About Matt

Matt McGuire is a Salesforce architect, AI builder, and punk musician based in Toronto. Canada's #1 certified Salesforce professional, 43× certified across architecture, development, AI, and a wide range of platform products. He's been building on Salesforce for 17 years and currently spends most of his time at the intersection of AI and the platform. The Music Intelligence Engine is his most interesting project to date. He thinks you should read the whole series.

Formatting or Parsing Date & DateTime in Salesforce

Matt/ March 23, 2017/ Salesforce

Over my career I’ve done a number of things, from ColdFusion then developing printer drivers, to .NET, PHP, Dynamics CRM, and now Salesforce, while playing around with things like python and android development in my spare time.  I’m not sure why, but I’ve never had as much of a problem with Date Formats anywhere else as I have with Salesforce.

Getting MavensMate, Github, & Salesforce to all play nicely

Matt/ March 8, 2017/ Salesforce

UPDATE July 2021:  I no longer use MavensMate and have not since shortly after writing this post.  I would hope the tool has improved in the 5 years since I wrote this post but if not, I would definitely recommend checking out IlluminatedCloud or Visual Studio Code as an alternative! — There’s been some confusion lately within my network about

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Prepare for Critical Update: Clickjack Protection for Legacy Browsers for Visualforce Pages Without Page Header

Matt/ January 31, 2017/ Salesforce

In about a weeks time, a Critical Update called Clickjack Protection for Legacy Browsers for Visualforce Pages Without Page Header (Critical Update) will come into effect. This CU extends clickjack protection for legacy version browsers for Visualforce pages that set showHeader=”false”  when those pages are configured on API versions older than 27.0. Clickjack protection is added to VF pages through several security

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New Google Calendar Not Syncing With Android (Fix)

Matt/ January 30, 2017/ Android

I have a single Google calendar where I store repeating events (pay day, barber appointments, improv workshops, etc) in addition to one-off social events.  The has become too crowded so I created a new calendar called Routine and moved all of those ‘routine’ events there, but the new calendar wasn’t syncing with my Android.

Salesforce File Type Security – Change PDF Behaviour To Download or Open In Browser

Matt/ January 17, 2017/ Salesforce, Technology

I learned something today I probably should have already known.  We have a number of PDF reports that used to download when the links were clicked, but were now opening up in the browser.  I started playing with the VF Page to alter this behaviour but soon discovered there’s actually a Salesforce setting that controls how different file types are

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