Scott VonSchilling

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I often ask myself, “When was the last time I cleaned this litter box?” We have three cats in our house. We give them each their own box, and the boxes are spread out on every floor. It is a lot to keep track of, and if a box is not in part of the

Summer ’14 brought us a new Deployment Status page that gave us a real-time monitoring tool on what happens during a change set deployment. It allowed us to somewhat estimate how long the deployment will take, and it also allows us to cancel the deployment if it encounters an error early on. But in my

I unexpectedly spoke at Dreamforce last October. My colleagues at CRM Science had submitted a number of sessions over the summer, and a handful of them were accepted. In order to give all the members of our team an equal chance to speak, we shuffled around our resources. I ended up with the “From Admin

Last week, I wrote about Big O Notation in Apex and how having a O(n) was a perfectly acceptable solution for any Apex problem. However, trying to avoid having to go through nested for loops is often a tricky proposition when you have to process so much data in a single SOQL query. Probably much

Big O notation is probably the bane of many Computer Science undergrads’ existence. It most certainly was one of mine back in my college days. When you are young and learning programming for the first time, why would you want to waste your time on boring lectures learning about algorithm theories and optimization? When you

During the Summer of Hacks last month, I worked with a pair of coders with no prior Salesforce experience. While I worked on the Apex code, I had them work on the front end because Visualforce could just be straight up HTML if you wanted it to be. So the devs – both of whom

I participated in the Summer of Hacks in NYC this past weekend. I wasn’t expecting to pitch an idea myself, but when they opened the mic for participants to speak to the group, I raised my hand and walked on to the stage. “This is a Fitbit,” I declared to the room while holding up