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Python Snippet – Get Exception Stack Trace
Every once in a while I just need to get the stack trace of an exception as a string so that I can log the error in a separate system. Here is a quick way to do that:
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JavaScript – Base64 Data URLs Outside of the Latin1 Range
It is often handy to create downloadable content on the fly using JavaScript. Sometimes you may want to do so while also encoding the contents as base64. That is where the btoa() function comes in handy. Here is an example Read more…
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Python Snippet – Datetimes In UTC
There have been so many times when I wanted to have a datetime show in UTC. I am not talking about simply looking at the time and acting as if it is in UTC. For example let’s say that I Read more…
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Python Integration – QuickBooks Customer Object Tidbit
Recently I had to write a custom integration which would sync customers found in QuickBooks with accounts found in Salesforce. We have been using Python to write all of our custom integrations so I have been using python-quickbooks and simple-salesforce. Read more…
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JavaScript Snippet – Convert Column Name To Number
On a rare occasion you may need to convert a column name from Excel or Google Sheets to a number. For example you may be seeing references to a random column such as D, G, BV, etc. but you don’t Read more…
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Embed Office Documents On Your Site
Have you ever wanted to display an Excel workbook or a Word document on your website? Of course, it is possible to save files as HTML but it just doesn’t have the same feel. Fortunately Microsoft can actually come to Read more…
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Salesforce Apex – Disable Downloads Based On File Name & User Profile
Let’s say that similar to what we did in yesterday’s post, today you want to disable downloads based on a file name. The difference is this time you want to target the user’s profile type instead of their role. Once Read more…
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Salesforce Apex – Disable Downloads Based On File Name & User Role
Imagine that you want to disable downloads for certain users based on the name of the file uploaded to Salesforce. This is totally possible thanks to the power of Apex classes. We can use the following example code inside of Read more…
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JavaScript Snippet – domReady() Function
Sometimes you may want to know if the DOM is ready to be manipulated. Most of the time you want to run some code only after the DOM is ready to be modified. For that reason for years we used Read more…
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Hack – Get A User’s GitHub Avatar
Have you ever needed to get any user’s GitHub avatar just based on their username? If you have then you are in luck because the process is quite simple. All you need to do is place the username in the Read more…