Linkology: The Best of the Internet for 2/19/10

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Linkology: The Best of the Internet for 2/19/10

Before we get to the links, one reminder: if you use PeopleSoft Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) or are considering it, I cannot encourage you strongly enough to attend the Oracle Maintenance Summit. This event is being held on March 9-10 in Redwood Shores, CA, and has 117 companies and nearly 300 attendees so far. If

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Roger Ebert: A Man in Full

I don’t often wander too far into pop culture on this blog, but Esquire’s Chris Jones has a simply awesome profile of Roger Ebert that explores the man, dying and unable to speak, in the midst of his own personal renaissance as a writer.  Ebert writes about his own impending mortality as bravely and candidly

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Math Nerd Friday

Jason Kottke reminds me of how much I’ve always loved fractals, despite not having the chops to understand them fully at a mathematical level.  Like Kottke, when I built my 386-based computer (running at a searing 33 MHz) a zillion years ago, I remember installing a DOS-based fractals program that would attempt a deep dive

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Are You Following Us?

You really should.  If you like what this blog is all about, you can catch more bite-sized content via Facebook or Twitter.  Simply click the buttons below and the rest will take care of itself.  See you there!

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Now Available: Kindle-compatible Files for PeopleTools 8.50 and PeopleSoft 9.1 PeopleBooks

If you find yourself eschewing tree-based documentation in favor of the  Kindle’s .MOBI format,  you can now get your  PeopleBooks from OTN for your Kindle.  Among the available documentation for the Kindle: PeopleSoft Enterprise Customer Relationship Management 9.1 PeopleBooks PeopleSoft Enterprise Financials and Supply Chain Management 9.1 PeopleBooks PeopleSoft Enterprise Human Resources Management System 9.1

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The One Event You Don’t Want to Miss If You’re Interested in Enterprise Asset Management (EAM)

But first, what is Enterprise Asset Management?  Good question.  There’s  always the Wikipedia definition, and then there’s our perspective given what we’re hearing from our customers and prospects. From where we sit, there’s a lot of buzz in the market about EAM, which is logical given the economic conditions we have just experienced.   Organizations today,

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Linkology: The Best of the Internet 2/5/2010

Like smart web content but hate juvenile comment bickering?  Shutup.css is a custom user stylesheet that you can apply to your browser to hide comments on many popular websites (YouTube, I’m looking at you). Speaking of comments, Engadget put them on hiatus for a while and the folks over at Macheist have decided that their

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What Topics Should We Write About?

Ignoring the fact that I just ended a headline with a preposition while asking what we should write about, I’d like to know what you’re working on or researching. This blog has grown in readership considerably since its launch in mid-2008. Since that time, we’ve written over 140 posts covering PeopleSoft, Business Intelligence (BI) and

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