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The New York Times recently ran an article about some new approaches that hackers are taking to get into systems. This article dovetails nicely with some work we've been doing in getting one of our customers live with our ERP Firewall prduct last week. Real Time Snatching? What do you mean? Well, apparently hackers can now get a real-time stream of information from your computer, including your current secure-id token when you put it in. Historically, stealing this information is relatively begnin because it's only valid for about 90 seconds, but when somebody can pull…

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Continuing on from our previous post, we had just gotten Oracle JDeveloper 11gR1 installed and we had launched JDeveloper Studio. When you start up JDeveloper for the first time it will prompt you for a role. These are not security roles, but rather to help with the usability of JDeveloper. JDeveloper provides a lot of different features and is targeted to different audiences, so you can limit how much of the user interface is exposed depending on what sorts of things that you typically do. You'll notice in the screenshot below that there …

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I mentioned in a previous post about our recent "Extending PeopleSoft with Java" webinar. Although you can use any Java development environment when extending PeopleSoft with Java, we wanted to put the brand new Oracle JDeveloper 11gR1 through it's paces. It's nice that we can use the same IDE that the Fusion application developers are using right now to work with existing PeopleSoft applications (we used PeopleTools 8.46 with HCM 8.9 in the webinar). Try hooking up the latest PeopleTools to PeopleSoft 7.5 and see how far you get :-)To start…

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We've written before about using a Continuous Integration server called Hudson for use in implementing automated testing of your PeopleSoft applications. Hudson is an open source project from Sun, and it was just announced that Sun will be selling formal support for a branded version of Hudson, called Sun Continuous Integration Server (SCIS). This is great news, because Hudson/SCIS is an awesome tool. Since writing up what we have been doing with Hudson and doing some webinars about it, we've had a number of folks asking about getting going with it themselves, so having a…

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I've recently been using Vista a lot more as a client machine lately (I know - just in time for Windows 7 to come out I finally start using Vista on a regular basis :-) I hit an interesting problem when running an older version of PeopleTools on Vista though. Resolving the issue ended up using some of the techniques that we have shown in our "Troubleshooting PeopleSoft" presentations, so I figured it would be a good blog entry.We're connecting to a PeopleTools 8.46 environment running SQL Server. PeopleTools is being run from a…

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