Paul Battisson - Mastering Apex Programming

A developers guide to learning advanced techniques and best practices for building robust Salesforce applications

Paul Battisson

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The Salesforce platform is powerful, yet approachable. That is why I fell in love with it and teach it to this day at MikeWheelerMediaPlus.com. Simply put, Salesforce is the most attainable path to a cloud career.

Although much can be built in Salesforce with clicks instead of code, the ability to code will separate you from the crowd. This book unlocks that power and grants you extreme relevance in the marketplace.

Apex is the fundamental language of Salesforce. It drives the underpinnings of the platform. It is an efficient and elegant language. But as with all programming languages, it is not without its quirks.

In the pages ahead, Paul Battisson will share his own lessons learned from years of solving problems with Apex. It will serve you well as a reference and guide, illuminating the blind turns and challenging paths that lay before you as you strike out on your journey of finding the intersection of attainable and essential.

Mike Wheeler

Owner, Mike Wheeler Media, LLC

Paul Battisson is a seven-time Salesforce MVP and has been a speaker at numerous global Salesforce events, including Dreamforce, Londons Calling, and India Dreamin. He has been working with the Salesforce platform for over 11 years in a mix of both product development and consulting roles. Paul now helps lead a UK-based consulting partner, as well as blogs, has a YouTube channel, and leads a Salesforce Developer Group.

I would like to thank all who have listened to and supported me in writing this book. This includes the entire Cloud Galacticos team; Kerry Townsend for her support and ear; Carolina Ruiz for (once again) helping with my questions and ideas. I would also like to thank my family for their patience as I worked on the book, as well as Ian, Day, and James for listening to all of the book talk. A special thanks to Mike Gill for all his support, great advice, and fantastic feedback.

Michael Gill is an experienced technical architect. His career in Salesforce and cloud technology now spans two decades; he started his career with Oracle NetSuite. For the past decade, he has been focused on the Salesforce platform and other leading cloud technologies.

He co-writes the hugely popular Salesforce Weekly blog dedicated to all things Salesforce. He was recognized as a Salesforce MVP for five consecutive years and was recently awarded the MVP Hall of Fame accolade.

He has previously reviewed Learning Salesforce Visual Workflow and Salesforce CRM: The Definitive Admin Handbook and the Complete Lighting Development video series.

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