Deep Work - the concept of blocking out prolonged sections of uninterrupted time to do work - has been making the rounds in tech circles the past few months. On the other side of things, we have mob programming, which focuses on something that seems completely contradictory to the Deep Work movement -- working collaboratively throughout the day while on a video call, with only one person typing at any given time. Whereas Deep Work focuses on people achieving flow state by having lots of solo ...| www.jamessimone.net
Structured Query Language (SQL) and the basic Salesforce equivalent, SOQL, share many commanalities. Each has the ability to pull data back from the database through the use of specialized keywords. SOQL has many peculiarities, not the least of which are the limits the aspiring developer is under when using it. What may seem like one of the best features of Apex -- its seamless integration with SOQL -- is, however, unusable when it comes to producing truly dynamic and flexible queries. As wel...| www.jamessimone.net
I'd like to take you through a routine refactoring exercise to showcase the power that objects wield when used correctly. This is, in my opinion, the single most _satisfying_ refactoring, because it showcases how maintanability improves by fixing an improper abstraction instead of letting it fester. This exercise will also highlight a curious junction between Test Driven Development (TDD) and Domain Driven Design (DDD) - which is to say that if the functionality that you're working to refacto...| www.jamessimone.net
Cover the basics of mocking DML operations through the use of a DML class that can be swapped in unit tests.| www.jamessimone.net