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  ## [Naming your update sets](/blog/naming-your-update-sets/)

  September 20, 2018servicenow
  Update set names should be somewhat meaningful without having to look at
the contents of the XML. ServiceNow has some recommendations on HI and on the Docs...

  

  
  ## [Code Collaboration tools seem to always go away, so I made one that wont](/blog/code-collaboration-tools-seem-to-always-go-away-so-i-made-one-that-wont/)

  September 13, 2018api
  After issues with CollabEdit, I am now hosting my own FirePad instance on code.jace.pro.

Feel free to use this but note that as of right now its using the...

  

  
  ## [Service Catalog: Auto ordering variables](/blog/service-catalog-auto-ordering-variables/)

  September 7, 2018servicenow
  Today I learned a trick that would have saved me hours had I known about it years ago.

From time to time you find yourself working on a catalog item with ...

  

  
  ## [Difference between ${URI} and ${URI_REF}](/blog/difference-between-dollaruri-and-dollaruri_ref/)

  September 6, 2018email servicenow
  All this talk about notifications had me poking around and I learned about using ${URI_REF} instead of ${URI}. It's magical.

${URI_REF} creates a link to...

  

  
  ## [ServiceNow: How to harden your instance](/blog/servicenow-how-to-harden-your-instance/)

  September 5, 2018servicenow
  I had to prepare an instance for some penetration testing. Turns out this is pretty easy.

To start with you need to know what ServiceNow requires of you. ...

  

  
  ## [Service Portal: Validating Date Format](/blog/service-portal-validating-date-format/)

  August 16, 2018servicenow service-portal
  Someone had asked how to do some "How to verify a date format in service portal?"

This came up in a chat I was having this week.

To use the g_user_date...

  

  
  ## [Service Portal: Viewing what is loaded on the page](/blog/service-portal-viewing-what-is-loaded-on-the-page/)

  August 16, 2018servicenow service-portal
  This is blatantly taken from HI as this I think is useful enough to re-post nearly verbatim.

If you've ever needed to know which Client Scripts, UI Polici...

  

  
  ## [ServiceNow features I avoid, and you should too](/blog/servicenow-features-i-avoid-and-you-should-too/)

  August 15, 2018servicenow
  From time to time I get thinking about what I avoid in this system. Below are my notes.

## Controlling variables state with fields

For example, setting...

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