Graduation season is upon us. I have a fascination with graduation speeches, because I always find it interesting what luminaries will tell young adults just entering the fray of real adult life. In fact, I bookmark the best of them. Yes, I’m strange. To that end, however, I’d like to recap three of my favorite
Read More...We all live in a digital age, and there is no turning back the clock. However, it’s certainly not an excuse to rely solely on virtual relationships instead of real ones in your job and private life. Of course it’s much easier today to email, text or use a social media outlet to communicate with
Read More...In case you missed it, there is a new (June 2014) PeopleSoft statement of direction posted on My Oracle Support. There’s a ton of information in here. Specifically, there’s great information on PeopleSoft Fluid User Interface that ties into several of our previous blog posts. Above and beyond that, it’s the best place to find information on
Read More...For PeopleSoft Apps Strategy, Oracle’s Mark Rosenberg kicks off a new blog series called Cool Tools You Can Use. Headed up by PeopleSoft product management team, the series will be based on conversations Oracle had with PeopleSoft community members. The theme of this particular series is highlighting existing solutions to problems customers are trying to address. In
Read More...A couple of weeks ago we highlighted some information by Anoop Savio about a pretty exciting new feature coming for PeopleSoft: the Fluid User Interface. I’d like to follow that up with a video by Oracle in which PeopleSoft Senior Director Marc Weintraub interviews Willie Suh, Vice President of PeopleTools Development. It’s a great explanation
Read More...I’ve always been intrigued by the idea of a life coach. I use a fitness and nutrition coach these days, and they’ve been priceless in terms of their impact on my health. Life coaches are interesting in that they are like mentors, but different because a life coach relationship is spelled out, whereas a mentor
Read More...Marc Weintraub, writing for PeopleSoft Apps Strategy: The new PeopleSoft delivery model enabled by the PeopleSoft Update Manager (PUM), means the continuous delivery of enhancements and maintenance via PeopleSoft Update Images. In order to assist customer who are deploying PeopleSoft 9.2 and ensure they get the latest and greatest capabilities the PeopleSoft team periodically plans
Read More...The web has a famous cliché floating about in regards to photography. Hailing from photographer Chase Jarvis, the quote goes, “The best camera is the one that’s with you.” It’s also the title of his book on iPhone photography. There’s a good deal of truth to this. As I write this, I have a Canon
Read More...Anoop Savio over at the Oracle PeopleSoft blog dishes about a feature in PeopleTools 8.54 — the ability to create fluid pages. But first, if you’ve never heard of fluid pages, here’s the gist: PeopleSoft application fluid pages scale gracefully from large screen devices, such as laptops and desktops, to the reduced viewing space of tablets
Read More...Tim Ferriss, as part of his book club featuring books that dramatically impacted his life, said Josh Waitzkin’s The Art of Learning is one of the books hedge fund managers have on their bedside tables. After reading it, I can see why. Like Ferris, this book will go down as one of the best self-improvement
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