Trailhead
Salesforce's own hands-on learning — badges are not skills, but the practice orgs and guided projects are genuinely good.
Apex Hours
Community-run sessions on everything platform — the archive alone is a curriculum.
Workbench
The Swiss-army knife for SOQL, metadata and REST exploring — free, ancient, and still unmatched for quick answers.
Salesforce Developer Documentation
The primary source. Learn to read it before any course — including mine.
Advanced Apex Programming
Dan Appleman's book is still the deepest treatment of Apex patterns in print — read it after your first triggers, not before.
DevOps
NamastePay: Building a fintech's go-to-market engine on Salesforce
A fictional Indian payments company that onboards businesses by invite only. Project NamastePay automates the full journey from invite request to first live payment and ongoing revenue, using Salesforce, n8n, Twilio and Claude.
Fixed: code blocks in dark mode
Snippet syntax colours were unreadable against the dark canvas on some screens. Contrast rebuilt from tokens.
Your first Lightning Web Component, line by line
HTML template, JavaScript class, XML metadata — a working component on a record page in half an hour, every line explained.
How I'd learn Salesforce in 2026, starting from zero
No certifications-first, no 500 hours of videos. A Developer Edition, one project you care about, and a public log of what you built.
Integration Patterns
05 · Watch: a callout built end to end
Twenty minutes from a blank class to a tested, mocked, named-credential callout — narrated, mistakes left in.
Integration Patterns
04 · Middleware or point-to-point?
Two systems talking directly is simple right up until it is three systems, then five. Where the line actually sits.
Integration Patterns
03 · Batch sync without tears
Nightly loads still run the world. Upsert on external IDs, order parents before children, and make reruns safe.