Chuck Grimmett


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Month: November 2017

  • Adding Months to a Calculated Date in Salesforce


    Adding Months to a Calculated Date in Salesforce

    Adding dates is tricky. Months have different numbers of days, so you can’t rely on just adding 30 days to get an extra month. You also can’t just add a certain number of months because formulas in Salesforce don’t auto increment the year. The solution is modular arithmetic and conditionals.

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  • Automating MySQL Backups with Gulp


    Automating MySQL Backups with Gulp

    No more forgetting to export the database regularly.

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  • Fixing s3_website Java 9 Error with jEnv


    Fixing s3_website Java 9 Error with jEnv

    s3_website doesn’t work with Java 9. Use jEnv to define an earlier version.

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  • Making line height work with spans


    Making line height work with spans

    Line height doesn’t work on spans by default

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  • d3.nest


    d3.nest

    Using d3.nest to transform stacked data.

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  • Giving Atom a try


    Giving Atom a try

    Switching IDEs after 10 years.

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  • Gulp and Sketch first use notes


    Gulp and Sketch first use notes

    Gulp and Sketch first use notes

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  • TLDR pages – Simplified man pages with practical examples. Probably covers 80% of your daily use cases. Looks super cool.

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  • Great email from Paul Jarvis’s Sunday Dispatches this week. The relationship doesn’t end once you make the sale. That is just the beginning. Don’t be the hot tub guy.

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