Examples, Advice, and Ideas from a Seasoned NetSuite Developer

Here is the archive of the hundreds of SuiteScript emails I've published over the years, available for you to peruse at your leisure.

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• How to Ask for SuiteScript Help Effectively (2024-07-29)
• Foundational SuiteScript Troubleshooting Techniques (2024-07-22)
• The Magnitude of Learning SuiteScript (2024-07-17)
• How I use JSDoc for SuiteScript (2024-05-09)
• SuiteScript Short - Reduce Repetition when Working with Records (2024-03-05)
• Will generative AI take my SuiteScript developer job? (2024-02-29)
• SuiteScript Optimization Tip: Prefer Inline Editing (2024-02-09)
• Location-Specific Inventory Searches with SuiteScript (2024-02-08)
• Querying using Multiple Conditions with SuiteScript (2024-02-07)
• Streaming to a File Line-by-Line in NetSuite with SuiteScript (2024-02-06)
• Render a Record as a PDF from a Template in SuiteScript (2024-02-05)
• Send an Email using a Template with SuiteScript (2024-02-02)
• Searching for Missing Records with SuiteScript (2024-02-01)
• Logical Operators and Grouping Criteria in SuiteScript 2.1 Searches (2024-01-30)
• I Quit My Job (2023-11-30)
• Cost of Living Discrimination (2021-03-04)
• What if you never negotiated salaries? (2021-03-03)
• You'll never be done (2021-03-02)
• Process Charters for SuiteScript Teams (2021-02-26)
• Reader Response: SuiteScript Modular Architecture and Naming Conventions (2021-02-24)
• Reader Response: Handling Deployment Collision in NetSuite (2021-02-22)
• How do you determine fees for your NetSuite development work? (2021-02-20)
• Should Your SuiteScript Development Team Adopt Best Practices? (2021-02-18)
• Source Control Repository Layouts for NetSuite Development (2021-02-16)
• The Tenets of Sustainable SuiteScript Leaders (2021-02-12)
• My SuiteScript Source Control Process (2021-02-09)
• Reading Newsletters for Fun and Profit (2021-02-07)
• The Pillars of a Sustainable Software Practice in Professional Services Development (2021-02-05)
• Service Variation in Professional Services According to Maslow? (2021-02-03)
• Do you know where your SOCs are? (2021-02-01)
• Hiring is the worst way to grow a team (2021-01-30)
• Do you incorporate bi-directional feedback into your Onboarding program? (2021-01-26)
• Does Specialization in Professional Services Software hurt your versatility or narrow your chances? (2021-01-25)
• Do you pair your new hires with a mentor besides their manager? (2021-01-22)
• Do you provide your new hires with access to training? (2021-01-21)
• How do you train your new developers? (2021-01-20)
• Do you have any thoughts on how we can reduce distraction in a team? (2021-01-19)
• Do you spread out social introductions over days or weeks? (2021-01-18)
• Resiliency (2021-01-16)
• Do you set up a new hire's system and accounts before they start? (2021-01-15)
• Do you send new hires their paperwork before they start? (2021-01-14)
• Do you make new hires feel welcome before they start? (2021-01-13)
• Is your Onboarding program consistent and easily repeatable? (2021-01-12)
• 11 Questions for a Better Developer Onboarding Program (2021-01-11)
• Reaction - 9 Onboarding Mistakes (2021-01-08)
• The Butterfly Effect (2021-01-06)
• Why Onboarding? (2021-01-05)
• The Friction List (2021-01-04)
• Move Beyond Survival (2021-01-01)
• Intentionality in Onboarding (2020-12-30)
• Be Ready; Be Welcoming (2020-12-29)
• Ease the Transition (2020-12-28)
• Avoid the Sickening Thud (2020-12-23)
• Onboarding - The Deluge (2020-12-22)
• Onboarding - Day Zero (2020-12-21)
• What are you willing to replace? (2020-12-16)
• SuiteScript Design - Alias Modules (2020-12-14)
• Pragmatic Thinking and Learning (2020-12-11)
