Salesforce coding lessons for the 99%Finally, Apex tutorials for point-and-click admins! Written by a self-taught Google engineer.
Salesforce coding lessons for the 99%
Thank you everyone for participating in the SFDC99 Golden T-Shirt Giveaway!!!
My wife and I read every single career and parenting tip submitted and chose our favorites! If your tip was chosen, you’ve got a Golden T-Shirt coming your way soon!
We hope you enjoy these nuggets of advice as much as we do =)
| Top 10 Career Tips | Submitted By | |
| 1 | “Fear kills more dreams than failure. In other words, don’t be afraid to fail. The fear keeps you from potentially doing something great!” | Nicole Henry |
| 2 | “The key to happiness is resiliency, perseverance and being grateful for the people and opportunities that have come into your life. These qualities will help you to be confident in yourself every day and to push yourself to become more than you were yesterday.
Before you know it, you will look back at your life and see how far you have come. Then the impossible all the sudden doesn’t seem so impossible anymore. This is the place where dreams come true.” |
Liz Adams |
| 3 | “You don’t have to work 16 hours a day. To achieve great results it’s enough to do focused work for 5 to 6 hours a day.
Playing and enjoying life is as important for your professional development as the quality time spent on working and, ultimately, workaholism could be as bad as chronic procrastination.” |
Tsezarii |
| 4 | “Be humble. Use every experience as a learning opportunity. Don’t take things personally. Always strive to be the best version of yourself.” | Nicole Smith |
| 5 | “The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep. When everyone else is sleeping, I keep learning Salesforce everyday.” |
Joseph Thomas |
| 6 | “A little bit of consistent effort can result in bigger and better gains than a erratic massive push.” | Muneer Algazzali |
| 7 | “Without the right ATTITUDE ability and motivation won’t get you very far.” | Suzie Dusek |
| 8 | “Everyone makes mistakes, no one is infallible. Know that you can be wrong, accept it, learn from it, teach others the error in your ways.
This also helps in being less defensive when something does inevitably goes wrong. Treat those moments as learning experiences and try not to make the same mistake twice (that one is hard).” |
Gustavo |
| 9 | “My career tip would be this: work hard, be nice to people even when sometimes you don’t want to be, and use failures as a learning tool.” | Jeanette Jett |
| 10 | “Never underestimate yourself. It doesn’t make sense to talk yourself small (it’s a German proverb “kleinreden”), because if you do so, your surroundings will see you as the person you present yourself as and therefore you will see yourself as smaller than you really are.
Be confident in what you can do and also be confident in what you can not do, so don’t make yourself bigger than you are, because in the long run, people around will see through that as well and will think lesser of you.” |
Jörn |
My wife and I especially enjoyed these next tips, as we just welcomed our second baby to the family!
| Top 10 Parenting Tips | Submitted By | |
| 1 | “1. Every child is different. Pay attention.
2. Advice is great, but always consider your feelings and the feelings of your child(ren) / spouse. 3. Establish a relationship with your child(ren) from birth. They will remember the littlest way that you have made them smile. 4. Date nights aren’t only for you and your spouse. As the mother of 3 (15, 12, 2), I have a date night with my children together and separately. 5. Be intentional. Just as you should have a personal mission statement, you should consider writing one for your marriage and for parenting with your spouse; and share it with your children.” |
Ianthe Hernandez |
| 2 | “We always motivate children to push themselves, compete and win when they start playing various games. Child learns from us that winning is a happy moment and losing is sad moment. Rather we should convince them 2 things: Losing is not a sad moment but an opportunity to be happy in winners happy moments And also to stand up again positively, understand mistakes and win the next time. |
Namita Pai |
| 3 | “Treat your kid like a human who can make choices, but when they are young make those choices have insular options, not infinite options.
Example: When my kid doesn’t want to eat what I’ve given them I offer them choices about what is possible with what is already there to work with, not ask them open-ended questions about what would prefer other than what has been presented. Doing this helps them be in line with the idea that they do not dictate the terms of their needs, but instead helps them collaborate on the terms already presented. This idea has been really helpful in my parenting in many areas, not just food. – Dad of two super controlling alpha boys under 5” |
Dan Walker |
| 4 | “Our children are mirror reflections of ourselves. When you find yourself frustrated or overwhelmed by their behavior, take a pause and reflect on whether you may exhibit that same behavior in another form.
For example: Does your child constantly interrupt you while you are speaking to them? Hmmmm… take pause and be honest with yourself. can you think back to conversations earlier that day or in the week and recall if you interrupted others. Taking a minute to be thoughtful about their actions and be a manifestation of your own will lead you to offer them more grace and less frustration. It may also offer you an opportunity to giggle at yourself and offload some stress.” |
Shae Walker |
| 5 | “PUT THE PHONE DOWN!
I know it’s a very difficult thing to do, especially when you’re a techie and work in the industry, but I cannot stress enough how much this takes away from your relationship with your child(ren). I have 4 fantastic kids (ages 10 months – 6 years old). I was once glued to my iPhone 24/7 without noticing how little attention I was giving them. About a year and a half ago, I was on my phone and my 5 year old (at the time) said ‘Dad, get off your phone. Geez!’. Fortunately, it kind of slapped me in the face and gave me a wake up. Since then, when I get home from work, my phone is put on silent on my nightstand and I don’t read articles or check emails until I lay down for bed. I’ve seen a real positive impact to our relationship and couldn’t be happier for making this change.” |
Justin Tortorich |
| 6 | “I’ve been taught throughout my life and will also teach my children not to grow or indulge in the following activities or do something like that:
Wealth without work. |
Samir Sayyad |
| 7 | “My parenting tip is that it is okay to apologize to your children.
We can get caught up with always needing to be right as the parent. We may not want to admit that we made a mistake because we think it will compromise our parental authority. It won’t. Your children will respect that you have the integrity to admit it when you are wrong. And most importantly, you will be teaching them an invaluable lesson about humility and accountability.” |
David Nava |
| 8 | “Take a moment to stop and listen to your kids. When they are talking, remove all distractions, kneel down to their level and genuinely engage in a thoughtful conversation. Your time together is precious and they long for your attention and to be heard.” | Ben Robertson |
| 9 | “You cannot steer your kids right all the time or they will never learn for themselves. They can only learn by getting their fingers burnt, your job is to stand by with the Elastoplast and antiseptic and a kiss to make it better.” | Jeremiah Kofi |
| 10 | trigger goodParent on child (after insert){
for (child raiseChild : trigger.new) {
child happyChild = new child(id=raiseChild.id);
happyChild.owie = ‘Hugs and kisses’; update happychild; // with a limit of 100 I think it’s unlikely you’ll need this outside the loop } } |
Roan |
Congratulations to all the winners and Happy Holidays to all!
P.S. Please forgive us in advance for delays as I’m spending extra time with baby =)
Really enjoyed reading everyone’s advice. Definitely words to reflect on. Thank you David Liu for making this opportunity available.
Congratulation, Sensei David Liu, for the wonderful news!
Although I didn’t get to wear the new Golden T-shirt >_<,
the lessons I learned from everyone is priceless.
Good Night, little baby!
P.S. Still remember the good old day, I hope you both can catch some good sleep when the baby is napping.