My Journey to RUST Programming

This is not the first time I implemented a dedicated messaging service using the XMPP/Jabber protocol. Many may wonder how are we going to monetize this service? There are already tons of messaging servers out there why build another one? I don’t have one answer for that. First, I want…

I’m relatively new to Salesforce objects but not new to the concepts of SQL and other relational databases. I found that time-typed field is one of the least documented feature in Salesforce. A time-typed field is simply a field with a time type, not datetime type or Date type. Creating a SOQL script for it should not include a date just a time in this format: 13:00:00.000Z //simply means 1PM regardless of timezone

Sorry about the title. Finally, I got your attention but let’s keep this post as relevant as possible , short and simple as possible. I would probably explain each in the comments section. So cheers! Your boyfriend doesn’t know how to effectively initialise a JavaScript array. Your boyfriend still writes…

How to safely ‘UPSERT’ in Postgresql with NodeJS One of the coolest features of Postgresql is INSERT ON CONFLICT, it is a way for PostgreSQL to handle unique constraint violation or attempting to insert a record with duplicate key. …

Let’s make this quick and easy. Startup is a business designed to grow big, fast and if a startup didn’t live up to its designed expectations it will either fold down or pivot in to something else, something its founders never passionately envisioned. Now what’s an IPO? It stands for…

Rendering frameworks just like application server frameworks back in the day always have their respective cult following, yes, I typed “cult”. Take a look at some Javascript dev job listings one way or another you will notice a required or optional skill in one of those “faddy” frameworks it could…

I’m new to Salesforce development and started working on my first SF platform developer certification but I’m not new to software development, it has been a love-hate relationship going on in the past 20 years. Anyway, let’s get down to the business. Having said that I’m new Salesforce development, a…

This may sound easy for the experienced ones, but will be a major time-waster if you haven’t done something like this before. First things first, Heroku Postgres connection strings are usually set up in an environment variable, if you go to your Heroku app dashboard and click the Settings tab, there’s a section call ‘Config Vars’ and a button called “Reveal Config Vars” inside it, click that button and it will the PostgreSQL environment variable usually it’s DATABASE_URL, at times it can be HEROKU_POSTGRESQL_<SOME_COLOR>_URL. Either way, all you need to do is replicate this environment variable locally

It was 23 years ago when I started coding for a living. It was all about device driver development in C/C++ for manufacturing companies, it was fun until it was not, the fun diminished not in the coding part but the code was stable enough and does not require a…