#why salesforce

[autogeneity]

it is pretty sweet when I can feel reasonably confident that if my tests pass then my code will also work correctly when run

[hiringjournal]

Managing Remote Salesforce Developers: Best Practices for Success

To effectively manage a team of remote Salesforce developers requires more than just the right team. As the global acceptance for remote hiring is proliferating, the demand to hire remote Salesforce developers is on a rise. You must have the right hiring approach in place to ensure that remote teams can operate just as effectively as the in-office teams.

Let’s delve into the key strategies that you must employ to ensure your remote Salesforce team is productive and aligned with your business goals.

Ensuring Success with Remote Salesforce Developers: Key Strategies to Follow

Define clear goals and KPIs

It's critical to establish precise objectives and key performance indicators (KPIs) when hiring remote Salesforce engineers. These metrics ought to be in line with your overarching business goals and serve as a guide for your developers. You can more accurately gauge your progress and output by clearly stating these objectives. Additionally, this keeps remote engineers motivated and engaged by assisting them in seeing how their work fits into the larger picture.

Regular feedback and support

When hiring remote Salesforce developers, another best practice is to give regular feedback and support. Regular feedback assists in improving their work, coordinating their efforts with your company's objectives, and raising employee morale. 

Furthermore, providing assistance, in the form of extra training or materials, guarantees that your developers have all they require to succeed. To keep them motivated, it's also helpful to acknowledge and praise their accomplishments.

Clear communication channels

A vital component of overseeing distant Salesforce developers is creating clear and regular lines of communication. Whether weekly or daily, regular check-ins can help guarantee that everyone is in agreement. By bridging the physical barrier with applications like Slack, Microsoft Teams, or Zoom, your team can work together more successfully. To prevent misconceptions, it's critical to establish early expectations regarding the frequency and preferred routes of communication.

Foster a collaborative work environment

In order to succeed, even with distant Salesforce engineers, you must create a collaborative environment. Encourage the members of your team to ask questions, discuss ideas, and work together on projects. Regular team meetings, brainstorming sessions, or collaboration tools like Salesforce's cloud-based solutions can help achieve this. Fostering an atmosphere where developers are at ease to exchange ideas might result in creative solutions and enhanced project outcomes.

Leverage time zone differences

Make the most of it if you hire Salesforce engineers remotely who live in different time zones. Due to time zone disparities, your team may be able to work nonstop, hence expanding your operating hours. To effectively handle these differences, team members must plan meetings at times that work for everyone and make sure that responsibilities are distributed amongst them when they are dispersed in various time zones.

Conclusion

By employing these practices you can ensure that your remote team is productive, engaged, and future-proof ready. Don’t wonder why to hire salesforce developers remotely and how to hire remotely. Expand your team with access to a global talent network and witness the magic of remote Salesforce developers unfold. 

[empresa-journal]

Why is the Salesforce (CRM) CEO Selling Stock?

Frighteningly, Salesforce’s (CRM) co-founder and co-CEO, Marc Benioff, is selling large blocks of the company’s stock almost each day. Benioff has been selling 15,000 shares of Salesforce (CRM) each day since July, Bloomberg claims. Hence, I calculate Benioff made around $3.858 million a day selling stock. If Salesforce’s share price matched the $257.21 Mr. Market paid for it on 14 December…

[mcmansionhell]

2007-core nostalgia extravaganza

Quick PSA: someone on Facebook is apparently impersonating me using an account called "McMansion Hell 2.0" -- If you see it, please report! Thanks!

Howdy folks! I hope if you were born between 1995 and 2001 you're ready for some indelible pre-recession vibes because I think this entire house, including the photos have not been touched since that time.

This Wake County, NC house, built in 2007, currently boasts a price tag of 1.7 million smackaroos. Its buxom 4 bedrooms and 4.5 baths brings the total size to a completely reasonable and not at all housing-bubble-spurred 5,000 square feet.

