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Just wanted to follow-up my previous post about Log4j in PeopleCode and post the actual log4j.properties file that I used. Using this file along with the code posted previously is all you would need to...
View ArticleAJAX and PeopleSoft
After Ethan sent me the link to the PeopleSoft Auto-Save with Ajax post on the ITToolbox site I was inspired to try AJAX on a PeopleSoft page (and excited to try the jQuery library for the first time...
View ArticleNotepad++ 4.3 released
Notepad++, my favorite text editor, released version 4.3 this week. Looks like mostly bug fixes and a few new features.
View ArticleDynamic Application Class loading in PeopleSoft
When Application Classes were first introduced in PeopleTools and they included interfaces, I knew that there had to be some way to dynamically load an application class. A lot of my recent work has...
View ArticleCommented out code...please use version control
I had to look through some code today to troubleshoot an issue. The code had tons of comments. You might say, wow that's a good thing right? Wrong, the comments were not comments about what the code...
View ArticleIRC still alive and well
It had been a long time since I'd been on Internet Relay Chat (the real IM), so the other night I fired up Chatzilla and checked out a few channels like #jquery, ##java, ##linux and saw quite a bit of...
View ArticlePeopleTools 8.4x - Finding references to a particular record field
Found a feature today that I had never seen before (don't laugh if you've been using it for years). If you bring up a record in Application Designer and right-click on a field there is an option to...
View ArticleOracle OpenWorld 2007
Been buried the last several weeks working on our HCM 8.9 Absence Manage implementation. This project is quite a change from the usual since there hasn't been much technical work to date, most of the...
View ArticleOpenWorld 2007 - Day 0
Great day for a drive to San Francisco. Joe took me detour past the old Oracle headquarters in Belmont on Davis Drive where he used to work. Check-in was a breeze cause we are alum. Oracle doesn't give...
View ArticleOracle Mix
Saw on the Oracle AppsLab blog a reference to Oracle Mix. I signed right up because I like the direction Oracle is taking with trying to encourage and foster a tighter sense of community among itself...
View ArticleThunderbird IMAP and attachment issues
We setup the scanner portion of our office printer/scanner/fax machine today. Upon scanning, the printer/scanner/fax images the document, saves it as a PDF and emails out to whomever you picked to send...
View ArticleOracle Mix Idea
Good morning and Happy New Year (I can say that in this late February post as I am the first person from our team to post in 2008). Last week I posted an idea on Oracle Mix (a very cool new Oracle site...
View ArticleJonathan Coulton
This is quasi-technical.I am sure I am late to the party on this (as usual) but Yahoo ran a story on Monday about Jonathan Coulton that caught my eye. Interesting story about him that I won't rehash...
View ArticlePeopleTools 8.46 and Microsoft Windows Vista SP1
As luck would have it, my Windows XP drive took a dive earlier this week. Rather than wasting a lot of time figuring out what the problem is, I thought it would be better to put my Windows Vista drive...
View ArticlePre-JavaOne 2008 Conference: CommunityOne
Gary, John and I are heading up to San Francisco on Monday for the CommunityOne conference. I plan on blogging more about it Tuesday when we get back to the office. If you are planning on attending,...
View ArticleSaving images out of an ODF (OpenOffice) Document
We recently had the need to extract some images out of a functional specification document that we received. In OpenOffice, when you right-click on an image, there is no option to "Save Image to File"....
View ArticleBest Practice Center: PeopleSoft and Oracle Fusion Middleware
Here is a link to a site that Oracle recently brought up regarding best practices for integrating PeopleSoft and Oracle Fusion...
View ArticleCommunityOne 2008 Recap
This was one of the best conferences I have ever attended. I am very interested in open-source software (for a myriad of reasons) and this conference was almost completely about open-source. The...
View ArticlePeopleTools: How-To rename table names on a page via SQL
I have frequently run into the situation when cloning a page where you want to rename a table on a page, but want to keep all field properties the same (ie, custom label, fieldname, etc.). In...
View ArticlePeopleTools Grid Controls and Subpages
I had the situation today where I needed to change the column header in a grid on a subpage via PeopleCode. I tried adding the following to the PageActivate PeopleCode on the...
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