Author Archives: Stephen

A Tale of Two Platforms

Posted on November 16, 2017

It will be 10 years ago next month that I wrote my first line of Apex code. Visualforce was in beta (though not yet packageable), the only valid use of the “extends” keyword in Apex was for custom exceptions, and … Continue reading →

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Batch Apex Query Behaviour

Posted on October 25, 2015

How fresh is your batch? When running a Batch Apex job which implements Database.Batchable<sObject>, you specify a query in the start method (in which you can select up to 50M records) and define an activity to be performed based on these records in … Continue reading →

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FlexQueue and the Evolution of Asynchronous Apex

Posted on September 23, 2015

Governor Grappling Sooner or later (okay, sooner rather than later) when working in Apex we will need to grapple with Apex Governor Limits Because Apex runs in a multitenant environment, the Apex runtime engine strictly enforces limits to ensure that runaway … Continue reading →

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Q&A with AMsource Technology

Posted on April 30, 2015

Reblog: AMsource Technology Q&A WITH STEPHEN WILLCOCK OF FINANCIALFORCE.COM Monday 27th April 2015 We talked with Stephen Willcock from our client Financialforce.com, and had the opportunity to discuss a number of subjects such as his role as Director of Product Innovation, what … Continue reading →

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Apex Method of the Day – JSON.serialize(Object)

Posted on July 25, 2014

Sometimes using JSON.serialize on a custom Apex type does not provide sufficient control over how the JSON is serialized. For example, serializing an Apex type will include null values for all fields that haven’t been set, when you might prefer … Continue reading →

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One controller to rule them all…

Posted on July 16, 2014

I recently wanted to create an extension controller for a custom object which I could use with both single records and a set of records. In other words, a list and detail controller extension, with actions that could be applied to one or many records. I … Continue reading →

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IP Address Ranges when Logging in to Salesforce

Posted on May 22, 2014

Salesforce user security. Its great. As well as being one of the things customers value highly, its a massive advantage for application developers to be building upon a trusted platform with robust and well considered security features. Restricting logins to specific IP addresses or ranges of addresses … Continue reading →

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