I know everyone (at least on TikTok) thinks 2007 and goes immediately to the Tuscan theming trend that was super popular at the time (along with lots of other pseudo-euro looks, e.g. "french country" "tudor" etc). In reality, a lot of decor wasn't particularly themed at all but more "transitional" which is to say, neither contemporary nor super traditional. This can be pulled off (in fact, it's where the old-school Joanna Gaines excelled) but it's usually, well, bland. Overwhelmingly neutral. Still, these interiors stir up fond memories of the last few months before mommy was on the phone with the bank crying.

I think I've seen these red/navy/beige rugs in literally every mid-2000s time capsule house. I want to know where they came from first and how they came to be everywhere. My mom got one from Kirkland's Home back in the day. I guess the 2010s equivalent would be those fake distressed overdyed rugs.

I hate the kitchen bench trend. Literally the most uncomfortable seating imaginable for the house's most sociable room. You are not at a 19th century soda fountain!!! You are a salesforce employee in Ohio!!!

You could take every window treatment in this house and create a sampler. A field guide to dust traps.

Before I demanded privacy, my parents had a completely beige spare bedroom. Truly random stuff on the walls. An oversized Monet poster they should have kept tbh. Also putting the rug on the beige carpet here is diabolical.

FYI the term "Global Village Coffeehouse" originates with the design historian Evan Collins whose work with the Consumer Aesthetics Research Institute!!!!

This photo smells like a Yankee Candle.

Ok, now onto the last usable photo in the set:

No but WHY is the house a different COLOR??????? WHAT?????

Alright, I hope you enjoyed this special trip down memory lane! Happy (American) Labor Day Weekend! (Don't forget that labor is entitled to all it creates!)

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Not into recurring payments? Try the tip jar! Student loans just started back up!

[probablyasocialecologist]

The Overton Window appears to have shifted with regard to the acceptability of political violence against elites and their property, in other words. And in this climate, an artist and freelance writer is selling an Iraqi Most Wanted-style deck of cards with the home addresses of Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, John Roberts, Marc Andreessen, and 48 others printed on them, through a website online. Justin Caffier classifies his “America’s Most Powerful” cards as an art project. It’s a parody of the infamous playing card decks that the US military once handed out to soldiers in Iraq to help them identify top members of Saddam Hussein’s government during the war for capture and/or assassination. Saddam was pictured on the ace of spades, his sons on the aces of clubs and diamonds, and so on. Caffier’s deck features individuals he has deemed “most powerful” players in the United States; tech titans-cum-oligarchs like Musk and Thiel. Supreme Court Justices. The BlackRock and Goldman Sachs CEOs. Defense tech contractors like Palantir’s Alex Karp. Zuckerberg, Bezos. Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff. The list goes on. Each card features a portrait of the individual, their name, and their home address. Caffier made 53 copies of the “art” decks, he told me, and he is selling them online for one million dollars each. (In addition to the “art” decks, he is also selling “merch” decks for $25, with publicly listed office addresses.)

[...]

Caffier made a list of names of the millionaires and billionaires and power brokers he would include in such a deck, and turned the skills he’d honed as an investigative reporter towards tracking down their apparent home addresses. He located each of the addresses by connecting the dots laid out in publicly available information, he says. As a rule, he didn’t use any paid services to obtain the addresses. “It was hardly as simple as putting ‘Jeff Bezos home address��� into Google,” Caffier told me. “I had to get creative with my methodology to find leads and then double back to cross reference once I think I found a hit. There were many red herrings and many hours spent on stuff I just wasn’t able to confirm.”

18 April 2025

[axolterp]

Axolt: Modern ERP and Inventory Software Built on Salesforce

Today’s businesses operate in a fast-paced, data-driven environment where efficiency, accuracy, and agility are key to staying competitive. Legacy systems and disconnected software tools can no longer meet the evolving demands of modern enterprises. That’s why companies across industries are turning to Axolt, a next-generation solution offering intelligent inventory software and a full-fledged ERP on Salesforce.

Axolt is a unified, cloud-based ERP system built natively on the Salesforce platform. It provides a modular, scalable framework that allows organizations to manage operations from inventory and logistics to finance, manufacturing, and compliance—all in one place.

