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October 18, 2024

Feature Toggling and the Null Object Pattern

Feature toggles allow us to do a lot of good things, like have continuous integration to be able to merge into development or main without needing to finish the development of a feature (i.e. even if the feature is not done, we can ship it as off while we finish), track how much usage our features are getting, quickly turn off changes in case the new feature has introduced regression issues, etc.

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April 8, 2024

Writing Clear Tests

I came across some good recommendations on unit testing that I wanted to share with the team. The following are direct quotes from the Software Engineering at Google, Unit Testing chapter book, adding my own emphasis and commentary to tie it back to the work that we do.

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October 15, 2024

Live Session Extravaganza Topics and Tips

This article provides a summary of key concepts and practical tips from a live session on software development. Topics include various design patterns such as Singleton, Abstract Factory, and Visitor, as well as development practices like TDD, JSON serialization workarounds, and the importance of committing meaningful changes. Additionally, it offers do's and don'ts for coding, such as refactoring early, writing focused unit tests, and avoiding overloaded methods with flags.

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August 5, 2024

Anti-Pattern: God Classes

A lot of us are familiar with design patterns, which are typical solutions to recurring problems we see in software. Just like there are patterns that emerge over time and can help you solve common problems, there are also anti-patterns which, on the other hand, usually need to some kind of negative consequence.

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October 16, 2024

Why is unit testing a PITA (Pain In The Abs)?

A few of us enjoy the process of writing unit tests. It feels great having a safety net that verifies that your production code is working as expected, or that the changes you just made to pre-existing code didn’t introduce any regressions. Even better if those tests are quick, and you can rerun them again and again to keep getting that dopamine hit whenever you see that green bar that indicates that everything is all right.

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October 17, 2024

Freaky Apex Quirks - The Null That's Not Null

We all know that Apex is the most powerful tool we have to customize and extend Salesforce and, even though I find myself frustrated with the slow speed in which the language evolves compared to modern languages, I still find myself often being impressed by the fact that Salesforce allows us to do some of the things we can do with Apex.

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