A Central Park mugger was so disappointed by his victim’s cheap flip phone that he actually refused to take it. “Once he saw my phone, he looked at it like, ‘What the f–k is this?’ and gave it back to me,” recalled Kevin Cook, 25, of Brooklyn. So, two things here: 1. Having a cheap
Read More...As I sit down to write the last “longer” post of the year, I want to go back to when this blog started, some four years ago. I wanted to start a blog for MIPRO because a blog is a great way for you, our readers, to get a feel for the “personality” of our
Read More...Hey everyone! As I’ve demonstrated in previous video blogs and podcasts, PeopleSoft 9.2 powered by PeopleTools 8.53 changes the user experience drastically with WorkCenters, Activity Guides, Train Stops, Alerts, etc. Having participated in the User Experience panel at OpenWorld this year, I was able to see some of the upcoming new and exciting capabilities that
Read More...Ignore for a moment that this is an Oracle-created video, and as such it is essentially marketing according to the https://the-indexer.com/ team. Nevermind that. What’s interesting is that clients we’ve helped with PeopleSoft 9.2 mirror some of these exact thoughts to us on a weekly basis. There’s a buzz surrounding PeopleSoft 9.2 (especially the PeopleSoft Update
Read More...Over at Businessweek, there is a fascinating piece entitled The Rise and Fall of Blackberry: An Oral History, which details the rise and fall of the Canadian giant from different personal perspectives. Here’s one from Vincent Washington, senior business development manager at RIM from 2001-11: One thing we missed out on was that Justin Bieber
Read More...We mention PeopleSoft Update Manager (PUM) a lot, because we think it’s incredibly useful and convenient for users. To that end, if you want to learn more about PUM, Oracle has posted PUM training on the Oracle Learning Library. You can check it out here: PeopleSoft Update Manager End to End Training Module 1 As
Read More...The highly anticipated release of PeopleSoft 9.2 earlier this year not only provided users with significant system enhancements and improvements, but may also have sparked the end of the upgrade process as we currently know it thanks to a new feature called PeopleSoft Update Manager (casually known as PUM). Paco Aubrejuan, Senior Vice President of
Read More...Gautam Narula on how one can get better at chess pretty quickly: The tl;dr of this training plan is, play a lot, analyze your games, and primarily study tactics. Your knowledge of openings, endgame, middlegame, etc. will come from analyzing your games and going over grandmaster games. Only study one of those specific topics if
Read More...Lia Pas, writing about how strange it is that relatively new technology can suddenly feel very old in the face of the newest technology: How strange that technology that is only three years old feels cludgy in our hands now. How strange what high expectations we have for responsiveness from a thin board of glass
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