• Code === Commodity (2020-12-10)
• Easy Fried Rice (2020-12-09)
• SuiteScript Design - REST API Modules (2020-12-07)
• Specialization Trees (2020-12-04)
• SuiteScript Career - Effective Software Sages (2020-12-03)
• SuiteScript Career - Find Your Sages (2020-12-02)
• SuiteScript Example - Sending an HTTP Request (2020-12-01)
• SuiteScript Design - Token Management (2020-11-28)
• JavaScript Weekly (2020-11-27)
• SuiteScript Career - Take Breaks (2020-11-25)
• SuiteScript Example - Read File Line by Line (2020-11-24)
• SuiteScript Design - Generating RESTful URLs (2020-11-23)
• SuiteScript Process - Enablement, not Enfeeblement (2020-11-19)
• Busy !== Successful (2020-11-18)
• SuiteScript Example - When Ordered By (2020-11-17)
• SuiteScript Operations - Environmental Drift (2020-11-16)
• The SuiteScript Career - Habitual Learning (2020-11-15)
• SuiteScript Example - Rendering Query Results in a PDF (2020-11-14)
• SuiteScript Design - The (Good) Man-in-the-Middle (2020-11-13)
• The Effective Junior SuiteScript Developer (2020-11-12)
• SuiteScript Example - Sending Email to Multiple Recipients (2020-11-11)
• SuiteScript Design - The Singleton Record (2020-11-10)
• Reader Story: Impact of Code Review (2020-10-29)
• We move too fast for process (2020-10-27)
• enum Example (2020-10-27)
• Magic Strings - the Anti-Pattern (2020-10-22)
• The bar is too low (2020-10-20)
• Comparing to multiple values (2020-10-19)
• "I am a SuiteScript Developer" (2020-10-16)
• SuiteScript 2.1 Limitations (2020-10-14)
• Optional Chains hug my heart (2020-10-13)
• Redundant Department of Redundancy Department (2020-10-12)
• 27 Entry point scripts must implement one script type function (2020-10-07)
• Robin Mitchell is making SuiteScript YouTube videos (2020-10-06)
• Know your role models (2020-09-28)
• Coding Standards and Style Guides (2020-09-25)
• "Git Secrets" from freeCodeCamp (2020-09-23)
• Your Critical Components of Success? (2020-09-19)
• Source Control is the foundation (2020-09-18)
• Branching in Source Control (2020-09-17)
• Use Source Control, can't roll back (2020-09-16)
• Why Source Control? (2020-09-15)
• What's a "good" salary/wage? (2020-09-13)
• "New" NetSuite Dev Blog (2020-09-12)
• The Joel Test for SuiteScript Jobs (2020-09-11)
• "Entry-level position, must have 2-5 years experience" (2020-09-10)
• "Must be willing to learn on the job" (2020-09-09)
• "Must be good at multitasking" (2020-09-08)
• Beware the SuiteScript Job Posting (2020-09-07)
• Challenges of NetSuite Development (2020-09-03)
• Third-Party Libraries in SuiteScript 2.x (2020-08-29)
• 26 Third-Party Libraries in SuiteScript 2.x (2020-08-29)
• New Analytics Browser for Query Schema (2020-08-18)
• SuiteQL Development Tool (2020-08-06)
• Building an Effective SuiteScript Team (2020-06-26)
• SuiteScript 2.1 and WebStorm (2020-06-15)
• New SuiteCloud SDK with Unit Testing! (2020-03-30)
• How do I decide between Query and Search? (2020-03-19)
• Why use SDF? (2020-01-15)
• Workflows versus Scripts! (2019-06-04)
• Another SuiteScript Resource (2019-04-21)
• SuiteScript Teardown #2 (Part 4) (2018-12-19)
• Want your SuiteScript reviewed? (2018-12-07)
• Subrecord Sneak Peek (2018-12-03)
• 25 Working with Subrecords in SuiteScript 2.0 (2018-12-03)
• Yet Another First (2018-11-24)
• Best laid plans (2018-11-16)
• 24 How do I add a Button to a Record? (2018-11-08)
• setWhenOrderedBy: A Warning (2018-05-15)
• Great Resource for JavaScript Beginners (2018-05-11)
• Distractions (2017-11-01)
• Understanding Transaction Searches (2017-10-19)
• The Rabbit Hole (2017-10-17)
• 23 A Brief Overview of SuiteScript (2017-10-16)
• The High Cost of Bad Design (2017-10-11)
• 22 The Event Router - A SuiteScript Design Pattern (2017-10-09)
