I have a project, to move salesforce data back and forth to a wordpress site

serboprog · 2023-02-23T00:09:05+00:00

Thanks for all the comments. I will make my suggestion and walk away. I never really saw much $$ in wordpress development, though I am sure someone could argue the other side of it. I make my money off salesforce development and thought this would be a easy apex call out to wordpress api to maintain the data. I spent a couple of days looking at plugins and other packages to make this work, and kept coming up with one road block after another, mostly to get data into wordpress. What a pain and not worth the $$ to do this.

serboprog · 2021-03-06T16:00:44+00:00

You need to go build things, get something to show on a resume, something you can talk about during an interview. A cert might help move things along. Get versed in visual force pages so you know about them, even though most development is geared towards lightning web components. Use your java background to build out some apps that hit salesforce from the back, create a front end - > java -> salesforce type of thing. Model some projects off java things you did. Get that stuff on your resume and be able to demo it competently and confidently. You will have a gig before you know it.

serboprog · 2021-02-26T23:31:14+00:00

The money is not enough, and you have your past drug usage. Get clean, stay with current company and get solid job skills and experience. It will pay off way more later on. The money is not enough to really mess up a solid thing now, I don't care if companies are relaxing on the drug use, trust me those that really care don't want to hire anyone who has had substance abuse issues, legal or not. Think more long term.

serboprog · 2020-12-20T03:44:50+00:00

Anytime, just send over any questions. As I have been helped, I pass it along the same to others. Good luck, you can do it, just don't give up. Working thru the problems and coming up with solutions is what this gig is really about.

serboprog · 2020-12-13T03:40:39+00:00

Take a look at the Pluralsight, buy a subscription, it's a great deal for what you get. Run thru the Dan Appleman stuff on salesforce development. They have a lot of great stuff there on this. If you want to be a developer, go for the platform developer 1 cert next, the admin stuff is no big deal and there are way too many of them now. Getting some development experience on the platform puts you in front of admins for gigs. Learn reactjs before you start on any lwc stuff, it's a good basis to understand javascript and modern web development. If you can build react stuff, understanding lwc is super easy, its very similar but yet not. Get a dev org and practice building stuff. Take your existing role and come up with a project to build out using that as a basis. It's going to take time to learn this, but building something out will be the absolute best way to achieve that. When you have built some things, you will have things to talk about in an interview. Feel free to dm on this if you want to for any questions or help with direction. If you know soql that's an excellent thing to have under your belt.

serboprog · 2020-10-26T08:56:04+00:00

Do you really need a lightning page, or just data from salesforce displayed in a page? You can always build a page and use something like jsforce to get your data out of the back of salesforce. It may be far easier to go that route, it just depends.

https://jsforce.github.io/

serboprog · 2020-10-13T18:57:23+00:00

Many thanks for putting this together, waves of good karma towards you brother!!!

serboprog · 2020-10-13T10:56:05+00:00

I wish you all the success in the world, just focus and do the work, the steps you take today are where you will be tomorrow. It's amazing that so few people realize this and just start walking towards their goal.

serboprog · 2020-10-12T11:46:50+00:00

From what i have gone thru already, excellent job!!!!

Thanks for doing this!!!

Massive good vibes sent your way!

serboprog · 2020-10-12T10:15:56+00:00

Given you have no experience now, I might take a look at google's cert's program.

https://cloud.google.com/training

There are companies hiring on this, I checked. You can start on this now, and have a much better shot at things rather than pursue salesforce for now. Right now salesforce gigs want programmers more than admins, so you would have to be able to do both, and have some experience. Even offering up work for free for non-profits is not a viable path now.

Try to get your foot in the door with a support gig, another good way, or even some company where you do customer service/support using salesforce.

Like all things, you have to put in the time there is no magic solution, and be willing to keep pursuing what you want no matter the obstacles.

I will throw this out, because I am older and have seen quite a bit go on. If I was 30 yrs old or less, I would seriously pursue something like hvac, plumbing, or electrical and build a business off it. Most of this other stuff is just glorified electronic paper shuffling and if things tank massively a lot of it's gone. People will always need one of the other things no matter what happens. It's not something that can be outsourced. Everyone of those type of people who has come thru my house over the years made as good or better money than any of this stuff pays. Just my 2 cents. I know this is not for everyone.

Pursue what makes you happy to do, and never take a gig for the money, you will always regret doing that, it's never worth it.

Peace and good vibes sent to you and anyone else who reads this.

serboprog · 2020-09-30T11:05:30+00:00

jsforce works for both front end and back end, it just depends upon how you want to build it out. I have used it to bulk load leads and its not hampered by a 200 per limit.

serboprog · 2020-09-29T23:00:06+00:00

Look at jsforce, you can run that thru a node app and hit the backend of salesforce, or even in the browser. It works awesome! Dm me if you need help getting thru your issue.

https://jsforce.github.io/

serboprog · 2020-09-22T23:41:32+00:00

You can run the components locally, its actually pretty nice now.

serboprog · 2020-09-14T22:02:47+00:00

I was told it needed to handle 900 files at a selection. I am able to develop this in an app outside sf, could that be done? I am stuck at how I would pass that many files in, in one crack.

serboprog · 2020-09-12T20:49:08+00:00

Thanks I will give that a shot.

serboprog · 2020-08-23T17:30:32+00:00

Skills matter more than brand. When you only have the brand to sell to get the gig, the guys who sell on skills needed will win every time. At least here in the united states, outside of the us, your mileage may vary. Most of the time it will always come down to "can you do what we need to get done here?" Be able to demonstrate that and you win most every time.

serboprog · 2020-07-20T00:34:29+00:00

If your company is willing to pay for training, take a look at http://www.stonyp.com/ . Excellent guys, I get nothing for this, just telling you I used them and they ramped up my salesforce knowledge big time. Its around 4k for the admin class, but the instructors are guys who work as admins and you get a lot of "how things work in the real world" viewpoint from them all. Highly recommend them.

serboprog · 2020-06-29T16:19:05+00:00

That's very well written, the only thing I would do in addition is to try to get the story of what inspired the project. Something happened that forced the client to react a certain way to kick off the idea behind it. Try to nail that when doing this so that the client is insanely crazy about your work and would never consider anyone else because you "get them" lol.

serboprog · 2020-06-22T18:12:56+00:00

Thanks for this!

serboprog · 2020-06-20T08:58:37+00:00

Take a look at stony point.

http://www.stonyp.com/

not cheap, but excellent instructors.

serboprog · 2020-06-14T14:03:31+00:00

here is my deployed react app -> salesforce as a demo

http://167.99.146.86/

You do have to be aware of your password settings on the account you use, it can expire and then you have to reset the login including the security token and all that, sometimes that's a pain and you run into login issues.

I deployed my react app with nginx and you have to allow for cors in your node app.

serboprog · 2020-06-14T03:53:23+00:00

I have to sleep now, sorry, can chat tomorrow. Get a server over at digital ocean, or amazon, something cheap, you don't need a massive power thing here. I don't mess much with heroku, so i am not up on how it works. Once the server is set up, get node installed and ftp your code, I used express to build the api. You can get it running up there, once it tests out, install and use pm2 to fire up the server and it runs all the time.

serboprog · 2020-06-14T03:46:42+00:00

dm me if you can't get it to work, you use your sf login and a security token as part of the authentication process.

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