Welcome to the new Nerd at Work! It took me 5 years but finally this blog has been completely rebranded and moved to WordPress. I thank Davide D’Annibale for helping me customizing this theme and drawing the funny graphics (with my BIG face). Yes, that’s so…my face is supposed to be the main logo of […]
[Salesforce / AppExchange Series] Streamline Project Management with Cloud Coach Milestones
This week’s AppExchange hero is Brandi Johson, marketing consultant at Cloud Coach, who is going to present us Cloud Coach Milestones, the ideal tool for simple task and project management on the Salesforce platform. Brandi Johnson is a marketing consultant and certified Salesforce admin. She focuses on helping clients create effective marketing strategies and leverage […]
[Salesforce / Amazon Echo] AlexForce 2.0: integrate Salesforce and Alexa (the ultimate Apex library)
More than 2 years ago I wrote about a library I made up for integrating Salesforce and Amazon Echo, using its REST APIs and Apex: this is the original post. I supported the library for a while hoping that the Ohana could took ownership of it but unfortunately this didn’t happened. With great surprise I […]
[Salesforce / AppExchange Series] RingsTrue: Smarter phone numbers in Salesforce
This week’s new post is dedicated to a new AppExchange app, meant to help us in one of the most difficult and annoying tasks on every CRM: phone number validation. Thanks to our week’s guest blogger Iain Clements. Iain runs Cloud Ursa Ltd, a registered Salesforce partner based in the UK. In addition to helping […]
[Javascript / Chrome / EasyPeasy] Blocking form autocomplete after Chrome Canary (version 65)
Recent Google Chrome update (65) brought something that developers are not liking too much: the autocomplete=”off” attribute on forms and inputs is no more considered. Read in depth this Stack Overflow thread. The solution (not so clear) is to give a random autocomplete value to the autocomplete attribute of each input of the form: $(‘form […]
[Salesforce / Apex Test] Code coverage and logical tests in Apex Test Classes
This article is actually a repost from a buddy I came across online. I read his articles on LinkedIn by chance and I really appreciated the easy way he writes and how he delivers important Salesforce concepts. I choose an article about Apex Test Coverage… but before going on the article… …please take a moment […]
[Salesforce / AppExchange Series] Skyvia: easy way to load your Salesforce data into Amazon Redshift
Here we are in the next Salesforce app guest post. Skivia is a great solution for Data warehouse in the cloud, with tens of integrations and connectors to integrate, back up, access, and manage your cloud data with an all-in-one cloud service. With Skivia service you have to think less about where to put all […]
[Salesforce / Ecosystem] Salesforce Jobs: What’s Italian Salesforce really like?
I’m humbled and honored to present you the latest Mason Frank’s salary survey results related to the italian market. Few days before Dreamforce 17 I asked Maria Baranowska and Alan Ferrari (managers at Mason Frank) if they could send me the raw data about Italy’s market of Mason Frank’s annual salary survey and, surprise, they […]
[Salesforce / Translation Workbench] Import/Export translations betwen ORGs with different metadata configuration
This guest post is written by one of the most powerful coworkers I’ve been working with in the last years. His name is Tommaso Bolis and I call him the Robo-Bolis because I believe he’s a smart and super productive top coder, and sometimes make me fear he’s not human! Jokes aside, it’s months I’m […]
[AppExchange series] 10 best things you can do offline with Salesforce data (and Resco Mobile app)
Happy new year to everyone! First post of 2018 celebrates the AppExchange: the call for guest AppExchange posts is getting a lot of answers and amazing ISVs want to share their app. In this guest post I want to present you the Resco Mobile App, an amazing solution for Salesforce offline management, fully customizable with […]