Casual Friday: Is Android Better?

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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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OVERVIEW: PeopleSoft HCM 9.2 — Guided Life Events

Activity Guides, a feature of PeopleTools, allows organizations to provide guided paths for completing a business process.  In PeopleSoft 9.2 there is a delivered guided business process for Life Events.  The guided process steps the user through the required and optional steps to record a life event.  It provides the user the opportunity to record

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One-Second Stopwatch

You need to get your Monday started off right, and by right I mean by playing a game on a digital stopwatch that you no doubt played when you were younger. The point of the game is simple: try to get the stopwatch to stop at one second exactly. It took me 24 tries. Apparently,

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PeopleSoft Strategic Sourcing: What’s New in v9.2

Our just-wrapped-up blog series about PeopleSoft Strategic Sourcing focused on the 9.1 release, and all of the content, features and videos are based upon 9.1 functionality.  In the middle of our blog series 9.2 was released, adding new features and functionality.  Taken from the cumulative feature overview, here is a list of the new features in

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Tips on Deploying Secure Enterprise Search with PeopleSoft

Here’s Matthew Haavisto on the Oracle PeopleSoft Technology Blog with some good information about a topic we hear about with regularity, given Secure Enterprise Search is a new and powerful tool under PeopleSoft 9.2. Oracle’s Secure Enterprise Search is part of PeopleSoft now.  It is provided as part of the Peopltools platform as an appliance,

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