Where most ERPs are either too rigid or require costly integrations, Axolt is designed for flexibility. It empowers teams with real-time data, reduces manual work, and improves cross-functional collaboration. With Salesforce as the foundation, users benefit from enterprise-grade security, automation, and mobile access without needing separate platforms for CRM and ERP.

Smarter Inventory Software Inventory is at the heart of operational performance. Poor inventory control can result in stockouts, over-purchasing, and missed opportunities. Axolt’s built-in inventory software addresses these issues by providing real-time visibility into stock levels, warehouse locations, and product movement.

Whether managing serialized products, batches, or kits, the system tracks every item with precision. It supports barcode scanning, lot and serial traceability, expiry tracking, and multi-warehouse inventory—all from a central dashboard.

Unlike traditional inventory tools, Axolt integrates directly with Salesforce CRM. This means your sales and service teams always have accurate availability information, enabling faster order processing and better customer communication.

A Complete Salesforce ERP Axolt isn’t just inventory software—it’s a full Salesforce ERP suite tailored for businesses that want more from their operations. Finance teams can automate billing cycles, reconcile payments, and manage cash flows with built-in modules for accounts receivable and payable. Manufacturing teams can plan production, allocate work orders, and track costs across every stage.

[purpleparrot]

i think that a lot of those "spend a day with me as a regular 26 year old working in insurance sales" tiktok videos are produced by big corporations to make it look like working a 9-5 in the office everyday for a soulless corporation isn't that bad

can i say something that is gonna sound like a conspiracy theory

[bowenoke]

Don't count answers to "why do you want to work for us?" as lies unless you fully made something up - like "I really believe in the company mission!" when you actively dislike what the company stands for.

Some surveys indicate 40-70% of people lie, so I am curious a) what lies people on tumblr are telling, and b) if a relatively young population with fewer jobs lies more or less.

[vague-humanoid]

I can now say with absolute confidence that many AI systems have been trained on TV and film writers’ work. Not just on The Godfather and Alf, but on more than 53,000 other movies and 85,000 other TV episodes: Dialogue from all of it is included in an AI-training data set that has been used by Apple, Anthropic, Meta, Nvidia, Salesforce, Bloomberg, and other companies. I recently downloaded this data set, which I saw referenced in papers about the development of various large language models (or LLMs). It includes writing from every film nominated for Best Picture from 1950 to 2016, at least 616 episodes of The Simpsons, 170 episodes of Seinfeld, 45 episodes of Twin Peaks, and every episode of The Wire, The Sopranos, and Breaking Bad. It even includes prewritten “live” dialogue from Golden Globes and Academy Awards broadcasts. If a chatbot can mimic a crime-show mobster or a sitcom alien—or, more pressingly, if it can piece together whole shows that might otherwise require a room of writers—data like this are part of the reason why.

[389]

why was i borned? Salesforce Child

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Middlemen without enshittification

I'm on tour with my new novel The Bezzle! Catch me next in SALT LAKE CITY (Feb 21, Weller Book Works) and SAN DIEGO (Feb 22, Mysterious Galaxy). After that, it's LA, Seattle, Portland, Phoenix and more!

Enshittification describes how platforms go bad, which is also how the internet goes bad, because the internet is made of platforms, which is weird, because platforms are intermediaries and we were promised that the internet would disintermediate the world:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/30/go-nuts-meine-kerle/#ich-bin-ein-bratapfel

The internet did disintermediate a hell of a lot of intermediaries – that is, "middlemen" – but then it created a bunch more of these middlemen, who coalesced into a handful of gatekeepers, or as the EU calls them "VLOPs" (Very Large Online Platforms, the most EU acronym ever).

Which raises two questions: first, why did so many of us end up flocking to these intermediaries' sites, and how did those sites end up with so much power?