• Will learning SuiteScript get me a raise? (2017-10-04)
• 21 Custom Record Creation via Suitelet - A SuiteScript Teardown (2017-10-02)
• Exception Handling for Newbies (2017-09-27)
• Winter IS Coming (2017-09-26)
• 20 The Event Lifecycle of a NetSuite Record (2017-09-25)
• 19 How do I redirect to a Record with a specific Custom Form? (2017-09-22)
• The Struggle is Real (2017-09-19)
• Using NetSuite Help for SuiteScript (2017-09-17)
• SuiteScript Overview (2017-09-17)
• Using Stack Overflow for Learning SuiteScript (2017-09-17)
• NetSuite's Script and Deployment Records (2017-09-17)
• Using the NetSuite Records Browser (2017-09-17)
• Moar Page Links (2017-09-13)
• 18 How Do I Add Page Links to a Suitelet? (2017-09-12)
• Indecisive Decisiveness (2017-09-11)
• Dynamic External URLs pt 2 (2017-09-07)
• Dynamic External URLs (2017-09-06)
• 17 How Do I Add Dynamic Links to a Suitelet? (2017-09-05)
• Knowing What to Focus On (2017-09-04)
• Bug in External Suitelets (2017-09-01)
• The Resistance (2017-08-31)
• Cleaning House (2017-08-30)
• 16 How Do I Add a Button to a Suitelet? (2017-08-29)
• So you don't know git (2017-08-24)
• SuiteScript Deployment Tools (2017-08-22)
• 15 How Do I Display NetSuite Search Results in a Suitelet? (2017-08-21)
• Sneaky Performance Details (2017-08-17)
• A Lonely Roadtrip (2017-08-17)
• SuiteScript Debugger (2017-08-15)
• 14 How Do I Search All Script Logs in NetSuite? (2017-08-14)
• Console Debugging Tips (2017-08-11)
• The Dreadful Interview (2017-08-10)
• Don't Think About Redundant Stuff (2017-07-27)
• Moar Keyboard Shortcuts! (2017-07-25)
• 13 Efficient Global Searches (2017-07-24)
• Michoel's Field Explorer (2017-07-21)
• Discretionary Time (2017-07-19)
• Line Filters in SuiteScript (2017-07-18)
• 12 Main Line for Transaction Searches (2017-07-17)
• Columns from Related Records (2017-07-12)
• Formula Columns (2017-07-11)
• 11 Search Columns in SuiteScript 2.0 (2017-07-10)
• Squirrel! (2017-07-07)
• Transaction Searches Returning Duplicate Results (2017-07-05)
• 10 Search Filters in SuiteScript 2.0 (2017-07-03)
• What Fields Can I Use in my Search? (2017-06-28)
• Export Saved Searches to SuiteScript (2017-06-26)
• 9 Introduction to Searching with SuiteScript 2.0 (2017-06-26)
• Lookup Time is 8% of Load Time (2017-06-22)
• Console for Clarity (2017-06-21)
• Practical Console Geekery (2017-06-20)
• Get to Know Your Console (2017-06-20)
• 8 SuiteScript 2.0 in the Console (2017-06-19)
• Lookups and Multiselect Fields (2017-06-13)
• A Search Filter Contains an Invalid Operator (2017-06-13)
• 7 Field Lookups in SuiteScript 2.0 (2017-06-12)
• The Weeds are Winning (2017-06-08)
• Correction on Sublist Methods (2017-06-07)
• This Rabbit Hole Goes Even Deeper (2017-06-06)
• Inline Editing's xedit Events (2017-06-05)
• 6 Inline Editing in SuiteScript 2.0 (2017-06-05)
• My SuiteScript Story (2017-06-02)
• SuiteScript 2.0 in the Dev Console (2017-05-31)
• Judiciously Placed Print Statements (2017-05-30)
• 5 Logging in SuiteScript 2.0 (2017-05-29)
• Types of Sublists (2017-05-26)
• The Writer and the Programmer (2017-05-25)
• Scriptable Sublists (2017-05-23)
• 4 Working with Sublists in SuiteScript 2.0 (2017-05-22)
• Record Types Enumeration (2017-05-18)
• Reading Text Values from Select Fields (2017-05-17)
• 3 Working with Records in SuiteScript 2.0 (2017-05-15)
• Rubber Stanley-ing (2017-05-11)
• How do I learn about the other 2.0 Modules? (2017-05-11)
• Script Templates for SuiteScript 2.0 (2017-05-10)
• New 2.0 functionality non-existent in 1.0 (2017-05-09)
• 2 SuiteScript 2.0 Modules (2017-05-08)
• Resources for Newbies (2017-05-05)
• Locked doors (2017-05-04)
• 1 How to write your first SuiteScript - for non-developers (2017-05-02)