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Salesforce and Apex. How I’ve missed you.

After starting a new job (at a former company I worked for!), it was time to get back into Salesforce. I’ve spent the last few years in Zoho CRM – most recently doing a lot of Deluge (scripting), automation with Zoho Flow and webhook work with SaaS tools. As I’ve mentioned in other articles – […]

n8n Local and Variable Fun

So for the last week or two I’ve been working on a side project using n8n as one of the components. I have Docker for Mac running, and have a local instance of n8n running in that.  I didn’t want a hosted version, and as part of the project wanted to do some stuff with

Learning Flask…

I’m working on a personal project that ties a few things together with automation, LLMs, etc. Essentially I want to make a form that allows me to take a job posting and copy in the job title, company name and job description.  I don’t want to scrape this – seems like it could be against

Udemy Streak! Some changes to my approach…

I posted about this before but I am a huge advocate of online learning and have been for a while.  As I mentioned before Udemy offered a challenge in January 2024 to see if users could establish a 12 week streak.  When I wrote that post I was sitting at 68 weeks…  And now (as

Docker!

If you’ve seen my other posts – you’ve seen I’ve been doing a bit with n8n lately.  One of the quicker ways to get n8n going locally is to pull a docker image and go…  I did this on an AWS free tier account to make sure I was doing some hands-on ‘super light’ config

Vector Databases!

I’m a few weeks into playing with n8n on the side. I’ve worked with EAI tools and integrations way back, and more recently with platforms like Zapier, Workato, and Zoho Flow. It’s interesting to see how each one tackles the low-code/no-code automation space. n8n has my attention lately – thanks to its deeper developer features:

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