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November 10, 2014

Here are a few of my favorite sites that will help you along your Salesforce journey!

Trailhead is Salesforce’s official training tool for admins and developers and it’s chock-full of videos, code, and challenges. The best part is that it’s fully integrated to your dev org, so it knows if you’re completing the assignments or not!
Andy is the Cloud is a frequently updated site that covers ultra technical concepts and the latest technologies in the Salesforce.com platform. Andy’s a Salesforce MVP and CTO of FinancialForce – he knows A LOT more about Apex than I do!
Admin Hero is SFDC99 for admins. It covers everything including basic admin skills, advanced topics, Salesforce industry trends, and even subjects like how to work with non-technical business contacts. Check out the Zero-to-Hero series!
Jeff Douglas’s blog is one of the longest standing Apex blogs and easily one of the best in the industry. You know you’re going to get fresh, high quality content every time you visit his site. I model SFDC99 off this blog, which says a lot!
concret.io is known for covering the latest and greatest in the Apex world. Abhinav has absolutely no fear experimenting with new Salesforce features. I copy code from this site all the time and I would’ve failed many projects without it.
Advanced Apex Programming is required reading for any self-respecting Salesforce developer! It has become the gold standard in the Apex world, so much so that it was given out to every attendee at Dreamforce. Dan Appleman, the author, is one of the best coders in the industry, much better than I am!
Wizard News is a well-maintained blog on the declarative side of Salesforce as well as the latest industry trends. Even for developers, I recommend checking out this site to keep up with the latest advancements in the Salesforce world.
LimitException is written by the #1 badass in the Apex world. Steven Herod has every Salesforce certification, he’s a Salesforce MVP, and he’s the guy I want to be in the not too distant future. Everyone can learn something from this site!
19 Comments
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rajiv
June 24, 2016 @ 10:08 am

How to de duplicate the existing data in salesforce with out the use of third party external tools?

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    Parag Bhatt
    March 28, 2017 @ 9:56 am

    hey rajiv just use the import wizard which is already in salesforce .It will help you in de-duplication of your records.Thanks

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Mahesh
February 2, 2016 @ 1:13 am

Hi sir,

Its mahesh sir i m planning my final year project using salesforce coding so i dnt hv any idea about this type of coding so i kindly requesting you to suggest some resources for me to learn

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Meenakshi
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Venkata
February 9, 2015 @ 8:19 pm

Hello David, can you provide me with salesfoce platform’s industry use cases ?

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    David Liu
    February 9, 2015 @ 11:49 pm

    They say it best at http://www.salesforce.com/ !

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Sony A
January 11, 2015 @ 1:46 am

Hi David,

What is the best way to learn VisualForce? Any books or resources you can suggest please.

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    David Liu
    January 12, 2015 @ 6:19 pm

    I don’t have any resources in particular that come to mind =( Not a lot out there!

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      Ravi
      January 26, 2015 @ 4:02 pm

      I also had the same question.I guess VisualForce workbook from SalesForce can help. Can be found here http://www.salesforce.com/us/developer/docs/workbook_vf/workbook_vf.pdf

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        Brett Barlow
        February 11, 2015 @ 9:16 pm

        There’s a module on Trailhead covering Visualforce now!

        https://developer.salesforce.com/trailhead/modules

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          David Liu
          February 11, 2015 @ 11:11 pm

          Thanks Brett – added this to the Visualforce tutorial page too!

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          Farzana Hafiz
          July 8, 2015 @ 10:42 am

          Yes, I found Trailhead, very good for beginners like me.

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            David Liu
            July 9, 2015 @ 6:01 pm

            Trailhead rocks!!

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Jared Jones
January 8, 2015 @ 10:46 am

Hi David,

New arrival to your blog today. What I’ve seen so far looks great. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and experiences.

I have been going through the Trailhead tutorials, and am curious if you have encountered this issue. I am not able to connect my SF DE org to Trailhead. Log in hangs at this URL //dfc-org-production.force.com/forums/AuthCrossDomainLogin?referrer=/trailhead/modules%3Fstate%3Did with the page displaying “Logging you in…” Same thing when trying to log in to the help site (so I cannot leave a ticket).

No big deal, as I can still do all of the exercises, just have to remember where I left off.

Thanks again, and looking forward to soaking up all of the information on your site.

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    David Liu
    January 8, 2015 @ 5:35 pm

    Glad you like the site!

    In my experience if you tweet @SalesforceDevs about issues with Trailhead they’ll fix them RIGHT away!
    https://twitter.com/SalesforceDevs

    Don’t have any experience myself with the error message you’re getting – sorry!

    David

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Brandon Bertrand
December 31, 2014 @ 8:27 am

Thank you for these excellent resources. Did not know they were giving out the Advanced Apex Programming at Dreamforce(or was that a previous one) and to be honest I did not know about the book, but I am going to pick it up now that I know it exists.

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    Brandon Bertrand
    December 31, 2014 @ 10:42 am

    If there was a way to retract this comment i would…just looked at my shelf of books and that book is on it from dream force…. *face palm*

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      David Liu
      December 31, 2014 @ 10:44 am

      Nice one Brandon! LOL

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