First Post

This is my first step into the web since I experimented with a domain and some free web space around 5-6 years ago.

I have wanted to share my thoughts about PeopleSoft, moving away from PeopleSoft as the system fades and enterprise systems in general for some time. It would be great to get feedback on my ideas and to share and increase my knowledge. By blogging about these topics I might become more reflective of the ideas I have. I was inspired by Dave Kurtz's web site, http://blog.psftdba.com/, which discusses PeopleSoft issues from a DBA angle. I wanted to do something similar but with an application developers angle.

I work in a small team of PeopleSoft HRMS developers who's system has recently been put on life support only. We are in the process of being outsourced to an internal shared service centre based on Oracle EBS systems. There will be opportunities for retraining and I think this is the reason everyone is hanging around.

PeopleSoft technology is great for delivering Human Resources type functionality. It is highly productive even though the later releases are bloating up some what. If I have the opportunity to move over to Oracle applications it will be interesting to see the differences between the two sets of technologies.

After looking at social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace, and considering the options of self hosting a blogging tool or 'raw' html pages this is where I have found myself.

The views in this blog are not necessarily those of my employer.


I found this article on blogging informative.

http://www.problogger.net/archives/2006/02/14/is-a-blog-right-for-you/