Archive for July, 2005

While we’re on the topic of PeopleSoft blogs…

Friday, July 29th, 2005

Larry Grey, for those of you who don’t know him, was PeopleSoft’s expert and visionary for reporting and business intelligence. Many customers know him because he’s always had the most popular session at PeopleSoft’s conferences for as long as I can remember. Anyway, Larry has started his own business along with Brian Sparling [...]

Blogging About PeopleSoft

Friday, July 29th, 2005

Those of you who know me, know that I used to work for PeopleSoft (up until we got acquired by Oracle). Now, I work at Oracle. At PeopleSoft, I used to have an internal blog that focused on the products I worked on (PeopleSoft Enterprise Portal and general PeopleSoft tools and technology… PeopleTools [...]

One More WP-Amazon Fix

Friday, July 29th, 2005

Nick Walton wrote in with a patch to fix WP-Amazon due to a change Amazon made to their web service. Because Amazon changed their XML format for search results, the images in the WP-Amazon search results page were no longer appearing. The new version of WP-Amazon that fixes this can be downloaded here.
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Code Updates

Thursday, July 28th, 2005

For those of you who use my Ta-Da List Greasemonkey script or WP-Amazon, you might be interested to know that there are new versions available as of today. First, I’ve added an options page on WP-Amazon that allows you to specify a default country, add your associate ID, and change the subscription ID — [...]

Mediocre Programmers Suck

Monday, July 25th, 2005

Another great article from Joel Spolsky: Hitting the High Notes. This time it’s about how software companies are made by the quality of their programmers. It sounds obvious, but in today’s world of outsourced programming, software companies should really step back and look at the quality of their workers. Joel starts off [...]