Recent Posts by Greg Kelly

If you’ve ever sat in on any of Mark Hoernemann’s sessions, you will probably have heard him trot out from memory, DocID 764222.1 See Oracle Support Document 764222.1 (Tech Update - Main Page) -  https://support.oracle.com/epmos/faces/DocumentDisplay?id=764222.1 or - https://support.oracle.com/knowledge/PeopleSoft%20Enterprise/764222_1.htmlBookmark the link(s) for your own convenience. This is a treasure trove of information, a collection of topics which might not fit neatly...

To plagiarize a movie quote:          "passwords? passwords?                        We don't need no stinkin' passwords!" A password is a chimera, like the TSA line at airports, or the gates on "gated" communities. They might not provide absolute security, but they make people feel safer. If a hacker wants to access a system all they need is for some user to click on a link in an email, or sometimes even opening an email or an attractive sounding web page. Remember Stuxnet,...

  Oracle DevOps guide   DevOps, like the human condition, has the property that “You can’t be a little bit DevOps!” PeopleTools doesn’t natively, directly, support a DevOps or Agile, approach to development. However, there are a number of delivered features that lend themselves to a DevOps approach. Below I’ve listed the “pillars” of DevOps including items for consideration in each. Some of these are delivered in PeopleTools, others are in use in the broader developer community. Dev...

Oracle Developer Live—Cloud Native As you may know, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is an IaaS that delivers high-performance computing power to run Cloud Native, IT, and enterprise workloads. OCI provides real-time elasticity for enterprise applications by combining Oracle's autonomous services, integrated security, and serverless compute. One of the interesting areas is Cloud Native with many development resources. The Cloud Native event recently had a number of...

I look forward to seeing you at these sessions at ReConnect. ====================================================== Tuesday 10/06 10:30 Pacific - 102260 Using Remote Client Functionality - a new feature which you mightn’t have seen! This feature was introduced in PT 8.58 to ensure the delivery of the actual client (browser) address to PeopleCode and the logs. ====================================================== Wednesday 10/07 9:45 Pacific - 102110 Integrating...

[Also published on LinkedIn] One of the biggest hurdles with any emerging technology is deciding how to start, in this case, creating the Chatbot  "hello world" app. Here's a really useful posting from the Oracle Digital Assistant (ODA) team that describes how to create an FAQ Chatbot. FAQ is a good starting point because it is simply a question and answer session which can be stood up independently of any backend application. The FAQ app can be the introduction to your...

With the introduction by PeopleSoft of the Fluid User Interface the type of device, and screen size, has become transparent to the application. While technically PeopleSoft can accommodate any device access, there is the issue that mobile devices, and the native browsers and protection software, are not as robust as similar desktop versions. The mobile operating systems have been shown to be “leaky.” This is compounded when an organization broadens access to the application to...

Low tech hacking or Tales of the Social Interloper Hard drive takeover \If you walk through most office environments, particularly after general office hours, you will see many work stations unattended. There’s an invisible army of people who visit the office after hours: - maintenance personnel  - subcontracted janitorial staff  - even actual staff “working” after hours Most desktop cases have a tab which can be used to physically lock the cases as shown in the image to your left,...

Responding to the changing needs of the community, PeopleSoft is creating a foundational release for OAuth support with PeopleTools 8.58. I say “foundational” because in this release we are supporting limited use cases for OAuth. Note: Throughout this text, “OAuth” is used as a general reference, the supported version is OAuth 2. The current use cases are: OAuth for REST services with Oracle Digital Assistant (ODA) for Chatbots. We have a portfolio of Chatbots to be released...