ApexApplication: My Pen Pal
(How the Nonprofit Starter Pack handles unhandled Apex error messages) Introduction If you’re like me, somewhere in your phones’ contact list is a trusty old friend ‘ApexApplication’. And if you’re...
View ArticleNPO Triggers 101
The Last Stand of the Point & Click Admin (NOTE: This post originally appeared in the May 2011 issue of the Salesforce.com Foundation newsletter) Introduction Clicks not code. Clicks not code....
View ArticleGit and Managed Packages
This post is a bit more on the technical side. The Devzone at Dreamforce this year was abuzz with git, the awesome distributed version control system that’s rapidly gaining fans in the developer...
View ArticleMy Obligatory Winter 12 Release Notes Faves
I think its standard practice for folks with SFDC blogs to rip into the pre-release notes for each upcoming release and pull out there faves. I’d be remiss to whiff on another opportunity to do so, so...
View Articlegit Unmanaged Nonprofit Starter Pack
I often get requests for a new instance of the NPSP to “play around with”. Not a big deal, you can always get the six core packages (including Batch Data Entry) via the Appexchange, and figure using...
View ArticleNonprofit Starter Pack Developer Sprint 2012
Well that’s a wrap. Three amazing days of hacking on amazing new features for the Nonprofit Starter Pack, new tools and resources for nonprofits, and new packages and functionality for the community as...
View ArticleNPSP Households Version 2.4 Now Available
Version 2.4 of the Nonprofit Starterpack Households package is now generally available and can be installed using this link. Some highlights include: - You can now define your own Opportunity Rollups...
View ArticleNPSP DC Developer Sprint 2012
I’m not going to lie in this post: I’m fairly certain I’m still not caught up on sleep and adrenaline from this year’s Nonprofit Starter Pack East Coast Developer Sprint. We took our traveling caravan...
View ArticleForce.com CI Using AWS, Github & Jenkins
I recently wanted to setup a continuous integration server for some internal force.com projects we have at the Foundation. I had a pretty difficult time finding clear instructions from start to finish...
View ArticleDynamically Building Package.xml
You might have seen my previous post on building out a Jenkins server on AWS. Towards the end, I mentioned some of the various things you can do during the course of your build and post-build steps for...
View ArticleVariations on Requiredness
A little story… Back in ye olden days (circa 2011), the Nonprofit Starter Pack started collecting and categorizing the errors being created by the package. Sometimes they were problems in the code....
View ArticleUsing Workbench to Add Reports to the NPSP
Thanks to some amazing work by Gorav Seth, Albert Pulido, Tim Forbes, Ehren Foss and Marc Baizman at this past winter’s NPSP Developer Sprint, we have a set of 47 new reports and five new dashboards...
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