Author Archives: The Paranoid Android

How to get a job in the Salesforce ecosystem

Here are the steps to land a fantastic job in the Salesforce ecosystem. Step 1: Sign up for trailhead Step 2: Pick a trailhead track Step 3: Spend 3-4 months learning as much as you can from that track Step 4: Get certified Step 5: Try to find a business or company that will letContinue reading “How to get a job in the Salesforce ecosystem”

Integrating Salesforce Orders with Quickbooks Pt. 6

[This is part of our series of posts where we outline how to connect Salesforce with Quickbooks. You can check out pt. 1 here.] Today we’ll go through the API callout class. It’s simple- we assemble the JSON string and then call Quickbooks. The first series of code we’ll look at is how we areContinue reading “Integrating Salesforce Orders with Quickbooks Pt. 6”

Integrating Salesforce Orders with Quickbooks pt. 5

[This is a part of a series reviewing how we integrated Salesforce with Quickbooks. See part 1 here.] We’ll review the code for our trigger today. Salesforce provides multiple template classes for asynchronous processes. We decided that given our needs with this integration we should use the Trigger class as a listener on account updates.Continue reading “Integrating Salesforce Orders with Quickbooks pt. 5”

Integrating Salesforce Orders with Quickbooks Pt. 4 – Introducing Our Trigger

[This is part of a series on integrating Salesforce with Quickbooks. See parts 1, 2, and 3 to catch up.] Now that we’ve handled Intuit’s Oauth2 security authorization we can start building out the functionality of our integration. Sputnik Coffee co. desired a “one touch” process. In other words, they wanted to press one buttonContinue reading “Integrating Salesforce Orders with Quickbooks Pt. 4 – Introducing Our Trigger”

Integrating Salesforce Orders With Quickbooks Pt. 3

In the last post we discussed our lightning component and how it enables us to interact with the Intuit Oauth2 authentication system. If you haven’t seen that one yet you can check out part 2 here. (Also, here’s part 1). Today we’re going to dive in to the code for contacting the Intuit Oauth2 systemContinue reading “Integrating Salesforce Orders With Quickbooks Pt. 3”

Integrating Salesforce Orders with Quickbooks Pt. 2

This post is a continuation of the series started here. Quickbooks has a lot of great features and is a lot of fun to play around with. Intuit even offers a whole sandbox so we don’t have to mess with our organizational data/ workflow during development. But, before we get to the meat of theContinue reading “Integrating Salesforce Orders with Quickbooks Pt. 2”

Integrating Salesforce Orders with Quickbooks Pt. 1

Sputnik coffee company has an irritating problem. Currently, their clients use a web portal to place orders on the Salesforce system. This order system is working well- but the problem is that Sputnik uses Quickbooks as their accounting software. Every new order requires a cut and paste of the order’s info into Quickbooks. This isContinue reading “Integrating Salesforce Orders with Quickbooks Pt. 1”

Largest Palindrome Product of 3 Digit Numbers

A palindromic number reads the same both ways. The largest palindrome made from the product of two 2-digit numbers is 9009 = 91 × 99. Find the largest palindrome made from the product of two 3-digit numbers. This one was tough. I ended up calculating every palindrome for every 3 digit number, saving it intoContinue reading “Largest Palindrome Product of 3 Digit Numbers”