Mike Robbins · Northern Illinois

I write software for a living. This is the rest of me.

Personal writing on what I'm building, reading, and thinking about. The technical deep-dives moved to DataTek Software — this place is off the clock.

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Reading: Words of Radiance — Brandon Sanderson 7%
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Home: Rockford, Illinois, USA
Day job: NetSuite Development Manager

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suitescript Apr 11, 2026

Send Sales Order Billing Schedules to Salesforce

We needed to send the billing schedule from sales orders to Salesforce. We just need to send the full list of billing date and invoice amount. But there's a wrinkle.

netsuite Aug 21, 2025

Data Generation for Dev Environments

Managing one or more development environments? How do you keep them relevant over time. If they become stale, it makes working on new projects with current data difficult. Here, I’ll explain a series of steps I’ve taken to maintain my development environment ensuring current sales order, invoice, and customer payment data.

netsuite Jun 09, 2025

Tips when using lookupFields()

Here are a couple of tips when working with `search.lookupFields()` in SuiteScript 2.1.

netsuite May 11, 2025

Scripted vs Saved Searches

**Unpopular Opinion**: I prefer to use scripted searches in my SuiteScript rather than referencing existing, external saved searches. Here’s why.

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Words of Radiance

Brandon Sanderson

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What I thought of The Way of Kings

The Way of Kings 1984 The Well of Ascension Mistborn The God in the Clear Rock The Road Tarnsman of Gor The Last Druid

Whether you want to call yourself a Stoic or not, is not really the point. Actually, that is the point. Labels are _pointless._ They close your mind. They close you off to opportunities. They close you off to other people. And worst of all, with time, they close you off from the very things you identify with.

— Ryan Holiday

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