Ashton Kutcher’s Advice to Teens: “Sometimes Opportunity Looks a Lot Like Hard Work”
I know this is making the rounds, but the fact is I wish I had someone shout this at me when I was 12. Every child should watch this. More than once.
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Casual Friday: Is Android Better?
Paul Stamatiou’s Android Is Better post is generating a ton of attention (it made it to the front page of Techmeme, although it’s not there anymore), and I want to riff on it. Most readers know I am an “Apple Defender”. “Defender” is an accurate word to use because I find myself in conversations defending iOS
Read More...Larry Ellison Sees Bleak Future for Apple Without Steve Jobs
Mikey Campbell, AppleInsider: Rose asked the tech mogul to share his thoughts on what Apple will become without Jobs. Ellison said “we already know.” “We saw — we conducted the experiment,” Ellison explained. “I mean, it’s been done. We saw Apple with Steve Jobs. We saw Apple without Steve Jobs. We saw Apple with Steve
Read More...The Best Reckless, Idiotic Smartphone App
So there’s this app called Send Me to Heaven that’s available only Android (hmm). The idea is simple: the app tracks how high you can throw your phone. You install the app (on your android, obviously). You then throw your phone as high as you can. Go on, throw it. Catching the phone is entirely
Read More...Casual Friday: Making the Facts Fit the Narrative
As of this writing, Apple’s current stock price (NASDAQ: AAPL) is $464. Ever since Apple’s stock peaked at $702 in September of last year, Apple has indeed been beleaguered — by a media narrative, not reality. It’s as if the entire investment and media communities decided, in one fell swoop, “Okay. Apple’s had a good
Read More...HOW-TO: Code to Mark a Completed Worklist Entry
Anoop Savio over at the Oracle PeopleSoft Blog has a very useful code snippet to mark a Worklist Entry complete. It’s detailed below, and we think it’s something our customers might like to see. Thanks, Anoop! Below is an example code is to mark the Worklist Entry as completed once the corresponding request is approved.
Read More...George Saunders’s Advice to Graduates
George Saunders delivered the convocation speech at Syracuse University for the class of 2013. It’s amazing and a flat-out must-read. Some excerpts: So: What do I regret? Being poor from time to time? Not really. Working terrible jobs, like “knuckle-puller in a slaughterhouse?” (And don’t even ASK what that entails.) No. I don’t regret that.
Read More...PeopleSoft RECONNECT 2013 Highlights; Top Keynote Takeaways
Last week, our team headed to the Windy City for PeopleSoft RECONNECT, hosted by Quest. RECONNECT, the only PeopleSoft-specific event in North America, is a must-attend conference according to Tim Schinke, our Director of the North Central Region. More than 300 PeopleSoft users from a wide range of industries came together under one roof to collaborate, share ideas and
Read More...The New Quest PeopleSoft Asset Lifecycle Management Special Interest Group (SIG)
Our own Shannon Roche did some legwork in setting up the new Quest International User Group PeopleSoft Asset Lifecycle Management SIG. If you’re at all interested in any aspect of asset lifecycle management (ALM), this is something you should be part of. With great group leadership and enough expertise to fill a week’s worth of
Read More...Defining Data Engineering
Rafe Colburn over at RC3.org has a smart post about how Big Data gets all of the attention, but Big Data wouldn’t be very effective without data engineering, which is different than data science: Last year I started working in the world of Big Data, and at the time, I didn’t know that “data science” and “data
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