If you use Worksoft Certify for automated testing and have upgraded to at least version 8.1, there is a useful training video on the Process and Data editor. It’s a bit hard to find, so here’s how you find it:

1. Open and login to Certify
2. On the top toolbar, select Help / Contents
3. In the Help screen, select Search
4. Search for Process and Data
5. Select “Process and Data Editor”…should be the first result
6. About half way down the page, you should see a cheesy film reel icon (bad clipart). To the right of that is a like to click (”here”) that will start the video. You might have to scroll down to click the play button

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I’d like to point up a blog post by Leonard Richardson who pulled together a list of “where are they nows” on programmers who were interviewed for the 1986 book, Programmers at Work. I find it irresistably interesting to see the paths that people’s lives take. The list is a who’s who of programmers who created seminal works like VisiCalc, C/PM, Lotus 1-2-3, and Pac-Man.

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Maybe it is obvious to everyone but me, but here is a really quick tip that took me a few minutes to figure out. When sending someone an email in Microsoft Outlook, their email address gets remembered in the Address auto-fill memory. I had to do a mass email to a few hundred people in my company that I didn’t know; then their names started showing up in the auto-complete every time I did an email. Here’s the solution:

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Update: Since this article was written, SAP has made public more of its Budgeting & Planning roadmap. At this point (3/21/2008), BPC is definitely the way to go if you don’t already have BI-IP implemented. Read more here.

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A brief note to any of you Wordpress bloggers out there who have not upgraded to 2.3 (read about the goodies and get download link here). You should run, not walk, to the nearest download center and upgrade your blogs. I haven’t spent a lot of time kicking the tires on all of the features, but I can tell you that Automattic has definitely improved the speed in this release.

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UPDATE: Please note that this original article was written for a Beat version of AIR. Commenter Jaawad below has indicated that the code here no longer works in the newly released version of AIR. Here’s the old article…First off, I am psyched about Adobe AIR and its possibilities as a development platform. But I’ll save that for a later date. In this post, I want to share a simple example of using Adobe AIR with the TinyMCE rich text editor (wysiwyg editor). To get the lowdown on using TinyMCE, check out the Moxiecode website here….This tutorial includes example files for download below. Read the rest of this entry »

Today, in 2007, taking a Web App offline is actually a relevant topic. In a few years, we will be able to look at solutions to the offline issue as a buggy whips in a Model T world. WiMax and whatever genius solution they finally come up with will have us all connected all the time. But it is just 2007 after all and we need to go offline occasionally.

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We ran into a little problem while doing document transfers from General Ledger to Profit Center Accounting using t-code: 1KE8. In 2007, we added a new account to PCA through customizing t-code: 3KEH (read more here). To catch the balance in the account up, we used 1KE8 to transfer the Financial Documents to PCA, having the Reversal box checked to prevent the balances in the offsetting accounts on those documents from being duplicated.

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