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If you’re anything like me, you totally nerd out over what to read, checking editorial and user reviews until your ISP shuts down your connection.  With so many books to choose from and so much review information to obsess over, wouldn’t it be nice to have yet another review source to consider? Of course it

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Understanding Business Transformation

Yes, you’ve heard it over and over again. Organizations make substantial investments in technology hoping to improve business practices. In the early stages of projects, the focus may indeed be using technology to improve the business, but as deadlines approach, this focus invariably narrows to enabling an on-time go-live. But there's more -- much more.

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Oracle and Apple Announce OpenJDK Project for Mac OSX

Is this finally the beginning of the vaunted ‘enterprise penetration’ Apple has been seeking for years?  And Java notwithstanding, how much of the luster of this alliance is driven by Apple devices that are succeeding in the enterprise, namely the iPhone and iPad?  (Never before has Apple succeeded in wooing C-level brass to their devices. 

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QUOTE: On Letting Your Ideas Breathe

Usage is like oxygen for ideas. You can never fully anticipate how an audience is going to react to something you’ve created until it’s out there. That means every moment you’re working on something without it being in the public it’s actually dying, deprived of the oxygen of the real world. —Matt Mullenweg, founding developer

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Linkology: The Best of the Internet for 11/12/10

Busy week, so let’s skip any silly precursory stories (such as the one involving my cat and how he has discovered that he can chew on a bathtub faucet knob with such horrible force that it wakes me up, and even when you start laughing and tell him to stop at 3:20 AM he just

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Get PeopleSoft Talent Management 9.1 Applications Without an Upgrade

We’ve touched on this topic before, but now Oracle has released an official series of whitepapers and guides covering PeopleSoft Talent Management 9.1 to PeopleSoft HCM integrations.  Here are all the details you need to know to get your head around this popular set of capabilities. With PeopleSoft Talent Management 9.1 to PeopleSoft HCM Integrations

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The Future of Web Apps

37signals’ Ryan Singer, who manages the company’s products and designs interfaces, recently gave a talk about his firm’s design process in London at the Future of Web Apps conference.  As he says: I gave this talk at Future of Web Apps in London last week. In this talk I walk through the steps of creating

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PeopleSoft: How to Enable Page Anchor

Mani over at the PeopleSoft Technology Blog has a nice summary on how to enable the page anchor function in PeopleSoft apps: The Anchor fields should be a Push Button or Hyperlink On the General tab, Check the box, Enable as Page Anchor and give the Page Filed Name as ‘Anchor1’ (upto us) 3. Keep

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Chasing Pirates

Great NYT feature column by Ashlee Vance about the battles Microsoft has to fight in the name of counter-piracy. Donal Keating, a physicist who leads Microsoft’s forensics work, has turned the lab into an anti-piracy playpen full of microscopes and other equipment used to analyze software disks. Flat-screen monitors show data about counterfeit sales, and

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Linkology: The Best of the Internet for 11/5/10

First, I’d like to thank all our readers for their steady readership.  Last month we had the biggest traffic month (in terms of unique visitors and pageviews) we’ve had since starting this blog back in 2008, and we’re flattered you keep coming back for more.  Hopefully, we can keep this pattern going.  We appreciate you

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