Today, I received one of the most interesting signature blocks I have ever seen. Some people just include their name. Some include their full mailing address. Some include a witty saying that seems to capture their personality. And a few put it all together in a full social media statement. I tend to take the
Read More...Dave Smith, writing for International Business Times: By storing items randomly instead of categorically, the warehouse has a much better flow of material. Even without robots or automation, Amazon can compile a “picking list” that locates where each item needs to be taken off the shelf and scanned again before it can be shipped. The
Read More...Today I’m going to tell you about something I like – a coffee maker. I bought the Technivorm Moccamaster CD–010/S a few years ago, back in 2009. It’s a strange little device, made of a bunch of detachable plastic pieces. It has no advanced features, pales in feature/benefit comparison to other modern coffee makers, and
Read More...Today I am going to follow-up on my PeopleSoft 9.2 Guided Life Events post from a couple weeks ago. Up for discussion now: the new PeopleSoft HCM 9.2 Paycheck Modeler. Paycheck Modeler is a new self service feature in PeopleSoft HCM 9.2. Note that it is available for North American Payroll only and currently is
Read More...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...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...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...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...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...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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