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How to “roll your own” sub-totals and totals in an ADF table
October 11, 2012 —
Image courtesy of Renjith Krishnan / FreeDigitalPhotos.net One thing that I’m sure we all have had the need for before is the ability to do “reporting” from within an application we are writing. Of course, what “reporting” means to different people is very subjective. To some, they want a full-fledged reporting tool that lets them create →
Packing Passwords
August 16, 2012 —
A common problem faced at the workplace and at home is finding a way to securely store your passwords. With people like “Anonymous” and identity thieves out there, gone are the days for scribbling passwords on post it notes (who would do such a thing?!?), or keeping word docs with your passwords listed on your →
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I, for one, Welcome our new JavaScript Overlords
July 30, 2012 —
You are probably most familiar with JavaScript as that sometimes useful, often quirky, client-side scripting language used on websites to enhance user interfaces and enable dynamic content. Wikipedia describes JavaScript as “dynamic, weakly typed and has first-class functions … a multi-paradigm language, supporting object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.” Fairly generic technical description there. Wikipedia →
A Little Bird told me…
June 8, 2012 —
Banner Artwork from jasonpruett.com You can imagine the scene in the cartoon above playing out in the office of a marketing professional in almost any corporate environment these days. In this case, the little bird is the data mining wizard that was brought in, and the big mountain ram is the marketing executive finding out →
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Sharepoint 2010 Free tools, Yes FREE
May 30, 2012 —
I don’t often hear free and Microsoft in the same sentence, but a couple of tools were brought to my attention this week that are great additions to SharePoint and IIS. Microsoft Productivity Hub for SharePoint 2010 SP1 If you are short on training materials for SharePoint 2010 Microsoft released a SharePoint addon containing all kinds of Office →
Categories: Cool Tools, Enterprise 2.0
On meetings and coming together
May 8, 2012 —
It is hard to justify calling a meeting. Do all five of these people need to be here for the next hour? Are we brainstorming? Is something unclear? Brainstorming during a meeting is not always a good use of time. When is the last time that, when called upon, you were able to summon all →
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Then One Day It Happens…
May 4, 2012 —
Image: nokhoog_buchachon / FreeDigitalPhotos.net You’ve joined an elite team of engineers and administrators tasked to oversee your company’s technological needs. As your company’s ambitious marketing teams generate more and more buzz, you find that with each day your job circles increasingly around growing your business’s capacity. Months go by filled with unhindered efforts in project →
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Is that Email Address Valid?
April 30, 2012 —
One thing that is important with today’s web-based applications is input validation – making sure that what the user typed in a field is a value that you expect and allow. Making “first name” required, checking that a product’s price is not negative, or that a bonus percentage isn’t more than 50% – things like →
A Non-Technical Girl Living in a Technical World
March 7, 2012 —
Living in a new city, it never fails that in social settings one of the very first questions I get asked is, “What do you do?” For most people, my reply of “operations for an IT company,” is normally enough. The problem arises when the other party also works in IT. In cases like these, →
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Have you Seen Subscriber?
December 19, 2011 —
Among the core components of WebCenter Interaction (WCI) is its “notification engine.” Users get notified via email or RSS feeds when information stored in the portal is updated. Typically, we subscribe to specific pieces of information we are interested in: e.g. collab projects, documents, discussion threads, tasks, etc. and then decide on the notification frequency: e.g. immediate, →