056: CodeLive with Kevin Poorman

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kevin Poorman is a Senior Developer Evangelist with Salesforce. Today, we sit down and talk with him about his CodeLive series where Kevin and a guest pair program interesting and unique solutions and ideas for Salesforce. Kevin gives a general overview of the show, but we also dig a little deeper into some highlighted topics from it.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">And while Kevin is mostly known for his Salesforce skills, he actually has a Master’s in Divinity, as well. Tune in to hear all about CodeLive as well as his experience with the diverse combination of software engineering and religion.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Show Highlights:</strong></p> <p> </p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">What CodeLive is and why he started doing it.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Why he wanted to go the direction of pure programming.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The few rules he gives to his CodeLive guests.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Tips and tricks to get debugging into your normal lifecycle of development.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Tools that help with peer programming.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">What null coalescence is and specific cases where it helps.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">What unlock packages are and how Kevin used them in CodeLive.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The journey he went through with moving Visualforce to LWC.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">What Apex Recipes is and how he sees people using it.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">What he wishes people did and didn’t do with Apex.</span></li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><s