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February 2017

The new Apex stub API

It’s finally generally available with the Spring ’17 release; the Apex stub API! This is really going to make your unit tests easier to write and enable you to write more meaningful tests.

In this post I’ll cover why this is such a big deal and how you can incorporate it into your unit tests going forward.

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Queueable callouts in Apex just became even better in the latest release of Salesforce as you can now make webservice callouts in chained queueable callouts! 

https://releasenotes.docs.salesforce.com/en-us/spring17/release-notes/rn_apex_chaining.htm?edition=&impact=

Lightning Design System & Visualforce

Visualforce got an update!

One of the coolest updates within the Spring ’17 release notes I found was the ability to now natively use the Lightning Design System directly inside Visualforce without needing to upload or reference a static resource.

Why is this cool? Simple. You don’t contribute to the overall limit of how much space your static resources take up and you benefit from always having the latest version of the Lightning Design System incorporated into your pages.

In this release Salesforce has added the new apex:slds tag.

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The under used String.format

As developers we are frequently capturing data from form input, validating and displaying errors back to the user when validation criteria are not met. Other times we have to create strings such as URL’s with dynamic parameter values or even queries with dynamic where clauses.

In this blog post I want to demonstrate a much better approach on how to create dynamic error messages or even other types of strings using the under used String.format method.

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