An Exposition on a Stagnant West Indian Economy: Why We Won’t Come Home (Part I of IV)

I felt a sense of urgency to verbalize what many of us as educated West Indians living in the US are thinking.  I decided to cover it in 4 parts so as to provide a convenient way to not only read, but discuss accordingly.  I called Antigua out in particular because that’s where I’m from, but this article targets the … Read More

[Bass Cover] – All These Things I Hate (Bullet For My Valentine)

I heard my favorite “drum covering person” (Meytal Cohen) do a drum cover for this song and immediately I just wanted to do a bass cover.  It’s not perfect, but these are the things which help me better myself…these lil’ nifty challenges.

Salesforce: Searching Multiple Objects Using SOQL instead of SOSL

SOQL Across Multiple Objects vs SOSL Welcome back my children.  Once again, I’ve encountered a situation where I’ve needed to improvise.  For these code examples, remember to use the “expand code (<- ->)” option on the snippets to see everything. The Issue(s): 1.   I needed a way to be able to take a given object id and determine it’s … Read More

Tales of the Salesforce Spirit: Custom Object Mass Deleter (Part IV of IV)

Conclusion Welcome back boys and girls. Get your crayons out and have as seat as we finally conclude this series.  Long, but worth it. In order to get to a working result, I’m just going to pretend that we created a custom object called “Book” (Book__c) for the display purpose.  Given that this is the case, we can then assume … Read More

Tales of the Salesforce Spirit: Custom Object Mass Deleter (Part III of IV)

The Mass Delete Controller I will definitely take my time to explain this part as it’s the engine behind how this will work.  So let’s look at this in steps. The purpose of this class will be to handle the mass delete of custom objects in a generic manner.  To do this we need the all the entities we created … Read More

Tales of the Salesforce Spirit: Custom Object Mass Deleter (Part II of IV)

To be honest with you, I really didn’t expect the explanation to be this in depth, but you never know until you start.  So here we cover the question “WHAT ARE THE BASIC CLASSES THAT WE WILL NEED FIRST?” I think we’ll need about 6 of them: TCriteria TPaging (With it’s Respective IPagingEventHandler interface) ISOQLValueConverter TSelectionEntity TApexEntity TCustomSearch TCriteria The purpose of this class is to handle the search criteria for the objects. … Read More

Tales of the Salesforce Spirit: Custom Object Mass Deleter (Part I of IV)

So, I’m doing my thing at work – Salesforce Certified Developer.  A situation presents itself where I need to delete multiple records at once.  The best part is, they all belong to custom objects and salesforce only allows mass delete on select standard objects.  You know what this means then – you got to make it yourself.  Now I see the need … Read More

The Expendables 2 Review

Finally saw Expendables 2 today after almost 12 hrs grueling waiting since its release… Expendables 2 Review: Summary Rating: 9.975174241602193839343/10 Rating Breakdown: Genre Representation(Action): 10/10 The action was lovely. In ages long forgotten, action films were defined from the moment they started. 1000 years past and it would appear as if this art was long gone. As the prophecy stated, … Read More