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David Liu joins to talk about the personal branding. He is a six-time Salesforce MVP, the inaugural Salesforce Developer “Golden Hoodie” award winner, 20x Dreamforce, Salesforce webinar, and Salesforce user group speaker, 16x Salesforce certified Main Points Intro to David and SFDC99 01:20 – About Me02:31 – Why did you start SFDC99?03:20 – What are the most popular pages on SFDC99?04:32 – Why do you not like your two most popular pages?05:52 – Looking back at SFDC99’s success06:07 – What is David Liu’s brand?07:24 – What do you NOT like about some blogs?07:55 – Are certifications being abused in the industry?09:54 –

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By the time I reached my thirty years old, I, all of a sudden, realize that “Live your passion” is the most important thing missing in my entire career journey. It was not easy to face this truth, not at all. In this episode, I talked about how I started my working career without any plan, how I continued blindly for ten years, and how I finally climbed out the hole and started to live my very own passion. The message and the only message I want to beat into your mind in this entire article is, to find your

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Scott Wells, the author of Salesforce IDE, Illuminated Cloud, is an accomplished software architect and developer with over two decades of experience in all aspects of the software development process. Main Points Scott Wells joins to talk about: why and how he created Salesforce IDE, Illuminated Cloud what unique challenges he has faced along the journey and what it takes to build, support, and stand behind it In his talk, Scott mentioned that the very first step he did is to create an Apex parser. I have had a chat with Robert Sösemann about what it takes to build an

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Jim Bartek is the CEO of Growth Heroes. Control code quality is the topic. He has been a sales, marketing and communication consultant for over 10 years and has worked with dozens of startups as well as major corporations. Main Points Jim Bartek joins me to talk about his DX’19 presentation — Easy Clean Code. I was at the DX’19 conference listening to Jim’s talk and immediately wanted to have him onto the show. It is not an easy task to control code quality for teams. What tools to select, how to build Continous Integration (CI), how to integrate seamlessly

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Fabien Taillon is an unlocked packages early adapter, Salesforce MVP, the CTO at TexeiFrance, the ParisDUG Co-organizer, also part of FTDreamin Team. Main Points As developers, we need to learn new technologies fast and often. Xi talks to Fabien about Unlocked Packages, the new way to manage Salesforce solutions. What is Unlocked Packages, how to start to use it, what new challenges do we face when using it as well as the Texei sfdx plugin open-sourced by Fabien’s company. Hands-on Video on unlocked packages *Hands-on video refers to the screencasting I record to practice the things I learned from the

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Special episode without guest. I quickly talk about my TrailheaDx 19 trip. Main Points What is DX conference? Shall you also join the conference? How to set a reasonable goal from joining the conference? Links TrailHeaDX Homepage

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Separation of Concerns is a principle that all software engineer needs to learn. In his book, Force.com Enterprise Architecture, Andy Fawcett talks a lot about this principle and illustrates how to use it in the Salesforce solution. Hopefully it is useful for you to listen to our discussion :). Main Points 2:40 – Andy’s introduction 4:02 – When to and when not to use SoC 8:38 – What is SoC and examples in the physical world 16:04 – SoC original pattern from Martin Fowler and SoC ported into Salesforce 26:14 – Fflib open source project and Andy’s book – Force.com

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Unit testing is an important programming skill but often times underestimated by programmers. David Reed shares what unit tests are and how to create good unit tests in Apex to guarantee production code quality. Main Points 75% code coverage in Salesforce Apex Unit testing definition Unit test v.s. Integration test Mocking in unit test 5 Unit test scenarios to create good unit tests: 1) positive 2) single record 3) bulkified records 4) negative 5) no action Unit tests as the documentation Lines of unit test should be more than production code How to create good unit tests in Salesforce Test

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DX, Scratch org, and 2nd generation packaging form the new paradigm of Salesforce development. John Daniel shares how he helps large firms transfer the existing codebase from monolithic to the new modular way. Main Points Quickly recap what John shared in his video: Architecting Unlocked Packages in Your Salesforce Org What values do both DX and unlocked package features bring to John’s splitting solution journey What values do scratch org feature bring to John’s splitting solution journey Discuss how to transition to using scratch org Manage package dependencies by DX plugins How did John’s journey start? How was the team

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In this talk, Shane shares what Salesforce DX plugins can do and how to create it to facilitate developers’ work. Main points Why did Shane create the shane-sfdx-plugins open source project? Two groups of plugin commands in the plugin Why not incorporate the dx plugin into the core DX Oclif framework that shane-sfdx-plugins is built upon Discuss how the two groups of plugin commands work under the hood How to use this plugin to install both 1st and 2nd generation packages Using 2nd generation package in customer projects What Shane has learned from creating this plugin Should Salesforce developers create

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