At 14 years old, Zach Sobiech found out he had a rare form of cancer called osteosarcoma, a disease of bone tissue most commonly found in teenagers during heavy growth phases. In the months he had left, Zach turned to music and literally became a star. In the process, he created something truly astonishing. He
Read More...I recently did my rounds with my customers in Michigan, Ohio and Kentucky. Nothing like spending hours and hours driving on Interstate 75. Yup, just me and about 900,000 semi trucks. Simply put, my primary job responsibility at MIPRO is to sell consulting services to implement the PeopleSoft suite of applications. As most of our
Read More...MIPRO Consulting Attending OHUG’s Global Conference Join MIPRO Consulting and more than 1,500 of your closest Oracle HCM Users Group friends in Dallas, Texas for the OHUG Global Conference 2013, June 10-14. This annual conference is a weeklong networking and learning opportunity for anyone working with human capital management systems, including Oracle PeopleSoft, Oracle E-Business
Read More...David Foster Wallace’s 2005 Keyon College commencement speech made the rounds a few years ago, never more intensely than after his death in 2008. As a guy in his mid–40s who reflects on what he has and hasn’t learned over the years, I find commencement speeches interesting and hopeful – little spoken placards of life
Read More...PeopleSoft Ohio Regional User Group Meeting Please join us at the next Ohio PeopleSoft Regional User Group (RUG) meeting on Thursday, May 16th, 2013 at the Conference Center at OCLC. The Conference Center is located at 6600 Kilgour Place, Dublin, OH 43017. The Ohio Regional PeopleSoft User Group is geared to provide a forum for
Read More...Pretty interesting information from an anonymous Microsoft developer over at Zorinaq: I’m a developer in Windows and contribute to the NT kernel. (Proof: the SHA1 hash of revision #102 of [Edit: filename redacted] is [Edit: hash redacted].) I’m posting through Tor for obvious reasons. Windows is indeed slower than other operating systems in many scenarios, and the gap is worsening.
Read More...Peter Bregman (whose blog posts I love, by the way), writes about the unspoken psychology of procrastination: Here’s the thing: More often than not, our fear doesn’t help us avoid the feelings; it simply subjects us to them for an agonizingly long time. We feel the suffering of procrastination, or the frustration of a stuck
Read More...Here’s a great SlideShare slide deck by Oracle PeopleSoft’s Anoop Savio that goes into why the PeopleSoft Search Framework is so powerful, especially when ‘enterprise data’ has become so all-encompassing. Moves from high concept to the fine details, so there’s something for everyone here, even sans audio. Check it out. People soft search framework from
Read More...Self-described “secret nerd” Kareem Abdul-Jabbar lists 20 things he wishes he knew when he was 30 years old. The most poignant to me: 20. Everything doesn’t have to be fixed. Relax, K-Man. Some stuff can be fixed, some stuff can’t be. Deciding which is which is part of maturing. Read the whole thing. Heck, print
Read More...I have spent the last 25 years of my career either managing implementations or working with customers to ensure a successful implementation. During that time, my most prominent theory for the use of consultants is that ‘trial and error is not an implementation methodology’. It’s true. Many companies consider the use of consultants for various
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