It’s not often (read: ever) I go into ad hoc iPhone or Android app reviews here, but today I’m going to break with tradition and tell you about an amazing iPhone app. If you’re an iPhone user, buckle up. Word Lens is an augmented-reality app that translates or otherwise modifies text in real time through
Read More...(Ed. note: Jeff Micallef is a Managing Partner of MIPRO Consulting.) Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did. ~ Newt Gingrich Perseverance eventually pays off. As we look back at this past year I am reminded of the childhood story of the race
Read More...Originally noted by Ganesh A.M. over at the Oracle PeopleSoft blog, PeopleTools 8.51 offers a PeopleSoft Test Framework (PTF) as part of its PeopleTools Objects array. I can see this being useful for POC/development and QA/testing teams. Here are some videos to illustrate how it works. Questions? Fire away in the comments. PeopleSoft Test Framework
Read More...This is the first year that I have completed my holiday shopping completely online – I have not set foot into a store and actually purchased something on my list from said store. What’s more, I cranked out my shopping in about 40 minutes – 25% of which was me screwing around looking at things
Read More...The rules are shopping are changing. Are you taking advantage of it? If you're a business, are you reacting to it intelligently?
Read More...As we head into the holidays, I’ve been thinking about something. And in the spirit of what you’re about to read, I decided to share it. It’s the time of year when our focus turns to scouring for the perfect gift to give. It’s stressful for sure, not to mention time consuming and sometimes downright
Read More...When Oracle acquired Sun, you could hear the internet cacophony scream: “Java is dead! Oracle will destroy it! It’s part of the monolith now!” Not so fast. It hasn’t been widely talked about (but deserves to be), but Oracle is doing pretty much the exact opposite of what those involved with Java and the Java
Read More...We weren’t making a plan; I’ve never written a business plan. I’ve never written a business plan with any of my start-ups. With Meetup, I sketched, maybe wrote a few FAQs about how it would operate. We built it, went live, and people started using it. Then VCs called. Investors would rather invest in the
Read More...It’s been one of those weeks where there’s just so much great stuff to tell you about that I don’t know where to start. I really don’t. That’s a lie. I’ll start with this: One suggestion I have – especially if you’re an iPhone/iPad user – is to get Instapaper immediately and use it to
Read More...Smart and cogent – if not experimental – analysis by Carey King at the University of Texas at Austin. King’s data shows that Energy Return on Investment (EROI) is a metric that illustrates energy as a limiting factor on economic growth: In economic terms, the quality of the nation’s energy supply is referred to as
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