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CleanSlate is now a Red Hat Partner
CleanSlate is an IT partner who is always by your side. By working with Red Hat, the industry’s top enterprise Linux vendor, you have a partner in the planning, deployment, and maintenance of your infrastructure. Among the many...
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Connecting with Students at IUPUI
I had the great opportunity on October 25th to join other Salesforce Community Members on a Speaker Panel at IUPUI. The purpose of this event was to expose students in Technology Learning Programs what a career working the Salesforce Ecosystem is all...
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MuleSoft 4: Using the Amazon DynamoDB Connector
Overview The following provides a quick example of how to use the “Amazon DynamoDB Connector - Mule 4” using Anypoint Studio. While there is a lot of documentation available for both this connector and Amazon’s DynamoDB API, none could be found that specifically shows...
read moreJust How Easy is it to be Hacked?
Earlier this year, David Gilbertson published an excellent article on Hacker Noon with the eye-catching title "I’m harvesting credit card numbers and passwords from your site. Here’s how." While the article is noted as a fictional endeavor, the approach that is...
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Testing the Waters
Does testing really pay off in the World of software development? As software developers, we are constantly hounded about the importance of automated testing. We hear diatribes about test driven development, evangelist who swear by unit testing, and coders who claim...
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Salesforce Formula Fields & Picklist Fields/Values
It's always "refreshing" to find something so innocuous in Salesforce that kind of throws you for a loop. Especially when this "innocuous" item is a little counter-intuitive to the Salesforce mantra of "clicks not code". Plus, it appears to have impacted people for...
read moreILMT: A Gateway to SAM?
To take advantage Sub-capacity licensing and its inherent value, IBM customers are required to: 1) Install either the IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) or BigFix Inventory (BFI). 2) Produce audit reporting on at least a quarterly basis, and 3) Retain such reports...
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Giving Back is Part of What We Do
One of our practice goals for 2018 for the Salesforce team was to donate/volunteer our time to the communities in which we live. We are attempting to follow Salesforce's 1-1-1 initiative as much as possible. The size of our company and team doesn't give us much...
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Process Builder Enhancements – Assign Record Ownership with Lookup’s not Id’s
Are you tired of “hard-coding” owner id’s whether for a queue or a user inside of Process Builder and doing constant screen switching to find the correct id’s and making mistakes putting the id’s into your process? Look no further… New with Winter ’18 you can now...
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Bundling Best Practices – Exclusion and Suppression
Perhaps the most important aspect of fully utilizing IBM’s ILMT (or Big Fix Inventory) tool is to be able to accurately create bundling relationships. For those that are unfamiliar, bundling is the process where users confirm the specific IBM Product that each...
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