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QuestDirect Conference Notes

August 9th, 2009 No Comments

I have not had a chance to write anything earlier – had to catch up with my primary responsibilities at work. But now I would like to give a short overview of QuestDirect OUIG Conference that I had a chance to attend.
I would like to start from the end and the good news for all [...]

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What Environment Am I in?

July 10th, 2009 9 Comments

As I was going through some of the sessions on the QUEST NORTHEAST CONFERENCE I noticed on of the presenters mentioning customizing Test environments Main PeopleSoft CSS PSSTYLEDEF so that the users are always able to distinguish between environments.
The solution that I have employ to solve this problem is to modify the PT_BRANDING:BrandingBase class to [...]

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jQuery UI by Karl Swedberg

June 30th, 2009 No Comments

This is a really great presentation about using jQuery for UI – works you through the real examples of jQuery structure and jQuery and CSS.
AdobeTV – Enhancing the user experience with jQuery by Karl Swedberg

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Notepad++ for Peoplecode and SQR

June 10th, 2009 14 Comments

There are a few people who mention different tools for Application Development in PeopleSoft. Over the past years I have tried many of the IDEs like TextPad, UltraEdit. For the past 6 months I have started extensively using Notepad++ and I absoltely love it. Unfortunately App Designer does not include a good syntax highlighting, Intellisense [...]

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SQL for Retrieving Portal, Security, Record and Navigation

June 5th, 2009 No Comments

SELECT DISTINCT ltrim (rtrim (a.classid)) AS classid, ltrim (rtrim (b.menuname)) AS menuname, ltrim (rtrim (b.barname)) AS barname, ltrim (rtrim (b.baritemname)) AS baritemname, ltrim(rtrim(d.pnlname)) AS [...]

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Oracle’s Safari Online – Free Edition?

June 2nd, 2009 No Comments

It seems that Oracle have caught on with the Virtual Documentation, not only lots of books are available in common formats, but they allow you to format your search results as a book as well. Now you can take just what you need and read it on your screen or printed and stapled. I [...]

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Is Blogger Program Renewed for OpenWorld 2009 ?

June 2nd, 2009 No Comments

If I had to choose a year for this program – this year would be it. Economy is doing so “great” that companies are saving on the electricity in halls, and not running all elevators in the buildings. Besides, I don’t think we’ll see a lot of people from Meryll, UBS and especially Lehman brothers.
Blogger [...]

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Introducing PSUnit – Automate Your Testing

May 30th, 2009 No Comments

It seems that PeopleSoft is really becoming object oriented – now it has it’s own automated unit testing  tool, like JUnit – this one is called PSUnit. I hope this one is as good as it sounds. Check out the Wiki article below
Introducing PSUnit – Oracle Wiki
You can download the actual project file here:
http://blogs.oracle.com/peopletools/2009/03/psunit_unit_test_framework_for.html

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PeopleTools 8.50 Roadmap

May 30th, 2009 1 Comment

 
Take a look at this great post by  Peter Slager about upcoming PeopleTools release
And here you can find the latest about PeopleTools 8.50 from Oracle – just an overview of things to come:
Release Value Propositions available
By matthew.haavisto on May 14, 2009 1:58 PM
Two new release value propositions are now available: one covers PeopleTools 8.50, another [...]

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nVision Performance Tuning

May 23rd, 2009 No Comments

As many PeopleSoft developers and managers I have suffered through my share of nVision Tuning efforts and until very recent we could not get our reports to run under 4 hours, until the recent change… In any case here are a few points from my experience: We experienced an almost [...]

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