To answer the first question, I want you to consider one of my favorite authors: Crad Kilodney (RIP):

https://archive.org/details/thecradkilodneypapers

When I was growing up, Crad was a fixture on the streets of Toronto. All through the day and late into the evening, winter or summer, Crad would stand on the street with a sign around his neck ("Very famous Canadian author, buy my books, $2" or sometimes just "Margaret Atwood, buy my books, $2"). He wrote these deeply weird, often very funny short stories, which he edited, typeset, printed, bound and sold himself, one at a time, to people who approached him on the street.

I had a lot of conversations with Crad – as an aspiring writer, I was endlessly fascinated by him and his books. He was funny, acerbic – and sneaky. Crad wore a wire: he kept a hidden tape recorder rolling in his coat and he secretly recorded conversations with people like me, and then released a series of home-duplicated tapes of the weirdest and funniest ones:

https://archive.org/details/on-the-street-crad-kilodney-vol-1

I love Crad. He deserves more recognition. There's an on-again/off-again documentary about his life and work that I hope gets made some day:

https://pluralistic.net/2020/09/09/free-sample/#putrid-scum

But – and this is the crucial part – there are writers out there I want to hear from who couldn't do what Crad did. Maybe they can write books, but not edit them. Or edit them, but not typeset them. Or typeset, but not print. Or print, but not spend the rest of their lives standing on a street-corner with a "PUTRID SCUM" sign around their neck.

Which is fine. That's why we have intermediaries. I like booksellers (I was one!). I like publishers. I like distributors. I like their salesforce, who go forth and convince the booksellers of the world to stock books like mine. I have ten million things I want to do before I die, and I'm already 52, and being a sales-rep for a publisher isn't on my bucket list. I am so thankful that someone else wants to do this for me.

That's why we have intermediaries, and why disintermediation always leads to some degree of re-intermediation. There's a lot of explicit and implicit knowledge and specialized skill required to connect buyers and sellers, creators and audiences, and other sides of two-sided markets. Some producers can do some of this stuff for themselves, and a very few – like Crad – can do it all, but most of us need some help, somewhere along the way. In the excellent 2022 book Direct, Kathryn Judge lays out a clear case for all the good that middlemen can do:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/06/12/direct-the-problem-of-middlemen/

So why were we all so anxious for disintermediation back in the late 1990s? Here's a hint: it wasn't because we hated intermediaries – it was because we hated powerful intermediaries.

The point of an intermediary is to serve as a conduit between producers and consumers, buyers and sellers, audiences and creators. When an intermediary gains power over the audience – say, by locking them inside a walled garden – and then uses that lock-in to screw producers and appropriate an ever larger share of the value going between them, that's when intermediaries become a problem.

The problem isn't that someone will handle ticketing for your gig. The problem is that Ticketmaster has locked down all the ticketing, and the venues, and the promotions, and it uses that power to gouge fans and rip off artists:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/20/anything-that-cant-go-on-forever-will-eventually-stop/

The problem isn't that there's a well-made website that lets you shop for goods sold by many small merchants and producers. It's that Amazon has cornered this market, takes $0.51 out of every dollar you spend there, and clones and destroys any small merchant who succeeds on the platform:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/25/greedflation/#commissar-bezos

The problem isn't that there's a website where you can stream most of the music ever recorded. It's that Spotify colludes with the Big Three labels to rip off artists and sneaks crap you don't want to hear into your stream in order to collect payola:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/09/12/streaming-doesnt-pay/#stunt-publishing

The problem isn't that there's a website where you can buy any audiobook you want. It's that Amazon's Audible locks every book to its platform forever and steals hundreds of millions of dollars from creators:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/07/25/can-you-hear-me-now/#acx-ripoff

The problem, in other words, isn't intermediation – it's power. The thing that distinguishes a useful intermediary from an enshittified bully is power. Intermediaries gain power when our governments stop enforcing competition law. This lets intermediaries buy each other up and corner markets. Once they've formed cozy cartels, they can capture their regulators and commit rampant labor, privacy and consumer violations with impunity. That capture also lets them harness governments to punish smaller players that want to free workers, creators, audiences and customers from walled gardens. It also hands them a whip-hand over their workers, so that any worker who refuses to aid in these nefarious plans can be easily fired:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/30/go-nuts-meine-kerle/#ich-bin-ein-bratapfel

A world with intermediaries is a better world. As much as I love Crad Kilodney's books, I wouldn't want to live in a world where the only books on my shelves came from people prepared to stand on a street-corner wearing a "FOUL PUS FROM DEAD DOGS" sign.

