Developer Tips
Salesforce Version Control
Best Practices, Benefits, and Implementation Guide
Harry Williams11 min read
Developer Tips
Resolving Merge Conflicts in Salesforce
Salesforce teams face code clobbering and loss of metadata due to complex sandbox strategies. Git solves this with backup and merge conflict handling. Blue Canvas offers automatic syncing and 1-click conflict resolution for faster development.
Randalyn Hill-Coffer3 min read
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Complex Salesforce Project Management with Feature Branching
How Blue Canvas enables feature branches with our Virtual Packaging concept.
Randalyn Hill-Coffer5 min read
Developer Tips
Destructive Changes in Salesforce
Learn how to simplify the process of performing destructive changes in Salesforce, making it easier and safer to remove unused Apex Classes and other metadata types automatically.
Randalyn Hill-Coffer4 min read
Developer Tips
Salesforce Metadata Backups
Backing up Salesforce metadata is just as important as backing up data. Blue Canvas uses Git to automatically backup metadata changes.
Randalyn Hill-Coffer3 min read
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Why Every Salesforce Developer Should Use Git
How Git can solve workflow problems for Salesforce developers using Apex, Visualforce, and Lightning.
Randalyn Hill-Coffer5 min read
Developer Tips
Apex Best Practices: Scaling and Managing Code
Discover proven Apex best practices. Build scalable and agile codebases for enhanced Salesforce performance.
Randalyn Hill-Coffer22 min read
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Debugging Apex With Salesforce’s Debug Logs and Checkpoints
Navigate Salesforce's Debug Logs and Checkpoints for Apex debugging. Understand log messages and checkpoints for efficient problem-solving.
Randalyn Hill-Coffer10 min read
Developer Tips
Salesforce DX and Blue Canvas
Salesforce is investing in a strategic overhaul of the Force.com developer experience with Salesforce DX, while Blue Canvas offers a managed service that brings native source control to the Salesforce platform in a way that enables CI. Blue Canvas will leverage a lot of the tools that DX makes available, but it is backwards compatible to your current workflow and in private beta today.
Randalyn Hill-Coffer5 min read
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Continuous Delivery, DevOps and Other Dreamforce Highlights
Dreamforce 2016 attracted over 170,000 attendees, with DevOps and Continuous Delivery being hot topics, and Git being a major theme.
Randalyn Hill-Coffer5 min read
Developer Tips
MavensMate for Visual Studio Code
Turn your text editor into the Salesforce Developer Console with MavensMate for Visual Studio Code.
Randalyn Hill-Coffer6 min read
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Why merging is the hardest part of integrating Git with Salesforce
Diving into what it takes to smoothly merge work across Salesforce orgs
Randalyn Hill-Coffer7 min read
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