Kevin Poorman is a Senior Developer Evangelist with Salesforce. Today, we sit down and talk with him about his CodeLive series where Kevin and a guest pair program interesting and unique solutions and ideas for Salesforce. Kevin gives a general overview of the show, but we also dig a little deeper into some highlighted topics from it.

 

And while Kevin is mostly known for his Salesforce skills, he actually has a Master’s in Divinity, as well. Tune in to hear all about CodeLive as well as his experience with the diverse combination of software engineering and religion.

 

Show Highlights:

 

• What CodeLive is and why he started doing it.
• Why he wanted to go the direction of pure programming.
• The few rules he gives to his CodeLive guests.
• Tips and tricks to get debugging into your normal lifecycle of development.
• Tools that help with peer programming.
• What null coalescence is and specific cases where it helps.
• What unlock packages are and how Kevin used them in CodeLive.
• The journey he went through with moving Visualforce to LWC.
• What Apex Recipes is and how he sees people using it.
• What he wishes people did and didn’t do with Apex.

 

Links:

 

1. Kevin on Twitter: https://twitter.com/codefriar
2. Kevin on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinpoorman/
3. Kevin on Github: https://github.com/codefriar/
4. John Daniel Episode: https://developer.salesforce.com/blogs/2020/07/codelive-with-salesforce-developer-john-daniel.html
5. Julian Duque episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMmd9yPZ63c
6. Brian Kwong: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdtgYCCjHkw&list=PLgIMQe2PKPSJWQxIF9BJSAaWdh6eUl37f&index=8
7. Apex Recipes: https://github.com/trailheadapps/apex-recipes

 

 

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