So. It’s a Friday before a holiday weekend and I’m not sure who’s reading, but the fact is I have embarrassingly little time to tell you about the time a bunch of us, when we were 10, went out into the woods and made spears out of dead saplings and began to wage a sort
Read More...Good information from the PeopleSoft Technology Blog about exactly how far you can take user experience design with PeopleSoft Applications portal: We’ve just published a new white paper on the cool things you can do to create a rich, compelling user experience with the PeopleSoft Applications portal. This paper illustrates many of the things that
Read More...I’d like to add something that stems from my personal experience to the commentary my colleague Dave Cohune wrote a few weeks ago: K-12 organizations can realize cost savings though wise investments in IT infrastructure. An example of this is might be to enable the improvement of business processes and decision making, thereby enabling management to provide
Read More...It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn’t a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream. It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your
Read More...Metadiscourse is writing about writing or talking about talking; it’s the metadata of discussion. You’ve probably never heard of it, but you probably do it. Anytime you preface a thought with “I think” or opinion with “in my opinion” or belief with “I believe” you are engaging in metadiscourse. If you use phrases such as
Read More...Umair Haque, writing for Management Innovation eXchange, discussing why so few companies invest earnest energy in examining and executing the best they can do and instead find scads of reasons to display what they can’t do: So here’s the question: why do most companies have such a narrow, blinkered view of the possible? Why don’t
Read More...If you’re a photographer anything like me (and seriously, I mean this: let’s hope you’re better), you occasionally wade into camera modes like aperture-priority or shutter-priority or even, when you’ve totally lost control because you saw an Ansel Adams documentary the other night, full manual. When this happens, I invariably wind up taking pictures that
Read More...When I graduated, I received my Bachelor’s degree in Accounting. All through college I was taught that an asset was a “thing” that had value. We put it on the books and depreciate it over its useful life so that we could eventually replace it. Beyond asset classes to define depreciation formulas and useful life,
Read More...(Our previous blog post, entitled The Cost of Custom Interfaces, is good pre-requisite reading for this one. Not necessary, but perhaps helpful. Check it out.) At a high level, and all nuances not considered, let’s look at a typical process for custom interface development: Document detailed requirements analysis Identify all tables and fields tables to
Read More...Every now and again I get to thinking that it really is a minor miracle I’m alive today. I’m 42. Back when I was young and stupid, we didn’t wear helmets when we were riding bikes. We didn’t pad ourselves up like a linebacker every time there was a remote chance that our bodies might
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