Jim's PeopleSoft Journal

A couple of years ago, Chris Heller wrote a great article on editing PeopleSoft files with the Notepad++ text editor . Since I prefer jEdit ...

A few months ago I demonstrated a handful of ways to Base64 encode strings — none of them were delivered. That post generated some outstandi...

Pre order copies of my new book PeopleSoft PeopleTools Tips & Techniques . The publication date is set for July, 2010, about one year f...

I was researching some JavaScript techniques and ran across the video Advanced JavaScript: Closures, Prototypes, Demystified . If you read t...

I dedicate this post to Chris Heller since he is the person that pointed me at PeopleSoft's pluggable encryption in his comments to my ...

This week on the ittoolbox peopeltools-I forum , I ran across a question on base64 encoding binary data using PeopleCode . There are a coupl...

I hope the designer of PeopleSoft's Meta-SQL is extremely wealthy. I believe Meta-SQL usage is one of the most under utilized PeopleToo...

I just moved the "Introducing PSUnit" document to Oracle's Wiki: Introducing PSUnit . Please feel free to update, discuss, and...

Collaborate '09 is less than a month away. I will presenting session 61450 - PeopleTools Tips and Techniques on Tuesday from 4:30 pm to...

PeopleSoft allows developers to execute database stored procedures using PeopleCode that resembles SQLExec("EXEC PACKAGE.PROC_NAME(:1, ...

Lewis Cunningham just posted this link in a comment to one of my JSON posts: JSON In (and out) of Oracle - JSON Data Type . Nice work Lewi...

My PeopleSoft web server contains several JavaScript and CSS files that I embed in PeopleSoft pages using the various techniques described i...

My post Generating an AuthToken for SwitchUser demonstrates how to acquire and expire PeopleSoft authentication tokens. Using this approach...

As the name implies, the PeopleCode SwitchUser function allows developers to switch the logged in Operator ID from one user to another. For...

The PeopleTools blogging team just released an unsupported tool for test driven PeopleCode development: PSUnit . The blog post contains the...

Last month a reader asked me for an example of serving JSON from PeopleSoft. The following IScript demonstrates how to serve JSON by print...

PSST0101's post Writing to Access Databases demonstrates how to call standard JDBC boiler plate code from PeopleCode. I tried it with ...

It is almost time for Alliance 2009. It looks like the Alliance technical content committee put together another outstanding lineup of techn...

In my post Export PeopleSoft Attachments using PL/SQL , I mentioned that PeopleSoft provides the File Attachment API for storing, retrieving...