The problem isn't intermediaries – it's powerful intermediaries. That's why the world's surging antitrust movement is so exciting: by reinstating competition law, we can keep intermediaries small and comparatively weak, so that creators and audiences, drivers and riders, sellers and buyers, and other groups seeking to connect will not find themselves made subservient to middlemen.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/19/crad-kilodney-was-an-outlier/#intermediation

[etirabys]

Just performed my favorite piece of (nsfw) physical comedy in a while.

me: Should I get a job at Salesforce even though I'm stupid and lazy? partner CJ: Were the people you just finished a work trial disgusted with you? me: No, but I didn't like them very much CJ: They were willing to hire you? me: They asked if I wanted to continue, so I think so? me: But that doesn't mean much. We're talking about whether people who'd pay me $26/h want to hire me vs people who'd pay me $70/h CJ: This is true, but I notice you keep saying you're stupid and lazy despite an employment history of people thinking you're fine and wishing you'd stay on

(at this point it's relevant that I'm peeing and he's standing in front of me)

me: Take your dick out. CJ: Uhh why [unzips anyway] me: [holds his dick] [leans forward] [yells into it like a mic] WHAT DO YOU KNOW?

[olowan-waphiya]

Billionaire Marc Benioff is buying up land in Hawaii. And no one knows why

https://www.npr.org/2024/02/28/1232564250/billionaire-benioff-buys-hawaii-land-salesforce

it keeps going but i’m going to say the reason is the same that its been since colonialism first began—they ‘buy’ indigenous land to escape the environmental degradation that they are in large part responsible for & to horde and grow power, wealth, resources because that is all they know how to do. this is the legacy of the usa and what it celebrates.

these human dragons need to be fought.

[azspot]

I'm telling you all of this is because it's the answer to why whatever business you're working for has such shitty, shitty software. Not only is it inherently difficult to switch providers (because there's basically no incentive for them to help, and no legal imperative that forces them to), but SaaS companies have built entire ecosystems — like developers that cost six figures that develop just for Salesforce and entire companies that exist to sell other companies' (like Microsoft)'s software — specifically to make sure that anybody scaling a business inevitably ends up using their software. Almost every major SaaS company offers some kind of developer program, which in turn creates an entire cottage industry of people who exist entirely to help monopolies extend themselves.

The Other Bubble

[izicodes]

Mini project to get back into coding again

Thursday 30th November 2023

Yeah I made this between 12am-3am because when I was going through the Salesforce website and playing the quizzes they have at the end of each learning module, I was thinking "Haha I could recreate this component" so I did that.

Wakatime says I spent 3 hours and 7 mins on it so that's good hours of me not sleeping~!

It was really just like a "warm-up" to get back to coding again, I almost forgot some JavaScript concepts oops! It looks bad because it's supposed to. This is what the Quiz component looks on the Salesforce website. I think I did an alright job...

My version is JOJO's Bizarre Adventure Part 5: Golden Wind themed because 1) why not? and 2) that's literally the best part of the whole JOJO series because of the characters Giorno and Guido Mista. After that is Part 7: Steel Ball Run because of the characters Johnny and Gyro~!

Go watch JOJO by the way, it's good.

Thank you and have a nice day!

⤷ ♡ my shop ○ my mini website ○ pinned ○ navigation ♡

[adamsvanrhijn]

every time i see a post that's like "why is all the time and money going to (topical tech thing the poster doesn't like) instead of (tech thing the poster does like and would benefit from)" the second thing is always something that has alphabet meta amazon salesforce and the united states department of defense absolutely dumping cash and resources into it as well as requiring a completely different skillset than the first thing