The other day, I ran into this interesting article:
OpenSource.com: Testing in production: Yes, you can (and should)
This article was written about generic software development. I thought it would be a good exercise to apply it to PeopleSoft development in specific…
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I’ve been a bit behind on reading my news. Back in April, PeopleSoft released their “Release Value Proposition” for PeopleTools 8.54, and it’s got me excited about it. Then, a week or two ago, PeopleSoft published the pre-release notes. I don’t have any inside information, but I thought I would list the features that looked exciting to me…
As I went through the documents, I noticed a couple of features that are already released and that I need to do some learning and catch up. Do you mind if I just take some notes out loud here?
64-bit History: The 64-bit requirements have been of notable interest to me because I spent some time working for a client who had challenges switching away from 32-bit hardware. One of the documents listed the history of the migration of PeopleSoft from 32-bit to 64-bit. Here’s a nice summary:
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The other day, I ran across this nice Chrome Extension called PSChrome.
I had an old TamperMonkey script that I had used, and I was wondering if an extension might make more sense. When I looked to see if one already exists, I found PSChrome.
Just the other day, I needed to set a Date to null or blank, and I couldn’t remember how to do it. Here’s my notes so that I can remember next time. Javier’s blog came to the rescue:
Javier’s PeopleSoft blog: Setting Date Variables to Null in PeopleCode
The short version is: use the Date(0) function:
Local Date &hireDate;
&hireDate = Date(0);
Here’s some more information to explore a little more in depth…
I have been reading up on PeopleSoft’s new Update Delivery model. It sounds very interesting, but one of the things that I caught was the fact that they will be delivering a Virtual Machine on Virtual Box where you can extract the updates that you need. You can watch a nice video on the topic from Oracle’s YouTube channel:
If you haven’t already seen, the PeopleSoft Career Guy reported some great salary results for this past year. For example, the average salary increased by $6,000. The only thing I wish were reported is how many people were involved in the survey. You can read the full results here:
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The book was very interesting and covered a broad range of information regarding governance, risk, and compliance. It was very good at giving a high level picture that could span across a broad organization.
Multiple applications were mentioned. Hyperion, Oracle Applications, and of course Oracle GRC were mentioned with screenshots. The book didn’t dive into specific step by step detail, but it did give some screenshots and just enough detail to accomplish the best practices.
All in all, I felt that this was a good book to paint the big picture and help implement best practices in the area of GRC.
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