I was happy about the fact that I know there is a cool open source library calledJSONObject, that will do all the heavy lifting of JSON parsing and another more cooler native JSON parser is lined up in coming winter'12 release…

Dear Apex developers, who are using HTTP Restful Classes know that testing the callouts is not allowed in Apex. People came up with their own smart ways to handle this restriction.

In my recent project, I came across a requirement to create a base class in a managed package with child extension packages that would extend to add their value to it.

All Apex developers creating Visualforce pages with drop-downs and checkboxes use the Apex SelectOption class. On most occasions, instances of this class are created out of records in a database that we can query in a desired alphabetical order

This post is for guys who are planning to release their app on App Exchange and are looking forward to clearing the security review in one shot! This post aggregates all the good links and information you should have in hand.

While fixing security issues for a customer, I came across a very interesting and powerful security API from Salesforce, i.e., Force.com ESAPI. As per the Google code description, this API…

This might be a requirement, if you are developing some complex navigation…

I saw this tweet today about the apex-fast-xml-dom library. Unfortunately, it's true that FastXMLDom can’t support CDATA sections as of now. This is because FastXMLDom is a wrapper on top of Spring’10 Apex DOM classes, and DOM classes don’t support CDATA sections.

Since the release of the Javascript remoting feature in the Spring’11 release, I was super excited about it and was looking for spare time to play with it. A few days back I read about jQuery templates; that’s an awesome jQuery plugin (soon going to be part of jQuery Min)..

I recently came across this useful and under-documented Apex String API, i.e. String formattedString = String.format(String template, List<String> arguments)

String.format(..) is again based on the Java MessageFormat class; its documentation says: Treat the current string as a pattern that should be used for substitution in the same manner as apex:outputText.

Apex programming WSDL can be downloaded from the “Setup” area of your Salesforce org. Just land on the “App Setup > Develop > API” page. Instructions to download are shown below:

Retrying web service call failures/exceptions is important because not every exception means it’s the “end of the world." There is always some hope for some exceptions, like Session timeouts or Invalid session IDs. One can always renew the session (if credentials are available) and make those failing web service calls work again.

As mentioned in my previous post, I was researching/benchmarking on how HTTP Compression with Apache Axis improves performance. The results I got post HTTP compression, are surprisingly amazing…