http://www.scribd.com/doc/25496613/

Enjoy!

https://www.samplecode.oracle.com/

(Link for Tools 8.50 upgrade page:)
https://support.oracle.com/CSP/main/article?cmd=show&id=889204.1&type=NOT

(Link for Tools 8.1x to 8.50 upgrade page:)
https://support.oracle.com/CSP/main/article?cmd=show&id=889174.1&type=NOT

Clever, smart – all describe our ability to learn faster than average. Wisdom is an ability to utilize what you have learned to implement an idea in real life – to Create. Ironically, those same skills and standards we have learned throughout our life – made us clever, smart and educated – create a frame of reference , a box, that bounds us to think within its dimensions. I’d like to think of creation as of building a dimension, a vector, maybe an ability to build a different shape altogether – ability to believe and follow through to the very end.

Some of us build our dimensions within a “box” created by others’ . And there are others, who can create completely new ones for us to follow and fill them up.

Everything in life is analogous – some people can create faster than others, like flowers that can bloom and bring fruit several times a year, some can do it once in a lifetime – like some types of cactus.

I hope we all find a way to bloom and bring fruit at least once in our lifetime.

I just tried it and it is wonderful – you can get categories, tags posts, comments and the interface is sooo neat.

Here is the link to the app which is also available OTA:

http://blackberry.wordpress.org/2009/07/07/wordpress-for-blackberry-beta/

Enjoy!

a) Delete old system restore points:

1. Open Disk Cleanup by clicking the Start button . In the search box, type Disk Cleanup, and then, in the list of results, click Disk Cleanup.
2. If prompted, select the drive that you want to clean up, and then click OK.
3. In the Disk Cleanup for (drive letter) dialog box, click Clean up system files. If you’re prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.
4. If prompted, select the drive that you want to clean up, and then click OK.
5. Click the More Options tab, under System Restore and Shadow Copies, click Clean up.
6. In the Disk Cleanup dialog box, click Delete.
7. Click Delete Files, and then click OK.

b) Delete Windows Update Backup Files:

I have read about this method in the post by Danny Archer. If you just want to get rid of those here is  Windows Update Utility.

Aside from the obvious PSOPRDEFN table there is PSACCESSLOG – this table has OPRID, LOGIPADDRESS, LOGINDTTM, LOGOUTDTTM columns that give you information about user sign on activity. LOGIPADDRESS will contain the RemoteAddr property  of  %Request object, which is also useful in case you validate user ip address at the sign on. The only problem this could pose is in case your users are behind a single or multiple gateways that perform NAT. Then the value of this field would contain those NATed ip addresses and not the actual user ip addresses.

More good news are coming for those of us that are on release of 8.9+ . As part of enhancing customer upgrade experience Oracle will provide Automated One step Upgrade script to version 9.1. I am not sure how would this affect application customizations, but still sounds good:

Another nifty tool that allows you to quickly grab and review the new features in the release you are trying to upgrade to – Cumulative Feature Overview Tool. It is basically a spreadsheet that allows you to this information quickly and efficiently:

So if I have General Ledger 8.8 and trying to upgrade to 9.0 you would see something like the screenshots below. Also, release 9.1 is not currently included because it has not been released yet. The report is very high level but would save you some time trying to prepare the Upgrade project presentation.

I would like to start from the end and the good news for all Oracle PeopleSoft application users – Oracle plans to maintain PeopleSoft application for some time even though there are plans to try and come up with mysterious Fusion Applications, but no one knows when, where or what modules would Oracle to start with.

Because Oracle does not seem to be a able to eliminate all of the product lines it has acquired over the years – the long term strategy is to keep the products but heavily invest into integration solutions – Fusion Middleware – and expand the suite of included product and toolsets.

Crystal Reports – currently part of the PeopleSoft , was recently purchased by rival SAP, will still be supported,  but if you would like to have less problems with upgrades and next version you should try and use XML Publisher.

PeopleTools 8.50 – the official “not written” word is 3rd quarter of 2009 and I really hope this is true, because after seeing the new suite in action,as in presentation in my earlier posts, we’ve been all waiting to get our hands on and give it a try. Just a quick note – as long as you are on version 8.4+ you should be able to upgrade to new tools to utilize the latest and greatest of the new platform – new sleek look, AJAX , partial page refreshes and new integrations.

All of the further slides I am including are borrowed from the presentation by Tom Vassallo.

Here is a diagram that outlines the Application compatibility and Tools Releases:

Furthermore , folks at Oracle PeopleSoft added some cool features like iPhone apps for Expenses:

Remember there was this great BI product Hyperion Essbase, oh sorry – Oracle System 11. Well the good news for all of us that are using these tools, according to the new strategy – “unite and conquer” – Oracle is throwing some free features with Tools:

The icing on this cake are ability to integrate with social networking, RSS feeds:

To stay with current trend Oracle is also starting to add SaaS solutions for all of the lines of products. I am sure we’ll see more of those appear soon.

To finish this post here is the official roadmap for PeopleTools and Application 9.1