Surendranadh Nune

Ever since I registered for tranistion exam in August, I kept on postponing the exam till today. Finally, I passed the exam today. Happy to share my knowledge on the exam. Just simply follow the below topics mentioned in study guide to crack the exam: Describe the capabilities of base-system objects such as sharing objects, history objects, metadata objects, multi-currency, and Chatter objects. Describe the different capabilities of and use cases for the various Salesforce development platforms (Heroku, Fuel, Force.com). Describe how to design code that accommodates multi-language, multi-currency, multi-locale considerations. Describe the implications of compound data types in Apex programming. Describe the interactions between Visualforce/Apex with Flow/Lightning Process Builder. Given a scenario, describe when and how to use Apex managed sharing. Describe the use cases for the various authentication techniques. Given a set of requirements, describe the process for designing...

Salesforce has made another acquisition to build out its technology in machine learning and big data analytics: the company has acquired PredictionIO, a startup based out of Palo Alto that had developed an open source-based machine learning server. Read this article by TechCrunch for furthur information: http://techcrunch.com/2016/02/19/salesforce-acquires-predictionio-to-build-up-its-machine-learning-muscle/

I would like to share my recent experience with Date fields and timezone. Scenario 1: Created a date field 'CustomDate__c'. I configured a validation rule which says , CustomDate__c > Today() Problem: There are different users from different timezones, who can update the record. So, when two users from different timezones say PST(UTC-8), SGT(UTC+8) try to update this record, assuming that Today is Feb 8 2016 according to SGT, SGT User updates 'CustomDate__c' to Feb 8 2016. Validation rule won't fire this time. Now, when PST user tries to update another field on the same record, this user encounters validation error as Today according to this user is Feb 7th 2016. Scenario 2: I had two date fields 'Submission Date' & 'Approved / Rejected Date' on an object. These fields get updated whenever record is submitted for approval & when record is approved/rejected using Field updates in Approval process. Field Updates are con...