As of this writing, Apple’s current stock price (NASDAQ: AAPL) is $464. Ever since Apple’s stock peaked at $702 in September of last year, Apple has indeed been beleaguered — by a media narrative, not reality. It’s as if the entire investment and media communities decided, in one fell swoop, “Okay. Apple’s had a good
Read More...Anoop Savio over at the Oracle PeopleSoft Blog has a very useful code snippet to mark a Worklist Entry complete. It’s detailed below, and we think it’s something our customers might like to see. Thanks, Anoop! Below is an example code is to mark the Worklist Entry as completed once the corresponding request is approved.
Read More...George Saunders delivered the convocation speech at Syracuse University for the class of 2013. It’s amazing and a flat-out must-read. Some excerpts: So: What do I regret? Being poor from time to time? Not really. Working terrible jobs, like “knuckle-puller in a slaughterhouse?” (And don’t even ASK what that entails.) No. I don’t regret that.
Read More...Last week, our team headed to the Windy City for PeopleSoft RECONNECT, hosted by Quest. RECONNECT, the only PeopleSoft-specific event in North America, is a must-attend conference according to Tim Schinke, our Director of the North Central Region. More than 300 PeopleSoft users from a wide range of industries came together under one roof to collaborate, share ideas and
Read More...Our own Shannon Roche did some legwork in setting up the new Quest International User Group PeopleSoft Asset Lifecycle Management SIG. If you’re at all interested in any aspect of asset lifecycle management (ALM), this is something you should be part of. With great group leadership and enough expertise to fill a week’s worth of
Read More...Rafe Colburn over at RC3.org has a smart post about how Big Data gets all of the attention, but Big Data wouldn’t be very effective without data engineering, which is different than data science: Last year I started working in the world of Big Data, and at the time, I didn’t know that “data science” and “data
Read More...You need to get your Monday started off right, and by right I mean by playing a game on a digital stopwatch that you no doubt played when you were younger. The point of the game is simple: try to get the stopwatch to stop at one second exactly. It took me 24 tries. Apparently,
Read More...Here’s Matthew Haavisto on the Oracle PeopleSoft Technology Blog with some good information about a topic we hear about with regularity, given Secure Enterprise Search is a new and powerful tool under PeopleSoft 9.2. Oracle’s Secure Enterprise Search is part of PeopleSoft now. It is provided as part of the Peopltools platform as an appliance,
Read More...Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much. —Ralph Waldo Emerson
Read More...We had some technical difficulties this morning, but we’re back with an abbreviated Casual Friday post. If you tried to find us this morning, sorry about that. Thanks for hanging in there. This video might be the best thing going right now. Two siblings — the brother, a 9-year-old drummer, and the 6-year-old sister, a
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