Friday Linkology: The Best of the Internet, 10/2/09 Edition

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Working Hard Is Overrated

Catarina Fake on why working hard, while a popular business dogma, is misguided: Much more important than working hard is knowing how to find the right thing to work on. Paying attention to what is going on in the world. Seeing patterns. Seeing things as they are rather than how you want them to be.

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PeopleSoft HRMS 9.1: An Exploration (Part 1)

Now that Oracle has announced the general availability of PeopleSoft HRMS 9.1, I would like to take some time over my next three blog posts to discuss some of the mainline enhancements that are relevant to PeopleSoft shops.  This is a widely-anticipated release, and there’s some powerful stuff in the 9.1 version. Before we get

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Oracle’s New Continuous Delivery Model for Campus Solutions

Oracle’s Curtiss Barnes on the new Continuous Delivery Model for Campus Solutions: First and foremost, this is an inflection point for us and represents the first (highly visible) move to the next generation of PeopleSoft Enterprise Campus Solutions (CS). Several years ago, when Oracle announced Applications Unlimited, we indicated that we would continue the development

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Climbing the Wrong Hill

People early in their career should learn from computer science:  meander some in your walk (especially early on), randomly drop yourself into new parts of the terrain, and when you find the highest hill, don’t waste any more time on the current hill no matter how much better the next step up might appear. Great

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PeopleTools 8.5 Now Available

Given the substantial amount of traffic linking to our earlier PeopleTools 8.5 post, you might be interested to know that PeopleTools 8.5 is now available through Oracle’s E-Delivery portal.  You first have to provide some user information and accept the EULA terms, but the you can select PeopleSoft Enterprise and your relevant OS/hardware platform, and

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Summer’s Over: Fine Friday Links for 9/18/09

But first, a story about a cat. I grew up with four cats, which I cleverly named in matching pairs: Sugar, Spice, Thunder and Lightning. Back then, when I was nine years old, this with the national criteria for genius and the most reliable harbinger for future success (that and creating small musical instruments out

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