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# Give me some action!
[Dabbling Dev](https://purplenerd.com/blog/tag/dabbling-dev)
 [Becka](https://purplenerd.com/blog/author/sfdcnerd)
I have to start by apologizing. That post title is pretty misleading, but I had writer's block while trying to come up with something, and it's the best I could do. Today's dev words are about when your code goes into action, so it's not \*that\* misleading -- right? I'll just say that you agree & we move on to the learning bit! Today we've got one big concept one, followed by two easy ones.
- **Bulkify** - You've probably heard this term a lot. The basic concept is that when you bulkify, you are making sure that your code properly handles more than one record at a time. This becomes important, because Force.com code runs in a shared environment, so you don't want to be hogging all the virtual memory. Think of someone on the subway taking up 6 seats for no reason - jerk, right? Don't be that guy.
- **Compile** - This is just turning your code from human-esque speak to the zeros and ones that computers use to do their magic. If your code doesn't make sense, or is written wrong, you'll get a lovely compile error -- but at least you won't break anything!
- **Run** - OK, easy one. Think of this as hitting the "Go!" button on your code.
And there you have it - the action words that go with code!
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