[asset|aid=344|format=Small|formatter=asset_lightbox|title=destructive_god.jpg|width=150|height=150|align=right]Wanton destruction is generally a bad thing (though fun to watch on a movie, if the spec...
Hi everyone,Today we've released a new topic about managing data. It involves some very intro-level documentation for administrators, as well as more detailed and better organized information about da...
[asset|aid=340|format=Small|formatter=asset_lightbox|title=nerdette.jpg|width=150|height=113|align=right]Suppose your boss wanted to automatically scan every week to look for any "dog" computers you m...
Have you ever needed to write a script that did some work on a lot of records in a table? In such situations it can be very useful to work on one "chunk" of records at a time. There are many reasons w...
Have you ever wished you could display a related list, but you couldn't figure out how to do it because the things you wanted to list were not related in the usual way (as either a related list or as ...
And now for something completely different: a contest! If you click on "Read more" below, you'll see some code that finds prime numbers using the Sieve of Eratosthenes algorithm. Can you find the bug ...
My post on recursion yesterday left some of you wanting a more, er, practical example. What's a real-world example of where one might choose recursion?Ask and ye shall receive:var filesystem = [{name:...
Hi everyone,We've just completed a project to rewrite the Update Sets Documentation. You can find it here:http://wiki.service-now.com/index.php?title=System_Update_Sets_(remote_update_set_support)_Plu...
What's this "recursion" I keep hearing people talk about? That's a question I got the other day. Recursion is a concept that has (unfairly, I think) gotten a reputation for being difficult to understa...
Have you found yourself writing almost the same code, over and over again? I recently spoke with someone who had very similar code in several different places, always to get a related list of a CI. Ea...
"All right," said a reader who had read my post of a few days ago on sorting. "Suppose I need to sort something like this mess, the way a human would want it sorted?"May 12, 2009March 3, 10Jan 09, 99d...
Hi everyone,Our existing Web Services documentation is now available as a single PDF, for reference:http://wiki.service-now.com/index.php?title=Book:Web_ServicesGuy YedwabService-now.com Documentation
Have you ever wished the designers of a JavaScript class had included a method property you'd really like to have? I sure have. For instance, I've often wished that String class had a "right" and "lef...
What do you suppose will be logged when you run the code below?test(5, '05', 'numeric 5', 'string "05"');test('5', '05', 'string "5"', 'string "05"');test(5, 5, 'numeric 5', 'numeric 5');function test...
If you've done any programming at all in JavaScript, then you're familiar with functions (I hope!). Normally a function looks something like this nice little message formatting function:var x = say('$...
You may sometimes find yourself writing code over and over again with only minor variations. The pattern of these blocks of code (often a function) is the same, but some small particulars may vary. Th...
There are times when it's very handy to understand exactly how numbers are represented inside a computer. I'm sure you know that numbers (at least integers) are represented in binary (base 2) form. Bu...
Have you ever had trouble sorting stuff into the "right" order? JavaScript (and most other languages), by default, sorts numbers into numeric order and everything else into lexicographical (i.e., alph...
Consider this little piece of code:var x = 0.1;var y = 0.2;var z = 0.3;if(z == x + y) gs.log('Of course 0.3 equals 0.3!');else gs.log('What a moronic computer!');What do you think it will print out?Ap...
Hi everyone,The documentation for the Spring 2010 Stable 1 Release is now available. Release notes are here:http://wiki.service-now.com/index.php?title=Spring_2010_Stable_1_Release_NotesA PDF manual w...
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